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cappsie
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Howdy,
This is my first post. Please be gentle. ;-)
I have been thinking about the speed of light.
Scenario 1: I'm on a train traveling at the speed of light. Everything in the train immediately about me appears normal. The reflection in the windows, looking down at myself, indeed anything locally around me. However, outside the train things are different relative to the observer. This I accept.
Now, were I to run along inside the train carriage at 10mph, I would be running precisely 10mph within the train - not lightspeed + 10mph.
So my questions are:
- Would an observer see the train traveling at the speed of light with me running an additionally fast 10mph?
- Were I to run and jump out of the train, would I then be traveling at lightspeed+10mph?
The e=mc2 seems to be to be spot on if related to the speed at which information travel or can be transmitted. So as long as this is not violated then, space can expand faster then the speed of light for instance.
Scenario 2: I understand that as I travel ever faster toward the speed of light, the energy required to get me there becomes infinite because my mass also becomes infinite. Is my mass a result of other gravitational bodies? Is there a measurable increase with the shuttle and its ohms burns? In my mind, if I kept applying that ohms burn, eventually I would get faster and faster, but why would my mass increase with no other influences?
All thoughts welcome. :)
Thanks,
Adam
This is my first post. Please be gentle. ;-)
I have been thinking about the speed of light.
Scenario 1: I'm on a train traveling at the speed of light. Everything in the train immediately about me appears normal. The reflection in the windows, looking down at myself, indeed anything locally around me. However, outside the train things are different relative to the observer. This I accept.
Now, were I to run along inside the train carriage at 10mph, I would be running precisely 10mph within the train - not lightspeed + 10mph.
So my questions are:
- Would an observer see the train traveling at the speed of light with me running an additionally fast 10mph?
- Were I to run and jump out of the train, would I then be traveling at lightspeed+10mph?
The e=mc2 seems to be to be spot on if related to the speed at which information travel or can be transmitted. So as long as this is not violated then, space can expand faster then the speed of light for instance.
Scenario 2: I understand that as I travel ever faster toward the speed of light, the energy required to get me there becomes infinite because my mass also becomes infinite. Is my mass a result of other gravitational bodies? Is there a measurable increase with the shuttle and its ohms burns? In my mind, if I kept applying that ohms burn, eventually I would get faster and faster, but why would my mass increase with no other influences?
All thoughts welcome. :)
Thanks,
Adam