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In Fo <prime137@hotmail.com> typed:

http://www.nature.com/news/2005/050711/full/050711-4.html
Prime

But if you placed a lighthouse at the North pole which rotated 7 times a
second projecting a powerful laser beam out into space would it become
invisible at a distance in space equivalent to the earths equator? Would it
be visible and rotate at the same speed if observed from the moon? The
reason I ask this is because at those distances in order to maintain the
same speed of rotation the beam would be traversing an arc of such a size
that it would be exceeding the speed of light, in terms of rotational
velocity.

My answer would be that you would see the beam flashing at 7 times a second
even on the moon. Since it appears rotating light beams can exceed the speed
of light because we can observe bodies in space that rotate at distances
measured in light years it would seem therefore that time is related to
rotation and the linear speed of light is quite meaningless in relation to
time which suggests time is constant at every point in the entire universe
and is dictated by rotational relationships, the speed of which is as
infinite or finite as the universe itself and not a restricted by the rather
pedestrian speed of light.

In fact as far as I can see if time were a product of the speed of light
time travel should simply be a case of going round and round very quickly,
because when we go round and round we are moving directionally at
unimaginable speed in relation to distant bodies in space and moving
directionally faster than light. However this doesn't seem to make one
travel either forward or back in time, one just gets very giddy and fall
over! LOL

This suggests to me that some of Einstein's theories and the science based
on them is a load of bunk. And personally I think one is far more likely to
be able to create a wormhole and travel across the universe in an instant
than one is likely to travel back and forth in time. If I'm right it makes
the possibility that UFOs are of ET origin far more likely, because even
rotating light beams can be observed and proven to travel in an arc faster
than the supposed speed of light. So the speed of light isn't as far as I
can see a cosmic speed limit, there is no speed limit.

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Amanda