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Thinking that if I were moving as fast as the speed of light, holding a mirror in front of me, looking into the mirror. Would I see my reflection in the mirror or see nothing as my physical arm and mirror is ahead of the light particles?

You would see your reflection. Light travels the same speed with respect to everyone, no matter what speed they're traveling at.

If you are travelling as fast as Light particles, as I understand it, the light particles are actually waving in front of your face. So if these particles are just barely in front of my face, wouldn't my arm be ahead of the particles? And if they are ahead of these particles would I even see the mirror let alone my face in that mirror?

Your face would burst into flames from the intense heat of the light unable to get away from it. Lurn 2 syens.

warmonger1981 wrote:Thinking that if I were moving as fast as the speed of light, holding a mirror in front of me, looking into the mirror. Would I see my reflection in the mirror or see nothing as my physical arm and mirror is ahead of the light particles?

If you closed your eyes, then you could not look at your reflection.


--Andy

AndyDufresne wrote:

warmonger1981 wrote:Thinking that if I were moving as fast as the speed of light, holding a mirror in front of me, looking into the mirror. Would I see my reflection in the mirror or see nothing as my physical arm and mirror is ahead of the light particles?

If you closed your eyes, then you could not look at your reflection.


--Andy

no futurama reference?

Disappointed.

AAFitz wrote:

AndyDufresne wrote:

warmonger1981 wrote:Thinking that if I were moving as fast as the speed of light, holding a mirror in front of me, looking into the mirror. Would I see my reflection in the mirror or see nothing as my physical arm and mirror is ahead of the light particles?

If you closed your eyes, then you could not look at your reflection.


--Andy

no futurama reference?

Disappointed.

--Andy

This seems like the thread for this question:

I'm driving a car. It's raining. If we assume the rain is coming down evenly, why does it seem like more rain hits my windshield the faster I go? /physics stupid.

thegreekdog wrote:This seems like the thread for this question:

I'm driving a car. It's raining. If we assume the rain is coming down evenly, why does it seem like more rain hits my windshield the faster I go? /physics stupid.

TGD, this sounded familiar -- and then I recalled a Minute Physics youtube video on this, sort of. Check it out, it seems related:




--Andy

AndyDufresne wrote:

thegreekdog wrote:This seems like the thread for this question:

I'm driving a car. It's raining. If we assume the rain is coming down evenly, why does it seem like more rain hits my windshield the faster I go? /physics stupid.

TGD, this sounded familiar -- and then I recalled a Minute Physics youtube video on this, sort of. Check it out, it seems related:




--Andy

This response is irrelevant because TGD is driving a car. You're wrong, Andy, and NO, I don't believe in analogies.

BigBallinStalin wrote:

AndyDufresne wrote:

thegreekdog wrote:This seems like the thread for this question:

I'm driving a car. It's raining. If we assume the rain is coming down evenly, why does it seem like more rain hits my windshield the faster I go? /physics stupid.

TGD, this sounded familiar -- and then I recalled a Minute Physics youtube video on this, sort of. Check it out, it seems related:




--Andy

This response is irrelevant because TGD is driving a car. You're wrong, Andy, and NO, I don't believe in analogies.

It could be relevant if TGD is driving with the sunroof open.

Metsfanmax wrote:

BigBallinStalin wrote:

AndyDufresne wrote:

thegreekdog wrote:This seems like the thread for this question:

I'm driving a car. It's raining. If we assume the rain is coming down evenly, why does it seem like more rain hits my windshield the faster I go? /physics stupid.

TGD, this sounded familiar -- and then I recalled a Minute Physics youtube video on this, sort of. Check it out, it seems related:




--Andy

This response is irrelevant because TGD is driving a car. You're wrong, Andy, and NO, I don't believe in analogies.

It could be relevant if TGD is driving with the sunroof open.

Impossible!

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warmonger1981 wrote:Thinking that if I were moving as fast as the speed of light, holding a mirror in front of me, looking into the mirror. Would I see my reflection in the mirror or see nothing as my physical arm and mirror is ahead of the light particles?

The answer to this question is also the answer to why you cannot physically travel faster than the speed of light.

i might be wrong here... but assuming you can outlive this given situation; wouldn't you become a referent with your miror in your hand? so the speed you're moving at doesn't change anything.
This like asking how fast does a fly needs to fly to stand still in a car going at 100 km/h. it's part of the referent, so it doesn't need to go at 100km/h, 0km/h will do.

You'd become a small black hole and collapse in on yourself (mirror included) due to the fact that you tend towards infinite mass as you approach the speed of light.

crispybits wrote:You'd become a small black hole and collapse in on yourself (mirror included) due to the fact that you tend towards infinite mass as you approach the speed of light.

This sounds like the making of a 'you're mama' space joke.


--Andy