If i were traveling 1 mph below light speed...?
If i were traveling 1 mph below light speed and i fired a gun, would the bullet break the light barrier?
Answers:
Not according to the theory of relativity.
Try it and get back to me.
Seriously, what you are missing is the time dilation factor. As you fire the gun, the bullet would appear to you to be going very fast. The bullet, however, would be travelling at bullet speed relative to you. If an observer in an inertial frame (you are travelling at 99.9999% the speed of light relative to him), he would see the bullet travelling at ~99.9999% the speed of light. The difference is in the timeframe. Time passes much, much faster for the observer not moving, much slower for you, and even slower for the bullet. (speed is distance multiplied by time, as speed approaches light speed, time is reduced to keep the object under light speed.) Crude examples to a complex problem.
No!
The velocity of light is a limit!
No. Velocities don't add like that when you are working with relativistic speeds.
Although it would look to you as if the bullet was travelling at it's normal speed.
When you want to add relativistic velocities you use the formula:
w = (u + v)/(1 + uv/c^2)
Where u would be your velocity and v is the bullet's.
If you were traveling at 1 mph below light speed you would need more energy than exists in the Universe so your question is mote at best ;-) and light (EME) is the "only" thing that can break the light barrier ;-) and that in itself is another subject all together.
No. It would be going faster than you but less than light speed as observed by another observer. From your point of view, it is travelling a muzzle velocity regardless of how fast you are moving.
Duh! Of course it would!! Don't you watch the Scifi Channel.
Kidding, you folks are too smart for me. I never did finish reading the Elegant Universe.
A very good question, but the answer is no. Not because light is a limit (which isn't very helpfull), but because of inertial reference frames. That is to say, that if you were travelling at 1mph below the speed of light, you wouldn't really know that you were travelling at that speed. You see, the light you would be using to see would still be travelling 3.0x10^8m/s faster than you. So, you would basically have no idea of your rate of travel because everything would appear to be same as if you were still on Earth. Now, if there was an observer on Earth watching you fire your gun while you were travelling at 99.99% the speed of light relative to their inertial reference frame, then the bullet would actually appear to be going slower, but it still wouldn't be at the relative velocity of light.
No, to you it would fire as if everything was normal. To a stationary observer, however, the bullet would appear to barely exceed your speed--because it can not go faster then light.
I'll have a toke of whatever you are smoking!
I thought the answer is yes because you're travelling below the speed of light and the bullet travels slightly under the same speed so,yes,the bullet will break throught the barrier because the bullet travels faster than you even though light travels faster than anything but the acceleration is expounded by the speed of displacement.
Yes It will.
No, but good idea.
The reason for this can be interpreted with something called a frame of reference. If youre stationary that is equivalent to being stationary in a frame of reference with a velocity of zero. If you are travelling at 1 mph slower than the speed of light that is equivalent to being stationary in a frame of reference with a velocity 1 mph slower than the speed of light. Regardless of the velocity of the frame of reference light travels at roughly 3*10^8 metres per second, assuming it is a vacuum.
Relativity is a very peculiar thing.
absolutely no may be the answers such as at relativistic speeds u r addition law becomes false and many more sounds valid . but u see when u are actually travellin at 0.99c then u r body gets deformed say u would be compressed to such as a size of a photon along with u r pistol or any thing u use to fire a bullet .. so u and u r projectile can never exceed the speed of light
i reckon so
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Answers:
Not according to the theory of relativity.
Try it and get back to me.
Seriously, what you are missing is the time dilation factor. As you fire the gun, the bullet would appear to you to be going very fast. The bullet, however, would be travelling at bullet speed relative to you. If an observer in an inertial frame (you are travelling at 99.9999% the speed of light relative to him), he would see the bullet travelling at ~99.9999% the speed of light. The difference is in the timeframe. Time passes much, much faster for the observer not moving, much slower for you, and even slower for the bullet. (speed is distance multiplied by time, as speed approaches light speed, time is reduced to keep the object under light speed.) Crude examples to a complex problem.
No!
The velocity of light is a limit!
No. Velocities don't add like that when you are working with relativistic speeds.
Although it would look to you as if the bullet was travelling at it's normal speed.
When you want to add relativistic velocities you use the formula:
w = (u + v)/(1 + uv/c^2)
Where u would be your velocity and v is the bullet's.
If you were traveling at 1 mph below light speed you would need more energy than exists in the Universe so your question is mote at best ;-) and light (EME) is the "only" thing that can break the light barrier ;-) and that in itself is another subject all together.
No. It would be going faster than you but less than light speed as observed by another observer. From your point of view, it is travelling a muzzle velocity regardless of how fast you are moving.
Duh! Of course it would!! Don't you watch the Scifi Channel.
Kidding, you folks are too smart for me. I never did finish reading the Elegant Universe.
A very good question, but the answer is no. Not because light is a limit (which isn't very helpfull), but because of inertial reference frames. That is to say, that if you were travelling at 1mph below the speed of light, you wouldn't really know that you were travelling at that speed. You see, the light you would be using to see would still be travelling 3.0x10^8m/s faster than you. So, you would basically have no idea of your rate of travel because everything would appear to be same as if you were still on Earth. Now, if there was an observer on Earth watching you fire your gun while you were travelling at 99.99% the speed of light relative to their inertial reference frame, then the bullet would actually appear to be going slower, but it still wouldn't be at the relative velocity of light.
No, to you it would fire as if everything was normal. To a stationary observer, however, the bullet would appear to barely exceed your speed--because it can not go faster then light.
I'll have a toke of whatever you are smoking!
I thought the answer is yes because you're travelling below the speed of light and the bullet travels slightly under the same speed so,yes,the bullet will break throught the barrier because the bullet travels faster than you even though light travels faster than anything but the acceleration is expounded by the speed of displacement.
Yes It will.
No, but good idea.
The reason for this can be interpreted with something called a frame of reference. If youre stationary that is equivalent to being stationary in a frame of reference with a velocity of zero. If you are travelling at 1 mph slower than the speed of light that is equivalent to being stationary in a frame of reference with a velocity 1 mph slower than the speed of light. Regardless of the velocity of the frame of reference light travels at roughly 3*10^8 metres per second, assuming it is a vacuum.
Relativity is a very peculiar thing.
absolutely no may be the answers such as at relativistic speeds u r addition law becomes false and many more sounds valid . but u see when u are actually travellin at 0.99c then u r body gets deformed say u would be compressed to such as a size of a photon along with u r pistol or any thing u use to fire a bullet .. so u and u r projectile can never exceed the speed of light
i reckon so
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