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If we could go faster than light speed, would we ever see the same sunset twice because we're moving too fast for our own planet's sunrises and sunsets?

asked May 18, 2023 in Special Relativity by NovaPulse

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Is it possible to calculate drift when the velocity of a man with respect to a river is greater than the velocity of the river?

asked May 18, 2023 in Special Relativity by SamKing

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How long did it take for light in a vacuum to travel from point A to B?

asked May 18, 2023 in Special Relativity by Jarveye

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What two principles make up the theory of special relativity?

asked May 17, 2023 in Special Relativity by Lectrician

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If we could travel at the speed of light on Earth and stay over one place and not move, how many times around the Earth would it take?

asked May 17, 2023 in Special Relativity by austin Powers

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What is a body's mass called when it is moving at a very high velocity?

asked May 17, 2023 in Special Relativity by Glad its Friday

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Why does the speed of light and sound travel through a medium increase when the density of that medium is increased?

asked May 17, 2023 in Special Relativity by QuantumNomad

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Do any experiments show time dilation without length contraction?

asked May 17, 2023 in Special Relativity by birke92

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Can a spot of light on a wall produced by a very fast rotating laser travel faster than light? Does this violate the law that information can't travel faster than light?

asked May 16, 2023 in Special Relativity by EmberHorizon

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How does time slow down for objects moving at high speeds if the speed of light is constant?

asked May 16, 2023 in Special Relativity by Diydreamer

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How does time exist if nothing can travel faster than the speed of light?

asked May 16, 2023 in Special Relativity by fishern

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What is the temperature of a particle traveling near the speed of light?

asked May 16, 2023 in Special Relativity by LunarOracle

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What is the time dilation of 1 day in space to Earth?

asked May 16, 2023 in Special Relativity by Timo De Winter

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If you travel at the speed of light, do you think that you can hear sounds before they're made?

asked May 16, 2023 in Special Relativity by Mr right first time

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If the speed of gravity is the same as the speed of light, what does that imply for “inflation” when the universe initially grew faster than the speed of light?

asked May 15, 2023 in Special Relativity by meatheadproperly

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How would a moving object affect light?

asked May 15, 2023 in Special Relativity by CelestialFlare

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If you accelerate a tube to 1/10th the speed of light, then fire a photon from the back to the front end of the tube, the photon would travel at the speed of light through the tube. Would it not be traveling through space at 110% the speed of light?

asked May 15, 2023 in Special Relativity by RadiantAlchemy

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How do spaceships see planets and other ships while traveling at light speed?

asked May 14, 2023 in Special Relativity by Steptoeste

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If something was travelling faster than light in a medium then released into space, would it slow down or keep going?

asked May 14, 2023 in Special Relativity by MysticMystic

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What are some ways around the rule that "nothing can travel faster than light"?

asked May 14, 2023 in Special Relativity by PeteAx

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