Monday, August 15, 2011
If a spaceship went faster than the speed of light, what would the pilot see?
things would start to stretch out and become distorted, if i remember correctly (from the doentary i saw on discovery), the force would be too great for the body to handle, and its appearance would be affected. also, if you can travel faster than speed of light, then there would be a point where you would actually be able to see how the universe was created. you see, think of light "radiation" as a shock wave from a bomb, as time elapses it goes further and further from ground zero, similarly, light leaving ground zero keeps going further (at a speed of about 300km/s), so if something travels faster than 300km/s, it would actually be able to (theoretically) see the past behind it, and as it crosses the first light wave ever produced, it will be able to see how the universe was created. personally, i believe there will be a time where FTL or super-luminous crafts will be reality; before the first flight by wright brothers, it was thought to be impossible to fly, before the first manned Apollo mission, humans being anywhere other than earth was thought to be impossible, before the first Mach 1 airplane, supersonic travel was thought to be impossible, although i must say, i personally believe that (like at sonic speeds, the side effects are sound being squish and pressurized) the side effects of super-luminous travel would be much stronger than those that are seen as a result of breaking the sound. i predict that if the light barrier can be broken, then as the FTL object travels, the light would be squished, creating a super-concentrated aura of light around the object (possibly and probably capable of scorching the surroundings and easily blinding people)
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