According to the theory of relativity, the answer is NOT, but what do you think on this matter?
2006-09-27 06:00:24 · 9 answers · asked by mc23571 4 in Science & Mathematics ➔ Physics
it is the same kind of question as "according to math, 2+2=4, but what do you think?"
What DO you think?
BTW, relativity does not forbid superluminal velocities - it is the causality that does (when relativity is taken into account).
2006-09-27 06:11:56 · answer #1 · answered by n0body 4 · 0⤊ 1⤋
RelativityTheory postulates light speed that it has a limit and its constant. No one has ever argued that. However there is no real proof. Except what we have measured relative to the earth. And there is no real proof that the speed of light is not superated by the electron when it is very close to the Nucleous.Iinstead they say the increase of energy is not because of velocity but that of mass.
On the contrary=Ricardo Carezani showed that when a particle increases in velocity its due to an equivalent mass loss and not mass gain. Therefore the experiment about mass increase of the electron was misnterpreted because it it should have been understood as a velocity increase and a mass decrease.Hence the velocity may have been close if not greater than the speed of light that was measured relative to the earth.
2006-09-27 13:37:29 · answer #2 · answered by goring 6 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Tachyons are hypothetical particles which travel faster than light locally. They must have imaginary valued mass to be able to do so, but they have real valued energy and momentum. Sometimes people imagine that such FTL particles would be impossible to detect but there is no reason to think so. The shadows and spotlights suffice to show that there is no logic in the suggestion because they can go FTL and still be seen.
No tachyons have been definitely found and most physicists would doubt their existence. There was a claim that experiments to measure neutrino mass in Tritium beta decay indicated that they were tachyonic. It is very doubtful but not entirely ruled out. Tachyon theories have problems because, apart from the possibility of causality violations, they destabilise the vacuum.
2006-09-27 13:10:56 · answer #3 · answered by Holden 5 · 2⤊ 0⤋
First you must note that the theory or relativity states nothing can go faster than the speed of light "in a vacuum" which is approx. 186,000 miles per second. Scientist have been able to exceed that speed by passing light through a medium instead of a vacuum. This does not I repeat does not disprove the theory of relativity but it does tell us we have much to learn about light and how it travels.
2006-09-27 13:40:45 · answer #4 · answered by the_news_junky 2 · 0⤊ 2⤋
In order to travel faster than the speed of light you would have to substantially alter what you are and contain matter equaling zero mass. This might be possible by bringing along enough energy to absolutely negate the amount of energy within you. For instance if you weighed 150 pounds, you would need 150 pounds times the speed of light squared worth of energy pushing in the exact opposite direction of the pull being exerted on you, from the entire Universe.
2006-09-27 13:16:40 · answer #5 · answered by Huey from Ohio 4 · 0⤊ 2⤋
The light can't moove faster than (3*10^8 m/s)
But there exist another particle called "Takyons"
which can moove faster than light .It is invented by the great Indian scientist Dr.Jeorge Sudarsan.
2006-09-27 13:40:42 · answer #6 · answered by gireeshk1 1 · 0⤊ 1⤋
If we could transfer matter into tachyons and send them in some kind data pattern then read the data and reassemble the matter maybe. Ask me in 500 years.
2006-09-27 13:12:27 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
Yes it is possible, particles called tachyons travel faster than light.
2006-09-27 13:06:05 · answer #8 · answered by ag_iitkgp 7 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Once we learn to navigate worm holes, the issue will be moot.
2006-09-27 13:10:17 · answer #9 · answered by Heckel 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋