03-15-2005, 12:00 AM
You know how and object, namely a fighter jet, traveling at high speed will produce a sonic boom when breaking the speed of sound, due to the Doppler effect, which effectively is the 'stacking' of the sound waves, all being heard at once, which is VERY loud!
What I was wondering was, if one was to (theoriticaly of course) build a contraption that would allow travel at and above the speed of light, would an effect analogous to the sonic boom occur?
I can only guess on that matter. I can imagine how photons behind the said device would not reflect against it, so it would be 'invisible' from behind, assuming you can manage see and object that can go 'round the earth 7.5 time per second.
In front of the device, photons would 'stack' and create a light so bright and friction created by all those photons would probably generate gargantuesque amounts of heat that would obliterate anything.
Hope someone out there has a less whacky :w00t: and more rigorous theory!
Cheers!
-D
What I was wondering was, if one was to (theoriticaly of course) build a contraption that would allow travel at and above the speed of light, would an effect analogous to the sonic boom occur?
I can only guess on that matter. I can imagine how photons behind the said device would not reflect against it, so it would be 'invisible' from behind, assuming you can manage see and object that can go 'round the earth 7.5 time per second.
In front of the device, photons would 'stack' and create a light so bright and friction created by all those photons would probably generate gargantuesque amounts of heat that would obliterate anything.
Hope someone out there has a less whacky :w00t: and more rigorous theory!
Cheers!
-D