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What happens to time when you increase or decrease the speed of light, according to Einstein's theory?

asked Sep 13, 2022 in Speed of Light by LunarVortex

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What will happen if a spaceship tries to reach near the speed of light with its current fuel technology?

asked Sep 13, 2022 in Speed of Light by InfernoWanderer

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Why can we see things before hearing any sound from them, if sound travels faster than light?

asked Sep 13, 2022 in Speed of Light by Cityboy

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How long would it take a ship travelling at nearly the speed of light to reach another star system (of similar size)?

asked Sep 12, 2022 in Speed of Light by Charlie Lockhart

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How is the mass of an object affected when it travels at a speed greater or equal to light?

asked Sep 12, 2022 in Speed of Light by QuantumPulse

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If a person traveled at the speed of light towards Earth, would they hit an invisible wall at some point or just keep going into outer space forever?

asked Sep 12, 2022 in Speed of Light by oliver1234 (3.0k points)

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How far can we/spaceship go in space? How much time it will take and at what speed?

asked Sep 11, 2022 in Speed of Light by StellarAlchemy

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As the RHIC is able to use light energy to produce matter according to the US Department of Energy, what are more feasible methods than the speed of light to project a teleported item across spacetime given our current level of knowledge?

asked Sep 11, 2022 in Speed of Light by BruceB

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If travelling close to the speed of light makes you age faster, could there be a way to make ageing slower?

asked Sep 10, 2022 in Speed of Light by stevepenk

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What would happen if you threw something at near light speed? What would it look like as it traveled through the air towards its target?

asked Sep 10, 2022 in Speed of Light by CelestialPulse

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Most galaxies are moving away from the Milky Way at more than the speed of light. Consider a Galaxy crossing between the MW and Andromeda at twice the SOL. Would we see it? Would it have any gravitational influence? Would it be tangible?

asked Sep 10, 2022 in Speed of Light by leastking

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Do you think humans will ever discover faster-than-light travel? Do you think aliens exist outside of our universe (if there is one)?

asked Sep 10, 2022 in Speed of Light by Fixasign

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If gravity was stronger, would we be able to travel faster than light using a spaceship?

asked Sep 10, 2022 in Speed of Light by tricky13

+648 votes

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Why is the speed of a moving object calculated in metres per second?

asked Aug 20, 2022 in Speed of Light by The_Clock_Strikes

+27 votes

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What happens when a spaceship travels faster than the speed of light? Does time stop for those on board or do they get younger, or what happens?

asked Aug 19, 2022 in Speed of Light by Shooglepops

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If gravity acts on all objects in proportion to their mass, then why don't heavy objects fall faster than light ones?

asked Aug 19, 2022 in Speed of Light by LunarWhisper

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How can I calculate the speed of light in a medium?

asked Aug 19, 2022 in Speed of Light by EmberHarmony

+249 votes

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If you wee traveling since the big bang in space, and your apparent relative time was seven days, but to the physical universe it was 15 billion years, then how close to the speed of light were you traveling?

asked Aug 19, 2022 in Speed of Light by Marine boy

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How is it that we hear sounds when they hit our ear drum even though sound travels at the speed of light while light travels faster than the speed of sound?

asked Aug 18, 2022 in Speed of Light by The Furniture Restor

+304 votes

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If a near light beam passed in front of me and a far one, which one will appear faster to me?

asked Aug 18, 2022 in Speed of Light by tidinggreen

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