Recent questions in Special Relativity

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Would thoughts assembled onto free flowing electrons be considered mass, thus inhibiting the ability to transit information at the speed of light?

asked Mar 11, 2022 in Special Relativity by Rona Knowles

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Are there other ways to experience time dilation, other than high gravity and high speed?

asked Mar 11, 2022 in Special Relativity by AuroraMystic

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How do Lorentz transformations prove that the speed of light is constant in all inertial frames?

asked Mar 10, 2022 in Special Relativity by eightyboot

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How did scientists find out that nothing could ever move faster than the speed of light? Why hasn't anything been able to do so yet (or will it)?

asked Mar 10, 2022 in Special Relativity by mlpropertyservices

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How is the photon’s lifetime within its own rest frame different from when time dilatation is accounted for?

asked Feb 20, 2022 in Special Relativity by CrystalSculptor

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Why is it impossible to travel at or beyond the velocity of light in our universe/reality?

asked Feb 20, 2022 in Special Relativity by QuantumHorizon

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If the speed limit only goes so high, why create vehicles that go faster?

asked Feb 20, 2022 in Special Relativity by screwhard

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A clock moving towards me at near light speed would appear to run slow due to time dilation. But then it would appear to run fast due to the Doppler effect. Which is right?

asked Feb 20, 2022 in Special Relativity by wetpants

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Why can't objects with mass travel at the speed of light? Can massless objects travel at that speed?

asked Feb 20, 2022 in Special Relativity by facequantity (3.5k points)

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Would sound still travel faster than light if there was no air?

asked Feb 19, 2022 in Special Relativity by NebulaPulse

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Will a person be younger if they travel at close to the speed of light and then turn around?

asked Feb 19, 2022 in Special Relativity by SeraphicOracle

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Isn't it flawed that the Lorentz transformation equations always give the number 300,000?

asked Feb 19, 2022 in Special Relativity by jimbobby

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How long would it take to get to Venus at the speed of light?

asked Feb 19, 2022 in Special Relativity by Sadinit

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If you needed to reach light speed in a spaceship, how long would it take to accelerate without killing the human inside because of the g-force?

asked Feb 19, 2022 in Special Relativity by Switcher

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Why can a car accelerate while traveling at a constant speed but not at constant velocity?

asked Feb 18, 2022 in Special Relativity by SeraphicAlchemy (2.7k points)

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Is it possible to travel through space faster than light? How close are we to this possibility?

asked Feb 18, 2022 in Special Relativity by QuantumHorizon

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A spaceship just returned to Earth from a year long voyage according to the observer 0 on Earth. If the spaceship velocity was 0.65 c, how many years have elapsed for the crew on the spaceship?

asked Feb 18, 2022 in Special Relativity by AppleCrumble87

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Do you think it's possible that humans could one day travel at the speed of light? Why or why not?

asked Feb 18, 2022 in Special Relativity by chip off the block

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How long would it take to travel to Venus at light speed? How much energy would it take to get there?

asked Feb 17, 2022 in Special Relativity by spannerw

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Light travels 300000km/sec. Is it velocity or speed?

asked Feb 17, 2022 in Special Relativity by delicatetrysail

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