Speed of light question?

Question

if i stood on a spaceship going at the speed of light through space and i jumped out in front of it would i be traveling faster than the speed of light or what

Answer 1

lol no youll fall back or just be travelling at the same speed but just in front you cant jump faster than light so the moment you jump your ships long gone lol

Otherwise try jump faster than a light bulb can light your whole room

Answer 2

The speed of light is relative to everyone. If you stood still or travelled at 99.9% of the speed of light, light with pass you at the speed of light. The only thing that differs is that the closer to the speed of light you get, time will slow for you.

Answer 3

No you wouldn't. For an external observer (the one you're travelling at the speed of light for), your extra jumping speed won't add to the speed of light. In fact, you will be seem frozen in time, so the external observer won't see you jumping at all.

Against the speed of light there can be no victory!

Answer 4

you would move faster than the ship (assuming that it was travelling at a constant speed) due to the acceleration created by jumping away from the ship.

in space there is no resistance so you'll shoot off in front of the ship forever lol

let me know when take off is i'd be interested to know how the experiment goes  

Answer 5

No. A spaceship wouldn't travel at the speed of light, because the only thing which can is light.

Also,

c+v = c-v = c

where

c = speed of light (photons) in vacuum

v = speed of any object (except photons)

Answer 6

A better way to look at this is how fast is the light coming from the headlights of a car traveling if the car is going 70 mph.  I say it's traveling at the accepted speed of light...in relation to the car, but it's going 70mph faster in relation to the road.

Still, if it's light, then whatever speed it travels is, by definition, the speed of light.

Answer 7

Bullshit Alert. Bullshit Alert. You have attracted a huge number of wrong answers.

The correct answer is: the question is meaningless because no massive body can travel at c. But suppose that your spaceship was travelling (relative to the Earth, say) at v1 = c - 1 mph. Even if you jumped at v2 = 10 mph, you would not be travelling at greater than c relative to Earth. This is because speeds near the speed of light do not add together. Your speed relative to Earth would NOT be v1 + v2. It would be v1 + v2 / (1 + v1*v2/c^2), which, if you decide to work it out, will always be less than c.

The reason for this is that c is constant. No matter what your speed relative to Earth, or relative to anything, you still measure the speed of all light rays as c, so you can never catch up to a light ray. (It has nothing to do with infinite mass or anything like that.)

Answer 8

i think youd die

Answer 9

In order to travel at the speed of light you'd need to create/find a vessel. INSIDE the spaceship, TIME will run normally but outside the  structure time will run obviously depending on the distance the entity is traveling. as for you jumping out of the spaceship, Impossible, you'll be torn apart.  

Answer 10

If you were capable of traveling at the speed of light you would be suspended [frozen] in time and therefore incapable of jumping anywhere.

E.g. light that hits the earth from a distant star remains unchanged since it left the star from which it originated. Therefore you can suggest that the light photons that reached the earth remained unaltared [frozen] in time since they left their source.

Answer 11

yes, but you would have to jump fast.

Answer 12

No.

As soon as you left the space ship you would immediately slow down.

Answer 13

You would have to jump at 186,001 miles per second.

Answer 14

yes

Answer 15

No because you cannot exceed the speed of light because as you approach the speed of light the energy needed to exceed it becomes infinite

Answer 16

No

For a number of reasons. firstly the ship cannot be going at the speed fo light. No matter how hard you jump you will only be going slightly faster than the ship, but still not at the speed of light. Your mass would also be so high (mass increases with velocity.. sort of) that you would be unable to jump forward anyway.

Answer 17

the problem is, your ship couldn't go as fast as light.

maybe you could ask, if i jumped high enough, would i hit the moon?

you just cannot do that.

in the same way, your ship cannot go as fast as light.

no matter how many episodes of star trek you've watched.  

Answer 18

Since travelling at the speed of light implies you have infinite mass then it would be impossible to accelerate.Even electrons in billion and higher volt accelerators are subject to this limitation.

Answer 19

the ship is going the speed of light according to someone else.  

according to you, on the ship, well you're going the same speed as the ship, and the ship looks normal to you.  the rest of the universe is looking pretty weird and stuff, but the ship  is fine.  you also measure the speed of light to be c relative to you.  so to you, your jump is as feeble as it would be on earth.

anyone else observing would not be able to observe your jump...  look up headlight effect

http://demonstrations.wolfram.com/TheHea...

is a download

http://www.adamauton.com/warp/lesson5.ht...

putting in c^2/ c^2  means they/you cant see S**t since you're travelling at c

except the people directly in front and behind, but they will get runover at the same point the light reaches them (in front), or they will be doppler shifted  to 0 (behind)

Answer 20

If you could travel at the speed of light in 3 dimensional space under the laws of time and relativity time would stop so you wouldn't have time to jump in front ( or too much time ).

Answer 21

yeah but probably only for a split second

Answer 22

No. Traveling at the speed of light is merely impossible. If you were to achieve traveling at the speed of light, you definitely would die if you jumped out considering gravity and the speed.