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Relevant to discussion on space travel.
Relevant to discussion on space travel.
Oh you ignorant man.
That is exactly what the big bang says. Again the speed of light is local and relates to motion relative to the space-time. An object in motion cannot exceed the speed of light relative to space-time.
What happened in the big bang is as Modo states. The matter in the early universe did not travel faster than the speed of light relative to space-time. Instead, space-time itself expanded. That expansion is allowed to proceed faster than the speed of light because it is not relative to space-time but is space-time.
Put another way. Objects exist within this thing we call space-time. Those objects cannot travel faster than the speed of light per special relativity. However, space-time itself is not confined to this rule because space-time is not an object within space-time but is the actual global medium through which objects travel.
So what happened in the early big bang is that space-time itself expanded faster than the speed of light but the actual objects within space time did not. It is just that because those objects existed within space-time and space-time itself was expanding, it made it the objects appear to travel faster than light when in fact they did not.
A physicist I read once explained it simply: Light can travel slower speeds when affected by different media--matter, gravity, etc. If it didn't Cherenkov radiation wouldn't be a thing. However, the speed limit as we know it is C. It's therefore a bit clunky to say "speed of light" when referencing C because light can slow down, but C never changes. To our current knowledge it's a universal constant.Brett is positing about the fluidity of light speed.... On machines that depend on a constant .68 light speed travel over cat 5 medium and .87 light speed on coax medium to synchronize and transmit meaningful data.
Pure witchcraft. Perhaps the internet is not a thing, and god just zaps the words machine to machine.
Correct, but I prefer the simpler explanation that if you're in a spaceship traveling at half the speed of light, and you shine a flashlight in the direction you're traveling, from your frame of reference the light is traveling at the speed of light (C or very close to in the hard vacuum of space), as well as an outside frame of reference, even though simple logic might dictation that the outside frame of reference should see the the light traveling at 1.5C. It doesn't it's blue-shifted. Same thing if you're shining the light opposite of the direction you're traveling: From your frame of reference the light is traveling at C. From an outside frame of reference it's still traveling at C but red-shifted, not 0.5C.
So the light from the most distant--and oldest reaches of the observable universe are traveling at some fraction of C, or C, but not faster than C.
A physicist I read once explained it simply: Light can travel slower speeds when affected by different media--matter, gravity, etc. If it didn't Cherenkov radiation wouldn't be a thing. However, the speed limit as we know it is C. It's therefore a bit clunky to say "speed of light" when referencing C because light can slow down, but C never changes. To our current knowledge it's a universal constant.
Correct, but I prefer the simpler explanation that if you're in a spaceship traveling at half the speed of light, and you shine a flashlight in the direction you're traveling, from your frame of reference the light is traveling at the speed of light (C or very close to in the hard vacuum of space), as well as an outside frame of reference, even though simple logic might dictation that the outside frame of reference should see the the light traveling at 1.5C. It doesn't it's blue-shifted. Same thing if you're shining the light opposite of the direction you're traveling: From your frame of reference the light is traveling at C. From an outside frame of reference it's still traveling at C but red-shifted, not 0.5C.
So the light from the most distant--and oldest reaches of the observable universe are traveling at some fraction of C, or C, but not faster than C.
A physicist I read once explained it simply: Light can travel slower speeds when affected by different media--matter, gravity, etc. If it didn't Cherenkov radiation wouldn't be a thing. However, the speed limit as we know it is C. It's therefore a bit clunky to say "speed of light" when referencing C because light can slow down, but C never changes. To our current knowledge it's a universal constant.
I know, I know... I should read your magic book and see God.
Oh my dear boy...you need some sugar?
I need a Voldemort hug :crying:
Sorry, I know, I'm the only one, who are those people?
Voldemort and Malfoy lol.... doesn't really matter.... I just need to be hugged in a very awkward manner.
Brett may not learn anything in here, but the rest of us can.
I agree with that.