Why does a comet look as if it is suspended in space when it's moving at warp speed?
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Warp speed is a fictional speed from Star Trek assumed to be the speed of light Warp one.  Because of the distance to the comet and the fact that we are moving through space at over 60,000 mph any movemeny will be imperceptible to the naked eye.  Use time lapse photography to see movement.
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They will be seen as streaks or hairlines on a long exposure plate. This is because they move vastly faster relative to Earth than the so-called "fixed stars".
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Well, the gravity causes it to elongate and swirl aroud as it approaches the event horizon, kindof like water going down a plug hole. It stretches, so goes through "red shift" - moving towards (or beyond) the red end of the light e-m spectrum.\n\nNot sure what you mean really by this question, but hope the answer helps.
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I seen a bright light at night moving in a zig zag motion, it made sharp angle cuts so it could not be anything from this planet...so it was a true UFO
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They are moving tangentially to their orbital path at a speed that doesn't change.  At the same time, the Sun warps space like a bowling ball on a stretched rubber sheet.  They keep trying to fall into the Sun but they move sideways just fast enough to keep missing it by the radius of their orbit.\n\nIn addition to warping space, the mass of the sun also slows down time, but that's another matter.
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There are two theories.\n\n1.  Mass has the attribute of warping space much as a billiard ball placed on a thin sheet of rubber would warp the flat sheet.\n\n2.  Massless particles called gravitons interact between the masses involved.
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This is an optical illusion caused when the moon is near the horizon.  In angular terms, the moon appears to move with an angular velocity of about 14.5 degrees per hour (15 degrees per hour due to the earth's rotation, minus approx. 1/28 of that to account for the moon's revolution around the earth in what appears to be the opposite direction).\n\nWhen the moon is near the horizon, we perceive it as moving more rapidly because our eyes have the reference point of the earth's surface to compare.\n\nWhen it is high in the sky, there is no convenient reference point on earth nearby. The other stars, etc. also appear to move at about 15 degrees per hour due to the earth's rotation - so the apparent motion of the moon compared to them is much less than the apparent motion with respect to the earth.
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gravity shows them to move and rotate. the hubble space telescope has pics that show it in time lapse of course.
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This is really strange. We are enveloped by gravity - another way to say that the space around a mass is curved. Or warped.\n\nPulled by gravity, as Mass is attractive. Pushed down? It's Attractive and Repulsive? Possibly not. HOW would it be both attractive and repulsive? If it were both, then it would be a neutral force. Else if the pull is greater then it's attractive or repulsive if the push is greater.  Strange, pushed down by gravity, I am pushed down, isn't pushed down just another way of saying pulled? Or pushed from above? Not pulled from below. \n\nSo if I were to go deeper into the Earth, I would still be pushed down from above and not pulled. This would mostly be due to the envelope. If it was so, else, what could be possibly pushing?\n\nIf the mass warps space, the pushing would be due to the space warp which pushes down on us. And the warp is due to the pull of gravity. So which is it, the envelope of the letter?
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Was the object moving extremely fast? If so, it was almost certainly a meteor. The changing colors could have resulted from different chemical elements being burned off.\n\nIf it was moving steadily, then it could have been an artificial satellite. I'd say it was in a very high orbit too because sunlight was still reflecting from it although where you were was in complete darkness. The color changes could have been caused by the reflected light passing through atmospheric layers of varying density and composition.\n\nGod should be spelled B-I-G B-A-N-G\nPBrax@netscape.com
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Space and Earth have little to do with the event.  I assume that you are referring to the problem of the very fast moving space ship relative to the slow moving Earth.  Time aboard the ship would seem to pass as normal.  Time on Earth would seem normal.  Time passage for someone on the ship as seen by someone on Earth would seem to slow down.  The faster relative velocity of the ship the slower time on board the ship would seem to someone still on Earth.
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The Earth would immediately leave it’s orbit in a direction tangential to the current orbital plane at a velocity equal to it’s current orbital velocity, roughly 11 km/s.  The final path will be modified by the gravitaitonal force of the other solar system bodies, but since the Sun’s gravitational attraction is much greater than the others,  the solar system would just fly apart.  \n\nThere’s no delay in gravity force propagation, so the effects will be instantaneous the moment the gravity is “turned off”.\n\nEDIT:  \n\nmrjeffrey 321:  It is correct.  The information of the sun's gravitational field really does travel faster than the speed of light.  I don't have any vested interest in any particular theory, I prefer to look at the facts and the experimental data.  Ask any astronomer who performs astrometric or planetary position calculations using celestial mechanics.  The positions of the planets are always calculated using instantaneous gravity.  The positions are then corrected for aberration, the visual position error caused by the fact that light is speed limited.  So, we really calculate the actual positions of the planets, and then we correct for where we actually see the light coming from these planets, delayed by the speed of light.\n\nIn fact, if you model the solar system by adding in a delay for "gravity propagation" at the speed of light, the orbits of the planets in the solar system begin to slowly deteriorate.  This is most obvious with observations of certain binary double stars, where any delay in gravity would cause the star pairs to fly apart.  According to actual ephemeris measurements, the Earth is being accelerated to point about 20 arc-seconds ahead of where the sun appears in the sky.  This is because gravity is pulling us instantaneously towards the true position of the sun, not the apparent position we see in the sky.\n\nI'm not an expert on relativity, so I'm not going to argue fine points about what general  or special relativity either does or doesn't say or is interpreted to say.  What matters is the actual evidence, and the evidence says that the effects of gravity are instantaneous.\n\nNote that there was a paper published back in 2003 regarding the measurement of the speed of gravity, which resulted in it being very close to the speed of light.  There are several errors in this paper that were pointed out after publication.  The calculations used were shown to be incorrect.\n\nAn interesting question on this subject is black holes.  If we agree that gravity is a particle or wave, and we agree that nothing, no information, can escape a black hole, then how is it that black holes exhibit gravity? If they are truly so massive that they warp the very fabric of space-time, then how is it that gravity waves can escape when light cannot  If we accept the fact that black holes are "information holes" in the sky, how can they reveal themselves through gravity?
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I believe that warp speed is supposed to be significantly faster than the speed of light (given that they sometimes consider three light years a minor detour), and it's not possible to go faster than the speed of light.  The concept of manipulating space in such a way that they can essentially create worm holes it less unrealistic, but is still purely science fiction.
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The speed of a comet can be found by observing its motion relative to background stars. First you'd need to know the comet's distance when you begin measurements. Also, the longer you observe it and gather data on its movement the more accurate will be the velocity solution.
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Dark Comets by Shapen
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The speed of light is Warp 1\n\n2xspeed of ;ight is warp 2\n\nand so on and so forth.
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It still is not a confirmed fact that space-time was warped. Most likely they cloaked themselves by some sort os electromagnetic manipulation. A way in which they managed to bend light from all directions, meaning the ship was always there but invisible.