Recent questions in Special Relativity

+22 votes

0 answers

If the mass of a moving electron is 11 times of its rest mass, what is the kinetic energy and the linear momentum of that electron?

asked Mar 13, 2023 in Special Relativity by mappman

+25 votes

0 answers

How many galaxies could we cross if we traveled at the speed of light?

asked Mar 13, 2023 in Special Relativity by solvegunnage

+45 votes

0 answers

Why is the speed of light the maximum theoretical speed?

asked Mar 13, 2023 in Special Relativity by mackie

+16 votes

0 answers

If two elementary particles are entangled and one travels near the speed of light thus that it experiences time dilation, in the event of a wave function collapse do they communicate their properties at different points in time?

asked Mar 13, 2023 in Special Relativity by VeeFource

+60 votes

0 answers

Do geniuses like Einstein make stupid mistakes often? For example, space time curvature, time is relative to the speed of light, etc.

asked Mar 13, 2023 in Special Relativity by meady

+26 votes

0 answers

If an object is travelling at the speed of light, can it move backwards through space-time or even through time?

asked Mar 12, 2023 in Special Relativity by wrigleyb

+275 votes

0 answers

How can a speaker make sounds faster than the speed of light?

asked Mar 12, 2023 in Special Relativity by CelestialPulse

+324 votes

0 answers

How much time does it take to go out of the solar system from the Earth in the speed of light?

asked Mar 12, 2023 in Special Relativity by gingertimmins (2.8k points)

+9 votes

0 answers

Is time dilation only caused by an object's mass? I think this because gravity creates time dilation, and the faster something goes, the more mass it gains, and fast objects are known to create time dilation.

asked Mar 12, 2023 in Special Relativity by NebulaCharm

+11 votes

0 answers

What is the speed of light? What is dark energy?

asked Mar 12, 2023 in Special Relativity by Daisy55 (3.3k points)

+8 votes

0 answers

What are the limitations of human travel? What would we see and experience if we could travel at near light speed?

asked Mar 12, 2023 in Special Relativity by questioner (3.3k points)

+18 votes

0 answers

What would happen to a human being in a spacecraft travelling at the speed of light?

asked Mar 12, 2023 in Special Relativity by JSF

+18 votes

0 answers

Has any experiment been conducted to prove time dilation due to gravity and not just special relativity?

asked Mar 12, 2023 in Special Relativity by StuG

+1 vote

0 answers

Is it more difficult for humans to travel to places in space beyond Mars' orbit, faster than the speed of light, or survive timescales longer than the time since we bonked Neanderthals?

asked Mar 12, 2023 in Special Relativity by pezza007

+25 votes

0 answers

What happens to the mass of an electron as its velocity approaches the speed of light?

asked Mar 11, 2023 in Special Relativity by AstralSculptor

+22 votes

0 answers

What is NASA's stance on faster-than-light travel?

asked Mar 11, 2023 in Special Relativity by Big Dunk

+116 votes

0 answers

How does NASA accelerate a spacecraft to speeds faster than light (without using warp drives)?

asked Mar 11, 2023 in Special Relativity by SHOPAHOLIC66

+4 votes

0 answers

How does the speed of light appear to be different for an observer in motion?

asked Mar 11, 2023 in Special Relativity by sarah calothis

+12 votes

0 answers

Does special relativity imply that Alice can perceive that event A occurred before event B while Bob, moving relative to Alice, can perceive event A as happening after event B? If so, how does that work?

asked Mar 11, 2023 in Special Relativity by SeraphicMystic

+96 votes

0 answers

Does the velocity of light decrease as it travels through a given medium? If so, why?

asked Mar 10, 2023 in Special Relativity by itailor369

Page:

« prev
1
...
8
9
10
11
12
13
14
...
36
next »

Recent questions in Special Relativity

...