Why not faster than light?
February 25, 2010 Leave a comment
Ever wondered super fast light speed travel? You should have, when the starships did their hyperdrives, when they time travelled, when einstein said the relativity theory… You should have…
Hence for the day’s article – faster than light. As a kid, i had always wanted to go faster than light, or in a sense, do things in a speed when compared to light is more quick. When i came across the basics of quantum theory and relativity theories, that wish faded away. But i was not sad, rather happy. That i found something cooler than faster than light – nothing.
Now to the science part, for those people still wondering what i’m telling. First and last, faster than light travel is impossible. You see, mass energy and time are related to reach other. While the relation of energy and mass is mathematical, that to time is only theory. Einstein in his famous relation of e=mc^2 proved its importance. It says that to exhibit a speed of a photon, a particle should have infinite energy, if not weightless. For any particle greater than a velocity c, the mass may go negative according to the tachyon theory. Meaning in simple words, that it should show us the real meaning of negative numbers. Coming in relation to speed, to accelerate an object of mass to a speed equal to c, one should need infinite energy with no opposing force. If in any chance that can occur will be at the event horizon of a black hole. Now, infinite energy is something that will never ever be possible . And speaking of greater than light speeds, there is zero probablity. The value of speed of light is a universal constant. In every frame, its the same. Lets consider an example, if a light source is moving towards us at a speed of c/2 and then emits a photon, the photon will not have a velocity of 3c/2 but c itself. Why? The doppler effect gives us the answer, the red and the blue shift. There are objects which change at rates higher than light, like a shadow movement, our thinking frequency, but all these can’t be used to transport or propogate any information or matter. Specially when transporting matter, no wave or impulse can carry atoms from one place to another without changing its state of energy and position of placement. Hence teleporting is also a distant science fiction.
Suppose if there was time travel, or maybe in future we find time travel, then why can’t the people travel from future to here and educate us about its theory and working? Why did not they stop disasters like 9/11? Well, the question is to you to answer…. I’m ending this article now, as my knowledge in these fields are very very limited. I am planning to take this as my research paper, if i get a chance to.
Till next time…



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