why is light speed the "speed limit"

[shitlord]

it's expanding into itself

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[Foxscotch]

as dumb as this sounds this is the truth lol

I can assure you the speed of light has nothing to do with deer or headlights whatsoever

[sir dooble]

That actually has me thinking.

Lets say a car (or some other thing) can go faster than the speed of light, and this thing has headlights on it. First of all, yes, the lights would not be illuminating anything in front of you because you are going to fast for the particles to travel ahead of you. But would a view from the back of the car show light waves chasing the car instead of the car chasing the light waves, even though the lights are in front?

I suppose theoretically you would get the equivalent of a sonic boom, but with light waves.

How that would appear to a human, I don't know, because it doesn't really make sense.

[shitlord]

the speed of sound is only relative to the medium it is in
isnt the speed of light also relative to the medium it is in

[Jairo]

the speed of sound is only relative to the medium it is in
isnt the speed of light also relative to the medium it is in

speed of sound is only relative to the medium it's in because sound literally can't travel in a vacuum

light can travel in a vacuum

[shitlord]

because light is a wave and a particle does that void the bottlenecking of it being in a medium

[sir dooble]

because light is a wave and a particle does that void the bottlenecking of it being in a medium

Light slows down depending on the medium.

That is why if you shine a beam of light through a perspex prism, it will split into a rainbow, as it is slowed down, and the different wavelengths of light seperate.

The speed of light is only the speed of light when in a vacuum.
In our atmosphere light travels very slightly slower.

[Mr. Hurricane]

The speed of light is far more fundamental than particles bashing into eachother in wavelike forms.

[shitlord]

what if you had a really thick medium and slowed light way way down
what would happen
would it be easier to observe

[Becquerel]

Dont photons not have an exact speed limit by themselves because of the lack of interaction between Photons and the Higgs field?
Just trying to get clarification from Doobles article

[The Resonte!]

what if you had a really thick medium and slowed light way way down
what would happen
would it be easier to observe

that has happened, to the point where light "freezes" inside an object before exiting


....i think

[Mr. Hurricane]

This thread is going to make my brain propagate at the speed of a bullet towards the wall behind me, God damn.

[Ipquarx]

Light slows down depending on the medium.

Only technically. The light is still traveling at the same speed. It's just taking a longer path because it bumps into other particles before it gets out.

[Aide33]

So much misinformation in this thread

[shitlord]

So much misinformation in this thread

then correct it instead of actin like you're on a high horse