Sunset
“And the light shineth in darkness; and the darkness comprehended it not.”
- John 1:5
Our eyes pick up the fastest moving thing we have ever witnessed; light; but not the fastest thing of all, the expansion of the known universe. In 13 billion years, our universe has expanded from one point, to over 90 billion years across according to NASA. That expansion rate averages out to be approximately seven times the speed of light.
If there was something that moved so fast you never saw would you believe in it? Once, people believed that if you moved faster than a galloping horse your internal organs would liquify, currently we view the speed of light as an impassable limit, however;
1. we have always exceeded every other limit in the past, the speed of sound, the speed of a horse galloping, and
2. If anything moved faster than the speed of light we would be unable to observe it via our standard senses.
E = MC2
This equasion is brilliant, it shows the interrelationship between energy and matter and light, showing how each can flow into each other under the right circumstances.
We see with light, we hear and feel with matter, we are self-aware and energy flows through us all.
#1 by callum on October 5th, 2009
hmm they say if you traveled the speed of light you will go back in time or soemthing like that cannot remember correctly, they did some project where they propelled matter around to the speed of light
#2 by Mingus on October 5th, 2009
That’s a slight misconception.
If you are moving at the speed of light, you won’t see a watch tick, but the watch will still tick, well you wouldn’t see a watch where you started out from ticking anyways, and a watch ahead of you would tick twice as fast.
I haven’t heard of any project involving propelling matter to the speed of light, it has been theorised but not done in practice to my knowledge.
Relatively speaking, faster than light in a direction and you would be passing through the light that had already been, so you would “see” back in time, but you wouldn’t be going back in time.