• Question: If light was too quick then what would happen?

    Asked by Beast to Clare, Glafkos, Paul, Samantha on 11 Mar 2015.
    • Photo: Glafkos Havariyoun

      Glafkos Havariyoun answered on 11 Mar 2015:


      Do you mean if light was faster than what it is now?

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      Clare Devery answered on 11 Mar 2015:


      Well the speed of light is ingrained in EVERYTHING! It’s a fundemental constant, known as ‘c’. If you made it faster or slower, you’d end up changing the entire universe!

      The speed of light is the exchange rate between velocity and time, and between mass and energy. Everything would change. If you made light faster, the stars would burn slower, we might not be able to see them? Distances would change. Time would change. Electricity would not work the way we understand it. Colours would all be different. Everything would be different, and I’m pretty sure humans wouldn’t exist because the nerve signals our bodies use are tuned carefully to electric potentials, which would be messed with!

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      anon answered on 11 Mar 2015:


      Light can’t travel any faster!

    • Photo: Samantha Terry

      Samantha Terry answered on 11 Mar 2015:


      I agree with Pauline, light can’t go any faster..

    • Photo: Paul Booker

      Paul Booker answered on 11 Mar 2015:


      Light already is too quick! I’m not sure what you mean?

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