Mortis.com was a single-page website designed with two-tone colors in mind. This site has been around since 1997, November 14th.The website was first discovered by a 4chan user who was curious about an unknown website that host terabytes of data on its server. The number of document hosted on the sites were also tremendous, with one of the largest was 39 gigabytes in size.

Based on curiosity, 4chan users turned to investigate, and connected the site to someone called Thomas 'Tom' Ling. When the name was further investigated, it turned out that the person owned other websites that are also mysterious. Besides Mortis.com and Cthulhu.net, more than twelve different sites were connected Tom Ling.

Thomas Ling, The Website Owner

As more and more people tried to crack the page and get to the bottom of Tom's website, they were met with futility. That until the enthusiasm for the site rose, and someone claiming to be Tom Ling finally showed up and explained to the sleuths that the website was hosting wedding photographs and nothing more. Tom claimed to be a digital media designer, owned the number of websites people were questioning, and stored all the data in a server in Philadelphia.But when the 4chan investigators asked him for more proof, the so-called Tom Ling stopped replying.

Thomas Ling Shows Up

Again fueled by curiosity, people on the internet started digging deeper, and found that the site's code had a media player embedded, suggesting that the site was being utilized to have motion pictures.Then according to a post from a site archiving 4chan, the Mortis website had numerous email accounts registered on its server, with names like Igor, Mortis, Blair, Child of Chaos, and some others.

It Might Have Been Hosting Motion Pictures 

What's more, it was also found that Mortis.com can be linked to a dental firm, a prominent lawyer, a remote part of the Washington state, and a security company that in turn has connections to a video sharing group on Usenet, the predecessor of the World Wide Web.But after tracing their physical addresses, they were actually empty lots and empty warehouses.This made Mortis.com again a mystery because speculation made investigators to conclude that the Tom Ling from Australia was lying, and he is not the real Tom Ling from Mortis.com.

Tom Ling From Australia Might Have Been Lying. 

What's more, Mortis.com was discovered in the late 1990s, at a time where people use dial-up internet connection. Whether Tom Ling was lying or not, uploading gigabytes of data to the internet was not an easy task. Speculations concluded that either Tom Ling paid a lot of money for that to happen, or had direct access to the server.

His Capacity To Upload Roughly A Terabyte Of Data

This was until the FBI got involved, users stopped investigating and the website was taken down. According to another source, the FBI had nothing to do with the site, and it was Tom Ling himself who put the site offline.

And Then The Site Was Taken Down

References to the site have been removed from the internet. The real Tom Ling also remained unanswered. Nothing much is known about this site, other than its simple login form. The owner is also not known, as the registrar has redacted its owner's data.

The Truth of The Site Remains Unknown

Mortis.com was a single-page website designed with two-tone colors in mind.
The website was first discovered by a 4chan user who was curious about an unknown website that host terabytes of data on its server. The number of document hosted on the sites

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Mortis.com : An Internet Mystery

I heard that time dilation affects high-speed space travel and I am wondering the magnitude of that affect. If we were to launch a round-trip flight to a nearby exoplanet—let's say 10 or 50 light-years away––how would that affect time for humans on the spaceship versus humans on Earth? When the space travelers came back, will they be much younger or older relative to people who stayed on Earth? —Serge

Time dilation goes back to Einstein’s theory of special relativity, which teaches us that motion through space actually creates alterations in the flow of time. The faster you move through the three dimensions that define physical space, the more slowly you’re moving through the fourth dimension, time––at least relative to another object. Time is measured differently for the twin who moved through space and the twin who stayed on Earth. The clock in motion will tick more slowly than the clocks we’re watching on Earth.

Unlike the Twin Paradox, time dilation isn’t a thought experiment or a hypothetical concept––it’s real. The <a dir="ltr" href="https://www.thevintagenews.com/2016/09/16/hafele-keating-experiment-two-atomic-clocks-flew-twice-around-world-eastward-westward-back-home-showed-different-times/">1971 Hafele-Keating experiments </a>proved as much, when two <a dir="ltr" href="https://www.technologyreview.com/f/614242/nasa-has-switched-on-the-atomic-clock-that-could-help-get-people-to-mars/?utm_source=newsletter&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_campaign=the_airlock.unpaid.engagement">atomic clocks </a>were flown on planes traveling in opposite directions. The relative motion actually had a measurable impact and created a time difference between the two clocks. This has also been confirmed in other physics experiments (e.g., fast-moving muon particles <a dir="ltr" href="https://doi.org/10.1119%2F1.1969508">take longer to decay </a>).

This form of time dilation is also real, and it’s because in Einstein’s theory of general relativity, gravity can bend spacetime, and therefore time itself. The closer the clock is to the source of gravitation, the slower time passes; the farther away the clock is from gravity, the faster time will pass. (We can save the details of that explanation for a future Airlock.)

Every week, the readers of our space newsletter, The Airlock, send in their questions for space reporter Neel V. Patel to answer. This week: time dilation during space travel.  I heard that time dilation affects high-speed space travel and I am wondering the magnitude of that affect. If we were to launch a round-trip flight…

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Would you really age more slowly on a spaceship at close to light speed?

While a perfectly flat universe would extend out to <a href="https://www.livescience.com/counting-beyond-infinity.html" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">infinity </a>, a flat universe with a multiply-connected topology would have finite size. If we could somehow determine whether one or more dimensions are wrapped in on themselves, then we would know that the universe is finite in that dimension. We could then use those observations to measure the total volume of the universe.But how would a multiply-connected universe reveal itself?

Look to the light

The team found that a multiply-connected universe about three to four times larger than our observable bubble best matched the CMB data. While this result technically means that you could travel in one direction and end up back where you started, you wouldn't be able to actually accomplish that in reality. We live <a data-component-tracked="1" dir="ltr" href="https://www.livescience.com/what-is-dark-energy.html">in an expanding universe </a>, and at large scales the universe is expanding at a rate that is faster than the speed of light, so you could never catch up and complete the loop.

Imagine a universe where you could point a spaceship in one direction and eventually return to where you started. If our universe were a finite donut, then such movements would be possible and physicists could potentially measure its size.

Astrophysicists say our universe might be shaped like a three-dimensional donut, meaning you could point a spaceship in one direction and eventually return to where you started.

Mortis.com : An Internet Mystery

Would you really age more slowly on a spaceship at close to light speed?

Our universe might be a giant three-dimensional donut, really.

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