a liquid from the sheer force of going that fast?
2007-09-12 20:28:17 · 7 answers · asked by Anonymous in Science & Mathematics ➔ Astronomy & Space
sorry i should have said "what if there was a spaceship that could travel at the speed of light "
2007-09-12 21:22:56 · update #1
1. There is no way to travel with the speed of light.
2. Travelling at a uniform fast speed does not put any force on a human body.
3. Accelerating with a manageable acceleration of 3G it would take ...1'019'763 seconds (16'996 minutes or 283.267 hours or nearly 12 days ) to reach only 10% of the speed of light.
If there were no technical obstacles to accelerate further to the speed of light it would need a total of 4 months to reach that speed in a position laying on a flat bed and breathing heavily under the 3G load.
Under a normal 1G accelleration it would take approximately 12 months to reach the speed of light.
2007-09-12 21:10:29 · answer #1 · answered by Ernst S 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Hopefully whoever designed your imaginary spaceship would have sense enough to limit how quickly it could accelerate up to the speed of light. A nice slow acceleration that produced 1 g would be ideal. Once the ship got up to the speed of light there would be no known forces working on it that would harm the people in it, unless the designers overlooked some kind of shielding that would protect the spaceship from blasting through interstellar gases and dust at the speed of light. Without adequate protection the ship would quickly become nothing more than a grease spot and ten ounces of spit.
2007-09-12 21:26:33 · answer #2 · answered by Chug-a-Lug 7 · 1⤊ 1⤋
you won't have the capacity to hit a button and "leap" to mild velocity, like interior the movies. by way of fact a million. we've not got the ability to do it. 2. the prompt acceleration might kill you - thousands and thousands of G's. The acceleration may be slow, by capacity of the time you acquire to mild velocity you would be 10 billion miles from the sunlight. way previous the asteroid belt, even previous the Kuiper belt and the Oort cloud. Interstellar area has much less particles in it different clever we does not additionally be waiting to work out stars from the muddle. So, in interstellar area you would be fairly risk-free from colliding with something. yet another element is this, no rely how briskly you're going, in case you grew to become on a flashlight the mild from the flash mild might leave it on the cost of sunshine. In different words, radar might nevertheless paintings at detecting products, and you need to do some turning to sidestep them. As for friction dealing with a close-by with gas, you need to apply ablative tiles for safeguarding like the gap return and forth makes use of on re-get admission to. i think swifter than mild velocity is organic technological expertise fiction.
2016-10-10 11:57:20 · answer #3 · answered by ? 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I'd be more worried about time stopping if I were going to travel at the speed of light.
The acceleration process towards the speed of light might be enough to liquefy a human though (although if you can accelerate continuously you can get ever closer to light speed surprisingly quickly just going at 1 g which is perfectly safe for humans).
2007-09-12 21:11:40 · answer #4 · answered by bestonnet_00 7 · 0⤊ 2⤋
1.you cannot travel at the speed of light
2.the "spaceship" would be built to protect him from the force,no?
2007-09-12 20:44:01 · answer #5 · answered by david q 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It would be similar to riding in a car. As long as your starting and stopping were gradual enough, the light speed ride would not hurt you.
2007-09-13 02:07:43 · answer #6 · answered by B. 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
He would not liquefy, he would disappear.
2007-09-16 04:57:28 · answer #7 · answered by johnandeileen2000 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋