Ok, we all know light is constant no matter what, but we also know that light coming at us from stars are red-shifted due to the Dopler affect.
So my question is this:
What is it REALLY like to travel at extremely high speeds, such as close to the speed of light? It seems to me that if light coming at you from sources moving away from you would red-shift, at some point, they would shift to infrared, then eventually visible light would look like radio waves. But at the same time, higher frequencies such as x-rays, alpha, beta and gama rays would become visible light as you moved away from it.
In front of you, the visible light would blue-shift. Eventually, visible light would become harmful radiation, radio waves would become visible, and harmful radiation would probably kill you.
The only thing that would look normal would be when you look to the side.
Am I off base with this idea?
2007-01-19
05:51:32
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