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Nothing with mass can accelerate to the speed of light, but is it the acceleration which is the problem, or the speed? Would it be possible to have an object travelling faster then light as long as it had always been doing so? Would that object have to be mass-less? Would this object still observe light as being at the same speed as when any subluminal observer would observe it to be?Originally posted by Chetan Parekh:
YALE guy: Its light, Nothing can travel faster than light.
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Originally posted by Dave Lenton:
Nothing with mass can accelerate to the speed of light, but is it the acceleration which is the problem, or the speed? Would it be possible to have an object travelling faster then light as long as it had always been doing so? Would that object have to be mass-less? Would this object still observe light as being at the same speed as when any subluminal observer would observe it to be?
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From what I understand, both the driver and a person watching the car would both measure the speed of the light coming out of the headlights as being exactly the same.Originally posted by Chetan Parekh:
What happen if your car is traveling at the speed of light and you turn on your headlights?
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Originally posted by Chetan Parekh:
... What happen if your car is traveling at the speed of light and you turn on your headlights? ...
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Originally posted by Dave Lenton:
Nothing with mass can accelerate to the speed of light
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Originally posted by Stefan Wagner:
I guess darkness is at least as fast as light.
Turn on the light.
Turn it off.
Any difference in speed?
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What happens when light is made then? I guess that there is some kind of reaction which results in photons being released. Those photons were presumably something else in some kind of other form - when I light a match, the photons released come material in the match head, the wood and the air. So, somewhere along the line some other molecules get changed into energy/photons (the line seems a bit blurred) which are then instantly travelling at light speed. Why no acceleration? How does the reaction change them from fuel at a slow speed to light at light-speed with no acceleration involved?Originally posted by Jim Yingst:
But even under that definition of mass (i.e. relativistic mass) - light doesn't accelerate to the speed of light. It's already at the speed of light.
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