one day u were sitting inside the machine and suddenly u saw a flash of light.startled u press the controls and get accelerated to the speed of light.would u continue to see the flash of light or not(since the beam of light has not been given enough time to reflet back from ur retina)?
2006-08-14 19:24:16 · 10 answers · asked by cats&dogs 2 in Science & Mathematics ➔ Physics
Einstein says that once an accelerating object approaches the speed of light, it's mass becomes infinite and is therefore impossible for particles with mass to go that fast (or slow, depends on how you look at it). Photons have no mass and travel at 186,282.397 miles per second. So what would it look like if you were a photon? General relitivity has an answer.
If two trucks pass each other on the highway, one going 60 mph the other going 50 they'll pass one another at 110 mph.
The light from they're headlamps however will pass at a uniform 670,616,629.384 mph.
If two light beams are heading in the same direction, the one in front would appear to be moving away from the one behind it at the same speed it would appear to a stationary observer.
Once a mass-less particle approaches the speed of light, time moves slower and it is forced into a world of probability. Light is sometimes a particle and sometimes a wave. We can measure it's velocity through all sorts of mediums, but we can never detect with absolute certainty what path it will take or why.
2006-08-14 23:40:38 · answer #1 · answered by Binary Buzz 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The question is not quite clear to me. However I find the topic so interesting that I would like to say a few words on the subject.
Let's say an astronaut moving at a uniform speed of 99.99% of the speed of light with respect to the Earth flashes a torch in the direction of travel and measures,by means of suitable apparatus, the speed of the light beam that he has flashed. Next he repeats the experiment but this time flashes the torch in the direction opposite to that of the travel. What number will he find for the speeds thus measured?
According to the theory of relativity, the astronaut in both the cases would find the speeds to be the same The speed of light in vacuum, no matter how fast you may be moving, turns to be a universal constant
It has been truly said that the theory of relativity is not difficult to understand but it is diffuculty to believe.
2006-08-14 20:59:24 · answer #2 · answered by rabi k 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
If the light is inside this machine with you, then yes, you'll see it. If it is outside then it depends where it is/was.
But if you could build a machine capable of acclerating to c, then you have a much different and better understanding of quantum mechanics tan anybody else on this planet, and you would be telling us the answer.
2006-08-14 19:37:16 · answer #3 · answered by Jim S 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Now u tell me that I have invented that goddamned machine defying Einsteins barrier and u ask me the question!
I would no longer be there to answer you, will take 2 points and go readily to see the latest planet duo one of which is revoluting the other.
2006-08-15 22:40:36 · answer #4 · answered by raja 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
hi. on the prospect of sounding stupid, your analogy to the 50 MPH to fifty one MPH isn't some distance off. Einstein's concept only says that shuttle AT c isn't a threat. however the uncertainty concept does not enable something to shuttle AT c as a results of fact then we would then comprehend it relatively is velocity. if your speedometer became into extra finely graduated such that it registered in Plank gadgets somewhat of MPH gadgets then you rather ought to certainly bypass from purely below to only over c. yet as a mild answerer stated, then you rather would develop into tachyons that could only shuttle quicker than c.
2016-10-02 02:35:41 · answer #5 · answered by aquino 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
then it is called a time machine
because time machine is nothing but a force which travels faster than light
we need to close our i for a move meant as thear will be too much light
2006-08-15 00:04:03 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
I think that you would not see it .
If you travelled in the speed of light today you would return yesterday.
2006-08-14 21:06:38 · answer #7 · answered by tej 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
it depends on what direction u will go, towards the light or away from the light. if u go towards the source of light, u can see it, but if away from, u cant
2006-08-14 19:55:19 · answer #8 · answered by harry 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
And suppose you turned on the headlights. Would they work?
2006-08-14 19:29:50 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
i wd rush to get it patented first ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
2006-08-14 19:30:44 · answer #10 · answered by Rainbow 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋