2007-02-16 17:46:21 · 14 answers · asked by Anonymous in Science & Mathematics ➔ Physics
We'd freeze to death because the sun's light and it's warmth would take longer to reach us than the duration of our life expectancy - which really becomes irrelevant because we'd be dead in an instant.
2007-02-16 17:51:55 · answer #1 · answered by Sven B 6 · 2⤊ 0⤋
The biggest consequence that I can think of that can be explained in a real sense is that it would take an incredible amount of energy to accelerate your car to 50 miles an hour. You might have to use up more than a full tank of gas.
Light would still get here. Just because it takes 8 minutes for light to get here from the sun doesn't mean we get any less than if it were instantaneous.
Cheetas could get up to less than a mile an hour.
The largest atom physically possible would be much smaller. The element carbon might not exist; I don't know the math behind figuring that out.
Speed limit signs, of course, would not matter, and the audobon would be pointless.
2007-02-16 17:58:48 · answer #2 · answered by a r 3 · 1⤊ 1⤋
i think of Gentleman that Einstein would argue with you and say that 2 different geometries are required for our calculations.One for flat surfaces and the different for around surfaces.as an occasion on a flat floor the shortest distance between 2 factors is a on the instant line.yet take a bite of string and attempt to to construct a on the instant line on a globe.additionally time and area are inseparable.the sole consistent interior the universe is the cost of sunshine.i do no longer off-hand keep in mind the cost of sound even though it relatively is decrease than the cost of sunshine.In 1947 or 1948 Chuck Yeager flew quicker than the cost of sound for this reason breaking the sound barrier.This led to a thunderous sound.The jet he grow to be flyinying grow to be a Bell X-one million.certainly the factor you're making is the twin Parralax of Einstein's theory of Relativity.This seems quite basic yet is definitely in basic terms understood via a Physics Professor.Up above that's twin Parallax.a greater powerful question to ask is do you think guy will ever return and forth quickly sufficient to surpass the cost of sunshine and what consequenses would result?certainly in accordance to Einstein the Untverse is stretching aside like a bite of taffy.How does this phenomenon greater wholesome into your "question"?additionally it might desire to be stated that Astronomers and Physicists have got here across this to be the case.
2016-10-15 12:08:58 · answer #3 · answered by ? 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
You wouldn't be able to drive a car at more than about 1 mile per hour because the "situation" on the roads would have changed by the time you got there! So, there'd be no cars, trains, trucks and aeroplanes would be a real no-no.
2007-02-16 20:05:14 · answer #4 · answered by JJ 7 · 0⤊ 1⤋
if the speed of light were 55 miles an hour, you will not be able to resonably see anything that is travelling more than 55mph. the affect of sun's rays not be that different because still it takes about 8 mins and 20 seconds for sunlight to hit the surface of earth. however if light's speed were 55mph light will be no longer travelling as a wave. i believe you will be getting photon bursts on your body instead of light waves. based upon einstein's theory, theory light will be travelling as matter and if that were case we would not be able to see anything. so thank god that light travels this high speed and stop asking such silly questions.
i wonder if light travels at 55mph, no cops will be able to give me speeding tickets as i will be gone from there before even they see me stopping. who cares, that is not gonna happen..
2007-02-16 18:15:17 · answer #5 · answered by buddy2smartass 2 · 1⤊ 1⤋
it would take the light of the sun 1 billion 690 million 909 thousand hours to reach the earth.
2007-02-16 17:56:27 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
So you are saying that the closer you get to the Sun ,the faster the speed of light would be ..
We would be traveling faster that's for sure.
2007-02-16 17:51:19 · answer #7 · answered by Dfirefox 6 · 0⤊ 1⤋
If you switched on the light of your house, a ray of it will reach your eyes after 30 minutes. And even racing bikes or rally cars would travel faster than it.
2007-02-16 17:57:26 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 2⤋
We'd have a slower reation time I think.
But to us everything would still be normal because it would be what we where used to.
Now you got me wondering if the speed of light is different from different stars.
2007-02-16 17:51:20 · answer #9 · answered by Matty G 3 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Wow, that would be wild, you'd nearly be able to outrun a speeding violation on a BICYCLE.. Sort of " hiding in plain sight " !!
2007-02-16 18:01:28 · answer #10 · answered by N.E. Cycle rider 2 · 0⤊ 1⤋