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>> [_] Anon 1201417 the people on the planet simply wouldn't see it.
>> [_] Anon 1201425 >># from the ships POV
>> [_] Anon 1201429 It's things like this that just never pop into my head. But yeah, I imagine so...
>> [_] Copernicus 1201443 yes, the speed is light doesn't change relative to the speed of things around it, it would seem normal, other than having a bit of a blue tint.
>> [_] copernicus 1201444 yes it's normal I meant, not yes it would be in fast forward.
>> [_] Anon 1201458 nothing can go the speed of light, except for light itself, just FYI.
>> [_] Anon 1201461 >># Theoretically, I forgot to add.
>> [_] Anon 1201470 What are you all 12? Of fucking course.
>> [_] Anon 1201474 Think of like the doppler effect except for with light/time. Let's say you start 1 light-year away. You're seeing the light that reflected off Earth a year ago. as you get closer, you see light with less of a delay. So at half a light year's distance, you've seen a full year's light + whatever time it took you to travel that distance. In other words, if you've been travelling at light speed that whole time, then you've seen (half a year to get there) + (you're closer to Earth now, so another half a year).
>> [_] Anon 1201482 No, from the ship's POV all electromagnetic radiation coming from ahead of it would appear to be compressed (commonly referred to as "blue-shifting," since in the part of the spectrum visible to the human eye blue and violet have the shortest wavelengths). Likewise, all electromagnetic radiation coming from behind the ship would be elongated (commonly referred to as "red-shifting," see above).
>> [_] Anon 1201484 >># Yeah, that too. But along with being compressed, if you were to watch what was happening, it'd be moving twice as fast at light speed. Assuming you can go that fast.
>> [_] Anon 1201486 >># Oh, plus of course if you're going light speed you're now infinitely massive and time isn't moving at all for you. But besides that....
>> [_] Anon 1201494 special relativity, bitches. Light always travels at the same speed regardless of your frame of reference. It's perception of time that would change.
>> [_] Anon 1201522 While on the ship, time appears to be going by at an incredible rate outside the ship. The closer the ship approaches the speed of light the passengers perception of time will be until seconds become years, then tens of years, then tens of thousands of years until you reach a point where time has no meaning since you are no longer experiencing it when you reach the speed of light.
>> [_] Anon 1201538 But if you use general theory and warp space-time around you while creating a wave which warp space-time enough to make up the difference in your speed, then its not the same is it Steve?
>> [_] Anon 1201640 1) Your ship isn't going the speed of light. 2) The planet appears brighter, bluer, shorter, and faster to the pilot of the ship going close to the speed of light.
>> [_] Anon 1201644 No faggots. Vision is dependent on light reaching our eyes/cameras. If something travels at the speed of light, then EVERY IMAGE, if you want to talk in frames, from the beginning of the trip to the end, would reach the planet/ship at the same moment they collided. Do you understand?