Physics Questions

The following are some profound questions I would like to have answered. I am currently accepting either sincere responses or humorous responses. Other types of responses will be evaluated individually, and will ultimately be accepted and posted on a board somewhere. Actually, forget all that and just answer my questions in the way you would if no one were looking. I want answers, and I want them now! By the way, if you arrived via the Mystery Button, then you are a perfect candidate for this very short list of questions.

Please answer the questions before you look at the answers of others. There is no such thing as a bad answer here, with the exception, maybe, of stock answers from the brainwashed. ;-) If you have been brainwashed, do not be offended. There is a chance you are correct, so go ahead and let those answers fly.

1. What can be said about the quantization of time? This certainly seems to be implied. What might this say about the smallest possible particle, classical mechanics, quantum mechanics, or some other topic? What is the smallest increment in which time can pass?

2. How can we be absolutely certain that the red shift observed in light from distant galaxies is due to their motion, neither gravitational effects due to large masses within them nor large masses the light passes on its journey to earth playing a role?

3. Suppose you're in a spacecraft in completely empty space, just you in the spacecraft in that wild and crazy thing called space. Your spacecraft is equipped with some electronics, among which is an accelerometer and the equipment necessary for display of acceleration information. Your spacecraft has been stocked with a lot of fuel, more fuel than any craft of any kind has ever before been stocked with. The fuel mass to total mass ratio is fairly large for your spacecraft, close to one. On a whim, you decide to fire your rockets at 3g's acceleration for 10⁹ (ten to the ninth) seconds. Your onboard computer integrates a bit and tells you that you are now travelling in excess of the speed of light. It appears that you're actually moving at a rate beyond that of light. How can this be?

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