Photonic booms by LomlamHighland
Inspired by a save by msasterisk. Added a proper, non-pathetic logo.
photonic
general
relativity
photon
light
Comments
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SentinelDuality 21st Jul 2020
this is interesting! but, if you wouldn't mind the comment, the behaviour of the photons is a result of their unidirectional travel at the speed of light and not the compression of the light against the object, unlike a sonic boom. the "cone" only appears to form because the source is moving - if anything this is a good example of relativity -
MrPineapple 21st Jul 2020
You can't go faster than the speed of light. Your mass becomes infinite, making it impossible to push you. If you have no mass, or have an engine that can push infinite mass, then, mabye, you can surpass the speed of light. -
LomlamHighland 21st Jul 2020
That got dark! xD -
Beatless123 21st Jul 2020
Light can not go faster than 3*10^8 m/s. Matter also can not but someone may invent a very strong engine which enables spaceships and rockets to surpass this speed. It is necessary to conquer the galaxy, else we will be "trapped" in Solar system, waiting for our doom, may it come after hundreds, thousands or millions of years. -
Merlin1846 21st Jul 2020
But if you have a light source moveing faster than light speed, with particals being emitted with a reletive speed of 0 to the said light source that would mean that the speed of said light source would be the speed of light, now that means that if the light source is going at 1 mph over the speed of light, the speed of light woulf now be however fast the lightsource is. also +1 -
docRoboRobert 21st Jul 2020
Also, if hypotheticaly you were travelling at the speed of light, you wouldn't see anything at all nor you would see yourself travelling any distance. At the speed of light, Lorentz's transformation shortens any lenght to 0. -
docRoboRobert 21st Jul 2020It can occur in glass or water as it is possible for certain particles like electrons to travel faster than light can in this substance.
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DumbFurry 21st Jul 2020
Fairly certain one of the big science YouTubers made a video on the phenomenon actually. I'm guessing either Vsauce or Veritasium. -
DumbFurry 21st Jul 2020Photonic booms do actually occur, but not because any particle can surpass C. Understand that C is the speed of light in a vacuum, and that when travelling through a medium, certain particles can surpass the speed that a photon would travel at in said material.
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Coffee 20th Jul 2020
something something special relativity something something