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Is it Possible To Travel Faster Than The Speed Of Light?
The world has definitely come to a fast pace in terms of daily living, but what is the fastest speed that everyone in the universe can go to? Can we go beyond that? That’s what we’re gonna find out in today’s episode! ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Subscribe for more videos:https://www.youtube.com/c/InsaneCuriosity?sub_confirmation=1? Business Enquiries: lorenzovareseaziendale@gmail.com ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- If you have watched the animated series of Pokemon, it’s impossible to have missed the following lines: “Team Rocket, blast off at the speed of light! Surrender now or prepare to fight!” Said of course, by the ragtag duo of wanna be antagonists of the show, the Team Rocket. If you’re like me who thinks a lot about stuff I hear, you might have pondered about that penultimate line. Blasting off in the speed of light? Is it really possible to get something to move to the tune of the fastest speed of the universe, the speed of light? Well, we know that there aren’t any intergalactic police to monitor whether or not we’re going beyond the universal speed limit, but what exactly is preventing us from going beyond this anyway? These are two heavy questions that we will answer today, but I wanna know what you guys think about these? Do you think we can go faster than the speed of light? Or do you think it’s pretty much impossible? Let us know in the comments section down below. I know a lot of you already have the right answer to thes, but let’s play the devil’s advocate here for a bit, shall we? So how about we define first the speed of light so that we don’t get all confused by the variances? First and foremost, at least in the spirit of this video, when we say speed of light is constant, the speed of light that we are talking about here has two main characteristics. First, this is the speed of light in uninterrupted space, or vacuum. Second, we are talking about the speed of light in an unchanged space time, or a flat space time. Basically how we would normally see space, absent from the effects of other factors. In case this is the first time you are hearing all about this, the speed of light is estimated to be 299 792 458 m/s, or around 3 times 10 to the eighth meters per second. If you’re not a fan of the metric -- or residing in the USA -- that’s around 186282 miles per second. One of the earliest experimentations leading to the concept of the speed of light being constant is done by one of the biggest names in Physics, Galileo. This is how his experiment went. He and an assistant, which we will name Vinny for the sake of the story, would stand at the top of two hills, carrying each a light source -- which would most probably be a lamp, considering the time of the experiment. The lamp would be completely covered, with a shutter to effectively “flash” light. Galileo would then remove the shutter, which would be the signal for Vinny to remove his as well. Then, Galileo would record the time he saw the flash. He then repeated the same experiment and found out that no matter how far he went, he records the same time of flash. At that point, his conclusion was that light must either be really, really fast or that it is constant. To which the latter sounds extremely ridiculous that time. Why? Stay tuned to find out. And come 1676, Ole Roemer verified that the speed of light is indeed constant by observing the moons Jupiter. However, this fact gets highlighted hundreds of years later when a brilliant mind named Albert Einstein came up with his paper in the theory of relativity: one of the most important and groundbreaking publications in Physics in the history of mankind! So far, at least. To be able to understand his point, we need to first understand how relativity is defined in a classical sense. For instance, say that you are riding a train moving at a constant speed, let’s call that speed “v”, and one friend of yours is looking at you outside of the train on platform. Credits: Ron Miller Credits: Nasa/Shutterstock/Storyblocks/Elon Musk/SpaceX Credit to the author in the video. 0:26 Title: Our Enemy, Rocket Team in PokeBooth. Link: https://ift.tt/31uzG84; Under the license: https://ift.tt/1nP9ywc. 2:21 Title: File:Galileo Galilei (1564-1642). Oil painting by an Italian pain Wellcome V0023487.jpg File:Kepler-438 b superflare.jpg. Link: https://ift.tt/2GsuzJl; Under the license: https://ift.tt/1HgRP86 8:27 Title: File:Advanced Test Reactor.jpg Link: https://ift.tt/2EIbgir; Under the license: https://ift.tt/1go63aR #InsaneCuriosity #SpeedOLight
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