Speed of light

TERM PROJECT The Speed of Light from LAB to LAB and Time to Time: Not a Constant Background For centuries, the speed of light, c, has been studied extensively. Its importance as a component of many of the laws of psychics is unparalleled. Its physical meaning defines the nature of space and time; including how they relate to each other, how they relate to all aspects of existence, and how all things relate to all else that is or ever was in existence. The speed of light also serves as

assumed that like the speeds of the two cars in the previous example, the velocity of light could be calculated in the same fashion. For example: If a car is moving at a speed of 25 meters per second with its headlights on, what is the speed of the light emitted by the headlights? Newton and Galileo would have thought, "25 meters per second for the car plus 299,792,458 meters per second for the speed of light equals 299,792,483 meters per second for the speed of the light emitted by the headlights

mass there is the more intense the gravity is and that time is dependent on how much gravity there is the more there is the slower time will go. Same goes for speed the faster you go the slower time goes. The closer you are to the speed of light the slower time will go. It also states that matter cannot travel faster than the speed of light. An atomic clock is a type of clock that is the most accurate known, it uses an electron transition frequency in the microwave or ultraviolet parameters. They

However this is not the same for the beam of light fired from the laser pointer. This is because light is an electromagnetic wave that is independent of the motion of its starting point. It will always travel at 299,792,458 m/s because light’s speed only depends on the medium through which it travels and the motion of the object it is created from is completely irrelevant. (Lieber, Lillian R. The

Einstein's Relativity, Literature and Perception The effect relativity had on literature was that it gave a new way of viewing objects moving at speeds near light. What a person sees depends on their viewpoint. Relativity states that as an object moves faster from a relatively stationary point the object becomes warped, or a plane that flies 'straight" over a merry-go-round would appear curved to the rider. These are two examples of the way relativity causes someone to think. The biggest direct

travel back to see our founding fathers sign the declaration of independence. We could travel to 2999 to witness the birth of the next new millennium. Such travel would require a machine capable of withstanding great pressures and incredible amounts of speed. The act of actually traveling though time is for the most part, agreed upon, but the implications of such travel is not so decided upon. Many different theorists have different views of what could happen and some go, as far as to say that if we

assumed the ether must move around the earth. “The velocity of light (c) traveling through this either would change for angles that ranged from light was traveling in the same direction as the ether (c+v) to light traveling in the reverse direction of the ether (c-v). The key instrument in their experiment was an interferometer which allows one to see light interference fringes. The role of the interferometer was to detect whether a beam of light, split into paths at right angles to each other and then

1. A) Part of the wave might penetrate it or it might not. This would be random and would depend on the energy of the electron attempting to penetrate. B) The pattern that initially seemed random would begin to acquire uniformity. Half of the electrons would transmit and half would reflect and go back. Each of the electrons that transmitted would carry its complete charge and mass. C) One cannot say where the electron really is, whether a given electron will transmit or reflect. It is only possible

scientists have come up with theories of time travel. Other theories and many experiments have been conducted to try and prove the possibility of time travel for humans. Einstein’s theory of relativity determined that the speed of light within a vacuum is constant no matter the speed at which the observer is traveling and with this found out that space and time were intertwined together in a continuum identified as space-time. In the theory of special relativity, time is said to move slower or faster

Before Einstein, Scientists believed that light waves travelled through a medium called ether. Einstein proved that ether was irrelevant and that light doesn’t travel through a medium. Einstein proved this by figuring out that the speed of light was constant, and in order for ether to be the medium light waves travel through, the speed of light would change depending on the observer. This discovery was one piece of the Specific Theory of Relativity. The nature and process of science are a collection