A simular question has already been asked in a now closed forum, however I didn't get the answer I was looking for out of it. Some of the statements made in the previous forum were "a mach is passing the sound barrier and light doesn't have a barrier" Well light may not have a barrier (as seen yet) but we continue to say mach even though mach 2,3,4... doesn't create a sonic boom. The second statement was that nothing is faster than the speed of light, well we're assuming there is or could be. So that being said, I'm looking for a dictionary answer of what you would call the speed of light multiplied by x. If you want to include the medium in which it's traveling, we'll say the vacuum of space without a spec of matter around. I did a small amount of research to figure this question out and I found no answer. So if it becomes a word I say we call it a Spock, cause it rhymes with Mach and would please the trekies, no that's a joke of course. There has to already be a word for it.
2007-10-01 12:40:15 · 2 answers · asked by atheist7775 1 in Science & Mathematics ➔ Physics
Borrowing from Einstein's equation, why not use the 'C' from
E=MC2?
I know, it actually stands for 'constant', but in this case you could say Cx5.
Just a guess :)
2007-10-01 12:45:34 · answer #1 · answered by No Chance Without Bernoulli 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The speed of light is usually denoted by the letter C.
So 5C is 5 times the speed of light.
2007-10-01 19:44:43 · answer #2 · answered by Jeffrey K 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋