Poll: Faster than the speed of light?

[Tykey]

Yeh but no but yeh....but how does quantum entanglement work? "Spooky action at a distance".

 

[flea.rider]

well none of the above .. as there travelling the speed of light you could never observe them

 

[adidan]

Faster than the speed of light? Themz gonna be thicc photons.

 

[rumple9]

B - the universe is expanding

 

[Megahurtz400]

Can't things only move relatively to another thing?

So relative to the observer the protons are still only travelling at the speed of light, the gap between them doesn't matter?

Then there's the whole protons being particles and waves at the same time or something?

I am not a smart man.

 

[iamdjdz]

I hope they were paying Road Tax

Have the photons also gone back in time nearly 90 years?

 

[SexyGreyFox]

Have the photons also gone back in time nearly 90 years?

All the way back to 1937 just before Winston Churchill got rid of it.

 

[aardvark]

Its A - nothing is going faster than light as a gap isn't a 'thing'

 

[Mrwong]

No

 

[mrgubby]

It all depends on what gender the photon identifies as.

 

[ChroniC]

Physical laws do not equal mathematical calculations.. In an case an observers frame of reference from two light beams would be the centre of the gap. So it's light speed from the left and right relative to the centre.

 

[Hagar]

Physical laws do not equal mathematical calculations.. In an case an observers frame of reference from two light beams would be the centre of the gap. So it's light speed from the left and right relative to the centre.

The observer may be sat upon Photon A but then I suppose he is observing the approaching Photon B with a closing velocity of twice the speed of light.

 

[ChroniC]

The observer may be sat upon Photon A but then I suppose he is observing the approaching Photon B with a closing velocity of twice the speed of light.

No because that where relativity comes into play.. Because time and space are linked the faster you go the slower time ticks. So person on Photon A would be going the speed of light relative to another outside observer but to him time would stop then the speed of Photon B is the speed of light not twice.

 

[Drollic]

The real question is what will happen first, the photons colliding or Schofields TV career ending.

 

[Caracus2k]

Two photons travelling towards each other. Each travelling at the speed of light. To an observer, the gap is closing at twice the speed of light?

Answer:

A; Yes
B; No
C; My brain hurts.
D; Never mind all that stuff, What's for me tea?

Many parts of the universe are already moving away from us at speeds far in excess of the speed of light such that no information (for example light) from thoose areas will ever reach us. An observer in between us those points may be able to 'observe' that the two points appear to be moving away from each other at faster than the speed of light from their relative postion.

 

[EGuitarStar]

Computer says no

 

[mid_gen]

well none of the above .. as there travelling the speed of light you could never observe them

Well yes this is the only vaguely correct answer so far that actually takes relativity into account. Where is the observer?

If the observer is sat between the two photons, they don't 'see' any movement. They just detect two photons from opposite directions, no speed involved.

 

[Hagar]

Many parts of the universe are already moving away from us at speeds far in excess of the speed of light such that no information (for example light) from thoose areas will ever reach us. An observer in between us those points may be able to 'observe' that the two points appear to be moving away from each other at faster than the speed of light from their relative postion.

Unexit.