You were in a scooter going really fast on top of a train that is going nearly the speed of light? How many mochs in the speed of light? Once going the speed of light, how quickly will i be traveling backwards in time? One year per millisecond?
2006-09-12 07:43:37 · 11 answers · asked by judgemartiniz 5 in Science & Mathematics ➔ Physics
Relativity says if you were on a spaceship that had a headlight, the photons you shoot out ahead of you travel at the speed of light. You by definition are traveling less than that. Your headlight photon is also travelling at the speed of light according to a witness on the planet you just passed by. He sees you are going slower than C too.
2006-09-12 08:59:16 · answer #1 · answered by Holden 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
1. We dont have the technology yet to travel even half the speed of light.
2. If you mean "Mach" not "mochs". Mach is the speed of sound which is 340.29 meters/sec. It is equal to 0.0000011350, in speed of light in a vacuum.
3. You'd be travelling backwards in time if you move in speed of light?! As far as real science and contemporary physics is concerned, nobody has proven these to be true.
2006-09-12 15:19:34 · answer #2 · answered by aLoN 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
There are several recently published articles stating that it might be possible to go faster than the speed of light. One of these theories claims that this is possible in a tachyon universe.
Because this is conjectural at this point, I'd hesitate to give a definite "yes;" but it's worth thinking about.
2006-09-12 15:33:01 · answer #3 · answered by RG 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Could you avoid the paradox associated with ACCELERATING past the speed of light IF - you change your state/description from travelling slower than the speed of light, to travelling faster than the speed of light - and that change was instantaneous - i.e. no duration, hence NO acceleration.
If we could alter our description within the universe, could we travel faster than light ? I assume not. But I don't really know why. Of course, if we could make such a change to our description, we maybe could also change our location - i.e. move instantaneously from one point in the universe - WITHOUT TRAVELLING through the space between the 2 points (like changing from being on one side of a brick wall, to being on the other side of the brick wall, without going around or through the brick wall).
2006-09-12 14:51:45 · answer #4 · answered by dryheatdave 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
well if we could go faster than the speed of light we would go into the furture. in theory. imagine if a twin leaves earth and goes once around the earth at faster than speed of light. when he returns his family and twin will have passed away because time on earth would be different than the twin in space. there are so many different ways to explain that.
2006-09-12 14:53:44 · answer #5 · answered by loudog 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
If I remeber correctly there is something about the connection between mass and the speed of light, nothing that has mass can ever reach the speed of light because it would fall apart into its subatomic particles, or something like that
2006-09-12 14:58:35 · answer #6 · answered by Hans B 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
a material thing can NEVER go at speed of light, because mass becomes infinite, to propel infinite mass, you need infinite force.
avg Mach is 750 mph, avg light spped is 186284 miles per second, multiply this # by 3600 and then divide by 750 to get Machs in light speed
2006-09-12 14:48:43 · answer #7 · answered by Freddy 3 · 2⤊ 0⤋
you dont go backward in time. thats BS. if you are on a train going the speed of light then uh youre going the speed of light. there are a lot of machs in the speed of light, no one has ever gone that fast. youre pretty ****** if you are.
2006-09-12 14:46:00 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
time stops if you travel that fast
to travel in the speed of light takes no change
for change to happen, time needs to pass
2006-09-12 14:49:40 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
There is no way possible to go faster than the speed of light. if there was, you would surely die from lack of oxygen.
2006-09-12 14:46:47 · answer #10 · answered by Chase H 2 · 1⤊ 1⤋