Premise belive read one rational given by Albert Einsteine why he founded General Theory of Relalativity was to explain disparity in completely accepted speed of light and some astronical observations.
Question has astromical snapshot of speed of light ever been measured passing known planets full of green vegation?
Wild spelation: Could green vegation through some unknown attraction slow speed of light in deep space. Comment if you'd like to.
2006-11-03 08:50:19 · 7 answers · asked by Mister2-15-2 7 in Science & Mathematics ➔ Physics
Some nailed my main question. Has speed of light ever been measued pass by Earth?
The wild speculation was just for fun, but imagine other highlt vegated planets out there. Thanks for the very thoughful answers!
2006-11-03 10:38:18 · update #1
Well, since the only planet that we known absolutely, positively has green vegetation is the Earth, then all measurements of the speed of light here in the atmosphere are in the presence of green vegetation.
As far as any astronomical, deep space observations -- heck, we've only just detected Jovian-class planets in other solar systems. No known vegetation there!
So, I'd have to say that the answer to your question is no, we've not made any observations of the type you describe.
2006-11-03 08:54:43 · answer #1 · answered by Dave_Stark 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Fabulously silly question, nice environmental overtone, and wonderfully challenging spelling :)
You ask us to speculate whether an unknown attraction could slow down the speed of light in deep space. I guess firstly, if it's unknown then we just can't say! Secondly, when people say "deep space" they normally mean "in a vacuum", and the speed of light in a vacuum is a constant (even according to Albert Einstein without the extra 'e'), so the simple answer is no. For the light to interact in any way with the green vegetation, then it couldn't be in a vacuum, so then we're not talking about deep space at all. We don't encounter light slowing down near green vegetation on this planet, so there's no reason to speculate it would anywhere else.
2006-11-03 17:21:02 · answer #2 · answered by aeonturnip 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Hi. Green is a color of a particular frequency. Green vegetation reflects most green frequencies, so it should not cause a slowing of light.
2006-11-03 16:59:07 · answer #3 · answered by Cirric 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
As of now we only know of one planet with vegetation - Earth.
2006-11-03 16:52:31 · answer #4 · answered by quick4_6 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It's not unplausable. We already know that gravity affects light. Why not other variables?
2006-11-03 16:52:58 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Your question is difficult to understand.
2006-11-03 16:53:43 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
What?
2006-11-03 20:10:31 · answer #7 · answered by Jason H 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋