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If you flew into a star at the speed of light the result would be

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General answer, death i think seems obvious. anything that may be abit weird etc, theorys.

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  1. well, its impossible to travel at the speed of light, but particles can be accelerated close. as for humans, not yet, but assuming they could, flying into a star at that speed would make no difference whatsoever. it would mean that u fly into it faster.

    also, due to length contraction property of general relativity, the star would seem elongated in the direction you were travelling, like the shape of a rugby ball.  


  2. Is it time for some Physics courses?

  3. speed of light = death. 10x then you might have something

  4. You may travel in time , either in past or in future;

    but travelling with that speed is impossible

  5. maybe another big bang...nothing goes faster than the speed of light so there aren't any tests to back up a theory...

  6. The closer you get to the speed of light, the more you would weigh because energy = mass.  At exactly the speed of light you would have infinite mass, which is impossible.  At extremely close to the speed of light, you might have the mass of a moon or a planet, and the result of hitting a star would be pretty spectacular from a safe distance of a few hundred million miles or so.

  7. since you would be traveling in a state of infinite density there would be nothing in the star that could touch you. youd pass through the star like wheat through a goose and emerge unscathed.

  8. dude you would die if you got anywhere near that thing. its made of dangerous gasses and its hotter then the frigging sun.

  9. You cannot travel at the speed of light.

    If you were travelling very fast, at nearly the speed of light, then the star (because it is travelling at nearly c relative to you) will become contracted (not elongated) in the direction of its motion. The star is made of hydrogen. At nearly c, hydrogen nuclei are cosmic rays. You would die because you would be instantly irradiated with a stellar mass worth of cosmic rays at 15 million Kelvins.

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