So this is my return to blogging. I have been absent I know.
so...science has been blowing my mind lately. So far my classes have no enthralled me, only introduced me to topics that spark an interest. The only time I get really into things and really learn from classes is when I go out on my own time and research that spark.
In my astronomy class we talked about the speed of light. I have looked into this only lightly and only have a rudimentary understanding so PLEASE correct me if I am wrong or provide any insight you may have.
Ok so something traveling at the speed of light is strictly traveling through space and not through time at all. MEANING all light around is is everpresent in every moment that it exists. The light can look at everything around it as if it is a three dimensional photograph so to speak. COOL.
Nothing can go faster than the speed of light. Example: Driver A drives towards driver B at 70 mph, driver B goes the same speed toward driver A. They both appear to be going faster in reference to the other since they are traveling towards one another. BUT if both A and B are going towards each other at the speed of light they both appear to be going the speed of light, rather than faster because THAT WOULD BE IMPOSSIBLE.
Say I can travel at the speed of light around the world. Time would stop for me but I wouldn't be able to chill in it and wander around as if in a photograph because I am going the speed of light. It'd be like sonic the hedgehog trying running around in a photo. If I am in a spaceship, and the spaceship is going at the speed of light I am free to roam around in the spaceship while time has stopped. so the spaceship would be cruising super fast but I would not be moving through time. What this brings me to is that if we could accelerate the earth to the speed of light, time would stop on the earth. Pretty neat.
Now to connect the two ideas. If nothing can go faster than the speed of light, or at least conceived to be going faster than the speed of light. Then what if, strictly theoretical. There is a second realm or tandem universe. This tandem universe, in its entirety, is moving faster than the speed of light. Is there a possibility the tandem universe could be active within our own, but not able to be perceived, and how would that universe move through time? Could it move freely through time since it is going faster than the speed of light? Or would it cease to move through both time and space? I have no idea, but this type of thinking is really getting me going. Please provide thoughts, other circumstances and corrections.
another thing I thought about. If nothing can go faster than the speed of light and the speed of light is approx. 299 792 458 m / s then wouldnt the shortest division of time possible be 1/299792458 seconds? That is the shortest amount of time that can exist? Is that the framerate of the universe or the exact time measurement of a moment?
fun stuff
1 comment:
When did you become quite the physicist Bryce?! Very interesting last few posts I must say, though I don't understand your two cars traveling towards each other example.
If they both appear to be going faster than the other, but yet are going the same velocity... then if they were both going at the speed of light, I think that based on your idea of them "appearing" to go faster than the other, then they would still appear to be going faster than the other. And you're simply saying "No" based on the logic that nothing can exceed the speed of light. But I don't think this is right, I think the other would still appear to be going faster.
I think the flakey part of the example is what they "appear" to be doing.
But either way I'm liking the ideas behind your lasts posts!
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