Very tricky science question.Recommended for intelligent persons only?

Question

As you know that light speed travels at a speed of 318,677 km per second.Lets set this fact aside.. First of all lets talk about video cam,when a person zooms on a spot,the view becomes large and vice versa. Now when you are 400ft from an object with your video cam,you would probably zoom the view to enlarge the size of that object.When you move closer the view becomes blured.But when you move closer and unzoom it at the same time,the object remains the same size with a clear image.Very simple to understand.And vice versa,when you
move away from it ,you have to zoom.

Now its time for my theory..
If you are in a space ship with a super telescope that allows you to see your house from outer space.A computer will regulate the zooming,that means when your on the moon or at mars,the view and size of your house is the same no matter what distance. CAN YOU ANSWER THIS?
When the ship travels at light speed,has the time on the image you see stoped? or not?
And what if when your faster?

Answer 1

This magnification of the camera/telescope has to do with mirrors in the camera/telescope and nothing to do with the time required for the light to travel from the observed object to the apature of the camera/telescope.

Answer 2

Here's my problem with the theory.

The light energy on your retina determines the image.

That has to be used to stimulate the nerve.

Once that energy is used, travelling faster than light, no other image can reach your retina.

Persistance of vision is 1/10th of a second.

My contention is, no matter what speed after the speed of light, 1/10 of a second later you're in the dark.

And what if you look in the other direction for a split second.

That whole time stands still thing must be rubbish because whenever you travel away from something at that speed, you travel toward something else at the same speed.

Answer 3

Lets understand "zoom"
You are a certain distance from the object and not using zoom - as you walk towards the object, it will appear larger, if you zoom at the same time it will appear larger quicker.

You are at the same distance as before but now zoomed full. The object appears as large as possible. As you walk to object you back away the zoom (we will assume you can back off the zoom at the same rate as you are moving closer), the object will appear to stay the same size until you reach the point where it will grow in size because you are that close.

Notice (and here lies the answer to your paradox) you start at the same distance from the object and can regulate the zoom. In your example, you are at different distances so your target object will start off with different sizes, with or without the zoom. Since the starting size is different, the zoom rate is different.

Answer 4

If this ever happened the results would be catastrophic. Time, (as we know it), would stop, except for those on the spaceship. Your camera would definitely break or at the very least never zoom again. Anyone looking at the image of the house through the camera while traveling light speed...they would certainly crap themselves then either have a seizure or fall into a 53 year coma.

Answer 5

if you travel at the speed of light to the image it will appear to
age twice as fast as normal and all the light freq your seeing will double in value
ie reds will look like blue ,greens will be ultra Violet etc
if you are going away from the image you view the image will stand still in time.and the light freq will drop to zero ie you wont see anything.
if you go to the light source at 2 times the speed of light the image will age 3 times as fast if going away from the light faster then light the freq will go up but the image will be running in reverse time frame
both time compression and freq shift can be understood if you take someone talking to you as you move towards them
there pitch changes and the words spoken get faster just like when you play a tape recording back faster then normal ,,,both the speed of talk and the pitch change
if you slow the tape down by the amount it is running at you have stopped the tape and no sound is herd if you continue
more slowing down you will be running it backwards

Answer 6

The time on the image will not be affected. Time will pass normally for the ship and telescope. Everyone ( and everything ) will experience the passage of time as they normally would. If people on Earth could see activities in the spaceship it would look slower relative to activities on Earth. The opposite is true for people looking at Earth. Things would seem to move faster on Earth. But whether you're on Earth or a spaceship going at the speed of light, time would seem to pass normally. That includes the clocks on the ship.

Answer 7

If you are traveling at the speed of light, the image in the telescope does not exist as you are traveling with the light photons and they can not impinge on your eyes.
As for the effect travelling faster, since an object with mass can not do this, it is like asking "If your heart were made of milk chocolate and your blood were made of chocolate syrup, could you run faster?"

Answer 8

If you remember, time goes SLOWER for YOU, the observer going nearly the speed of light (as you cannot actually go the complete speed of light), so the images you see of anything OUTSIDE your spaceship would actually seem as if time were moving much FASTER out there.

You could sit and watch your home decay and be bulldozed and another one (or a shopping mall) be reconstructed on its site.

Answer 9

First of all you spell it with a double p = stopped.
That is like asking when you are flying on an airplane and a fly is in there flying on an airplane too why hasnt it stopped
The answer is that the image is the exact same regarless to how fast the ship travels.

Answer 10

The time on the image would be the time present on earth, in my house while am travelling at light speed. The time would not have stopped, but it would continue in its slow fashion. Doesnt matter how fast I go. The time on earth would still be going.