Faster than the speed of light??

Question

ok, say I am on a people-mover type escalator
(like a escalator that u may find in the stores only horizontal, not at an angle) lets say that this escalator was actually travelling at the speed of light. also lets say that I am standing at the "backend" of the escalator and I start to run towards the "frontend" of the escalator......now heres where it gets abit muddy for me. If I am running on a surface that is moving at the speed of light(the escalator) ...........Wouldnt I be moving faster than the speed of light??
Even though I am confined to being ON the escalator moving at the speed of light . Wouldnt I be moving FASTER within my confines of the escalator???

Answer 1

nothing can move faster than the speed of light.
Because of the equivalence of energy and mass, the energy which an object has due to its motion will add to its mass. In other words, it will make it harder to increase its speed. This effect is only really significant for objects moving at speeds close to the speed of light. For example, at 10 percent of the speed of light an object’s mass is only 0.5 percent more than normal, while at 90 percent of the speed of light it would be more than twice its normal mass. As an object approaches the speed of light, its mass rises ever more quickly, so it takes more and more energy to speed it up further. It can in fact never reach the speed of light, because by then its mass would have become infinite, and by the equivalence of mass and energy, it would have taken an infinite amount of energy to get it there. For this reason, any normal object is forever confined by relativity to move at speeds slower than the speed of light. Only light, or other waves that have no intrinsic mass, can move at the speed of light.

Answer 2

To answer this question the question has to be supported by a reality that most people believe in.

The escalator will not be moving at the speed of light so anything added to this idea makes it difficult to support.

If the escalator cannot move at the speed of light than your body will not be moving at that speed. So the question cannot be answered due to the reality you have created to support it.

Answer 3

If you were in the situation you described, you cold not move forward. To reach a velocity equal to the speed of light ( c ), would require all of the energy in the universe. There would be no energy remaining to move your forward, not even your own. So the answer to your question is "Yes, but No."

Look up an article on relativity for more information.

Answer 4

As has been stated, you can't move at the speed of light because it requires an infinite amount of energy to move that fast. As for the question about how light can move at the speed of light, light is considered a particle and a wave, but not MATTER. It is a wave of energy and a packet, a particle of energy. However, it has no mass.

Answer 5

You've just explained relativity.

Your motions are relative to your surroundings. If you don't get outside clues to your speed (from outside the people-mover, I mean) it looks to you like you're moving at a walking or running pace. In theory, you're moving faster than light.

Of course, theory also says that it would take an infinite amount of energy to get you moving that fast, so don't go buying nomex running shoes just yet.

Answer 6

or maybe if the escalator is moving at the speed of light, you don't actually have time to start running before you get to the other end. eh.

Answer 7

no when you were standing still you werent moving the escalator was, if you start moving you are only going like 2mph or however fast you were running, not faster then the escalator, slower

Answer 8

you can't move at the speed of light because you are matter. matter cannot move that fast.

so now i have a question for you: if light is considered both matter and wave, how does it travel at the speed of light?

oh geez...

Answer 9

Its all relative.....you will only be moving as fast as you can run.