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6021051 No.6021051 [Reply] [Original]

A bullet leaves the gun at x/mph. What would happen if the gun was going x/mph when it was fired?

>> No.6021053

>>6021052
forwards

>> No.6021052

Are you firing forwards or backwards

>> No.6021057

>>6021053
It will just move 2x/mph
Relative to you it will be x/mph

The real question is what happens if you do the same but you're already travelling at the speed of light

>> No.6021056

The "running start" bullet would travel at x+x = 2x assuming reasonable measurement precision.

Do you think guns fire at relativistic speeds or something?

>> No.6021061

>>6021057

ok bitch you know how when you move an object, the whole thing doesn;t move at once, you actually compress the first side you touch and it sends a wave through the object and eventually slice by slice the whole thing moves? Like, yeah...


Anyways that takes place at the speed of light. If you were traveling the speed of light, those compressions would not be able to "make it all the way" before being compressed further, which would cause the object to implode into a photon which would travel up your butt

>> No.6021063

>>6021061
but i dont want a photon in my butt

>> No.6021065

>>6021063

AT THE SPEED OF LIGHT

>> No.6021067

>>6021065
whoa
i've never seen a photon go that fast