Light speed travel?

Question

according to einstein, light speed travel is not possible, but the speed necessary to escape a black hole is equal to the speed of light. So if you were to be trapped beyond the horizon of a black hole, you would in essence be traveling at the speed of light. Are these laws speculation or are they fact?

Answer 1

first of all.. advance are made everyday.. and i believe that light has been stopped and slowed to 38 mph in a lab at harvard.. might google that..
it seems that einstein may have been off just alittle bit.. or so it seems at this time.. but we will find out more later as time moves forward

2nd thing.. if i remember right you can walk up to a black hole and stand on just this side of the event horizon and you could get away...once you pass the event horizon your screwed if i remember right...

also if i remember right.. black holes change the speed at which light travels... i recall reading..... it slowes light down.. sorta of bends light and crushes it down to x-rays and spits it back out in that form of energy to re-seed the univers

Answer 2

I'm not sure how you work that one out. If you were trapped within the event horizon of a black hole, you would be torn apart by the incredible gravitational forces. And what I don't understand is why you think you would be travelling at the speed of light. You would not be escaping from the black hole so you would not be traveling at the speed of light.

To escape from a black hole you would have to exceed the speed of light. We are not sure if anything does escape. The apparent radiation of black oles may be due to one of a pair of matter/anti-matter particles being trapped in a black hole and the other, instead of being annihilated by meeting its mate again, it is fired off from the region of the black hole and does not actually escape.

Answer 3

I do not believe we take that approach these days of things being absolute. So for today we consider the speed of light to be the fastest thing in our known universe. However, the laws that apply to this known universe tend to fall apart when it comes to the black hole - Gravity Gone Wild. It only eludes to the fact if one of our very fundamental laws can be shattered under one particular circumstance, it is also probable that other laws too can be shattered under certain circumstances. As stated, light is the fastest thing of the known universe but one day the known universe may be beyond the boundary of what it is today, our universe may only be a subset of something larger - where light may not be the fastest moving thing, and it is through here space travel from place to place in hours rather than millions of light years will be possible.
I can clearly see that gravity has to be a subset of something larger that behaves in different ways in different situations, but for the most part our universe consist of one type of situation and that is why we continually see it behave in one manner - except for the black hole, which proves gravity a very fundamental law at work has to be a subset. However, remember that in the black hole gravity is so intense that even light cannot escape, the singularity theory at work in the black hole. All matter is broken down rather rapidly to the single atomic particle...as far as we know.

Answer 4

I beileve that the particle theory of light would be in consideration when the trapped light of a "black Hole" is rationalized. That is the local gravity is so high that the photons could not even get started to escape.

Answer 5

Interesting...The math supports the theory. BUT, if the math is found to be incorrect, then the theory falls apart. For example, if the speed of light is the limiting factor, how do you explain UFOs. OK, maybe they are not real; butu, if they are, how would they be traveling around the universe if it takes four years just to get to the nearest star???

Answer 6

in basic terms a pair of comments : on each occasion infinities look in physics , it many times shows that the equation, theory or maybe though is definitely getting used outdoors of its appropriate variety and so the end result's suspect. even though , in accordance to the equations , mass does certainly develop in the direction of infinity as its velocity will develop in the direction of the cost of sunshine. yet i admire your theory that while you're using a gas mass to develop up the entire mass of your rocket deliver in the direction of the cost of sunshine , then the (reducing) mass of the gas additionally will develop in the direction of infinity --would desire to you no longer have a gas mass subsequently to attain gentle velocity?. on the subject of your spaceship vacationing at 0.6c in the direction of a celebrity that's shifting at 0.6c in the direction of the spaceship -- the implication being that those speeds are from the attitude of yet another (table certain) observer. In his timeframe then, the two ships pass at 0.6c in the direction of one yet another , and subsequently he will see the isolating area between deliver and celebrity shrink at a value given via (distance aside) /one million.2c. even though, observers on the spaceship and on the celebrity would see (equivalent) relativistic speeds of their own time frames of