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[_] [?] Speed of Light Anonymous 03/07/10(Sun)01:20 No.1201409
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>> [_] Anonymous 03/07/10(Sun)01:29 No.1201417
the people on the planet simply wouldn't see it.
>> [_] Anonymous 03/07/10(Sun)01:35 No.1201425
>>1201417
from the ships POV
>> [_] Anonymous 03/07/10(Sun)01:37 No.1201429
It's things like this that just never pop into my head. But yeah, I imagine so...
>> [_] Copernicus 03/07/10(Sun)01:48 No.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 03/07/10(Sun)01:50 No.1201444
yes it's normal I meant, not yes it would be in fast forward.
>> [_] Anonymous 03/07/10(Sun)02:07 No.1201458
nothing can go the speed of light, except for light itself, just FYI.
>> [_] Anonymous 03/07/10(Sun)02:11 No.1201461
>>1201458
Theoretically, I forgot to add.
>> [_] Anonymous 03/07/10(Sun)02:34 No.1201470
What are you all 12? Of fucking course.
>> [_] Anonymous 03/07/10(Sun)02:41 No.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).
>> [_] Anonymous 03/07/10(Sun)02:50 No.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).
>> [_] Anonymous 03/07/10(Sun)02:51 No.1201484
>>1201482
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.
>> [_] Anonymous 03/07/10(Sun)02:56 No.1201486
>>1201484
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....
>> [_] Anonymous 03/07/10(Sun)03:11 No.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.
>> [_] Anonymous 03/07/10(Sun)03:51 No.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.
>> [_] Anonymous 03/07/10(Sun)04:26 No.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?
>> [_] Anonymous 03/07/10(Sun)09:06 No.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.
>> [_] Anonymous 03/07/10(Sun)09:14 No.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?
