If craft overcome speed of light, surrounding space is traveling opposite direction. It should become light it self... This will be the lightboom, as same as with supersonic plane is sonic boom?
2006-11-06 17:48:12 · 9 answers · asked by Spacekid 2 in Science & Mathematics ➔ Astronomy & Space
Good question, shows you are thinking.
Present technology contends that only light, pure energy, can go as fast as the speed of light.
Taking that theory to heart, if a space ship actually achieved the speed of light it would turn into pure energy (light) and cease to exist as a solid object. The test pilot would theoretically commit suicide in an attempt to learn if it was possible.
2006-11-06 18:17:09 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Space is not made from any matter. But it is the platform on which matter sits. The platform is like the tracks of a train. To travel at light speed we must lift the matter up above the tracks so that there is less friction. The (theoretical) Warp Drive bends space using a very large amount of gravity so that we move fast by not having to travel through all of it, but we jump over it.
2006-11-07 08:58:47 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Correctly stated, relativity says that no material object can travel as fast as light, not faster than: at light speed the equations predict an infinite mass with zero thickness and time slowed to zero as well - all physical impossibilities.
But some material objects *can* travel faster than the speed of light in certain materials. Light traveling thru air, water, glass or anything else is slowed down by the medium (by being absorbed and re-emitted by the atoms; in between the atoms it has its usual speed). When subatomic particles whiz thru these materials they can go faster than light, and actually do leave a visible shock wave called Cherenkov radiation.
2006-11-07 02:36:59 · answer #3 · answered by hznfrst 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Current theory does not allow for anything to travel faster than the speed of light. This however, does not mean that it is impossible to travel faster than the speed of light, it simply means that we are unable to detect or measure any speeds greater than the speed of light, and thus cannot truly understand its existence (if it so exists). But there would be no "lightboom" because sound is not the same as light.
2006-11-07 02:08:45 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
According to special relativity any mass always is less fast than the speed of light. So never a light boom.
The interplanetary space, the interstellar space and the inte galactic space is mainly empty, a vacuum.
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2006-11-07 02:53:47 · answer #5 · answered by Thermo 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The space is Ether
Nothing can exceed speed of light (3*10^8m/sec)
2006-11-07 02:19:27 · answer #6 · answered by Santhosh S 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Sorry to spoil it for you, but nothing can travel faster than light, not ever, under any circumstances.
2006-11-07 01:57:28 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Neat idea. Not a shred of physics in it, but creative.
2006-11-07 02:16:54 · answer #8 · answered by ZenPenguin 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Does it Matter, if it's matter
2006-11-07 02:57:40 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋