Faster then speed of light.

salami1212

salami1212

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Theoretically if you were to travel round the world faster then the speed of light then would you crash into the back of yourself? of would you go through an image of your body?
 
Superman didn't when he made the Earth spin backwards and he went much faster than the speed of light; he was doing more than 7 orbits per second in the movie.
 
The speed of light is to do with how you see an object. Depending on it's distance from you, it might well not physically be where you see it.

So, the second one.
 
The speed of light is a constant bound by the universe, Photons only adhere to this maximum.

I prefer to think of it using an analogy that is close to the truth, space and time are finite and measurable, if we are to live in a 4 dimensional space-time where all 4 dimensions are facets of the same thing, then there must be a number, a figure or a concept to convert units from one dimension to another, where we deal with the 3 of space its a 1:1 conversion, 1 cm is 1 cm in any direction, although how does this relate to time, which is conceptually distinct, the answer lies in that number c .

Its a mental idea but maybe holds a smidgen of fact somewhere, we just dont know tbh...

But no, if you could travel faster than the speed of light you would not run into yourself, because you are not travelling back in time any faster than you were when you started speeding away at c+some speed. So you would just be a self contained anomoly :)
 
ok how about this, if you were to travel round the earth going backwards a 188000.0000000000000000000001 miles a second then you would then see yourself?
 
If you went round faster than the speed of light you'd arrive before you left, so you would go back in time. You would see yourself leave. Maybe :confused:
 
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