What would we do if we could achieve light speed?

Question

Assuming we don't destroy ourselves and live to an age of light speed travel, say in 300 years time. I would imagine man seeding a lifeless planet and starting a boom of evolution. if so u could easly belielve some space travellers done it for us....end of religion will it be? after all it was god who created life on earth right. will it make us god? tell us your thoughts please. The Mad the better!!!

Answer 1

dont listen to these dipshits, its good to imagine and actually alot of them are wrong, its true you cant travel at the speed of light but you can travel at just under the speed of light . there are alot of things people will say about this subject that sound negitive like mentioning the amount of energy it would take to even get to a fraction of the speed of light would be to great its true if you are going to do it without useing a few tricks. if you take a peace of paper and hold it out of your car window and speed forward it will tare your paper apart or blow it out of your hand but if you turn the paper on its side you could move much faster because the paper is immune to the wind . if you try to move a space shuttle the same way as my paper analogy it would take alot of enery because of the resistance. in space the resistance has to do with mass and entertia. if you reduce a space ships gravity it will have a direct effect on the ships mass and enertia. my point is that they are already discovering that they can effect gravity on objects useing new technology. boeing and britisharospace among probably our own govenment have been experimenting with this tech. and we will not know how far they have gotten wtih it probably for a while but you can read about it on the net they have admited that they have acheved results. a client of mine is a former boeing employee and we talked about this for a while. he belives that we are about 50 years from being able to travel above 99percent speed of light but the bigest problems are to do with navigation the effect traveling this fast will have on the ship. we have to be patient, its taken us decades for us to go from flying a little prop plane to flying sr71s . in the lab he said that they can produce fields that can reduce a objects gravity by near 100 percent but only for a nanosecond because it takes an exponential amount of energy the closer you get to weightlessness . but he did say that if you were to get a ship 99.9 percent weightless for just a nanosecond you would be traveling at a significant amount of the speed of light. we just havent figured out a way to build a ship useing this technology he says and problems like navigation and radiation ect. but assuming we did time warps for the crew at over 99 percent speed of light so a crew would only have to wait days or even ours to get to there location. we are going to start with traveling at probably 2 % even then we can get to mars in a matter of a day or less going that fast still impresive. Look up this sort of thing on the net and you will find out what they are doing alot of it is going to be secret so you might not get all the info you want but be patient 10 or 20 years we will probably be messing with it. some thing the tr-3b astra is our goverments own moddel of a antigravity craft but its speculation.

Answer 2

No we cannot reach the speed of light. It would be lovely if we could but its simply not possible. What you are thinking of is a solar sail, it has been thought of for many years by astronomers. It does have some great potential for space travel but no where near the speed of light. The speed of light is 186,000 miles per second. Also a solar sail on an interplanetary mission would gain only 1 millimeter per second in speed every second it is pushed along by Solar radiation, so it would take a little while to build up any speed. But that does come out to an increase of 195 mph a day, which is nice :o) However, the law of relativitiy does put a damper on things.....To accelerate any matter to the speed of light would require an infinite amout of energy (basically impossible).

Answer 3

You trail off and ask a seperate question, the first question was ok but you started to sound like an idiot at the end. Assuming you know about albert einsteins work ( he was a physicist) you should realise that they wouldn't stop at the speed of light they would try for a speed that would enable time travel. NASA wouldn't be able to do anything with it because even getting to the nearest star going the speed of light would take far longer than the life span of a human being. Ask to learn, Think before you ask.

Answer 4

Assuming it was true light-speed travel, the entire universe would open up for us.
It would take a long time for people to develop a culture that endorses leaving Earth behind, but eventually we'd pollinate the known universe, spreading in all directions.
Different colonies would necessarily lose contact with each other (would take millions of years for signals to travel across the distance), so you'd have people developing all sorts of different beliefs etc.
By the end, different colonies will have diverged so radically that they probably wouldn't recognize themselves as coming from the same species.

Edit:
Nabnel is incorrect as far as I know. Your mass increases as your speed increases. That's what makes light-travel impossible for objects with mass, because eventually the energy you require to accelerate reaches infinity (as mass reaches infinity).
It's also why photons and the like can travel at light-speed, because they have zero rest-mass.

Answer 5

Hi there even at the speed of light it would still take 4.7 years to reach our nearest, star after the sun called proxmia centrua. There are enormous distances that no one would live long enouth to get to any other planets or stars even in our own galaxy.

below are some of the distances to the most interesting sights and objects in our own galaxy.


Eagle Nebula: Distance 6,500 Light Years.
Orion Nebula: Distance 1,500 Light Years.
M80 Globular Cluster 17,000 Light Years.

hope that this helps?

P.S. I agree with what your saying that if we did reach a planet with no life and started planting seeds then life could evolve and I think that to the people or creaturs that evolve on the planet they would see use as a god because we created life on that planet.

Answer 6

Well first we don't need to reach lightspeed todo what you say and FTL travel has a number of problems of its own to solve.. Look, God may be responsible for life on earth but did He create it here?

Religion doesn't depend on a specific creation story. One thing we do know about the one in the Bible is that it didn't happen 3000/6000 years ago.

The Bible is a remarkable testament and has truth and wisdom embedded into it but it is not a literal history whatever some people would like us to believe.

My own feeling is that God is way out of our limited understanding and reasoning.

Answer 7

Everyone knows about E = mc^2 ( E = Energy, m = mass, c = speed of light). On our Sun every second, 400 million tonnes of Hydrogen disappear to be replaced by 396 million tonnes of Helium. The 4 million tonnes that vanish are converted into energy. Mass gets converted to energy.

You can't travel at the speed of light becasue when you are moving you have energy (kinetic energy). As you approach the speed of light that energy gets converted to mass and that mass approaches infinity. When you reach the speed of light you will have infinite mass, and so need infinite energy to move. So you can't really travel at the speed of light!

Answer 8

If our soul was to travel at the speed of light as we measured on Earth as a constant"C",we would take 15 billion years to get to the other side of the Universe.So traveling at that speed is just simply to slow.to get to Heaven.
Unless the Universe follows different rules of physics that we know nothing about. In that case both relativety postulates do not apply in reality.

Answer 9

I would definitely travel the universe in search of more interesting life forms and experiencing their cultures.

As I will be travelling at the speed of light, I will not age much, so I can practically roam forever and ever...

Answer 10

If I could move at the speed of light, I might stand a chance of keeping up with Steve Vai.