2007-02-04 16:50:33 · 8 answers · asked by Anonymous in Science & Mathematics ➔ Physics
The speed of light is relative.
Lets say you are running with a flashlight and you turn it on while you are running.
A person looking at you who is stationary will only see the light from the flashlight moving at the speed of light as nothing goes faster than the speed of light.
However, when you are running, you will see the light also moving at the speed of light. As you are moving, the speed of light will be the "constant" plus the velocity at which you are moving.
This goes back to the question, what happens if you are driving the speed of light in a car and turn your headlights on?
From the viewpoint of a stationary observer, they will see nothing but the car. If you are driving the car, the lights will go on as normal, thus the speed of light being two times its constant.
You start getting into some funny stuff when you start taking about light going faster than the speed of light.
2007-02-04 17:33:21 · answer #1 · answered by Slider728 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Dude, they have not even come to grips with the concept of evolution, which got here out 50 years in the previous the concept of relativity...you're asking way too a lot of them. certain, the speed of light in a vacuum is consistent. it really is between the flaws the concept of relativity *proved.* Peace.
2016-11-25 02:55:10 · answer #2 · answered by blomquist 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
A number of experiments under carefully controlled laboratory conditions has produced results showing that the speed of light has been momentarily increased ==>http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Speed_of_light#.22Faster-than-light.22_observations_and_experiments
2007-02-04 17:29:18 · answer #3 · answered by Chug-a-Lug 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It is certainly possible, as they are speeding sound up to *10 of its constant (in particular, using sound to create a small vortex of itself, changing its speed until it is equal to zero- the begining of the sound wave touching the end of it, thereby eliminating itself)
2007-02-06 09:51:01 · answer #4 · answered by gobby_180 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Hyper physics...this can happen in a black hole when light is drawn in by its infinite gravity...thereby giving it infinite speed at it's vortex...
2007-02-04 16:55:22 · answer #5 · answered by snow 1 · 0⤊ 1⤋
hi,heee jawapannya ialah wallahualam...
2007-02-05 13:30:58 · answer #6 · answered by Eddy 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I don't know
2007-02-04 16:55:56 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
don't know, don't care, thanks for the points
2007-02-04 17:56:19 · answer #8 · answered by Mungo 3 · 0⤊ 1⤋