This is seriously confusing!!?

Question

i know its impossible but if you got in a shuttle that could travel twice as fast as the speed of light,went really far away and looked back at earth with a telescope would you see yourself?and if you kept watching would you see a shuttle come towards you?

Answer 1

Interesting question, and as you say it would seem that this situation is likely to be impossible in this universe. But suspending disbelief for a moment and applying the laws of physics as far as we know them the situation can be imagined.

I assume you are observing from a point far away but which is stationery relative to Earth (i.e. you have stopped travelling at twice the speed of light and have not spent an appreciable time decelerating).

I think you would see your shuttle receding and it would appear to journey from your current position back to Earth. Like running a film in reverse. Weird.

Answer 2

Theoretically speaking thats one hella of a question.
I think since light exist both as a particle and a wave to travel twice the speed of light you would have to enter a different molecular state. The particle and wave give light a dimension. To travel twice the speed of light you must enter another dimension so NO you would not be able to see your shuttle or self coming towards you.

Answer 3

Based upon: being possible - your telescope had the resolving power - and magnification enough -

Since you would be traveling at twice light, you would only be able to see the light of what the telescope would see. Nothing coming to you as you were traveling twice light speed while the images you describe would be only images not catching up to you.

Answer 4

You can gain the same effect as travelling at twice the speed of light by bending space-time and creating a wormhole to jump through. The magnetic stabilisers around your artificial wormhole will need to be very strong - so take off your watch before you go through. Perhaps get your fillings replaced too.

Once on the other side, you can look back at yourself and see your shuttle disappearing into the wormhole.

Answer 5

First, this is impossible.

You wouldn't be able to see anything, because light could not catch up with you, front or back. Nobody else could see your shuttle, either. Did I mention that it's impossible in the first place?

Answer 6

because it carried into the recent testomony and is reported lower back in Romans, Corinthians and Revelation... take a seem at what Romans has to assert about the unnaturalness of homosexuality: Romans a million:26-27 26For this reason God gave them up unto vile affections: for even their women did substitute the organic use into that it really is antagonistic to nature: 27 and also also the adult males, leaving the organic use of the lady, burned of their lust one in the course of yet another; adult males with adult males operating that it really is unseemly, and receiving in themselves that recompense of their blunders which became meet. a million Cor 6:9:9 Do you no longer comprehend that the depraved gained't inherit the dominion of God? do no longer be deceived: Neither the sexually immoral nor idolaters nor adulterers nor male prostitutes nor gay offenders 10nor thieves nor the grasping nor drunkards nor slanderers nor swindlers will inherit the dominion of God" the different Levitican guidelines (cultural to maintain the individuals who lacked adaquate water provide, refrigeration, and waste disposals- othewise they could have all died of ailment) are not to any extent further restated, in the NT, quite with a view to stay OUT of heaven. Have a sturdy one!

Answer 7

Your hypothesis is correct. Of course, you would probably be dead from the force. And twice the speed of light might not even be enough to see yourself for very long

Answer 8

Why not?

You would be travelling faster than the light being reflected from your ship, and it's reflected light that makes it possible to "see" things - you'd see a tail of light behind the ship too as long as you are accelerating because you'd be seeing light that started out at different points in time.

Answer 9

the speed of light is the measure by which we gauge everything else in the universe...time,space,distance,....
i seriously doubt anything can travel twice that speed...
but,theoretically... anything that travel at that speed may disintegrate/transform to another state ... would you still be conscious enough to even recognize yourself?

Answer 10

I'll do my best to explain..

You're standing on the Moon, looking through a telescope at Superman, on Earth. He's nice enough to help us with this, so remember to thank him.

First, Superman flys to you on the moon at Sub-Light Speed. For purpouses that will be made clear later, let's break this down. As he leaves, light reflects off him and to you. Since he's going slower than light, it gets to you first. He continues forward towards the middle and the light bounces off and follows the light that was previously gathered in your telescope. So, you see a set of images in chronological order.

First the light that bounced off just after he left. Then the light that bounced off as he continued his journy. And finaly the light that reflected off him as he reached you.

Now, he's going to go back and do it again, but at light speed this time.

This time, when the light bounces off him it's not going faster than he is. So, the light reflects off him, but it doesn't go out ahead of him because it's not going faster. The light bounces off at the beginning, the middle and the end. But since he is going just as fast as the image is being reflected, all the images pile up and you don't see them until he's there.

Now, we're going to send him back and promise he only has to do it one more time, but this time when he comes back, he's going to go faster than light.

So, he sets out towards you again. This time, the image reflects off him then he PASSES the image of himself. He gets to the middle, light continues to reflect off him. Since he passed the last image and this image is going the exact same speed as the last one, it is AHEAD of the first image. He gets near to you, another image reflects off, this time infront of both the previous images that are all going the same speed.

So, he gets there without you ever seeing him on the way. First you see the image of him when he was closest, then when he was in the middle, then finaly when he had just left.

That's the best way I have of describing it and I'm just lucky Superman was nice enough to help me. If you have any questions, eMail me because Superman is tired of this. ^_^