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@nahiduzzaman11133 years ago Make the speed of light be the speed limit of a us road and people will drive 10/15 mph more than the speed limit. There, now you have speed higher than speed of light. 3099
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@davidnewton25183 years ago I love how his voice raises near the end of the video, shows how much he was invested in the topic. 379
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@WaterCrane3 years ago Though ultimately rather minute compared to everything else, the first thing that sprung to mind with the spinning tether thing is that if you start extending . ...Expand 312
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@BracchiAlessandroFineArt3 years ago Nothing travels faster than the speed of light with the possible exception of bad news, which obeys its own special laws. The hingefreel people of arkintoofle m douglas adams. ...Expand 145
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@Elusaka4 years ago Something faster than the speed is rule 34 artists when a new character releases. 807
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@chiefbeef96579 years ago Ok but what if i took a baseball and threw it like reallyfast. 16131
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@TheEvilGreebo2 years ago When i was in 6th grade, i had a scienceteacher claim that it should be impossible for a stick to move faster at one end than at the other because your " long stick across the moon" explaining that the atoms that make up the stick have to bump into each other to move the whole - you just crystalized the answer for me.
43 years later.
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@gx_no3 years ago I love how he was almost yelling in the end, and that' s what good teachers do. 75
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@angelogandolfo41743 years ago The only thing that travels faster than light, is bad news. British author douglas adams. 164
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@mitchgunzler37375 years ago You might want to look into a whip, because the tip tries to move at infinite speed. It doesnt obviously, because of the granularity of the material a . ...Expand 19
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@blackhatvisions3 years ago My man just recorded a whole video with a booger coming out of his nose. 825
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@Felix-om6vk8 years ago What if we used a nokia 3310 instead of carbon nanotubes? 4649
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@kosnk3 years ago I love that people try to break the limit and that derek replies to that in detail. 7
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@makrisj4 years ago Thanks for the materials science point of view of why there' s no bleeping way to make anything go ftl.
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@babbar1233 years ago But there is always faster than the speed of love by brian griffin. 42
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@iamthirdyt3 years ago Electromagnetism is a force thats carried by photons! My jaw dropped! I wish school taught that. 25
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@luisavila83423 years ago Question: remember the episode where you made the car wind sail that would go faster than the speed of the wind? Well cant we just do that with light? 126
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@CanadianBoardCrew8 years ago My friend claims his 19 honda civic with vtec can go 99% the speed of light if he found a long enough road. 328
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@aghanasir783 years ago Man i pity the man who gave that innocent idea to derek it was just a naive idea but derek meant it as a professional one. 23
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@microflite2 years ago I think that the fact that mass (or inertia as you mention) approaches infinity as the speed goes approaches the speed of light is the ultimate blocker . ...Expand 3
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@elaw133 years ago If negative mass was a possibility then with super dense negative mass near slightly less dense positive mass you would theoretically be able to bend space . ...Expand 8
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@davidm.johnston89944 years ago Great video there derek. Loved watching this again. Take care; 1
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@michaelalexander37003 years ago Just curious, say if there is matter that' s moving with speed nearing the speed of light in the direction of the center of mass of a blackhole will . ...Expand
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@Saedris5 years ago Record a laser
then play that laser in fast forward
boom faster than light. 2919
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@anekkanwar18814 years ago Hey i have one question
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2. Electric field in an photon is perpendicular then why we draw electric field coming out of a + charge perpendicular to its surface as it is the direction of photon that is emiitted from charge. ...Expand
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@Vampirolol4 years ago I remember coming up with the stick thing on my own in middle school, feeling like a genius with the whole class laughing at me. 10
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@behniarezazadehshirazi29933 years ago @veritasium i also want to add that when an object is rotating in space with a speed close to the speed of light has a conserved angular momentum proportionate could be wrong tho. ...Expand 2
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@loki80614 years ago I would like to ask a question. Why are we assuming that there is a cap on the potential speed of protons or of anything else? Just because that' s . ...Expand 3
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@danielleitnerextremzocken64153 years ago But i have a question what is with quantum links. You know quarks that are linked kan they switch faster than light?
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@racookster3 years ago I was hoping this video would be about manipulating space-time or leaving it entirely, because if the speed of light can effectively be exceeded being the key word there) those seem to be the only options we' ve got. Far-fetched? Yeah, but maybe not flatly impossible. ...Expand 3
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@mikulitsi1819last year Saw the first two minutes of this in twitter right now and got really interested about this so have to see this whole video now.
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@mouseboi3124 years ago What is you sit infront of a light and technicaly you reach everywhere before light so
ftl? 2
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@yoda54773 years ago For the last argument, would not the speed of photos needed to travel between particules that are going at a very close speed be relative to these partculie . ...Expand 1
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@ninjabaiano60923 years ago also just like a bailerina by extending its arms it would spin slower. 6
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@peterosmond57423 years ago If you have a laser than multiple timers set up on its path, you set the timers to wait to start counting until all timers have received the signal without . ...Expand 1
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@tonyharkin7462last year If the photons from the laser flick are landing side by side on the moon in quick succession then can you sync two clocks on opposite sides of the moon by placing photon detectors? 1
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@jobenco57572 years ago Regarding the first point (laser to the moon) wouldn' t that in principle still have changes in a time shorter than the planck time? Or what am i doing wrong?
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@spoileralert37543 years ago Could you explain if you have a lamp, turned on the on position and it has a cord 1 kilometer long, when it' s plugged into a socket the light comes on instantly?
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@mph87593 years ago I admire the style - finding that long nose hair and dying it white! Well done sir!
jokes aside, great channel! 5
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@Mayorfoxia823 years ago his editing is always unpredictable and is like jumpscares 1
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@sluggogrenade16733 years ago Would it be possible for the particles that were mentioned to he ripped apart, but in the moment be faster than light?
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@theonedad70713 years ago This was the best graphic description of this experiment.
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@Ready_Set_Boomlast year What if i am on a ship going the speed of light and move my hand, would my hand be going faster than light from and external observer?
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@gabrielsventura774 years ago Derek, there is a badword in the portuguese subtitle at , the correct subtitle at thissecond should be: "Einstein na teoria da relatividade especial, nada deve mover-se atravs do espao mais rpido do que a luz" .. ...Expand 3
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@quelorepario8 years ago That nose hair is travellin at the speed of light. 449
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@kissthefish21883 years ago I imagine the force holding together particles is the speed of light, relative to the particles. So if, in an imagined scenario where a particle is traveling . ...Expand 1
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@vbplayar3 years ago I' m confused about one thing though. Near the end you say that the photons travel at the speed of light and that they carry the force which hold id="hidden22" the tether together. My question is: if the tether is moving near the speed of light. Wouldn' t the photons internal to the tether be moving faster than the speed of light since their speed relative to the speed of the tether would be at the speed of light? Think of it this way, if i' m on a train and it' s moving 50mph and i walk towards the front of the train at 3mph speed. I' m actually walking 53mph with respect to the ground. Or, if i' m on a space ship that is traveling near the speed of light and i turn on a flash light, are you saying the light would slowly come out of the flash light? Or would that light be travelling faster than the speed of light with respect to the space around the ship?. ...Expand 3
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@captainzappbrannagan3 years ago Qantum tunneling can get faster than light speeds, pulsars can get faster than light jets. Time for an updated vid! Great series though. Keep up good work.
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@ScienceMouse4 years ago When photons collide, what happens to the extra energy? It transfer to heat witch again release photons? Does not these speed up?
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@jdotoz11 months ago The last point is far and away the most elegant explanation of why something we build can' t go faster than light.
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@omarsatar20035 years ago My paycheck is disappearing faster than the speed of light. 900
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@javeshbhardwaj4 years ago What if two things going away from each other at just more than half the speed of light. Will they perceive each other as moving greater than speed of light? What will happen in that case?
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@nikhilp9994last year Does light take same time to tavel when traeling from origin and from the reflected source!
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@sibtainhaider24112 years ago The light speed can be theoretically crossed, by using a source of energy, which is in massive quantities and doesn' t need apparatus.
i am black holes are a bad idea because they have lots of debris in their event horizon, which can destroy the object. ...Expand 1
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@mattmeikle15282 years ago Love the channel, a question if i may. Is the fact that elements exchange information with photons a proven fact or an accepted theory? In either case, i would like to know more. Cheers. 1
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@loquamuriaemea61663 years ago But. To quote your own ty clip: is the speed of light merely " c" or is itvs. Infinitity (if mwasured in the proper. 6
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@piyusgurung51718 years ago What if you record light from the sun travelling to the earth and watch the video at 2x speed: p. 2056
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@Rush99993 years ago I' ve watched this video multiple times, and its a very fascinating one at that but i did notice that name change, hopefully that will bring it some attention again: d.
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@videocineasta3 years ago I love you channel. I' ve found it quite fascinating. Now, what about the idea of creating warp bubbles as it was first proposed in 1994 by the mexican . ...Expand 2
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@molle25753 years ago Ok. I have read " to sleep in a sea of stars" by christopher paolini. Amazing book well, obviously it' s a sci fi book, so not actual sc paolini has in his book created a ftl drive for his ships (faster than light) as i have understood the whole thing (as english is not my native language) the ftl drive creates aaround the ship (paolini calls it a markov bubble) then the ship remains stationary within that bubble, but the space in front of the bubble is compressed and then behind the bubble the space is again expanded. So the ship itself remains stationary, while moving through space.
i have heard thise theories mentioned elsewhere as well, so i imagine that paolini has too. Now, aside from the fact that we don' t have the technology or any way of producing the energy needed for such thing, is it theoretically possible?
at the end of the book, paolini has even made up some science papers explaining how it all works, but that went somewhat over my head. I read along in the book, while listening to it at the same time to improve my english. ...Expand
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@KraussEMUS13 years ago There are numerous theoretical creative ways to go " faster than light. " someday a machine/ship might be able to warp space around itself to appear . ...Expand 6
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@josephkarogo-amethystinsur72473 years ago Thank you for making physics so fun and explainable. 3
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@irakliplayz1224 years ago I know its very
future phantasy but what if we move space around the ship space shouldnt be limited right?
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@casperbjerkehagen93863 years ago Dummy question, but if you increased the speed gradually, wouldt the photons binding the material in the stick in the last example stick together internally . ...Expand
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@1TakoyakiStore3 years ago What if 2 black holes of equal mass and volume equidistant from each other with their event horizons intersecting. What would happen to a particle (lets . ...Expand
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@That__Guy3 years ago Also even simpler. As you release the tethers from the rotating space craft it would slow down its rotation, so you would have to keep putting energy in to keep their initial speed.
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@goldengold85683 years ago A short history of nearly everything is awesome.
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@atripathi70633 years ago Time dilation.
the speed of light matches with time dilation, so if you are travelling quickly you would receive the light faster, but time slows, i saw a great video on this on youtube, i thought it was minutephysics but i couldnt find the video. They have some good videos on relativity, though, so you could check them out.
speed is distance divided by time, but lengths of both distance and time are relative and will distort at great speeds. Its amazing!. ...Expand 1
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@jrnascimento14483 years ago Humm. so you're telling me there's a chance. got it 15
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@sssvjezebel3 years ago But, seriously, i love everything you do.
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@apoorva16523 years ago Can warp drive technology travel faster than light because it bends space and time in a way that allows it to move at that speed. Can u disprove the warp drive?
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@SharkRainstorm5 years ago Honestly sad, even if we moved at the speed of light, exploring the universe is pretty much impossible. Due to the distance between those objects. 164
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@kijinseija04 years ago The photons on objects can only go so fast. Never thought of that. Thank you for answering this for me buddy!
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@4Dipayan4 years ago How do you explain quantum entanglement?
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@YEWCHENGYINMoe8 months ago Just use quantum entanglement and superposition and putting things back into superposition and by using the collapse of the wavefunction to transfer 1-bit . ...Expand 1
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@jerrys_milk4 years ago But according to special relativeity, light travels at c in any frame of reference. So. In the tip of the pole' s view, photons will just move at the . ...Expand 1
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@Boop__Doop2 years ago What if we have a proton in a very olyptical orbit around a supermassive black hole at 99. 99. The speed of light slightly after the apoapsi and at id="hidden39" periapsi that proton should go faster than the speed of light right?
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@iank88218 years ago What if you build a car that can go 99% the speed if light and then add stripes which will add 2% to the speed it will then be going faster then the speed of light. 419
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@swastikmalani8723 years ago Speed is relative right? So for me a star many light years away from earth will be moving faster than the speed of light, even though it' s the earth . ...Expand 2
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@piranlittle13943 years ago Something i' ve always wondered is, say you had a perpetual method of propulsion, even very small, say, 10n, and you put this on a craft, then sent . ...Expand 1
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@junaidsiddiqui51404 years ago @veritasium what about tachyons then? We know that they can existthey are faster than photons. But they would have to be accelerated to exceed the speed of light or most likely the particle begin their journey at such speeds. Also they can not be slowed down to speed of light. Which means speed of light act as a barrier. Why is that?. ...Expand
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@DidarHussain.8 years ago . I couldn't concentrate on anything else past that booger in his right nostril LOOOOOOOOL 57
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@tiagooliveira954 years ago But from the perspective of the particle, everything should move at the speed of light otherwise the particle will know that it's moving faster than the speed of light. like you said in the train example. .. ...Expand
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@ohihassan6933 years ago Ok, i have this thought of rotating a completely inelastic(0 elasticity) pole from one end which is longer then 3x10^8 meters. Now wouldn' t the other . ...Expand 2
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@sakethsankar54213 years ago This is a rough calculation but for example if you push a ballon with 500 joules of energy it can go at a measurable speed and if you push a photon with . ...Expand
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@mattivilmunen82694 years ago According to what you say about protons and whatever, since we are kept together by those, technically we are also traveling at the speed of light, which is why we can percept time. Flies away.
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@bitwisedevs4693 years ago Speed of light: you can' t defeat me!
speed of dark (shadow) hold my! 14
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@saymichaelwibowo40459 years ago It is only me or all of you realised that there was something inside his nose hole? 197
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@jmalmsten4 years ago Obvious noob question. If i move forward and shine a laser in the same direction. Do the photons of the laser move at the speed of light plus my own speed? it seems like the fact that the speed of light being constant would suggest the latter. Then, would that mean that we could set up giant laser reflecting things like the ones set up to detect gravitational waves. But instead use the amount of blue and red-shift to determine our own speed and direction through a universal constant coordinate space?. ...Expand
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@KyleNally3 years ago I think you' ve done a video about this, but what about the alcubierre warp drive?
for the uninitiated, this hypothetical drive encloses a id="hidden50" ofspacetime between a trough and a peak ofwarped spacetime. Our spacecraft, situated exactly between these two warped regions, stays in the center of that bubble. The trough is projected in front of the craft and the peak is projected behind. As these move, the craft also apparently moves. The kicker here is that there doesn' t seem to be a speed limit in einstein' s equations for the movement of spacetime itselfmass is not being moved; the spacetime in front of and behind the craft is being warped instead. Within its bubble, the apparent velocity of the craft and everything in the bubble is zerobut, to an observer that is at rest relative to the craft, the craft has an apparent ftl velocity.
i hope i got that right. It' s been a while since i read the original paper. According to everything i' ve read about it since then it' s the one viable way to achieve ftl travel and does notviolate relativity. ...Expand
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@MasterBladeUos3 years ago There are already particles that travel faster than light. I think it was the tachyon. I remember this mentioned in the cosmos show with neill d. Tyson. 2