Originally Posted by Mirdesoux
Speed of light exceeded...Huh.
My friend said that if a marshmallow would've hit the earth going slightly faster than the speed of light, it's impact on earth would create an explosion of about ~26 hydrogen bombs.
Yeah, a freakin' marshmallow.
But, the OP's article and the marshmallow intrigues me, I've always figured that anything going faster than the speed of light would turn into light, because it'd be going so fast it's molecules would disintegrate something like that.
Originally Posted by BlakMuffin
I'm not sure if your friend has a freakin' Ph.D in physics or whatever but what you said about the object turning into light is kind of strange. That's because no object can exceed its max velocity, unless you create a shitload of negative energy around it so that you can literally move the fabric of time-space around you and fluctuate it so you literally propelled by the universe in a way. This is really the only chance we have at moving at the speed of light, and it's not even literally us moving at the speed of light. We're staying still, we're just moving the entire universe around us.
He is actually probably right, mass can't move at that speed, so if it approaches lightspeed, it'll probably spagetthify, turn into long strings of energy, of which the easiest would be light, since most others require a medium.
Also, why would an object have a maximum velocity? There was one they assumed to be true and that was the speed of light. Individual speed maxima do not exist, I think you mean terminal velocity. That refers to something with a certain amount of forces working on it, the terminal velocity is when all forces cancel out, so the object stops accelerating.
Also, a marshmallow ( assuming it's 10 grams) will have slightly less than half of the power of the most powerful hydrogen bomb ever made when it hits the earth at light speed.
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Originally Posted by Meamme0
He is actually probably right, mass can't move at that speed, so if it approaches lightspeed, it'll probably spagetthify, turn into long strings of energy, of which the easiest would be light, since most others require a medium.
Also, why would an object have a maximum velocity? There was one they assumed to be true and that was the speed of light. Individual speed maxima do not exist, I think you mean terminal velocity. That refers to something with a certain amount of forces working on it, the terminal velocity is when all forces cancel out, so the object stops accelerating.
Also, a marshmallow ( assuming it's 10 grams) will have slightly less than half of the power of the most powerful hydrogen bomb ever made when it hits the earth at light speed.
Naturally, I'm wrong. :/
Well, I WAS talking about terminal velocity when I said maximum velocity (I screw up words like that sometimes). I guess that what you were saying there would be if, by any imaginary chance, a marshmallow DID somehow reach light speed, it would simply heat up so much that it would incinerate and turn into some form of nyeh (I really can't come up with anything else to call it). I don't think the laws of physics concerning speed really apply in space, since there's no air to rub against the mass, but psycore said something about Einstein's calculations which mathematically say that moving at the speed of light is impossible if you have mass and all that complicated stuff. You said that most forms of matter need a medium to move at light speed, does that include plasma too? It doesn't really seem to have mass since it's just a mess of free electrons and electron-less nuclei.
Now what about that moving the universe idea I told you guys about? Is that improbable too? You might have to watch the documentary on it... I forget what it's called, though.
Last edited by BlakMuffin; Oct 18, 2011 at 10:22 PM.
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