2006-12-01 18:13:07 · 12 answers · asked by WARREN 1 in Science & Mathematics ➔ Physics
The answer is yes. It has been said that if you can travel faster than the speed of light, away from the earth and then look back, you probably will be able to see the happenings and events of the past, streaming away from the earth.
Hence, theoretically you can see historical events, provided that the 'scenes' are not distorted by refraction due to the clouds and other factors.
That said, if you are within this universe, no one can make light travel faster, although you can slow down (or even stop) the speed of light - it is being done in Harvard University.
2006-12-01 18:25:54 · answer #1 · answered by pete 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
All motion is relative. When you hypothesize travel at c speed, you must also hypothesize a y reference from which to measure such speed.
Michelson and Morley determined that the speed of light as measured with reference to (wrt) the earth's surface remains almost constant, and is not much affected by the motion of the earth's surface within the solar system, nor the motion of the solar system within the universe. The measure of light's speed remains constant wrt the overwhelming gravity of the local conditions i.e. the ball we call earth. On earth we are correct to assume that the ground normally does not move. We always measure our speed wrt the earth's surface, but if you are traveling so fast, such reference quickly becomes meaningless.
Even the clock's tick is dependent on the local area, the gravity envelope, and as you move through the universal gravity field, your timing will change and everything will slow down on and in your car, so that while the clocks on earth might measure your movement away at half light speed, you will measure your own speed wrt to the earth's surface at full light speed.
But again, all speed must be referenced to the overwhelming gravity field (mass) of the local area, and the light coming out of your headlights will move at c wrt the mass of your car, wrt the timing of the clock in your car, and if you are moving directly at the earth or away from the earth's surface, the light will be moving at c wrt the earth's surface wrt the clocks on the earth's surface
So the light would appear to be behaving normal to you, and the light would appear to be behaving normal to the people of earth, but if somehow you could reference the other timers, things would look pretty crazy.
Btw, if Einstein's postulations were substantive, and the moving clocks were only slightly slowed at half light speed, then segregated observer framed realities would be demanded, wherein all reality is wholly dependent on the local conditions, and measuring the movements of objects far removed from our reference mass becomes wholly implausible.
2006-12-02 04:11:38 · answer #2 · answered by Arman 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Yeah you would. Light always travels at light speed in a vacuum. if you are in a car moving 10 m/s and turn your lights on, the light coming from your headlights is not moving at Light speed+10m/s.
The headlights should look the same as they always do.
2006-12-01 18:25:02 · answer #3 · answered by kdesky3 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Lab experiments have shown things can go faster than the speed of light. But the truth of it is no one has a single clue of what the effects on light (let alone humans) travelling at the speed would be.
2006-12-01 19:06:04 · answer #4 · answered by delprofundo 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I would have to say no because to see them they have to be reflected back to your eyes and since you are moving at the same rate as the light they would always be just in front of you!
(assuming the light was never reflected or directed back towards you.) And interesting point to add is by the time the light hit something and bounced back towards you you would have moved away.....Also its frequency would be VERY high probably beyond the eyes ability to see it.....
2006-12-01 19:18:11 · answer #5 · answered by Daniel H 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
1 You can't go the speed of light.
2 light can't go faster that the speed of light.
So to answer your question NO
2006-12-01 18:24:45 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
hypotheticly, if u could go at the speed of light in ur car it would completely rip it apart.
2006-12-01 18:29:56 · answer #7 · answered by Walker 1 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Short answer - YES
2006-12-01 18:19:04 · answer #8 · answered by Scarp 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
no. because relative velocity between car and photons is zero.
2006-12-04 16:59:26 · answer #9 · answered by Amandeep 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
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2006-12-01 18:17:21 · answer #10 · answered by sbravosystems 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋