Will This Go Faster Than Light?
Physics of contraptions meant to go faster than light. Audible: http://bit.ly/AudibleVe My video about the problem with Facebook: http://bit.ly/PwFB Special thanks to MinutePhysics for visual...
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The speed of light is meant to be the ultimate speed limit in the universe. According toEinstein’s special theory of relativity, nothing should move through space faster thanlight. But that doesn’t stop people from trying. Every day I get a lot of messagesproposing ways to go faster than the speed of light.There is the classic method where you shine a laser at the moon. If you can flick thatbeam across the moon’s surface in less than a hundredth of a second, which is not hardto do, then that laser spot will actually move across the surface of the moon fasterthan the speed of light. Imagine what that would look like if you were standing on themoon. If you were quick enough to perceive it, you would see this laser spot move fasterthan the light coming out of your ...
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The speed of light is meant to be the ultimate speed limit in the universe. According toEinstein’s special theory of relativity, nothing should move through space faster thanlight. But that doesn’t stop people from trying. Every day I get a lot of messagesproposing ways to go faster than the speed of light.There is the classic method where you shine a laser at the moon. If you can flick thatbeam across the moon’s surface in less than a hundredth of a second, which is not hardto do, then that laser spot will actually move across the surface of the moon fasterthan the speed of light. Imagine what that would look like if you were standing on themoon. If you were quick enough to perceive it, you would see this laser spot move fasterthan the light coming out of your ...
