It'd be impressive if they fire it at like half the speed of light
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I mean, any other non-c speed really.
Actually, c is the speed of light in a vacuum, but light travels slower through a medium, like air. So lasers shot through air will actually travel slower than c.
(For anyone curious, the speed of light in earth air is like 99.97% as fast as in vacuum)
Maybe it's going to be space lasers.
Do you know what the religious affiliation of these space lasers will be?
You have a lot of chutzpah to ask such a question. Oy! What would your mother say?
I would be especially interested in speeds larger than c 🙂
Well that's pretty easy, just fire it anywhere except a vacuum.
But I never use my vacuum. Might as well fire a laser at it!
Imagine if they made it fire so slow that you could just do a dark souls dodge roll to avoid it
I have a dollar store laser pointer than can also travel at the speed of light
Pssh, I have a 30 year old flashlight that can do the same.
Wait until you learn how old my sun is
Your sun's light can travel at the speed of light?
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Claims to travel at the speed of light.
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Still takes eight minutes to get here.
Sus.
The laser pointer can travel the light of speed? If you turn it on, does the laser not come out of the laser pointer?
The laser and the laser pointer are both traveling away from each other at the speed of light, so from the pointer's perspective the laser is traveling at twice the speed of light.
You are being downvoted as if your point was offensive or harmful. You are wrong, but it's totally counter intuitive and I think this is a mistake that everyone makes when studying introductory physics. This would be correct for anything moving at relatively low speeds. But when you're talking about light, or anything that goes so fast that "percentage of the speed of light" starts being a useful unit to describe their speed, this concept starts being a bit weirder.
This is actually the basic principle of Einstein's theory of relativity: the speed of light (in a vacuum) is the same for all observers, regardless of their frame of reference. That means that if the laser pointer emits a laser, the light is moving away from the pointer at the speed of light. If the pointer itself is moving at a speed reeeeeally close to the speed of light... Then the laser will STILL be traveling away from the pointer at the speed of light. And if you, an observer in a frame, see the pointer moving at near the speed of light emit a laser... The laser that the laser emitted is also traveling at the speed of light from your point of view.
And there's no wordplay here. I don't mean that it's light, so of course any speed it travels at is the speed of light. I mean that if you measure its speed from any reference frame, you will get around 300000000 m/s, or around 671 million miles per hour. No matter if you are also traveling at near light speed.
Oh wow. TIL.
The army trembling when I bring a mirror
I have wifi router that emits microwaves at the speed of light.
Pffft, I have a microwave that emits microwaves at microwave speeds to microwave things.
Impressive. The future is awesome! Can we maybe apply this to regular light too? Maybe even green light? Or purple? I'm so excited.
Well, for the green light we already have FTL tech, it was invented and perfected by the car behind you as you are waiting for the light to turn green.
According to the Gell-Mann amnesia effect, the same people also write about politics, environment and society.
Wait until they see the speaker that makes noise at the speed of sound.
Honestly I'd be more impressed by the Star Wars kind that go about thirty miles an hour.
What has science done?!
Has Science Really Gone Too Far Even as Decided to Use Even Go Want to do Look More Like?
Have you not seen those Blaster from the galaxy far far away that fire laser half the speed of sound?
Water is wet
I can run at the speed of running, where is my headline?