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Subject: What would you really see if you were traveling faster than light?

Date: Mon Aug 30 04:36:13 1999
Posted by Greg La Traille
Grade level: grad (non-science) School: No school entered.
City: Sacramento State/Province: CA Country: USA
Area of science: Physics
ID: 936002173.Ph
Message:

An optical effect now common to science fiction, educational films, and even PC screen savers is a field of stars moving toward you in much the same way as objects move past a train window. The "closer" stars speed by rapidly while the "distant" stars move by more slowly. A recent PBS documentry illustraited the shape of our galaxy by moving through it in several minutes. Assuming for a moment that you had zero mass, what would you really "see" if you could move that fast? Would time stop? Would light be shifted to infinity?


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