The Speed Of Light

[devino246]

Yes... think of it this way... if the particle should exist for 2 seconds, and we see it as 4, that means that for every 1 second that passes in the particle's spacetime bubble, 2 pass in ours.

If we observe the particle as traveling... say 10 feet in 2 seconds, obviously it's moving at 5 feet per second from our perspective. (yes, that's absurdly slow, but the concept holds true)

But remember - for every 1 second for the particle, it's 2 seconds for us, and vice-versa. So to the particle, it travels 10 feet in 1 second, or 10 feet per second, twice as fast as we observe it.

Allow me to clarify my statement. The particles viewpoint of everything thats also traveling near-light-speed is the same, everything else is seen at half speed.

 

[Badot]

Allow me to clarify my statement. The particles viewpoint of everything thats also traveling near-light-speed is the same, everything else is seen at half speed.

Sorry if I'm not understanding correctly, but before you said:

"Interestingly, several decades ago, scientists placed an atomic clock on a jetliner and flew across the country. When they reached their destination, the clock was several microseconds slow."

I agree with this... and for the clock on the plane to be slow, speaking primitively, time would be going slower on the plane than off the plane for the clock to end up slow, meaning if you were looking out from the plane everything else would be going faster, while for the quote on the top of my post you're saying the opposite.

 

[devino246]

Sorry if I'm not understanding correctly, but before you said:

"Interestingly, several decades ago, scientists placed an atomic clock on a jetliner and flew across the country. When they reached their destination, the clock was several microseconds slow."

I agree with this... and for the clock on the plane to be slow, speaking primitively, time would be going slower on the plane than off the plane for the clock to end up slow, meaning if you were looking out from the plane everything else would be going faster, while for the quote on the top of my post you're saying the opposite.

Your right, I must have been tired.

 

[Rustydog2010]

I have been thinking about this today. Speaking purely hypothetically, it would just work the same as normal. Think of it like a jet plane, when they drop their payload, the payload is initially traveling at the same speed as the plane.

But in reality, you cant travel at the speed of sound. Using E = mc2 formula it would take an infinite amount of energy to accelerate an object with mass to the speed of light.
My thoughts anyway.

Jeremy.

 

[sexyvicta]

over my head

 

[TorqueRanger]

lol Watch the movie k-pax..... Oh the gun being shot at a hundred mph has already been done.. Check out planes they shoot bullets forward ,while traveling the same direction and they can still shoot down other planes with no problems..

 

[newrider3]

Watch it, you may learn something.

http://www.archive.org/details/frames_of_reference

 

[devino246]

I was just thinking about this too. Since electricity is just electrons moving, at near-light-speed they too would slow, meaning that your lights would not work.

 

[TorqueRanger]

Watch it, you may learn something.

http://www.archive.org/details/frames_of_reference

Oh by the way the guy forgot the 4th point, the point of origin..
Alot of what he talks about is all illusions that people have been using for years to trick people..
Who was this link for ???
That's like right now i am working on a machine should work to repel gravity ..

 

[newrider3]

Oh by the way the guy forgot the 4th point, the point of origin..
Alot of what he talks about is all illusions that people have been using for years to trick people..
Who was this link for ???

The link was for everyone in the thread.

Not sure what you are questioning about the vid, it is basic physics.

That's like right now i am working on a machine should work to repel gravity ..

?????