RE: Traveling at the speed of light

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Traveling at the speed of light

in science •  8 years ago 

Thank you for answer. So you are saying by applying special relativity it is explainable ? You are probably right I just need to spend some time thinking about it.

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That's indeed what I was meaning. The speeds are not simply added anymore. It is a bit more complicated, but nothing too complicated as well.

So the point where it gets more complicated is where? 0,5 C ?

At a much lower speed. When relativistic effects are negligible.

ohh but at low speed the effect is too small for us to even consider it ?

Responding here because of the nesting limit. If you want easy calculations, then you need to be non-relativistic. As soon as you go quick, relativity is at work and that's the price to pay. You can also achieve relativistic calculations at low speed and you will find that the results agree with the non-relativistic case.