If one travels faster than the speed of light what would happen?
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it's dark when you arrive.
Theoretically impossible.
The closer you get to the speed of light the heaver you will become and therefor the more energy it will take to get to the speed of light.
Also the closer you get to the speed of light the slower time will go. Until it stops all together if you reach the speed of light. which means you will not get to the speed of light.
Think of it this way..The way to see a clock is you are seeing the light coming off that clock. If you were able to travel away from that clock at approaching the speed of light(SOL). You would be seeing the clock's time go slower and slower. As you approach the SOL you will see the time stop. And if time stops.you stop.
Hope that helps.
they'd arrive first
Ask Stephen Hawkings
you'd burn to a crisp
You can't.
It's impossible. So, nothing would happen - except that you might kill yourself in your attempt to travel at that speed.
IF that were possible then I can garantee that you'd never see where you were going, where you had come from and MOST IMPORTANT you'd never see it coming. (DEATH)
that just ain't gonna happen
How would you know?
impossible to someone to drive that fast .
also there is no 3*10^8 speed in the car..
if there was it will be a DISASTER..
I'd be 'super mum' !
There are some difficulties with travelling with the speed of light (C). First of all we need and infinite force to accelerate a mass to the speed of light as predicted by special relativity. Secondly if someone do so and he is travelling with speed of light he feels nothing but a normal trip. But a person who is at rest sees some observations about the person travelling with velocity C as suggested by the lorentz transformation. Time dilation, length contraction, and mass gain.
i doubt that there are even theories to cover that one since it is so far believed to be impossible to accomplish
you'd go back in time and be able to escape the black hole.
You'd be on Star Trek. SOL is definition of Warp 1.
you would never need a face lift again
I agree with the above. Well put!
Hey Ro, how ya doin' ?
If you work Einstein's formula out, regarding mass in motion; and you use the speed of light for the 'V' (velocity) variable.you come to a point where you need to divide by zero. This is undefined in our math system, so we say ,"you can't travel at the speed of light." Pretty lame, huh?
I'm willing to bet we can exceed the speed of light, and I'd guess that the result would be, We'll get there sooner! nothing more !
Butch
no one has yet come back to tell us, that is presuming anyone ever did this
The closer you get to the speed of light, the more energy it takes to accelerate you. For an object that weighs anything at all actually to reach the speed of light should theoretically take an infinite amount of energy so it would be impossible.
Particles which have negative mass and always travel faster than light have been theorised about (tachyons) but as far as I'm aware there's no reasons to think they might actually exist. The theory suggests that if they were to exist, they would probably be travelling backwards in time.
So, assuming you were able to convert yourself entirely into tachyons, for the duration of your journey faster than the speed of light you would be going backwards in time.
Isn't that how superluminal drives are meant to work in Star Wars (minus the going back in time bit)?
Although impossible in this day and age. Not improbably in the future. Think on this - Neville Schute wrote a book 'On the Beaches' about an atomic explosion, long before it happened. Has nobody heard of "Star Trek", and time warp?
Einstein theorized that at the speed of light that time stops. If you could go faster theoretically you could go back in time. You have to ask yourself, can matter survive at the speed of light? This is the real issue.
possible! there is a theory that a special particle exists called graviton that is responsible for gravity force and gives ability to make speeds higher than speed of light. theoreticaly, if you had a speed of light and higher, you'd appear inhyperspace where time, distance are shorter than in reality. so you'd travel as far as you can( the main problem is energy that is needed for developing such speed). nothing would ever happen to you-you are in non-inertial system. so yes, it is possible.
Your age would chage slowly comparing to changes of age on Earth.
"Faster-than-light" observations and experiments
Main article: Faster-than-light
The blue glow in this "swimming pool" nuclear reactor is Cherenkov radiation emitted as a result of electrons travelling faster than the speed that light travels in water.It has long been known theoretically that it is possible for the "group velocity" of light to exceed c. One recent experiment made the group velocity of laser beams travel for extremely short distances through caesium atoms at 300 times c(c = 300000 km/s). However, it is not possible to use this technique to transfer information faster than c: the velocity of information transfer depends on the front velocity (the speed at which the first rise of a pulse above zero moves forward) and the product of the group velocity and the front velocity is equal to the square of the normal speed of light in the material.
Exceeding the group velocity of light in this manner is comparable to exceeding the speed of sound by arranging people in a distantly spaced line, and asking them all to shout "I'm here!", one after another with short intervals, each one timing it by looking at their own wristwatch so they don't have to wait until they hear the previous person shouting. Another example can be seen when watching ocean waves washing up on shore. With a narrow enough angle between the wave and the shoreline, the breakers travel along the wave's length much faster than the wave's movement inland.
The speed of light may also appear to be exceeded in some phenomena involving evanescent waves, such as tunnelling. Experiments indicate that the phase velocity of evanescent waves may exceed c; however, it would appear that neither the group velocity nor the front velocity exceed c, so, again, it is not possible for information to be transmitted faster than c.
In quantum mechanics, certain quantum effects may be transmitted at speeds greater than c (indeed, action at a distance has long been perceived by some as a problem with quantum mechanics: see EPR paradox, interpretations of quantum mechanics). For example, the quantum states of two particles can be entangled, so the state of one particle fixes the state of the other particle (say, one must have spin +½ and the other must have spin −½). Until the particles are observed, they exist in a superposition of two quantum states, (+½, −½) and (−½, +½). If the particles are separated and one of them is observed to determine its quantum state then the quantum state of the second particle is determined automatically. If, as in some interpretations of quantum mechanics, one presumes that the information about the quantum state is local to one particle, then one must conclude that second particle takes up its quantum state instantaneously, as soon as the first observation is carried out. However, it is impossible to control which quantum state the first particle will take on when it is observed, so no information can be transmitted in this manner. The laws of physics also appear to prevent information from being transferred through more clever ways and this has led to the formulation of rules such as the no-cloning theorem and the no-communication theorem.
So-called superluminal motion is also seen in certain astronomical objects, such as the jets of radio galaxies and quasars. However, these jets are not actually moving at speeds in excess of the speed of light: the apparent superluminal motion is a projection effect caused by objects moving near the speed of light and at a small angle to the line of sight.
Although it may sound paradoxical, it is possible for shock waves to be formed with electromagnetic radiation. As a charged particle travels through an insulating medium, it disrupts the local electromagnetic field in the medium. Electrons in the atoms of the medium will be displaced and polarised by the passing field of the charged particle, and photons are emitted as the electrons in the medium restore themselves to equilibrium after the disruption has passed. (In a conductor, the disruption can be restored without emitting a photon.) In normal circumstances, these photons destructively interfere with each other and no radiation is detected. However, if the disruption travels faster than the photons themselves travel, the photons constructively interfere and intensify the observed radiation. The result (analogous to a sonic boom) is known as Cherenkov radiation.
The ability to communicate or travel faster-than-light is a popular topic in science fiction. Particles that travel faster than light, dubbed tachyons, have been proposed by particle physicists but have yet to be observed.
Some physicists, notably João Magueijo and John Moffat, have proposed that in the past light travelled much faster than the current speed of light. This theory is called variable speed of light (VSL) and its supporters claim that it has the ability to explain many cosmological puzzles better than its rival, the inflation model of the universe. However, it has yet to gain wide acceptance.
In 2002, physicists Alain Haché and Louis Poirier made history by sending pulses at a group velocity of three times light speed over a long distance for the first time, transmitted through a 120-metre cable made from a coaxial photonic crystal.[
You would make a fortune and I hope you make it good luck.
one what?
Theoretically impossible, as the previous man said. Though he was incorrect. You will not notice, looking at the clock, that the clock is going slower when you aproach the SOL. For you, your clock will go the same way.
The speed of light in some liquids or matters is less then C. In this case a particle can travel in this liquid or matter with the speed faster than speed of light. Upon this, the particle (in case it is electrically charged) emits light with a cone front (like a plane emits sound while flying with speed higher than speed of sound in the air). Such emission of light was experimentally observed and is known as Vavilov-Cherenkov emission.
so far no experiment has disprove Einstein law of relativity, to put simply no we can go faster than light. if we all accept that as final we may aswell go back up the trees and life there for good.
examples of what people believe that will never happen
1/ horseless carriages
2/ flying
3/ senting people to the moon
''Theoretically, strange things happen when you exceed the speed of light". Time travel, for one thing, and a breakdown in cause and effect. an example of this is hitting a target with a gun that shoots bullets faster than the speed of light. "Some observers would see the bullet hit the target before they saw the shooter fire the gun". "Since one of the guiding principles of relativity is that all physical laws are the same to all observers, this violation of causality would be a big problem."
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mass will increase to infinte as would energy to propel you towards the speed of light, perhaps then (this is what i think) if you nullified the mass by placing your craft into an electro-magnetic field?
i think all the laws of physis that we know now would be turn upside down and inside out, if or when we ever travel faster than the speed of light. this does scare a lot of people and therefore they ignore the possibilities by saying it can't never happen including Einstein. Einstein has been proven inaccurate in other areas over the years. he was a great man and hopefully we have more like him in the future.
Boy you would be Rich, don't forget the patent
See you on the moon yesterday
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