Light Speed animation

[nsu1997]

This animation is anectdotally misleading. If you could ride a beam of light in space traveling at light speed you would not see stars whizzing by you as this animation attempted to illustrate, or like in the movies . Stars are much too far away from each other. They'd look more or less just like they do now when you look up in the sky at night.

[AjaxTeunAjax]

@MrEpixSauce then I am a neutrino :p

[Ironjagg]

yes the light of speed is fun to think aboot

[mrssiruuvi]

i ride my 15$ bicycle much faster than light...

[cptstubing]

@mrssiruuvi I bet you can't even approach 1.0 x 10^-50 % the speed of light on your 15$ bike.

[mrssiruuvi]

@cptstubing sometimes i borrow it to the santa claus... he has to give two billion presents in 24 hours.. think about it :D

[MrEpixSauce]

The fastest thing known to man...And god is light

[DemonXY2J]

Kinda looks like goku kamehameha

[7milejog]

wwwwwwhhhhhhhhhhhhoooooooooooo­aaaaaaaaaaaa!!!!!!!!!!

[fairhillnorrie]

I just wonder, in the future will we ever reach the speed of light?? its our only hope to explore a small proportion of our own galaxy....

[HerrenbachStyle]

omg light is so damn fast... i wish i can run in lightspeed. hi america. hi asia. hi europe. hi moon. hi aisa again xDD haha omg that would be so cool *dream* xDD

[mexus23]

@HerrenbachStyle lol i believe if u run in lightspeed u wont get chance to pronounce a single hi ,by the time u r about to say it u will find ur self at the start point again, if uget what i mean

[cptstubing]

really cool video, good graphics.

how did you record it though? who was the camera man?? they must have been going fast.

[AmourLyubov]

Well i think its pretty

[Ypipable]

@AmourLyubov well I double it. I think its pretty dog-gone woo woo.

[bigcityjunkie]

@Ypipable "Pretty dog-gone woo woo". That, is a spectacular phrase, and one I will be using from now on. :)

[nunchuckerz]

if something was going faster then light surley you wouldnt be able to see it,

question= would you need inertial dampers going light speed with zero gravity

[albedoshader]

From a scientific standpoint this animation is useless.

If you'd travel along the light path near light speed, the light ray would nonetheless appear to travel away from you with light speed.

Everything behind you would be distorted into your field of view and apper to be rather in front of you(relativistic aberration), everything would ultimately shrink to an amazingly bright small spot in the direction you're moving (head light effect) and the rest would appear pitch black (doppler effect).

[spikesofgrace]

wow that was great!! the only critique i would have would be at the very beginning the camera seems a bit jerky. if it started off smoother it would be perfect. if this is done in AE i would suggest changing the keyframe to Easey Ease rather than a regular keyframe

[Godclash]

Actually the nearest star is 4.3 lightyears away. It's Alpha Centauri star system!

[AzizRaeesi]

@Godclash alpha centauri is not a galaxy?

[Godclash]

@AzizRaeesi Of coarse not!

[857frank]

Travelling at the speed of light you would get to andromeda in an instant because the Lorentz contraction would reduce the distance to zero and time would stop. You could then get back in an instant. The problem is you'd find that 5 million years had elapsed on the earth but only a couple of instants had elapsed for you. “Limit” is an oversimplification, we need to consider the whole physical situation.

[Ironjagg]

i can run at the speed of light ! ^_^

[Wintblash]

google Doe's Account.

[JadenYugiGX]

Woow how...reflecting ^^ This is just an assumption, if we consider that space contains matter, in real life, you won't see the ray traveling ^^ you wait 8 minutes then you see the sun ^^

[BKsMassive]

what?

ever hear of a light year?

it take one year moving at the speed of light to get to the closes galaxy and this video shows it getting there in a couple of second?

this video is bollocks.

[fosheimdet]

lol? ONE year, travelling at the speed of light to the andromeda galaxy? Nonono it takes 2.5 million years!! Btw, i dont think this was ment to be the light from the andromeda galaxy, but rather the light from the sun or something. Wich is also wrong, sence it takes 8 minutes for light to travel from the sun to the earth.

[Goldiney]

@BKsMassive No

[BKsMassive]

@Goldiney

Yes.... are nearest start is 2 light years away.....

means it would take them 2 years to get there moving at the speed of light!

it shows them getting there in a couple of seconds.... complete bollocks.

[Goldiney]

@BKsMassive I thought you said galaxy...not star

[BKsMassive]

@Goldiney

thank you ;D

[leoken82]

Sorry guys but i agree with ( ignisacimpetus) he know his stuff and so do i and he is on point . for the most part.

[barthoedemaker]

There is NO time, it's a man made thing.

[detrack]

every night you look up in the sky and see the stars,, you are looking in the past which the light you seeing or the star you seeing might no longer exist and it might be millions or billions of years old!!!! hehehhe dealing with time and space is scary!!!!

[snipperbes]

Which is why i don't want to know how 'it all' works.

[ignisacimpetus]

@detrack yea that is amazing isn't it.

[CouchRadish]

@detrack

Completely true. Us looking through a telescope is so inaccurate, until we get outposts in space, we will never truly be up-to-date on the happenings in space.

[goodatlinerider]

@detrack I concur with this statement.

[DarkSaturnDragon]

@detrack I said something exactly like that in fifth grade, and everyone (even the teacher) looked at me like I was a complete idiot. I mentioned it again in seventh grade and everyone looked at me like I was a complete genius. *sigh*

[Peon546]

@detrack scaryyyyyyyyy

[SUROOTH]

@detrack Hipparcos 5926, one of the most distant stars visible to the naked eye, is approximately 16,000ly away. billions, or even millions, of light years is a bit too much

[CODEROE120]

@detrack Don't worry, stars don't scare people haha!

[bunny153649]

i wonder what 1 dimenison people look like

[snipperbes]

Dots on a line...

[marijn14marijn]

What I found interesting is that if it goes with the speed of light you shouldn't be able to see it

[meerkatmobs]

why not?! you will still seeing the light that's older then your speeding is.. the light constantly travel.. probably what you will see is a blur & distorted light..

[ignisacimpetus]

@meerkatmobs what?

[barthoedemaker]

the answer to travelling to other universe isn't in the speed of light. It's a 5th dimension we haven't discovered yet.

[cesar23777]

well according to string theory, we actually have 10 dimensions

[Vadarth0814656]

Actually, according to String Theory, it's 11 dimensions, not 10.

[quidproquo2004]

Yes, but string theory is a mathematical theory, not a scientific theory.

[ignisacimpetus]

@quidproquo2004 what the fuck are you kidding it is the combination of scientific concept through physics translated into mathematics

[quidproquo2004]

it has no testable hypotheses. that's what the fuck i'm talking about

[ignisacimpetus]

@quidproquo2004  the whole world is a testable hypotheses for mathematics.

[rexregum]

actually experiments have been done to investigate special relativity. they put two super precise atomic clocks on a plane and flew them away from each other, expecting to see time dilation reflected on them. the results were to within 2 percent as predicted by special relativity. the experiments were repeated years later with even more precise clocks.

anyway if you ever doubt E=MC2, then just stand on a thermonuclear weapon when it goes off.

[rexregum]

string theory well... that's another story.

[Goldiney]

@rexregum Problem with string theory?

[ignisacimpetus]

@barthoedemaker you cannot travel to anther universe, the idea is that there are other universes that reflect our reality.

[clavicl]

You wouldn't be able to see anything if you were traveling at the speed of light. We see in light so any light coming from behind wouldn't catch up, from the sides it would pass by , and from in front it would be compressed to a wavelength that our eyes are not sensitive to. Flying blind at the speed of light, what a rush!

[kamil203]

but what if u sent a spaceship thats unmanned, with a camera in the front?(and for arguments sake it can withstand the force and pressure)

can you put the video later in slowmotion and see anything?

[jonnygeez]

Okay, my turn to get "geeky"..If you did mount a rear facing camera, you would "overtake" the light that was emitted earlier, thus you would be seeing old light...and therefore, you would be seeing back in time!

Do that for long enough and I could see where I left my car keys

[youplz]

If you travel up to the speed of light the clock is moving a lot slower than normal, for example if you go on a trip which last for 10 min and walking in the speed of light, when you comes back the people who might be at the same age of you will be 10 years older than you(allmost works as a time machine). But if we have a spaceship which travels up to light speed, and the pilot goes to the nearest sun in ex. 3 week, will it take for example 1000 years for those remains on Earth?

[HumAnimAlien51]

Yes, but the "stationary" people you leave behind are likewise moving away from you at the speed of light. So why don't they age more slowly and you age more quickly?! Maybe time slows down & speeds up by half for each? This would imply, however, that the effects on time cancel each other out. Isn't speed relative just like two cars passing in opposite directions? If you bump into somebody standing, isn't it with the same force & speed as if they bump into you & you while you are standing?

[footiemad87]

how? i dont get how time slows down

[ignisacimpetus]

@footiemad87 time slows down depending on your frame of reference, for instance a person who is travelling at the speed of light would be moving at a slower time compare to a person in normal space time. the concept must be addressed under the assumption that space and time are relative otherwise the idea completely falls apart

[JadenYugiGX]

@ignisacimpetus "for instance a person who is travelling at a speed CLOSE to the speed of light..." If an object was moving at the speed of light (which is impossible for particles with mass) the time would stop !

[ignisacimpetus]

@youplz you are so wrong it is not about time it is space that is moving. you have gotten it completly wrong. being that time and space are relative a person travelling at the speed of light would actualy be morphing space versus a person in normal space time.

[cptstubing]

if this is light from the sun hitting the earth, the video should be 8 minutes long.

[WhatTheFrig1]

But look at how fast Earth is rotating, so it's actually sped up.

[danielodors]

@cptstubing - The video camera was actually traveling back in time, because even if you travel close to the speed of light, light will still appear to go away from you at the speed of light. Since the camera appears to perceive the light beam as traveling slower than that, then the camera must be traveling faster than the speed of light, and therefore traveling back in time. I guess you don't yet understand the special theory of relativity.

[cptstubing]

@danielodors The speed of light is constant to all observers, yes you are right. As far as we know, backwards time travel is impossible, only forward time travel is possible.... by approaching the speed of light and maintaining that speed for a certain time.

[irkiIIer]

@cptstubing maybe this is warp speed ;o

[PYates77]

@cptstubing Not if you are going almost as fast as light... remember, relativity causes time to slow down for you, and speed up for everything else.

Light itself "feels" like it is going places instantly.

But this video is flawed in the illustration that you can catch up to the beam of light, the faster you go, the faster you observe the light to be traveling.

[kalibos]

@cptstubing

I'm favoriting this video only because it has some of the worst comments I've seen on a youtube video. I realize I'm the pot calling the kettle black here, but jesus christ people.

cptstubing is the only person to post something intelligent here - this video should be eight minutes long if it's the speed of light, why title it the speed of light if it's pointlessly sped up to the point of irrelevance?

[dmorg05]

@cptstubing If traveling at the speed of light, time stops. The video should be infinity long and not exist.

[quisqueyatv]

um?? this video is kinda unrealistic, it took the light to get to earth 25 seconds, the source must be 25 times the distance from earth to the moon...

[lvxor]

it is impossible to move at speed of light... if you move at speed of light, time will stop... if time stops... everything stops... there is no reality, there is nothing... so it is impossible

[stuntman2600]

times slows down,not stop

[voitkuns]

LOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOL

[0no1one]

Time is not something we share. The more velocity you have the slower time is for you (relative to someone who is still). I know that sounds strange but thats how it works. If we sent your twin brother to orbit the earth for 50 years, you would be physically sligthly older than him at the end of that journey! And perhaps more strikingly - your clocks wouldnt show the same time. This is called "time dilation".

Look up Einstein's "Theory of Special Relativity" if you really want to dig into it.

[cwp5798]

its thought to be impossible to move at the speed of light because since E=mc^2 something would have to have infinite mass to have the energy to move at such a speed. there may be other ways of travel at the speed of light, however.

[selant07]

everyting fine but, the video's duration clock still ticking way too quick in comparison with light speed :-)

[Kenzofeis]

I noticed my flashlight does something strange when the batteries are almost empty, the light just dribbles out and falls to the ground.

Strange.. ^^

[lorht]

lool XD

[ziggazaggy]

What's up, my intellect too much for you ? lol

[ziggazaggy]

Who's a fake, me ?

[venom1dark]

ur a fake?

[ghel2007]

Great Video...

The basis for the speed of light is the distance of the moon to earth (186000 miles per second or ~186000 miles the distance of moon to earth), so if the speed of light begins from the sun, it would take more or less 8 minutes to reach the earth..

[ziggazaggy]

I cracked the theory of everything at a very early age.

Simply put it's 7x5+5435{654)@vortex53234-P2

There you go.

[Merrick178]

Fake

[cptstubing]

@Merrick178 right, we all need you to tell us this is a fake video of a real beam of light being emitted from the sun and striking the earth in 25 seconds, being recorded by a magical camera that can somehow SEE this beam of light, let alone follow it at 16x the speed of light.

THanks, Merrick! :)

[7milejog]

This is a GREAT VideO!!!!

[cecilo97]

you have to imagine that it would take 5 years to travel with the speed of light to the nearest star Alpha Centaury

[GoHuskers94]

I think it is 4 years.

[GnarlyCharlie77]

to a stationary observer it would take 5 years, but to the astronaut in the ship, it would be instantaneous. However it is physically impossible for an object with rest mass to ravel at the speed of light. If we were going at the possible speed of 99% the speed of light the trip would be extremely short for the astronaut, though it would be more than 5 years for an earth based observer.

[cecilo97]

thx for that interesting informations!

[cptstubing]

@GnarlyCharlie77 As strange as this sounds, it's totally accurate as far as we know. Every bone in my body wants to say otherwise, but I don't dare mess with Einstein's predictions. I'll leave that to real physicists.

[Darthshepius]

look Starwarsy. XD

[BornWithTesticles]

So that would have been a couple of million miles away?

[eyeballking111]

the speed of light is 300.000 kph and by the way im 10 oh and 3 things travel at the speed of light soler wind from the sun radeo signals and light but the speed of sound.......... 700 not even close to speed of light and im 10

[BriDirt]

i don't know about radio waves because they travel at different frequencies, impossible to complete the wavelengths and still be moving at the speed of light. Anyway, gravity is another force that also travels at the speed of light.

[funnyblackmans]

do you know what is said to rotate faster than the speed of light?

its like quantum physics

[Zblj1987]

300 000 kp/ SECOND you twat....

[calebkayne]

wow, whas that done on adobe after efects because that is REALLY good animation

[kelvinlo125]

when it is running in light of speed

the views will be contort.

[chozorunez]

actualy light speed is actualy similar to 180,000miles per second..that i read in a book

[showermanisgreeeeezy]

you could go faster than light speed if a path or corridor of mass free space could be made so then weight wouldn't matter and you could go from one side of this galaxy almost instantaniously at speed you could never imagine

[opensource1212]

Completely accurate.

C is actually, on even a scale of our local star system, not to mention our galaxy, or local galaxies, a very very very very slow speed!

[Paramud]

Inaccurate. The light from Sol takes eight minutes to reach Terra.

[Columbo794]

Terra? Why didn't you just say Earth?

[Paramud]

Meh, felt like it.

[Gnubnub]

The light don't take any time to reach terra, it just takes eight minutes for the observer.

[Paramud]

Alright, time to crunch some numbers.

The Earth is 1.00 ± 0.02 AU from the Sun.

1 AU = 149 597 870.691 ± 0.030 km ≈ 92 955 807 mi ≈ 8.317 light minutes

So, in lay man's terms, light from the Sun takes 8 minutes (Give or take just about 2 seconds) to reach the Earth.

[Gnubnub]

According to the relatavistic formule for time dialation and length contraction, as the speed of light is aproached the distance to anywhere becomes zero, and thus the time taken for anything to get anywhere at the speed of light is 0. I prefer like this calculation - no need for four decimal points.

[Paramud]

Actually, no. That'd be teleportation, which is impossible.

[showermanisgreeeeezy]

how do you know that teleportation is impossible???

[Paramud]

Because it is. Trust me, it'd be nice to have, but it's impossible to get the Split-second teleportation that you normally see.

It'd have to take a while to go from one spot to another. Even then, you'd have to come up with a way to protect yourself from dying from the intense velocities.

[showermanisgreeeeezy]

its impossible for humans to do it at the moment but you dont if aliens can do it and have the technology to do it i bet somwhere in the universe something can teleport

[Paramud]

You don't know if aliens have destroyed the earth, and have kept your brain alive in stasis.

[showermanisgreeeeezy]

actually i do know because im on earth right now and it hasn't been destroyed has it unless humans are on another world

[Paramud]

Or if your brain is in a dream-state, and is currently being monitered by aliens who have destroyed the earth.

[showermanisgreeeeezy]

lol wtf i doubt it but still thats quite quite funny

[Newbpwng]

actually teleportation is possible

[JMRabil675]

anything is possible

[ggrushporn]

intelligent input -___-'

[irkiIIer]

@Newbpwng like protoss do in starcaft, MY LIFE FOR AIUR XD

[jax088]

1000 years ago- Ppl said the earth was flat

500 years ago- Ppl said it was impossible to fly

300 years ago- Electricity was impossible

100 years ago- Bypassing the earths atmosphere was impossible

What makes you think that 100 years from now tele-transportation wont be possible?

[Paramud]

Because it's actually impossible. Short of finding some sort of supernatural device or formula, it is not possible.

[Chewy427]

due to quantum entanglement, it is possible to teleport the spin states of an electron, and it is also possible to teleport a photon

i have recently read some claims also that it is possible to teleport ion states

of course, it is impossible to teleport through space, however space is not empty. It is made of things yet to be discovered at CERN

[thebig419]

i think it would be possile if they could break the body into atoms then reassemble on the other side or use worm holes

[Rpwilson69]

Paramud and thebig419,you are both wrong.

Time travel is possible.

Learn about the theory of relativity,and then argue.

[trivrock2k6]

theory of relativity, remember, its not proof, or fact, its 'theory', as with most things related, a theory is a logical yet unproven idea, although i still agree that it is possible, i just thought i'd be an idot and point that out, kinda conflicts with my beliefs actually believing in the theory in a way, but yeah, i think its possible, just unproven.

[cwp5798]

no, a scientific theory is pretty much proven and accepted as true in the scientific community. It is true that no (credible) scientist will claim anything as a definite "fact" and can't because there is no way for one to know the definite truth, but the evidence for general relativity is overwhelming.

in general when people say theory they mean hypothesis when in the scientific community if something is a theory it is as close to being proven as is possible.

[invalidtorture]

did people really think that eletricity was impossible? woah learn something new everyday lol

[Xpninjastriker]

same xD, lightning ;o

[invalidtorture]

oh yea lolz they must have known

[Banfrau]

Um, no Gnubnub. Paramud is right. As another example, if the speed of light is always zero, then energy would be nonexistent. Let's say something's mass is 2 units(I don't care what kind of units). Multiply that by the speed of light squared, or in this case, zero. Zero times two would be zero. Therefore, energy would not exist.

Go back to high school.