Light Speed animation

Light Speed animation from ESA's movie 15 Years of Discovery . More information on the ESA Hubble 15th Anniversary page.
Credit: ESA/Hubble

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• hubble

[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!!!!

[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.

[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.

[mrssiruuvi]

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

[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.

[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! :)

[cptstubing]

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

[dmorg05]

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

[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...

[MrEpixSauce]

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