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Anonymous at Thu, 6 Jun 2024 11:02:06 UTC No. 16213540
If I am hypothetically moving through outer space at 99.99999999% the speed of light, and then I shine a laser pointer forwards, does the beam of light travel slowly from my perspective?
Does this mean it is possible for a mechanism to calculate its "absolute" speed relative to the universe itself simply by checking the speed of light and seeing if it's slower than it should be?
Anonymous at Thu, 6 Jun 2024 11:20:07 UTC No. 16213600
>>16213540
the laser will travel at the speed of light from your perspective, its like a closed condition.
Anonymous at Thu, 6 Jun 2024 11:22:15 UTC No. 16213610
>>16213540
>does the beam of light travel slowly from my perspective?
no, everyone everywhere sees it going at speed c
Anonymous at Thu, 6 Jun 2024 11:25:01 UTC No. 16213618
>>16213600
>>16213610
got it.
sounds like the programmers didn't want to import extra libraries to deal with multiple precision arithmetic so they just added this kludge to deal with it.
the more I learn about fizziks the more it seems like a simulation where the programmers added weird shit like this to stop some annoying humans from crashing the simulation.
Anonymous at Thu, 6 Jun 2024 11:57:58 UTC No. 16213697
>>16213618
look up Stephen Wolfram
Anonymous at Thu, 6 Jun 2024 13:16:21 UTC No. 16214578
if you're moving at the speed of light your "vision" is already constrained to a nearly infinitely illuminated pinpoint of giga radiation so this kind of hypothetical is kind of pointless. if you shine a flashlight into that pinpoint of ultra radiation nothing really interesting happens either from your perspective or from the perspective of real space observers.
Anonymous at Thu, 6 Jun 2024 23:50:46 UTC No. 16218406
>>16213697
Even better, look up Jonathan Gorard.
Anonymous at Fri, 7 Jun 2024 00:00:51 UTC No. 16218431
>>16213618
>sounds like the programmers
Face fucking palm.
Anonymous at Fri, 7 Jun 2024 00:10:50 UTC No. 16218451
schizophrenics says that actually space and time will change instead
said schizophrenics? PhD holding physicists
Anonymous at Fri, 7 Jun 2024 01:53:50 UTC No. 16218631
>>16213600
>the laser will travel at the speed of light from your perspective, its like a closed condition.
You will observe nothing special. You couple the laser oscillation into the (surely inexistent) ether. Outsiders will see it on a different wavelength (in this case extreme long). That is called the Doppler effect and observable everywhere. Everthing else (Onestone incl.) is BS.
Anonymous at Fri, 7 Jun 2024 02:16:22 UTC No. 16218656
>>16213540
Ignore the retards claiming that it will be moving at c from your perspective and at c from everyone else's perspective. Special relativity is pseudoscientific garbage.