Lights speed

Jon · **Tue May 28, 2002 7:24 am Lights speed**

What would happend if you travel with light speed and suddenly turn on the light?
And whats the speed of darkness

PrankishSmart · **Tue May 28, 2002 7:46 am Re: Lights speed**

Rachel@VAQ · **Tue May 28, 2002 3:47 pm Re: Lights speed**

Delta-Alpha · **Tue May 28, 2002 4:38 pm**

I heard that if you travel faster than light then you become non-existent as you are no longer obeying the laws of physics. Einstein might of been wrong though (yeah right)

MT39503 · Commodore Joined: 10 Apr 2002 Posts: 1437 Location: AZ

if you were travling at light Speed Warp 1 The light could keep up. Darkness isn't a tangable thing. It is a lack of something - in this case light...so I suppose it has no speed.

parkan · **Wed May 29, 2002 7:40 pm**

One thing about general relativity that is hard to understand is the thought that light ALWAYS travels at light speed (bingo! I just solved the photon torpedo puzzle!), relative to ANYTHING. Meaning that if you move at near light speed, photons will still move at lightspeed past you.

MT39503 · Commodore Joined: 10 Apr 2002 Posts: 1437 Location: AZ

Paul Marshall · **Tue Jan 27, 2004 1:14 am**

Man, all this stuff yall are talking about is too complicated.

EnsignParis · Lieutenant Commander Joined: 07 Sep 2001 Posts: 257

admiral · **Tue Jan 04, 2005 5:42 pm**

it has indeed something to do with the laws of relativity. according to these laws when you are inside a starship which is flying with the speed of light and you switch on the light you should see it because the actual light in the starship is not affected by the conditions outside the ship. this statement can be proven with a simple example: when you are inside a car travelling with a speed of let's say 120 kph and you throw up a ball you will see that the ball is not affected by the current speed, it will fall back just in your hand with no movement in horizontal directions.
on the other hand if you throw up a ball when still accelerating it will move in a horizontal direction to the back of your car. this is the same for light. I think when a ship is accelerating from a speed: 0-6xlightspeed
you won't see light during the acceleration process from 1lightspeed to 6lightspeed and as soon the speed is stable you will be able to see lights.

~Voyager Fan~ · **Fri Jan 14, 2005 4:28 am Re: Lights speed**

lionhead · **Fri Jan 14, 2005 6:47 am Re: Lights speed**

starnova · **Mon Jan 17, 2005 3:10 am**

isnt darkness the absene of light?

Hitchhiker · **Mon Jan 17, 2005 7:51 am**

Link · **Mon Jan 17, 2005 6:21 pm**

ooooooooooooooooooooooooOOOOOOOOOOOOOOooooooooooooooOOoo

lol

yeh...hey! I'm supposed to be the sci wiz around here...
ah well...

i basically agree with every statement here...

(ducks mod's wrath at pointless post)

Captain Leah Manzer · **Mon Jan 17, 2005 7:29 pm**

*Takes out handy "A brief History Of time by Stephen Hawkings that is right by computer*

lol! I'm not even joking. I was doing an essay on something to this effect, and Hawkings said that:

"...e=mc^2.. the law that nothing may travel faster then the speed of light. Because equivalence of energy and mass the energy which as object has due to its motion will add to its mass. In other words, it will make it harder to increase its speed. This effect is only really significant for objects moving at speeds close to the speed of light....As an object approches the speed of light, its mass rises ever more quickly, so it takes more and more energy to speed it up further. It can in fact never reach the speed of light because by then its mass would have become infinite, and by then equivalence of mass and energy, it would have taken an infinite amount of energy to get it there. For this reason any normal object is forever confined by realitivity to move at speeds slower then the speed of light. "

Solitary Poet · **Mon Jan 17, 2005 9:09 pm**

Starships in Star Trek don�t actually move faster than light. The warp field warps the space around the ship so that the ship is actually moving at sub light speeds through the space immediately surrounding its hull.