Out of Town Thread VII

[the valiant effort]

I still think we should adopt the light year as a measure of how long it will take for this team to return to prominence.

 

[Rapala]

When did Ekholm get hurt? Was it tonight? Jeez, multiply the injury days by each player and factor in their importance to the team. So much bad luck...

Sometimes it plays out well if the team gets healthy at the right time.

 

[Lshap]

Talking about the nature of light is 5,878,625,373,200 miles better than moaning about a hockey team.

 

[groovejuice]

The speed of “light” is a constant. Not miles per hour.

I have university level physics and astronomy, so I'm aware. For reasons of simplicity the speed light can be expressed in terms of miles/second, and regularly is. That speed is approx. 186,000 miles/second. And it's a constant.

I was using an analogy to discredit another poster's claims.

The speed of light is constant - in a vacuum, and yet its trajectory can be bent by gravity. This is "gravitational lensing" and the light merely follows warps in space / time caused by said gravity.

 

[cphabs]

The constant is used as a measuring stick for interstellar distances.

And miles per hour is an arbitrary constant, but a constant all the same. An hour is an hour, because 60 minutes is 60 minutes, and one kilometer per hour is one kilometer per one hour. They are constants too. The only difference is that light years is a natural constant that we use tge same way we use arbitrary constants.

If one would be able to accelerate at 4 times the speed of light, then would go at 4 light years per second. All it says is that you're goimg 4x km/h, instead of x km/h, where X represents the number of kilometers a light year represents.

It's purely a measuring stick for distance.

WTF is an “arbitrary constant”?

 

[Rapala]

Who is doing the color on SN for the Leafs Greg Millen?
Talk about puke worthy as bad as Denis Potvin.

 

[groovejuice]

Sometimes it plays out well if the team gets healthy at the right time.

I hope it does for their sake. I like to see the very best teams in the POs, and the Preds are definitely on that list.

 

[cphabs]

I have university level physics and astronomy, so I'm aware. For reasons of simplicity the speed light can be expressed in terms of miles/second, and regularly is. That speed is approx. 186,000 miles/second. And it's a constant.

I was using an analogy to discredit another poster's claims.

The speed of light is constant - in a vacuum, and yet its trajectory can be bent by gravity. This is "gravitational lensing" and the light merely follows warps in space / time caused by said gravity.

Yep! And without the constant of “light speed”? You sure as hell would not be talking about the effects of gravity on the constant.

 

[PaulD]

Who knew the best way to shut up the Toronto media on "Wee Willy Nylander" was to..... put him in the line up.

 

[groovejuice]

Yep! And without the constant of “light speed”? You sure as hell would not be talking about the effects of gravity on the constant.

It doesn't affect the constant because photons are massless. This was one of the arguments for light having mass. It only works under Newtonian physics, but not with the GTR.

 

[PaulD]

I have university level physics and astronomy, so I'm aware. For reasons of simplicity the speed light can be expressed in terms of miles/second, and regularly is. That speed is approx. 186,000 miles/second. And it's a constant.

I was using an analogy to discredit another poster's claims.

The speed of light is constant - in a vacuum, and yet its trajectory can be bent by gravity. This is "gravitational lensing" and the light merely follows warps in space / time caused by said gravity.

Never dull around here

Groovejuice posts.....people learn shit

 

[Rapala]

Who knew the best way to shut up the Toronto media on "Wee Willy Nylander" was to..... put him in the line up.

He needs a haircut and a goal.

 

[PaulD]

Pens are still best team to watch.

followed by

Jets
Aves
Oilers
Preds

 

[PaulD]

He needs a haircut and a goal.

 

[Rapala]

It doesn't affect the constant because photons are massless. This was one of the arguments for light having mass. It only works under Newtonian physics, but not with the GTR.

The Groovemeister has more grey matter than our entire front office.

 

[Rapala]

WTF is an “arbitrary constant”?

Sounds eerily like a bridge deal.

 

[PaulD]

Sometimes it plays out well if the team gets healthy at the right time.

ie .... Bruins will benefit late season for early season injuries.

Rested guys.

Their top players only will play 40- 60 regular season games. Be prime comdition for play offs.

 

[PaulD]

The Groovemeister has more grey matter than our entire front office.

He is the Ken Dryden of HF

 

[groovejuice]

Never dull around here

Groovejuice posts.....people learn ****

You clearly haven't read all my posts!

 

[Lshap]

WTF is an “arbitrary constant”?

I'd guess the arbitrary part is the miles. Speed could be expressed in kilometres or any measured distance. For example, 100 MPH is 2,640 hockey-rinks per hour.

 

[cphabs]

It doesn't affect the constant because photons are massless. This was one of the arguments for light having mass. It only works under Newtonian physics, but not with the GTR.

Yes! The massless photon is the constant. What’s GTR?

 

[peate]

Sounds eerily like a bridge deal.

Something you'd read on Tim Peel's resumé

 

[LaP]

I had hopes...but starting to realize they're essentially EXACTLY the same.

Lots of skating, not much getting done out there though.

They are both young though. That's pretty much what Petry was at their age. Doesn't mean they will figure it out but unlike let's say Jordie Benn they both have the tools to maybe become top 4 dmen one day when they will be over 27.

To me it doesn't matter what Beaulieu will become choosing Benn over him at the draft was a stupid move. At least we got a little something for Beaulieu.

 

[groovejuice]

He is the Ken Dryden of HF

I'll send you one of my Cup rings for that.

 

[Grate n Colorful Oz]

WTF is an “arbitrary constant”?

A measuring stick. It's arbitrary and a constant.