...and you walk in the same direction that the craft is travelling. Would you not be moving faster than light?
The way I see it, there are only two possibilities.
You ARE moving faster than light or you're unable to move due to a force I, as a lay person, know nothing about.
2007-08-23 15:32:36 · 23 answers · asked by Anonymous in Science & Mathematics ➔ Astronomy & Space
The premise this question is based upon is not possible, you cannot travel at the speed of light,and never will....#####
2007-08-23 15:37:28 · answer #1 · answered by ? 5 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Before you fire the gun, while the bullet is in the barrel, the bullet would be traveling at C. You are holding the gun and traveling at C, it is going the same speed you are. The potential energy that you are storing within the gun and your self is seperate from the chemicals within the bullet that will propel it. (Which brings up another point. If you are traveling at C the slightest friction might set off the powder within the bullet prematurely.) When you fire the gun the chemicals which propel the bullet would add the potential energy stored within and create kinetic energy that would be traveling faster then C. You will not see the bullet leave the barrel. It will be invisible, since it is going faster then C you could not see it. But it would still be traveling at the same velocity and heading untill it hit something that would slow it down to a point below C. And at that point you would see the bullet again. It is also possible that the bullet will pass right through matter(in a different state/dimension) since it is now at a speed higher then what we know is the cap speed for all matter. My theory on why there is dark matter and energy is because it is traveling faster then C imo. We cannot see it because it is traveling too fast. The "normal" matter that we are able to see is the matierial that has slowed down to a point slower then of C, but the rest of the Dark matter/forces are still at too high speed to be seen.
2016-05-21 03:49:27 · answer #2 · answered by isis 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Ok - everyone has given you the answer - nothing with mass can go the speed of light. Now, you say you are a layman, right? Well, Stephen Hawking wrote this awesome book especially for people with less scientific prowess called "A Brief History of Time". In it, he gives some great explanations about the special theory of relativity, light speed paradoxes, and many other fascinating facts. I think you would like it if questions like this intrigue you. But take it from someone who has read SEVERAL books on the subject - no matter how much you read about it and study it, there will still be a little voice inside your head saying "this just ain't right!" And we're not even talking about quantum physics, where almost everything makes the voice (at least inside my head) say that...
2007-08-23 16:18:37 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
There are two more possibilities.
1) The entire situation is impossible because there is not, and never will be, a craft traveling at the speed of light.
2) The craft drops to sub-light speed allowing you to walk forward.
2007-08-23 15:43:56 · answer #4 · answered by farwallronny 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Again, no material object can travel at the speed of light. But if the craft were traveling at one inch per hour less than the speed of light and you walked forward at 3 miles per hour, you would see yourself moving forward relative to your craft at 3 miles per hour. But that is only because time and space are distorted for you due to the high speed of your craft. A person watching the craft fly be from some stationary place would see you moving forward in your craft at less than one inch per hour. You and the stationary person see the same thing in different ways.
2007-08-23 15:39:20 · answer #5 · answered by campbelp2002 7 · 2⤊ 0⤋
You cannot overcome the laws of physics, which say nothing can travel faster that light. As a practical matter, travel at light speed would be impossible due to the amount of energy required. Now, if we tossed your carcass into the sun, it would soon be vaporized and the vapor further broken down, and as that happens, your atoms would emit radiation, some of it in the form of light - so, technically, at least part of you could travel at the speed of light - but I don't think, given the circumstances, that you'd enjoy it very much.
2007-08-23 15:38:35 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
It's impossible for anything with mass to travel at the speed of light, so let's change the question to one that is (mathematically and physically, if not technically) possible: Say you are in a space craft traveling 75% the speed of light. Your friend is on the ground, stationary. You turn on a laser beam, and you measure the light from the laser beam to be traveling at the speed of light relative to your space ship. Your friend also measures the speed of your laser beam, and (here's the weird part) also sees it as going the speed of light relative to the ground! Weird, eh? That's Einstein's Special Relativity for you. Speeds don't add the way we would expect them to when you're dealing with very fast speeds. Now, in order for this to work out mathematically, we have to play games with distance and time - your friend, for instance, will think your space ship is shorter than it you think it is. It's all quite complicated, and anyone who claims to truly understand it probably really doesn't.
2007-08-23 15:42:51 · answer #7 · answered by kris 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Nothing with mass can move at or faster than the speed of light (according to Einstein's theory, which hasn't been proved even a little incorrect in a century).
Its not a force as such - the closer you get to the speed of light the more massive you become. At the speed of light your mass is infinite - any additional energy used to go faster simply increases the mass (not the speed).
2007-08-23 15:36:40 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 3⤊ 0⤋
I see your point. I would have to believe that you're not traveling faster than the speed of light.
Why?
Because the craft is moving at the speed of light not you. You would still be moving at the average human speed onboard a vessel that is actually moving at the speed of light.
Thats like Barry Bonds hitting his fastest home run with an ant on top of it.
The ball would be traveling X amount of mph while the ant itself would be moving at a mere ungiven cm. per minute.
Yet... I have to believe the faster you go the harder it would be to move. Hmmm...
2007-08-23 15:47:56 · answer #9 · answered by honesthustler 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
You can't get a spacecraft to the speed of light in the first place. As it goes faster, it gets harder to accelerate. No matter how hard you have your rockets push on it, it only gets closer to the speed of light, never reaches it.
Also, time and distance are different in different frames of reference. On board a ship moving .999999999 the speed of light, you would be able to walk around normally but that wouldn't make you reach light speed. The distortion makes it so that velocities don't add.
2007-08-23 15:38:59 · answer #10 · answered by dsw_s 4 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Theres the problem man, The speed of Light is relative. You technically would be moving faster than the speed of light to a 3rd person outside the craft standing still (if possible for them to see you)
So yes you would be "moving faster than the speed of light"
and No you wouldn't ;)
Because the speed of light in relation to you would remain the same. So you would still be moving slower than the speed of light.
2007-08-23 15:37:57 · answer #11 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 2⤋