If you could travel faster than light and a star exploded.....?

Question

Could you not go faster than light to see it exploding again as you travelled faster than the light from the explosion to another place in space

Could you not go faster than light to see it exploding again. As you travelled faster than the light from the explosion, to another place in space

Answer 1

Well, you can't travel faster than light - that is fundamentally built into the fabric of the universe. So fundamentally that your question can't even be considered as a vaguely hypothetical one.

The reason for this, of course, is special relativity and time dilation. The faster you are going, the slower time passes for you, such that light pulling away from you always seems to emanate at the speed of light. Not only can you not catch up to light by going faster and faster, you can't even change its speed relative to you... light will always pull away from you at 299792.458 km/s.

Answer 2

If you could travel faster than light then you could see it explode again. But you can't so you can't.

This reminds me of a logic class where we were learning the truth table for the implies function. True implies true is true, true implies false is false, false implies false is false and, get this, false implies true is true. How could false implies true be true? The example given by the teacher was, "if 2+2 were 5, then 4+4 would be 10". So the lesson here is you can prove anything by starting with a false premise.

Answer 3

Theoretically , as you are traveling ahead of the leading edge of the visual happening or the information that light is transporting , you will receive the visual as soon as it catches up with you ....

Answer 4

If you could, you could see it again and again but you can"t so you won"t.

Answer 5

umm, this question would be alot easier if u used commas, periods, and quotation marks:)