2006-07-04 11:09:08 · 11 answers · asked by Anonymous in Science & Mathematics ➔ Physics
given that i was impervious to injury or bodly harm of any type
2006-07-04 11:18:52 · update #1
well... the question isn't easy to answer. but in terms of special relativity, as a person approaches the speed of light will see clocks that he is passing ticking at a slower and slower rate, and also, the length of the universe in the direction he is moving in will contract.
so to the limit where the velocity approaches the speed of light the clocks will stop ticking, and the 3-spatial dimensions in the universe will contract down into 2-spatial dimensions.
so yes, your deduction is kind of right... you would "perceive" all the objects around you frozen in time, and also sandwiched into 2-dimentions.
2006-07-04 12:26:50 · answer #1 · answered by BenTippett 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
No object with a rest mass can travel at the speed of light.
Disregarding that and assuming that you are massless, like a photon, travel at the speed of light has two effects: space contraction and time dilation.
Put more simply, it means that "all space is here" and "all time is now."
What could that be "perceived" as? Nothing - as a massless object is by definition incapable of perception. Crudely, to change internally in response to external stimuli (which is what perception is) requires mass.
Now, traveling at very, very close to the speed of light, everything would appear very small, almost stationary (with each object appearing in every state it ever assumed/will assume)... and blue (though this is just due to blue-shift and thus peculiar to how we see things).
2006-07-04 12:33:25 · answer #2 · answered by Jesse S 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
If you could travel at the speed of light, you would be unable to perceive anything around you.
You wouldn't be able to see anything because the light coming from an object is moving at the speed of light, but since so are you, that light will never close the distance between you and the object, and hence will never even reach you!
2006-07-04 11:13:53 · answer #3 · answered by hobo joe 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I recollect a Star Trek show where the hero travels at infinite velocity - he was at all points of the universe simultaneously! Wouldn't that be a lot better than your silly travel at the speed of light? On a 3-dimensional wavefront, I would think that if you looked behind, you would see the universe frozen. If you looked in your direction of travel, you would see the universe go past at light-speed, but never get to see the far side of objects that you pass.
2006-07-04 11:27:50 · answer #4 · answered by noitall 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
As per special theory of relativity and Michelson- Morley experiment, the speed of light is independent of the speed of the observer.
And as per calculation, when the speed of the observer is increased the distance of the observer is shortened; time goes slow and mass increases;
When the speed is exactly equal, distance in the direction of motion is zero; time is zero; and mass is infinite. Therefore, the possibility of any mass moving with the speed of light is dropped.
In the point of view of light, it will view the source which has emitted it to move away from it with a speed of light and objects in which it strikes will be seen to move to ward it with a speed of light. The speed of the source or the speed of the object may be less or great with reference to the source or object. But light cannot measure the speed as different. IN ITS POINT OF VIEW, ALL OBJECTS WILL BE SEEN TO BE MOVING WITH THE SPEED OF LIGHT.
In the point of view of light, there will be different values for the length, mass and time of objects depending upon the speeds (with reference to the objects)
This is how I understand about light. It may be flawed.
2006-07-04 15:11:44 · answer #5 · answered by Pearlsawme 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
If you yourself where traveling at the speed of light, you wouldn't see anything, not even the blur of anything. If your molecular structure was going at the speed of light, then yes, everything around you would seem frozen, but everything wouldn't be frozen. Everything would be moving so slow to you that it would seem that time has stopped. Wierd subject to talk about.
2006-07-04 11:18:27 · answer #6 · answered by DiRtAlLtHeWaY 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I don't know. Go ahead and try it. Get back to us when you are done.
Seriously though, speed of light is 186,000 a second. Don't you think everything would just be a big blur. Once you went into outer space then things would look different as relativity theory would take hold.
2006-07-04 11:15:36 · answer #7 · answered by alfredenuemann98195 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
You would be pure energy, and would know longer have cognitive abilities. For the fun of the question though , If you could travel at that pace and you could still think you would probably be dizzy from bouncing off hard substances are you would be absorbed from cloth like substances and you perception abilities would be gone.
2006-07-04 16:53:57 · answer #8 · answered by Axiom 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The answer to you question is described at this site. It describes how 2 masses, 1 at rest and 1 in motion, will perceive each other across the space/time plains. it is a very interesting theory, and most like in the works..
http://www.astro.cf.ac.uk/groups/relativity/papers/abstracts/miguel94a/miguel94a.tex.html
2006-07-04 13:22:18 · answer #9 · answered by salembog 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
No, you would percieve them as "regular" time. (time relative to you) However, If say, you were viewing something moving at the speed of light in outer space, using a telescope...it would appear much slower...but, in fact it is traveling much faster than you...In time relative to "earth time" the speed of light seems to slow down.
2006-07-04 14:08:32 · answer #10 · answered by Jas B 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋