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4490281 No.4490281 [Reply] [Original]

If I'm going at the speed of light and something next to me is going in the same direction at the speed of light, that thing would seem to me to be going at the speed of light instead of staying still


explain how this is possible.

>> No.4490285

It's *not* possible, because you can't go at the speed of light.

/thread

>> No.4490293

>>4490285
light can go at the speed of light moron

>> No.4490301

>>4490293
>If I'm going at the speed of light
>I'm
You are not light.

>> No.4490303

>>4490293
>light can see

>> No.4490304

>explain how this is possible.
Your daily experiences are a bad indication of how things work at very high velocities.

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4490312

>>4490301
What are you implying.

>> No.4490328

>>4490303
>>4490301
dont be a pedantic douchebag, you know what im talking about. just answer the damn question or don't you know how?

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4490331

You tell me, OP.

>> No.4490338

>>4490328

It's not pedantic. It doesn't make any sense to talk about what light perceives. Light does not have a valid rest frame.

>> No.4490344

>>4490338
explain

>> No.4490348

>>4490328


>>4490338
is right. Special relativity only holds in inertial rest frames. Photons do not have inertial rest frames by definition.

>> No.4490358

It's a trick question. You wouldn't see shit because the light rays from the surrounding environment are travelling at the same rate as you and your field of vision would be constricted to a near singular point.

>> No.4490365

>>4490358

Not true. If something traveling at c could hold and inertial frame you would still see light coming at you at light speed.

The thing is it can't, so the question is meaningless.