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« on: March 12, 2010, 11:07:40 AM »

in order fora interstellar vessel to move through space at enormous speeds it would need to be able to detect free floating objects that is in it's path. get hit by a small rogue asteroid moving at speeds reaching 100 miles per second or more would end what ever gets struck completely.
light travels at a speed of 186,000 miles per second if a vessel reaches that speed which isn't going to be the hard part it's not hitting anything as small as a golf ball what going to be a challenge, number one the temperature in space is almost as low as absolute zero c.materials at that temp on the out side will shatter instead of holding it's form like metal with a bullet here on earth.  number two the shear velocity of any object hitting would make the object produce enormous amounts of power (sorta like nuclear reactions) a golf ball size rock hits the front of any craft moving at the speed of light would explode( with force not known) as well as go through the craft,
what could be a solution to this problem is the ability to change direction and placement at time of impact. So to be able to do that you would need to know that abjects exact placement at the time of impact which means you would need a means to detect that object a long time before the event. so a way could be- if light travels at the speed of light no matter it's originating velocity
would it travel forward at 2 x the speed of light and if so away to travel would be to make the velocity you desire launch a second vehicle(small craft) forward on same trajectory let it reach the a speed several thousand mile per second faster than you traveling have it beam forward a laser scan which would mean the Lazar is traveling at the speed of light +that crafts speed faster than your main craft. all data coming back would be moving just at the speed of light but the time gain from the extra speed forward  then the light speed relay of real time data coming back to main craft could make it to where small object could be detected in time to maneuver a little to avoid collision.
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« Reply #1 on: March 13, 2010, 12:38:09 PM »

that's an intersting question it really involves weather or not light is effected by velocity at all or is it just a rule of the universe that light is restrained to one speed or not I'm sure theres somebody out there that works in this field that could maybe answer the question with factual science.
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« Reply #2 on: April 09, 2010, 11:25:41 AM »

I don't believe that light is effected by velocity. Then we once believed the world was flat and that gods dictated the way the heavens move. I believe if you fired a laser while traveling at light speed you would see light being made in stop motion or just frozen in creation.
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« Reply #3 on: April 16, 2010, 09:39:17 PM »


What is the speed of dark? If there is is real darkness at all?  Is there such a thing as true darkness- the absence of the entire electro magnetic spectrum. What would that be like? Absolute zero, no radiation at all?

From the Wikipedia-
Faster-than-light observations and experiments
Main article: Faster-than-light
See also: Scharnhorst effect and Hartman effect
There are situations in which it may seem that matter, energy, or information travels at speeds greater than c, but they do not. For example, if a laser beam is swept quickly across a distant object, the spot of light can move faster than c, but the only physical entities that are moving are the laser and its emitted light, which travels at the speed c from the laser to the various positions of the spot. The movement of the spot will be delayed after the laser is moved because of the time it takes light to get to the distant object from the laser. Similarly, a shadow projected onto a distant object can be made to move faster than c.[37] In neither case does any matter or information travel faster than light.[38]
In some interpretations of quantum mechanics, certain quantum effects may seem to be transmitted faster than c—and thus instantaneously in some frame—as in the EPR paradox. An example involves the quantum states of two particles that can be entangled. Until either of the particles is observed, they exist in a superposition of two quantum states. If the particles are separated and one particle's quantum state is observed, the other particle's quantum state is determined instantaneously (i.e., faster than light could travel from one particle to the other). However, it is impossible to control which quantum state the first particle will take on when it is observed, so information cannot be transmitted in this manner.[38][39]
Another prediction of faster-than-light speeds occurs for quantum tunnelling and is called the Hartman effect.[40][41] However, no information can be sent using this effect.[42]
The rate of change in the distance between two objects in a frame of reference with respect to which both are moving (their closing speed) may have a value in excess of c. However, this does not represent the speed of any single object as measured in a single inertial frame.
So-called superluminal motion is seen in certain astronomical objects,[43] such as the relativistic jets of radio galaxies and quasars. However, these jets are not 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 approaching Earth at a small angle to the line of sight: since the light which was emitted when the jet was farther away took longer to reach the Earth, the time between two successive observations corresponds to a longer time between the instants at which the light rays were emitted.[44]
[edit]Galaxies moving faster than light
See also: Metric expansion of space and Hubble's law
In models of the expanding universe, the farther galaxies are from each other, the faster they drift apart. This receding is not due to motion through space, but rather to the expansion of space itself.[38] For example, galaxies far away from Earth appear to be moving away from the Earth with a speed proportional to their distances. Beyond a boundary called the Hubble sphere, this apparent recessional velocity becomes greater than the speed of light.[45]
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« Reply #4 on: April 21, 2010, 10:55:01 AM »

this article doesn't really answer the question though your talking about light wave lengths that are more prominent when bounced off objects moving at various speed ether away or torwards the light source which in this case is a laser. the question still stands if that Lazar was beamed from an object that is already moving at the speed of light and beamed forward would the light be moving faster than the normal speed of light. if we refer to what Einstein did in this field one thing stands out that I do remember what he said and that in absolute space -speed has no relativity or seems not to even exist just like when your in orbit there is no real way to determin what speed your moving at just by the way you feel even though while in orbit your moving at increadable speed  such as - orbital speed is 8 miles per second then the planet speed is moving at 15 miles per second then the solar system speed is moving at 40 miles per second these numbers aren't correct but you see what i mean when it feels as if your not moving at all.
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« Reply #5 on: April 24, 2010, 01:26:41 PM »

i WONDER? HMM if you where traveling at the speed of light and pissed into the wind would the piss stream go as fast as a piss stream goes or would it go as fast as a piss stream goes+the speed of light?Huh? hmmmm -cough" HMMMMM
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