Say you were flying in an airplane going about 600 miles per hour and you shot a flash light out the window, would 600 miles per hour add to lights speed?
2007-09-16 07:21:22 · 9 answers · asked by Sccerguy94 1 in Science & Mathematics ➔ Engineering
no..no matter how fast you are traveling, you can't speed up light...the speed of light is the "Speed Limit" of everything..
2007-09-16 20:43:04 · answer #1 · answered by Ginny Weasley 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The speed of light is so large (around a billion miles an hour), that another 600 miles per hour would be insignificant.
2007-09-16 15:52:02 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
I like the 'what's you're hurry' response ;) Anywho, I asked that same question in my modern physics class when I took it and doesn't get added. I found modern physics a bit incomprehensible since light acts strange simply because it is traveling at the speed of light and hence classic physics' laws don't apply. For example light slows down upon entering water from a vacuum and then after it leaves the water it speeds up again! To answer your question: modern physics says it becomes impossible to approach the speed of light and for light it's impossible to go beyond 'c", it's what modern physics is based on. With that said, I was watching the History channel's "Universe" documentary and one theory into the big bang to explain the creation of basic element like hydrogen is that at that exact moment of the big bang the speed of light needed to be exceeded. Good lucko!
2007-09-16 15:27:07 · answer #3 · answered by James SCC 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Nope. According to the special theory of relativity, the speed of light is constant for a given medium. Even if the plane was going at the speed of light, the light beam would still not go any faster (speed changes time and space).
2007-09-16 14:32:34 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
No.
(Interestingly enough, your measurement
of the speed of the light from the plane
would agree with a measurement taken
from the ground.)
The only way to speed up light is to
pass it through something less dense
than empty space.
2007-09-16 18:24:32 · answer #5 · answered by Irv S 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Surely light speeds itself up in the winter months? The days are shorter ! Not to mention holidays when they go even faster. ;<)
2007-09-17 11:08:16 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
600mphs is so small compared to the speed of light..you would have a tough time measuring but the answer really is no...
2007-09-16 14:29:20 · answer #7 · answered by Bob D 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
What's your hurry?
2007-09-16 14:27:47 · answer #8 · answered by Warren W- a Mormon engineer 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
no
2007-09-16 14:41:11 · answer #9 · answered by Regina K 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋