What if you shined a flashlight...
Thursday, June 10, 2004 by I.R. Brainiac | Discussion: WinCustomize Talk
while going the speed of light?Would it shine any further?(or would the light just collect at the source and get REALLY hot) 
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Aleatoric
Reply #106 Sunday, June 13, 2004 1:36 AM
Reply #106 Sunday, June 13, 2004 1:36 AM
I like the philosophical stuff also. Especially as it provides an impetus for more concrete improvements in our knowledge.
Your original question is kind of interesting in that respect, as it's asserted that Einstein largely came up with his initial ideas about relativity by imagining what the world would look like if he were riding a beam of light.
Your original question is kind of interesting in that respect, as it's asserted that Einstein largely came up with his initial ideas about relativity by imagining what the world would look like if he were riding a beam of light.
I.R. Brainiac
Reply #107 Sunday, June 13, 2004 1:40 AM
Reply #107 Sunday, June 13, 2004 1:40 AM
I still wonder more really about the inverse of the question...if the emitter is at light speed traveling away from the observer...would he see the light?(I really already knew the answer for the original question ,just not the facts behind it,just wanted to get some people going whether educated or not)
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yrag
Reply #108 Sunday, June 13, 2004 1:41 AM
Reply #108 Sunday, June 13, 2004 1:41 AM
...not if he put it where the light don't shine.......
Jafo
Reply #110 Sunday, June 13, 2004 2:28 AM
Reply #110 Sunday, June 13, 2004 2:28 AM
Good...seems we're on the same wavelength....though my last 'formal' Physics was 33 years ago.
What's more fun is that I'm currently typing on a wizz-bang Titanium Apple....slowly getting the hang of it....
Good thing the keyboard is vaguelly 'normal'...
What's more fun is that I'm currently typing on a wizz-bang Titanium Apple....slowly getting the hang of it....
Good thing the keyboard is vaguelly 'normal'...
mrtee
Reply #112 Sunday, June 13, 2004 2:31 AM
Reply #112 Sunday, June 13, 2004 2:31 AM
I want to know what happened to the mirrored sphere that the electric torch was in several months ago.
And what happens to the glass that surrounds the glowing element that emites the light from the electric torch?
And what happens to the glass that surrounds the glowing element that emites the light from the electric torch?
_footsie_
Reply #113 Sunday, June 13, 2004 9:06 AM
Reply #113 Sunday, June 13, 2004 9:06 AM
If a flashlight shines in the forest and there's no one there to see it does it still travel at light speed or does it wait for a bear to fart and the sound to catch up? 
ImStein
Reply #115 Sunday, June 13, 2004 10:47 PM
Reply #115 Sunday, June 13, 2004 10:47 PM
LMAO@ footsie!!!! You are way to funny!! I wouldn't wait for the sound... it may be a SBD and gas the enire forest!!!! 
ImStein
Reply #116 Sunday, June 13, 2004 10:48 PM
Reply #116 Sunday, June 13, 2004 10:48 PM
Okay, I'll do my own spell check... the word sould be "entire" not "enire"
I.R. Brainiac
Reply #117 Sunday, June 13, 2004 11:08 PM
Reply #117 Sunday, June 13, 2004 11:08 PM
ImStein2 - spellchuck iznt necesarry,Jefo will provide
DarionFawkes
Reply #120 Monday, June 14, 2004 2:00 PM
Reply #120 Monday, June 14, 2004 2:00 PM
Light travels at the speed of light (in a vacuum, at least) regardless of the speedd of the emitting object. If you were travelling at half the speed of light, towards a beam of light having been emitted already, it would appear to you to be approaching at the speed of light, rather than 1.5x. Same probably works, its not like firing a gun from a moving vehicle, it wouldn't travel faster because your flashlight is already travelling at lightspeed. Darn quantum mechanics don't really make much sense to us hyoomahns. 
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Reply #101 Sunday, June 13, 2004 1:27 AM