2006-10-15 11:46:34 · 18 answers · asked by ▒▒ Da Terra ▒▒ 7 in Education & Reference ➔ Higher Education (University +)
The first answer is correct. as with other, now proven wrong theories, speed does not change the makeup of an object. There were fears, based on mathmatician's and physicist's "Findings" over 100 yrs. ago that predicted tragic, and eartshattering things if 60 miles per hour was breached. Same with the speed of sound.
Fermi assured the others at Los Alamos that the atomic bomb would ignite the atmosphere, killing all life.
Einstein theorized that an object traveling at the speed of light would attain infinite mass.
He obviously forgot that matter can neither be created, nor destroyed (in our closed system, that is), and that mass cannot increase.
If it could, and if light were indeed particles, then all of the cosmos would be full of light particles, each having infinite mass. But, alas, the genius was wrong.
The theory of reativity is thus true in only this sense:
if you travel at the speed of light and I travel at, say the speed of sound, and we both have the same age upon leaving (assuming we leave at the time) you will have aged consideraly less
AT YOUR ARRIVAL AT YOUR DESTINATION VERSUS MY AGE AT MY ARIVAL AT THE SAME DESTINATION!
but this is true of any unequal speeds.
the ONLY proof that exists at this time proves this to be the case and any other ideas are just rhetorical, and unproven theories
2006-10-15 11:59:25 · answer #1 · answered by athorgarak 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
At the speed of light an object would have infinite mass. Therefore a material object cannot exceed the speed of light. Or so the current theory says.
2006-10-15 19:00:03 · answer #2 · answered by oldhippypaul 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The question is incomplete...faster than light in relation to WHAT or WHO?
2 objects "A", "B" traveling towards each other at 3/4 subjective light speed respectively are approching each other at 1 + 1/2 times the speed of light (relative to each other).
So someone following object "A" at 1/2 light speed has object "A" moving away from them at 1/4 light speed and object "B" moving towards them at 1+1/4 the speed of light
Therefore the speed of light relative to a non moving fixed point may be set at approximatly 186,000 miles/sec (in our universe) but in relation to any other moving or nonfixed point becomes completely relative and subjective.
As for objects that move faster than the speed of light...look up quarks, muons or Tachyons just to name a few.
2006-10-15 20:24:43 · answer #3 · answered by Primus 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It's physically impossible. Wwhen something approaches the speed of light, its mass increases exponentially. At object would collapse into itself once a critical mass is reasched, and it would be reached long before the speed of light is reached.
2006-10-15 18:54:18 · answer #4 · answered by ratboy 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
We haven't been able to fully determine what happens as we near the speed of light
2006-10-15 18:55:15 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
when an object exceeds the speed of light, it ceases to be visible and of course it timetravls
2006-10-15 18:59:09 · answer #6 · answered by §@mM¥ 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
What is able to go beyond the speed of light?
2006-10-15 18:51:40 · answer #7 · answered by retorik75 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
It breaks apart, busts up. It is going so fast, any object cannot stand the air pressure. Thats all there is to it.
2006-10-15 18:49:51 · answer #8 · answered by xenypoo 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Accourding to Einstiens theory of reletivity, Time will start moveing backwards.
2006-10-15 18:49:20 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
It's impossible for anything to travel faster than light.
2006-10-15 18:55:34 · answer #10 · answered by The Gadfly 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋