fruitisbad Posted September 26, 2011 Share Posted September 26, 2011 if it means hoverboards from back to the future ~Im happy Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
not wanted Posted September 27, 2011 Share Posted September 27, 2011 If you are shooting a beam like this through the earth then shouldn't you take into account the wormholes? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
flamingjimmy Posted September 27, 2011 Share Posted September 27, 2011 Let's get this right, the speed was something like 60 nansoeconds over what they thought was the speed of light. I heard they can make the Kessel run in less than 12 parsecs. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fruitisbad Posted September 27, 2011 Share Posted September 27, 2011 I heard they can make the Kessel run in less than 12 parsecs. parsecs are units of length not time Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
johncocker Posted September 27, 2011 Share Posted September 27, 2011 It isn't the universe that goes backwards, it is the object going faster than light that goes backwards. so if your driving at the speed of light and you turn your headlights on does anything happen:huh: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
flamingjimmy Posted September 27, 2011 Share Posted September 27, 2011 parsecs are units of length not time *shwoooosh!* Did you hear that going over your head? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kingda Posted September 27, 2011 Share Posted September 27, 2011 3600000km/s? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
barleycorn Posted September 27, 2011 Share Posted September 27, 2011 so if your driving at the speed of light and you turn your headlights on does anything happen:huh: As I understand it, nothing as from your perspective time would have stopped and you would be unable to switch them on. Now, if you were traveling at 99% the speed of light it would be a different matter entirely and depends entirely on where the observation of you in your super fast car is made from. If we take two perspectives, or reference frame if you like, 1) From your reference frame and 2) from the reference frame of a stationary observer. 1) From your perspective nothing special would happen, to all intents and purposes your headlights would appear to work as normal. 2) From a stationary observer you would look at wee bit weird. For a start you and your car would look compressed (length contraction) along the direction of travel, if they could see the clock on your dashboard then it would appear to be running slower (time dilation) than theirs. Now, when you switch on your headlights they would appear to us mere stationary observers to be moving at the speed of light, however, due to the length contraction and time dilation already described they would be shifted into the ultraviolet. Another interesting question is what would happen if there was some idiot plowing towards in his suped up Corsa also travelling at 99% the speed of light. Newtonian physics would have us thinking that this speeding chav would be hurtling towards you at a combined speed of 198% the speed of light (593589067m/s) but Newton would be wrong. At relativistic speeds you cannot simply add the speeds, you have to use a different formula known as the composition law of velocities which looks something like this... s = (v + u)/(1+(vu/c^2) Plugging in our speeds of 99% c we get s = (296794533.4 + 296794533.4)/(1+(296794533.4*296794533.4)/299792458^2) s = 299777317.731428m/s or 99.995 % of the speed of light. jb Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alcoblog Posted September 27, 2011 Share Posted September 27, 2011 I would imagine that travelling at these sorts of speeds, the Police would throw the book at you! It's quite plainly dangerous and irresponsible to drive at these speeds. It's also illegal to have ultraviolet headlights. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fruitisbad Posted September 27, 2011 Share Posted September 27, 2011 I would imagine that travelling at these sorts of speeds, the Police would throw the book at you! It's quite plainly dangerous and irresponsible to drive at these speeds. It's also illegal to have ultraviolet headlights. no one puts a parking ticket on the milenium falkon Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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