Okay so heres a little riddle type thing. I let you have a go and i'll post up the answer later. enjoy!
Say for this test only, you could make an object move 90% the speed of light (0.9c) in a laboratory. And your lab is a high/wide/long as you want.
The only equipment you may have includes:
- the object (ie stick/ball/book etc) whose max speed can reach 0.9c in this test
- a 4 walled room (of your choice of size)
- a light source ( ie lamp)
How can you make SOMETHING ELSE move faster than the speed of light by moving only the object?
Good luck!
Description with answers please!
2006-10-25 04:37:40 · 5 answers · asked by benabean87 2 in Science & Mathematics ➔ Physics
Also what is the object calledthat would be moving faster than the speed of light?
By the way, this is not true theoretical physics
2006-10-25 05:04:40 · update #1
ANSWER: the object moving at a faster speed than light is the shadow of the object.
a) shine the lightsource on a distant wall of your lab
b)move the object past the lightsource at a relatively small distance from it eg. 5cm
c) the shadow formed on the distant wall will appear to move at a faster speed than the object due to the apparent length of the wall that it traverses.
Well done to marinespill, cinco puntos!
2006-10-26 03:05:09 · update #2
You people need to get a sense of humor. He's talking about a shadow moving.
2006-10-25 10:58:32 · answer #1 · answered by Nomadd 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I am not sure of the answer to your riddle BUT I have never understood where M C square becomes infinity. A bit on the huge side I grant you, but not infintity. c = 3E8, c sqaure = 9E16, big but not infinite.
More practically, C is not constant, C CAN be slowed down (and has been in labs) to a few miles per hour....
"The researchers, led by Dr Lene Hau of the Rowland Institute for Science, and Harvard University, both in the US, said last year that they had slowed light down to 60 km per hour (38 mph). Now, they have gone even further.
Addressing a conference in the US, Dr Hau said that you could almost send out a beam of light, go for a cup of coffee and return in time to see the light come out of the other side of her equipment. "You could almost touch it," she added."
So yes, if you are allowed to use "slow light", then yes, you could run faster than light :)
2006-10-25 12:05:52 · answer #2 · answered by Mark T 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
E=Mc^2
If you use this formula you cant.
Mass increases as you increase energy. Now you want to move a matter faster than Light we are using this formula which proves you cant.
If we move a matter faster than Light then we will come up with new theory.
2006-10-25 20:56:39 · answer #3 · answered by candyqt2006 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
You can't.
It takes an infinite amount of energy to accelerate any massive particle to the speed of light.
2006-10-25 11:43:08 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Yes, its possible only in space with no gravition.
2006-10-25 12:04:12 · answer #5 · answered by svs power 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋