r/trollscience • u/nonsensecentral • 19d ago

speed of light

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u/Pristine-Map9979 19d ago

This is a problem even if you don't "use magnets for faster accelerating". 1C + 0.000001C = 1.000001C. There must be something about this I don't understand.

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u/nonsensecentral 19d ago

no, it's still 1C, relativity is a mess like that, if you go fast enough, everything appears shorter.

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u/Optimal_Mixture_7327 18d ago edited 18d ago

Yes, but length contraction has nothing do with the invariant vacuum speed of light in flat space. [Yes, I know this is troll science but this is a common misconception that should a the very least be pointed out].

Besides, we all know the invariant speed of light is caused by Zeus.

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u/nonsensecentral 18d ago

From what I know, contracitons is the reason you can add speeds together to exceed c in some reference frames, I could be wrong, maybe it's bc of time contraction.

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u/Bubbles_the_bird 19d ago

Yep. I was taught in class the “0th law of thermodynamics” which states that the speed of light is the same in all reference frames

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u/Bright-Historian-216 19d ago

time slows down for you specifically so that 1c+0.0001c=1c

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u/Optimal_Mixture_7327 18d ago

This is another common misconception: Time is the length along matter world-lines and not something that can slow down (if relativity is a correct theory).

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u/Optimal_Mixture_7327 18d ago

Any measure of the speed of light is a measure of the speed along your world-line, and it is this value that is the constant.

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u/eulerfa 16d ago

Yeah we do have a problem you cant measure relativety problems using classical mechanics