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2007-05-01 15:35:07 · 9 answers · asked by edbiology 1 in Science & Mathematics ➔ Physics
we would have to fly slower, maybe drive slower
2007-05-01 15:44:41 · answer #1 · answered by scott p 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Well, since no particles of mass can travel at or faster than the speed of light, our natural "speed limit" would be 25 m/s. When you started walking or noticed someone else was walking we would likely notice things shrinking or stretching in the direction of travel due to the laws of relativity. Your mass would increase substantially as you speed up according the laws of relativity. If you could reach 25 m/s, you would be infinitely heavy. About the question of time, since you cannot exceed 25 m/s, there is no way for you travel back in time. As you speed up though, time would slow down and at 25 m/s time would stop from your perspective. You can forget about most communication methods too. Radio communications would have noticeable delay as you get further from the source. At 1 km, the signal would take 40 seconds to reach you. So the internet would not function, radio, tv would be out of the question and our world would look stretched and warped from our perspective due the the different directions and speeds things move around. Birds likely wouldn't exist (as they try and fly, their mass will increase and hence fall to the earth). There are many more effects you could think of, but they all arise from three basic effects: time dilation, spatial expansion/contraction, mass dilation.
2007-05-01 15:50:11 · answer #2 · answered by veldel37 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I think of the speed of light as a result of a function and not as a function itself.
OK, that didn't fly. The speed of light is the speed it is because of the various other laws of physics that hold our universe together. To slow light down would change the laws of physics, and this would lead to total collapse of matter as we know it.
Now, if you were just wanting to visualize what our lives would be like if only the speed of light were changed and nothing else, then I suppose that Daylight Saving Time would mean more than it does to us now.
2007-05-01 15:51:02 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
There wouldn't be any stars in the night sky because their light wouldn't be here yet.
Our cars would have to go slower than 25m/s at night to keep from outrunning our headlights.
It would take a lifetime to get a tan.
2007-05-01 15:44:30 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
it would take a person 2 seconds to see something which is only 50 m away..... that means, if you were watching a basketball game and your seat was say, 50m from the court, it would take you 2 seconds to even see what has happened... alot of other things could have happened by then..
another difference would be that you'd hear thnder first before seeing lightning.... not the other way around =)
2007-05-01 15:56:46 · answer #5 · answered by Marc V 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Hard to say, the laws of physics would probably be radically different, maybe our current bodies wouldn't function in the new physical world...
2007-05-01 15:42:57 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
We'd need a lot more Uranium than before to create nuclear explosions.
2007-05-01 15:42:45 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
We cannot discover the distant stars yet.
2007-05-01 15:43:30 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
we could probably go back in time by now... and the sunshine would be older
2007-05-01 15:38:40 · answer #9 · answered by Chris 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋