not if C is only as fast as WE have clocked light at, and it can actually go faster.
And that's what this story is all about. And it's not what we actually clocked light at, it's what we theorize the maximum value of C to be. If C can actually be higher, that throws out all our theories about the laws of the physical universe.
May I quote "Dark Matter"
There was a period in time before the element "Californium" was known to man.. I know, I was a kid when the periodic table was no more than a small workbench...
Therefore, because we didnt know what it was, or even how to detect it, it was "Dark matter", or unknown matter, or whatever you wanna call it, anything but a given name, because as soon as it has a name, we know what it is, and therefore, its no longer "Dark".
There are some bits of "Dark matter" that do not appear on the visible light spectrum.
Wanna bet as soon as we know what they are, the invisibility shield will be the first thing "Invented"?...
Light only travels where we can see it... when we cant see it, what is it?.
In a totally dark room, if I shine a beam of light across your face from one side to another where you cannot see the bulb, you wont see that light at all.
We can only detect light at the speed of light.... we dont have anything that can detect light going faster than the speed of light, so how do we know it cant do that?..
Just because we have no way to create light faster than the speed of light does not mean its impossible.
And if we would like to "Think on", what is the speed of an explosion?.
Just because we dont have a super-slow-mo camera that can film and work out the actual speed of an explosion, does not mean in any way that there isnt a little "Hyper-expansion" going on right at the start of any explosion at the point of time of the ignition where there is stuff that starts out faster than light but quickly slows down.
We know this has happened, or so it has been theorised, because that is what created the universe, and, more importantly, they are beginning to suspect its also what is happening when a star goes super-nova.
There is a theory that I hold with that when the light from that supernova crosses the point of speed of light, it becomes "Pure energy", and therefore, light is only light at the speed that we can detect it, slower?.. its just another form of Radiation, infra red, Ultra violet, X-Ray, Gamma, Beta...
Above the speed of light?.. its another form of radiation "That we dont yet know about", because we dont know how to detect it yet, but at this point in time, the same as other forms of named and un-named radiation, its loose collective name is "Energy".....
And therefore, that energy, may JUST be something that we know of as "Dark Matter"
The speed of light is just the speed at which our own human eyes can see it at.
The detectors we have built echo the ability of the Human Eye to detect light.
They stop detecting at the speed of light, because, we falsely believe that there is no reason to look for any beam travelling "Faster" than "c"
Wellllll.. as they say, "Watch this space".
I am trying to keep up with Science as much as I can, and what I do know, thanks to Brian Cox and his ilk, certain people are thinking not just outside the box but outside the plane of existence of any known box, into what happens when the laws we know are exceeded.
There has been a LOT of investigations into the universe.
Before the turn of the last century, it was "Breaking science" that there was anything bigger than the Galaxy... the galaxy "The milky way" was what they believed was the whole universe, because they didnt have optics good enough to see further than that.
The laws of Physics are what we know.
Science is looking at things that dont quite match the laws of physics and saying "Well thats funny...."
My own view?.. if we say that Light speed is Constant, we have a blinkered view, we should be looking further.
Where do I stand on that further view?.. I would like to perch right on the edge just because I am a nosy sod and wanna get a good view of things that should scare the crud outa me but strangely do not....
They say that being in space may be "Too much" for certain people, in truth the feeling of "A long way from home" may be too much for a LOT of us, and that it isnt for everyone.
Me?.
I am where I am.
Yeah sure, I wanna know and have it ingrained on my automatic responses to know which handle to push which way the toggle goes and which seat to be in when it all goes base over apex, but other than that, I have always looked at that type of thing as "What ya doing?.. can I have a go?..."
Spend a year in space just to see what happens?... what happens to my Own Body?.. hell yeah, why not?.. I am sure it would benefit a lot of people, so in that case, sign me up, hell why not make it a 2-year posting for good measure?..
I wouldnt get bored, hell no, because I would be at the very edge of breaking science.
On a space experiment that happened with Tim Peake, Brit Astronaut, "Rocket seeds"
He shared out a lot of seeds with UK school kids, some that HAD been space flown, some that had not, to see what happened in direct comparison.
Those that HAD been subject to zero-G {Or Low-G] space flight did not fare so well when they germinated.
This is important... if we ever should have to colonise another planet and want to take and grow our own food, we now know, they will have to be kept in artificial gravity, if they are to survive the trip?.. We also now know that certain plants wont grow that well in Low Gravity.
Side-experiment, they should also be looking at HIGH G effects on seeds, just to eliminate that it wasnt the "trip" up to the space station that affected the seeds....
