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<blockquote data-quote="Harte" data-source="post: 25764" data-attributes="member: 443"><p><strong>Re: faster than light?</strong></p><p></p><p>TN6,</p><p> </p><p><div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(\"thenumbersix\")</div></p><p>No, you will be moving at some velocity relative to your original reference frame (where you were before you began to move.) You cannot acheive lightspeed as measured from <strong><em>any</em></strong> reference frame though. If you are moving at 99% of C, then that's what someone in your original reference frame will measure your speed to be. If, at this time, you shine a light at the wall toward your direction of travel, you will see that the light moves at the speed of light because you are your own reference frame. Some guy not moving with your speed that is positioned outside your ship looking in (say a guy with a very good telescope back on Earth) will also see your beam moving at the speed of light C. Not C+99% C like you might think.</p><p> </p><p><div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(\"thenumbersix\")</div></p><p> </p><p>If you left from the earth, then the earth is your original reference frame. When you begin to move relative to the Earth, then you have created a new (your own) reference frame. Nothing will change the distance (perceived or real) to the next star. Constriction of length only occurs in your reference frame, and then only when observed from outside your reference frame (the guy with the telescope.)</p><p> </p><p>Einstein used a good example to illustrate how we make our own reference frame. Apparently he lived at some time near a canal that was connected to the ocean. You could sit on the bank of the canal and watch waves from the ocean move up the canal from right to left. The waves moved at a slow pace that could be matched by jogging next to the canal. He noticed that, as he jogged in the direction that the waves moved, if he looked only at the water surface, it appeared to him that the canal water was experiencing a series of equidistant standing waves. If he stopped, the waves appeared to move from the right to the left. Which perception is more real? The are equal.</p><p> </p><p>Harte</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Harte, post: 25764, member: 443"] [b]Re: faster than light?[/b] TN6, <div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(\"thenumbersix\")</div> No, you will be moving at some velocity relative to your original reference frame (where you were before you began to move.) You cannot acheive lightspeed as measured from [b][i]any[/i][/b] reference frame though. If you are moving at 99% of C, then that's what someone in your original reference frame will measure your speed to be. If, at this time, you shine a light at the wall toward your direction of travel, you will see that the light moves at the speed of light because you are your own reference frame. Some guy not moving with your speed that is positioned outside your ship looking in (say a guy with a very good telescope back on Earth) will also see your beam moving at the speed of light C. Not C+99% C like you might think. <div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(\"thenumbersix\")</div> If you left from the earth, then the earth is your original reference frame. When you begin to move relative to the Earth, then you have created a new (your own) reference frame. Nothing will change the distance (perceived or real) to the next star. Constriction of length only occurs in your reference frame, and then only when observed from outside your reference frame (the guy with the telescope.) Einstein used a good example to illustrate how we make our own reference frame. Apparently he lived at some time near a canal that was connected to the ocean. You could sit on the bank of the canal and watch waves from the ocean move up the canal from right to left. The waves moved at a slow pace that could be matched by jogging next to the canal. He noticed that, as he jogged in the direction that the waves moved, if he looked only at the water surface, it appeared to him that the canal water was experiencing a series of equidistant standing waves. If he stopped, the waves appeared to move from the right to the left. Which perception is more real? The are equal. Harte [/QUOTE]
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