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How do an jet stream gain speed?
why do you think airplanes traveling in the jet stream gain speed going from west to east but lose speed from east to west
How does traveling at light speed negate time?
Answer:In fact light speed is not the question you should be asking. It should be "when traveling at the universal speed limit, why does time slow down." The answer is that no matter how fast you are traveling the universal speed limit (equal to light speed because it goes max speed) is viewed the same. The theory is that all clocks/measuring devices are morphed in the same way so that when it measures the speed limit it is still the speed of light (universal speed limit)AKA, all clocks, even biological, are slowed down as it travels faster through space time. So your perception is slowed and your recognition of this perception is slowed, so for you time appears the same. If you travel 95% the speed of light and flick on a light, it wont travel 5% the speed of light away from you, it will travel 100% the speed of light away from you due to your space time warping. This also happens the nearer you are to a large mass. aka a black hole. It also warps the space time around you.Alternate points of view... Take for example, you are traveling in a car at any speed. You pass cars traveling slower than you are. They appear to travel backwards. This is of course only relative to YOU. They are actually traveling forwards. If you think of yourself in the car as the speed of light, and the other cars as time, that's how it works. Of course, light travels SO fast that it bends TIME only relative to YOU. It's not like the whole world actually stops or slows down. It's only you who feels it. Just like overtaking a car. But that's only a simple explanation.In laymans terms, traveling at light speed means that you are traveling at a speed greater than the speed of time. Therefore time is at a fixed rate, and the speed that light travels is at a fixed rate also. So to travel light speed actually gives you an advantage over time itself. It has been mathematically determined that the longer you travel at this speed, the more advantage you gain, so it would be possible for a child to travel at this speed for a computed time, and return to see that several generations have passed while he/she would have only aged the number of days / months traveled in spaceship time.Another layman's view:Traveling at light speed really doesn't negate time. It is just that time is relative, as is velocity. My computer seems motionless to me, but an observer looking down at the solar system would see me and my computer moving quite rapidly. If you could get into a ship and accelerate to very near the speed of light and travel for ten earth years, your personal experience of time will not seem to you to have been any different from when you were on earth. Every moment would have passed normally for you, without anything seeming odd. It's just that at the end of the trip, you will have experienced it as only a fraction of the ten years. It will seem impossible to you that 10 years has gone by on earth. Time will have gone by differently for you than for earth. The same thing would happen even if you could reach the velocity of light. Upon decelerating, you would not report anything unusual regarding your experience of the passage of time; time will have passed for you as normally as ever. But you will notice that you spanned a huge distance instantaneously. You would find it nearly impossible to believe that dozens, hundreds or thousands of earth years had passed by during that instantaneous surge. From your vantage point in that ship, you could as easily ask: How does traveling at light speed accelerate time (for earth)? It doesn't.
What serves as the passageway for sperm?
The spermatozoa is formed in the testis and is stored in the epididymis. While traveling through the epididymis the sperm mature and gain motility and the ability to fertilize.
What is netgain light reaction?
The net gain of light reaction in non cyclic photophosphorylation is 3 ATP and 2 NADPH and oxygen is evolved. While in cyclic photophosphorylation 1 ATP is gained.
Why can you not go faster-than-light?
Einstein's famous equation E=mc^2 gives us this answer. E= energy m = mass c = is the speed of light in a vacuum As we approach the speed of light, the amount of energy required to move that fast goes up by the square of our velocity, eventually becoming infinite. At the same time, according to the special theory of relativity, an object's mass increases exponentially as its speed increases. Once you've achieved the speed of light, you will gain infinite mass. The only way light and some other elementary particles are able to move around the universe is because they have 0 mass.
How do an jet stream gain speed?
why do you think airplanes traveling in the jet stream gain speed going from west to east but lose speed from east to west
What prevents humans from traveling faster and faster in space such as the speed of light?
http://ldolphin.org/gspeed.html As charged particles are pushed up near the present speed of light they grow heavier and more and more energy input is required to gain a smaller and smaller increment of increased velocity. http://www.rte.ie/tv/scope/scope06/SCOPE3_show08_science_of_speed.html
Can an object gain the velocity of light?
The word object is a very general term. A photon is also an object, and it does travel at the speed of light. But it never travels at any other speed, so it doesn't "gain" that speed. If we were to ask about objects made of atoms, then the answer is no, they can never accelerate to the velocity of light. They can get arbitrarily close, depending upon how much energy is used to accelerate them, but they can never actually get to the full speed of light.
How does traveling at light speed negate time?
Answer:In fact light speed is not the question you should be asking. It should be "when traveling at the universal speed limit, why does time slow down." The answer is that no matter how fast you are traveling the universal speed limit (equal to light speed because it goes max speed) is viewed the same. The theory is that all clocks/measuring devices are morphed in the same way so that when it measures the speed limit it is still the speed of light (universal speed limit)AKA, all clocks, even biological, are slowed down as it travels faster through space time. So your perception is slowed and your recognition of this perception is slowed, so for you time appears the same. If you travel 95% the speed of light and flick on a light, it wont travel 5% the speed of light away from you, it will travel 100% the speed of light away from you due to your space time warping. This also happens the nearer you are to a large mass. aka a black hole. It also warps the space time around you.Alternate points of view... Take for example, you are traveling in a car at any speed. You pass cars traveling slower than you are. They appear to travel backwards. This is of course only relative to YOU. They are actually traveling forwards. If you think of yourself in the car as the speed of light, and the other cars as time, that's how it works. Of course, light travels SO fast that it bends TIME only relative to YOU. It's not like the whole world actually stops or slows down. It's only you who feels it. Just like overtaking a car. But that's only a simple explanation.In laymans terms, traveling at light speed means that you are traveling at a speed greater than the speed of time. Therefore time is at a fixed rate, and the speed that light travels is at a fixed rate also. So to travel light speed actually gives you an advantage over time itself. It has been mathematically determined that the longer you travel at this speed, the more advantage you gain, so it would be possible for a child to travel at this speed for a computed time, and return to see that several generations have passed while he/she would have only aged the number of days / months traveled in spaceship time.Another layman's view:Traveling at light speed really doesn't negate time. It is just that time is relative, as is velocity. My computer seems motionless to me, but an observer looking down at the solar system would see me and my computer moving quite rapidly. If you could get into a ship and accelerate to very near the speed of light and travel for ten earth years, your personal experience of time will not seem to you to have been any different from when you were on earth. Every moment would have passed normally for you, without anything seeming odd. It's just that at the end of the trip, you will have experienced it as only a fraction of the ten years. It will seem impossible to you that 10 years has gone by on earth. Time will have gone by differently for you than for earth. The same thing would happen even if you could reach the velocity of light. Upon decelerating, you would not report anything unusual regarding your experience of the passage of time; time will have passed for you as normally as ever. But you will notice that you spanned a huge distance instantaneously. You would find it nearly impossible to believe that dozens, hundreds or thousands of earth years had passed by during that instantaneous surge. From your vantage point in that ship, you could as easily ask: How does traveling at light speed accelerate time (for earth)? It doesn't.
If you keep on applying force on a material object can it gain the speed of light?
It can approach the speed of light, but never actually hit it. The reason being that, from relativity, the mass of an object gets exponentially larger and larger as its velocity approaches the speed of light. At the speed of light, an objects mass would be infinite, which can't happen.As an aside, an object can go faster than light if both the object and the light are traveling through a media other than a vacuum. This is because light moves slower and slower through denser and denser materials. If the object has a charge, an effect called Cherenkov radiation occurs. This is light's equivalent to a sonic boom from sound. Measuring Cherenkov radiation was how physicists were able to show that neutrinos (the most abundant particles in the universe) have mass.
Why can you not travel faster than light - Please explain and link evidence if you can?
According to the laws of physics, absolutely nothing except light itself can reach the speed of light. The reason for this is because, as objects increase speed, they begin to gain mass (this is only obvious at relativistic speeds), and theoretically, if they were to continue to the speed of light, they would have infinite mass, which is impossible.
What serves as the passageway for sperm?
The spermatozoa is formed in the testis and is stored in the epididymis. While traveling through the epididymis the sperm mature and gain motility and the ability to fertilize.
How do you gain a day if you travel west across the international date line?
You don't gain a day by traveling West, only by traveling East. You lose a day going West.
What did pilgrims hope to gain on their journey?
The pilgrems hoped to gain freedome to worship Christ (the Lord/Jesus/God) and to gain a better life. America was fouded on Christianity, you know. :)
Does pressing F while full speed in GTA V give you a speed boost?
Yes, if you advance to full speed in any terrain vehicle in GTA V, you will gain an extra speed boost. Make sure you are going full speed though.
How can you gain remote access exactly?
You can gain remote access of your network from a distance by purchasing a remote server. It will allow you to use your network at remote locations. You can also purchase a network adapter to use your internet at school or at work or while traveling.
If you are traveling eastward do you gain a day or lose a day?
loose a day
