Something like the "philadelphia experiment" .
2006-06-12 14:25:45 · 4 answers · asked by Anonymous in Science & Mathematics ➔ Physics
Fascinating question! The surface of the vibrating object would alternately cause reflected light to red shift and blue shift, but that's about as far as my thinking can go. Would the shifts cancel each other, rendering the object invisible?
2006-06-12 15:21:20 · answer #1 · answered by Chug-a-Lug 7 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Some theories about the movement of solids indicate that the forces within the solid move at the speed of light whenever the object is displaced. This would be similar to vibrating at the speed of light. This theory would imply that your object would not disappear.
(Imagine a 186000 mile long steel rod. When one end is moved, then the other end will appear to move one second later. At least that is the theory....And to do so the surface atoms must push and vibrate against each other.)
2006-06-25 11:40:38 · answer #2 · answered by Give me Liberty 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It couldn't move at the speed of light. Assuming that it was just really close to the speed of light, probably not, although you might get very strange wave-shift effects.
2006-06-13 01:01:52 · answer #3 · answered by Amarkov 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
anything that moves and teh speed of light would be invisible. but it would be virtually impossible to make sure it didn't desinigrate
2006-06-12 21:30:00 · answer #4 · answered by emwads 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋