This is something I have been thinking about since the Olympics... at what point will it not be possible for human beings to swim or run any faster. There has to be a point where the human body just can't go any faster, no matter how much you train, what kind of things you put into your body (legal or not), etc.
I mean it isn't possible to swim a 400 IM, for example, in 2 seconds (at least I don't think it ever will be) so where does it end? And when will that happen?
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How about a quadrillionth of a nano-second?....(just kidding of course!)....Actually I did just find an interesting article about the smallest possible length of an interval of time (i.e. a smallest possible unit of time) according to the laws of quantum mechanics.....it is around 3.3 times 10 to the negative 44 I believe (if I just read that correctly??...I do have a short term memory problem....and a long term memory problem too now that I mention it!)......so 0.00000.....000033 seconds (where there are 43 zeros before the first nonzero digit of "3" appears).....It would be physically impossible, however, to develop a mechanism to actually differentiate two times that differ by an amount this small however (and utterly rediculuous to even consider).....But I do think that it will be a LONG time before we reach a point in which the only legitimate possible speeds faster than what has already been accomplished is any where near that small.....i.e. I believe there will be room for improvement in any event for a long time to come.
www.physlink.com/.../ae598.cfm
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How about a quadrillionth of a nano-second?....(just kidding of course!)....Actually I did just find an interesting article about the smallest possible length of an interval of time (i.e. a smallest possible unit of time) according to the laws of quantum mechanics.....it is around 3.3 times 10 to the negative 44 I believe (if I just read that correctly??...I do have a short term memory problem....and a long term memory problem too now that I mention it!)......so 0.00000.....000033 seconds (where there are 43 zeros before the first nonzero digit of "3" appears).....It would be physically impossible, however, to develop a mechanism to actually differentiate two times that differ by an amount this small however (and utterly rediculuous to even consider).....But I do think that it will be a LONG time before we reach a point in which the only legitimate possible speeds faster than what has already been accomplished is any where near that small.....i.e. I believe there will be room for improvement in any event for a long time to come.
www.physlink.com/.../ae598.cfm
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