Ascending One said:
I don't see why not for all practical purposes.
No - the matter of the chair was not accelerated to the speed of light. But the information which represents the chair did travel at the speed of light and then that information was reconstructed... so in a manner of speaking yes it did travel at the speed of light.
So, the information traveled at the speed of light (and carried by the light itself), not the chair, not you : This is a fundamental difference.
Xori said:
I disagree that this would be equal to traveling at the speed of light. This is simply a copy of you reconstrcuted somewhere, not the original you. If it is you, then you are capable of being in more than one place at the same time (the original you is here and the recontructed you is on the other planet)
he forgot to tell that the original him should be killed lol.
ahum.
This would not be traveling at the speed of light, just copying.
Just for the record, the amount of data to be transferred would be tremendous.
If it was to be stored in computer discs, possibly the pile of disks would be longer than the milky way. Not talking about the incertainty of capturing that data in the POV of quantum physics.
hamza said:
I wanted to ask that if a person returned home after a journey at the speed of light for a little while ; what will be the time at his home. I mean would all his relatives be dead by that time or would just a second have passed.
It has been already said, no object with rest mass can reach the speed of light, only approch it, and good answear has been given for that.
Another point that has lready been said: in the impossible event that an object could read the speed of light, the time of that object stops. Saying that, you can imagine that the universe would come to an end before the person (object) slows down and come back to see his family.
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