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hey, its like 2 in the morning, can't sleep, and i've always said I do my best thinking in the bathroom.   alright here's my idea, you know how in those high-school videos on basics of the universe show the universe on like a graph, usualy when they talk about weight an how gravity works like a sheet with heavy globes on it puting presure on the sheet. well i was thinking how einstein said nothing could move faster than light, and that every action has an equal and oposite reaction. i think if you could get up past light speed you would drag space with you like draging air with you in a car, and if you kept pulling with a lot of acceleration, you could conceivably tear a hole,
a black hole, that so far seems pretty simple by my gueswork but heres the twist, what if you took this thing accelerated in an instant past the speed of light and dragged the space with you close to the tearing point and killed the engine? i think there could be a slingshot effect as space drags itself in alignment sending the thing hurling at great speeds in the opposite direction,(like pulling back on a slingshot and letting loose, but in this case its space for a ruber band)  this idea is based on einsteins theory that every action has an equal and oposite reaction, plus my assumption tha the universe is elastic rather than rigid, (sadly uneducated)  
i hope i explained my idea well, or if this is an idea thats already been thought up i'm sorry, like i said im uneducated with only a high school diploma, i tend to philosiphises a lot when i dont sleep.
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posted 8/17/2008 12:16:45 AM by
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Posted by: zboston3 (176)
Added on 8/18/2008
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CommentI can't speak to the physics of this, but as a long time fan of science fiction, it sounds like you might consider trying your hand at writing it.  This is as plausible as some of the other ideas I've read in some stories.
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Posted by: ldibart (0)
Added on 11/12/2008
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CommentI question how much space is elastic we can tell .it is not "elastic like" in the since that if we traveled at a fast speed and dragged space behind us, we would without choice be forced to slow down and be pulled back ..so I believe we can agree on that point. so space being different than an elastic, but possibly having elastic like qualities are these qualities enough to create a slingshot effect? lets pretend they are ..hmm..

lets consider the mass we are at, at the point of our instant stop.. and compare it to the space we dragged from behind and on the sides, even if space where exactly like an elastic we may be too "heavy" to be slung back, so space may just sling back without us... not ripping a hole in "the elastic"  since we are "immersed" in space, just we are not dragged back at a fast rate with it.

also consider  if we instanty became regular mass, before it flung us back... the force of the drag would cause an effect on the front and sides of us (the way we were heading before the stop) to want to keep us in place.. it would be kind of like air trying to keep us from being shot out of a slingshot except the resistance would be coming from the other direction. , and much stronger than air resistance,because it would be the very same elastic "stuff" trying to hold us in place, so this would at minimum slow our travel back and at worst stop us from going..so it seems unlikely to me that it would work as intended ....but who knows 

hope you understood what I meant I can be unclear at times for sure lol..
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Posted by: ldibart (0)
Added on 11/12/2008
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Comment"I question how much space is elastic like" is what I meant to say, but have to say it here
since I can not edit my comment,..:(
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