• Question: tim is this possible that an object liquid or human can move so fast past the speed of light making it absolutely IMPOSSIBLE to catch an image diagram or ray of light

    Asked by sakiplayer4 to Tim on 2 Jul 2012.
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      Tim Stephens answered on 2 Jul 2012:


      Good question!

      The theory of relativity says that it’s not possible for anything to travel faster than the speed of light. If you were to try and photograph something that was travelling at almost to the speed of light, it would look much longer than it actually was.

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