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How much heat will it increase when a ship travel at speed of light?

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Let say you have a dream of building a space ship that can travel at the speed of the light, and you put all the materials to the ship, the total mass of the ship is 10000kg, 50million atoms in total mass,150million covalent bonds to these atoms, and 75million electrons that orbiting around these atoms, and here we go, the speed of the light!, as soon as your space ship moves in less then 1mm at the speed of light, the last thing you will hear in your space ship is Xi-BOOM!!!!!!!!!!, assume that 30million out of 50million atoms in your space ship's materials collide with photons from incoming stars light, and every 10 collided atoms increase 1 degree Celsius of heat, because the effect of heat in atoms, proton and neutron raise their temperature, and assume that inside proton one down quark turn up and the total of 3 up quarks add up 10 percent of heat to an atom, as the same time one up quark in neutron turn down, and the total of 3 down quarks add up another 15 percent of heat to an atom, and 45million electrons collide with positrons, and every 15 collided electrons add up 50% of heat to atoms, and the rest of electrons are increase genetic energy to your space ship capacitors, and 150 millions covalent bonds collide with 150million photons, each add up to 13 percent of heat to atoms, also assume that inside each covalent bond, there are five dimensional diamond cut and reflex at each corner, and because a photon penetrate in these crystal cut, each corner increase 1/3 of heat and adds to the atoms inside your space ship mass. Ok, here we go, the total heat of all mass in your space ship is BOOM!!! BOOM!!! BOOM!!!!!. what happen next if your space ship moves in one meter at the speed of light?.

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  1. This is too complicated.In space where is the speed of light reference

    point? Of course it must be the ship.If you shine a light away from the ship in any direction,the light will leave at light speed.The ship has no reference point except any other body in space.This seems to make  an approach to the speed of light meaningless.


  2. A dream is right! There are so many inaccuracies here i don't know where to begin.

    There is NO WAY to travel at the speed of light.

    There would be way way more than 50 million atoms in 10000 kg. A carbon atom weighs about 10^-26 grams, so you're talking 10^34 atoms give or take a few.

    Matter and photons are colliding all the time. This will not be any more of a problem at relativistic speeds.

    The heat generated by 10 collisions will be really really small - not approaching 1°C.


  3. That your ship will explode is not the reason you cannot travel at c. The reason you cannot travel at c is that there is no such speed for massive objects.

  4. Your question is irrelevant because you suppose that you can move at the speed of light, when in fact you cannot.

  5. I have calculated it and the corrected answer comes out at 27 degrees Celsius.

    The angle of lean, going round corners,  could raise this to 28, and any up hill bits would add on another half degree.

    Naturally downhill bits would cause a light drop.

  6. you would blow up, I estimate 8000 Degrees

  7. We wont be able to break the speed of light for hundreds of years however  the outside will heat up due to friction of space dust for the answer of atoms crashing i dont believe this its like driving a car everything in the spaceship will move at the same speed just like in a carnext time your in a car blow a bubble its movement at the time a car is doing 60 miles per hour is the same 60 so unless the car hit something and stops suddenly it will look like its floating in the car however the car stops suddenly the bubble will shoot to the front and hit the windshield. so the only thing going to raise the heat is friction from outside the ship as you pass through the dust debree in space

  8. Actually, you got it all wrong. The worst problem will be friction of plain dust and gases in the interstellar medium, but not light. The addition of velocities and relativistic speeds mean, that regardless how fast you fly, nothing will exceed the speed of light.

    So: If the spacecraft does not explode by light by just orbiting around Earth, it will also not explode anywhere later by incoming light. But a collision with a hydrogen atom at light speed will be deadly, as this hydrogen atom will have infinite kinetic energy relative to you.

    But luckily you can't fly at the speed of light at all - you will never reach it, if your ship has a resting mass.  

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