Einstein length contraction formula?what happens to meters stick as it moves to quasi speed of light?

Question

Can this formula be used by magicians?If a meter stick is hurled at the speed of light and apply the lenght contraction formula the meter stick disapears?

isnt true that the faster you move your destination distance gets shorter faster?Wasnt it Newton that said that?

Answer 1

Nothing happens to the stick; what changes is how it is perceived by observers in the fixed reference frame. In the sticks frame it still has the same length.

Answer 2

Well that equation only predicts the contraction of the stick in the horizontal direction to the movement, but its height would remain unchanged. Think in terms of relativity.. Nothing can reach the speed of light. If so something unusual start to become observable as the Lorentz transformations predict. At exactly the same speed of light time does not exist, so in that circumstance you don’t have the forth dimension of space and time, not a third dimension cause at exactly the same speed of light you could not move forward nor backwards because then that would be violating the constancy of the speed of light; therefore you would encounter yourself in a dimensional universe rather that a tetra dimensional universe weird.........(in a dimensional universe mass does not exits mass.)

Answer 3

Lorenz Contraction posits that at relativistic speeds an object decreases in length along the axis of its trajectory from the point of view of somebody in a non-moving reference frame. Relativity Theory says nothing about that object actually attaining light speed. Quite the opposite, the theory says no object can attain light speed. This idea has a more profound application though. It means that if you were traveling at a good percentage of the speed of light, the distance from point A to point B is shortened. If you could travel at 99% the speed of light, it would only take 50 of "your" years to reach the Andromeda Galaxy (2.4 million light years away). Of course, everybody back on Earth would be 2.4 million years older by the time you got there. Amazing, huh?