vlad tepes Posted October 13, 2003 Report Share Posted October 13, 2003 What happens if an object travelling at the speed of light impacts an object that isnt enough bigger to diminish his speed. would the second object by the force of the impact travel for an instant faster than light? sorry for my english but i am from argentina Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
deamonstar Posted October 14, 2003 Report Share Posted October 14, 2003 the smaller object cannot travel faster than light. it is destroyed. that is to say that it is broken into its constituant sub-atomic particles.this is observed in high energy particle accelerators all the time. it is also how we know that subatomic particles exist. it is also excellent evidence for the law of conservation of energy, the law of conservation of mass and the laws of thermodynamics. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Aki Posted December 23, 2003 Report Share Posted December 23, 2003 Do you think an object can travel faster than the speed of light if it were in another dimension? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Roberto Posted December 23, 2003 Report Share Posted December 23, 2003 If relativity is valid for an n-dimensional universe independent of n, than you cannot have treavel faster than light. The fundamental limit of velocity is a consequence of the laws of relativity, to be more precise, it has to do with the causality principle: if you have a frame that moves faster than light you can see consequences happening before the causes, what (as far as we know) cannot happen. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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