If your airplane took off from earth to the moon and traveled faster than the speed of light.......?

Question

Could you look back to see yourself taking off.

Answer 1

According to the theory of relativity, it is probably possible to approach the speed of light, but not to equal or surpass it. Approaching the speed of light supposedly creates a slowing effect of time relative to the object. Therefore the craft would never reach the speed of light - meaning that it would not be able to reach another point in the galaxy before the reflection of the light from it's own hull arrives at that same point.

Besides, the speed that light travels is a constant in relation to the viewer anyway, meaning that even if you were to maintain a speed of 186,000 mps (miles per second), the light that reflects off of the outside of your craft will still travel away from you at 186,000 mph IN RELATION TO YOU. It's distance from you will grow 186,000 miles for every second that passes, even though you are already moving at that speed. That is where the slowing effect of time comes in.

Viewing this event from Earth, the light would travel toward the observer at it's normal speed of 186,000 mps in relation to the observer, not twice that. So, if the light is also moving away from the craft at that speed, it stands to reason that the craft is travelling slower than the actual reflection of it. This seems to indicate that there must be a sort of blurring or bogging of the passing of time for the craft, even though a clock inside the craft would appear to run normally. This would explain the theory that if one of two twins were placed on a space craft and travelled at the speed of light for one hour (relative to the clock inside of the craft), he would return to find his brother an old man.

Simply put, the theory of relativity suggests that it would not be possible to look back and see the reflection of your craft where your craft is no longer, because the reflection happened before the arrival of the craft.

Answer 2

If you are faster than light,
you will be ahead of your image ,
and unable to see yourself.

however your shape would change , you would be shorter in the direction of travel.
Everything in front of you would be blue,
to the sides it would take on a red hue, and be black behind you.

This is assuming you survive the speed of light barrier.
As you accelerate and hit the speed of light, just like the speed of sound, light will bunch up,in front of you as you break through that Barrier , a major turbulence will occur, the heat will be intense. If you strike any tiny particle, The speed will turn the mass into energy, and you will annhilate, yourself,
that is worst than exploding, because your mass will become energy, there will be nothing left,
well maybe a few sub atomuic particles.

Speed Kills
Best is to go the speed limit,
So remove the nitro booster from your rice Burner , and slow down
It's the LAW

The speed of light has been exceeded in the lab several years ago.
The experiment fired a laser through a prepared substance, followed by an induced wave. The laser cleared the path and a wave reched the taget ahead of the laser beam. The relativistic limit was broken and the time distortion effects predicted by Einstien were useless.
I think Einstien had a good theory for his needs, to build a bomb and describe the transfer of energy to mass. However to make the mathematics simple enough to solve, he had to make an assumption,, that the speed of light was a constant.
His assuption was valid enough for the physics he was doing at the time., it allowed them topmove on with a general idea of the energy release in an atomic reaction. At least they had an equation they could work with.
But it was still an assumption for convenience, and will not be valid in other situations.
To assume that the speed of is a constant is OK in some instances, but you will run into trouble eventually because it is not true.
Einstien had the problem of a never ending equation , each solution had to be fed back into the equation and the answer could be better approximated.
This could go on for a life time , and yuou would still only get a better answer each time, But not the correct answer.
When those scientist fired off the bomb, they had no idea it would be as kick *** as it was, they were all taken by surprise, because they assumed the speed of light was a constant, they really just needed a number huge enough to fit into the formula and keep everyone satisfied.
They also assumed the speed of light could never be reached, because there was not enough energy in the universe to push any mass that fast.
Not that the light was the fastest thing possible, but not enough fuel to propel a mass faster than it.

Answer 3

Now that is a successful explanation of time relevance to speed. Theoretically speaking you would be right based on 2 explanations,
1. You travel faster than light and can reach the destination before light reaches and then look back to intercept the light and see what ou have asked for.
2. You travel faster than light, then by Lorentz Fitzgerald's equation, you will be moving in a relatively new frame of reference which is faster than the true frame. (in other words, you will be travelling in time in the future). Then it is possible to do the same thing by relating to the true frame of reference.

Answer 4

This may sound unkind but people really need to read up on what IS known and not waste their points on meaningless questions like these that are so abundant here. The question is meaningless because no where in the universe can anything travel faster than light, not even in theory. So as Silent has said, you can answer your question in whatever way your imagination wants. But it won't be reality, or even a possibility.

Answer 5

Why do people keep speculating as to what would happen if you travelled faster than light, when it is not possible?

Since you can never reach the speed of light, you can never go faster than it. So the question doesn't arise.

Answer 6

It will be possible only if you reach that distance in a few seconds ..
You should actually be atleast 300000 Kms away from your take off point within 0.5 seconds of your take off...

Answer 7

If you could, that would be a illogical thing, right? That's why today's scientists are still cautious about such a subject, although Einstain made such a claim.

Answer 8

hi
no , you can't see yourself
because Albert anshtain said (when speed of anything become as a speed of light , that thing hid or disappeared),
because when the speed of anything become as a speed of light , this thing change to photon , and we can't see photon yet

thanks

Answer 9

No. The laws of Physics indicate my eyeballs would be mashed into the rest of my collapsed remains of flesh, because of the rate of acceleration.

Answer 10

NO YOUR PLAN WOLD MILT AND YOU WOLD DIE.