The Sun’s light takes about 8 minutes to reach Earth after it has been emitted from the Sun’s surface. If God were so gigantic that His feet would be 50 million km long, and only had to take one step to get from the Sun to Earth (a distance roughly about 150 million km), it would only take him less than a second, hence faster than the speed of light, right? If something was faster than the speed of light, would it be invisible, or would it depend on the perspective viewpoint? If there can be things faster than the speed of sound, why can’t there be things faster than the speed of light? On a relative question, if we hear a supersonic jet, does that mean we hear the past?
Note: Since He is God, He can control the universe and therefore He chooses His size and mass will not have any gravitational pull or any other effects on the universe. This is just an example, God may not look anything like a human, or have a body for that matter.
2007-01-02 15:38:20 · 12 answers · asked by Electric 2 in Science & Mathematics ➔ Physics
Yes that would be FTL in your example.
It would not be invisible, though optically it would appear to go by after it actually did if it was faster than the speed of light.
The speed of sound is a wave action and is not subject to the same quantum physics that light is. Einstein theorized that it wasn't possible to travel faster than light not because it was light, but because light in his model was the fastest something could travel in the Universe, therefore it is impossible to travel faster than light.
And yes relative to you, if you hear the sound after the supersonic jet passes, you are hearing an event that has already ocurred. Just as the star light you see every night is an image that has already occurred, sometimes hundreds or even thousands of years ago.
2007-01-02 15:39:43 · answer #1 · answered by JSpielfogel 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
The warp drive works by the fact that even though matter or anything with mass cannot travel faster than light, space itself can. Meaning it's not the ship that moves, it's space that moves by the Enterprise collapsing the space in front of the ship and expanding the space behind it. Basically it shortens the distance from light years to a few hundred million kilometres. As to the G forces, there are no G-forces to to worry about. The warp drive is not a super powerful antimatter rocket, but an engine that moves space. And since it's space that moves and not the ship, then there are no G-forces because the ship doesn't accelerate.
2016-05-22 21:50:30 · answer #2 · answered by Audrey 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Your question more than hints at the supreme absurdity of a god concept, you know. Besides the obvious and impossible anthropomorphism, why would something so great and powerful (as Oz or god) need legs in the first place?
Nothing that can travel faster than light has ever been found, but "tachyons" have been imagined.
There are some materials through which light is slowed down so much that other particles are able to move through it faster than light can. When this happens shock waves of light appear, called Cherenkov radiation.
2007-01-02 15:43:36 · answer #3 · answered by hznfrst 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Sure. In a waveguide electromagnetic wave travels by reflections from one side to the other. The forward progress is is called group velocity, and is always slower than the speed of light. However, the velocity of a particular wave angle called phase velocity, is always faster than the speed of light.
You can visualize this better when you watch a wave in an ocean hitting the shore. The wave is slow, but if it hits the shore at an angle you really have to run fast along the waterline to keep up with that particular wave.
2007-01-02 16:16:49 · answer #4 · answered by luosechi 駱士基 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
E=mc^2
Energy = mass times the square of the speed of light! Energy itself is composed then of tiny particles moving faster than the speed of light. Cool!
Just because we can't make anything move faster than light does not mean that nothing does move that fast.
The speed of sound is much slower and does not set up the same problem.
In a way you always hear the past. You must wait for the sound wave to be transmitted in order to hear at all.
2007-01-02 15:51:05 · answer #5 · answered by Elizabeth 3 · 1⤊ 1⤋
Don't know about going quicker than light but what about going deeper in the 4th dimension than light? What if you were in a vehicle on the verge of speed of light and it somehow, instantly, tripled its mass or tripled its density so it became much smaller.
I think it would break through the 4th dimension.
2007-01-02 17:57:15 · answer #6 · answered by aorton27 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Just for argument and beer and pretzel talk, how fast is a though? Ever have one of those life passing before your eyes thing? I am good for 2 beers and a bowel of pretzels just for the fun of discussion.
2007-01-02 15:49:56 · answer #7 · answered by Carl P 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
religiously speaking, god beats all with his speed and power. Talking 2007, I would say no, based oin all the science tests people have performed.
2007-01-02 15:43:09 · answer #8 · answered by minney mouse! 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
There are theoretical particles that exceed the speed of light. I believe they are called tachyons.
2007-01-02 15:48:50 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
yes scientists think that the velocity can be greator than that of light but there is no experimental proof
2007-01-02 20:13:22 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋