What happens when the speed of sound is broken?

[Dumbass]

What do you guys think happens when the speed of light is broken? Does time "stop", do people get transported to other parts of the universe? Please, your opinions.

[chris_78660]

i have always wondered what a sonic boom really is... i have a video clip of what looks like a bubble that forms around the jet that beaks the sound barrier

[wils0646]

A sonic boom is when something breaks the speed of sound. Snapping a towel, for instance is a small sonic boom..

[chris_78660]

but could it from a visable 'bubble'?
i thought that a sonic boom was kind of a shock wave that happens like a splash into water. i really don't know anything about it though.

[Delta]

Does time "stop", do people get transported to other parts of the universe?
:confused: :confused: :confused:

I think you meant to ask about the speed of LIGHT. When the sound barrier is broken........... OK think of it this way. When you are in a speed boat going through the water, you make a disturbance behind you. This is called the wake. It does not go as fast and it kinda ripples and spreads as it moves. When you break the sound barrier, it is kinda like that. The sound of your jet or whatever tearing through the atmosphere cant keep up with you, so it trails behind. Thats why when you hear a very fast jet, and look up to see it, its already gone. You are hearing sound catch up to it. The boom on the other hand, Im not totally sure about. I think it has something to do with like stretching a rubber band (I know Im full of analogies today) and when you break the barrier its like that rubber band snapping. All that energy is released at once going BOOM in the process.

[Dumbass]

my bad, you're right. SPEED OF LIGHT, NOT SOUND.

[Dumbass]

Yea I get the general idea of the speed of sound. But what do you think about the speed of light?

[Delta]

The general theory of that, is that once you hit the speed of light, your mass becomes infinite, thus negating your existence.......

Or that it may never be possible to go upto the speed of light. Otherwise I have no idea, Ive never done it.......... Yet.

[ngc4594]

Besides the fact that it has never been done besides with photons of course, Einstein's theory of relativity says that time stops when you reach the speed of light and goes back in time when you exceed it.

I can't even imagine either. I have tried to imagine it but it gives me a head ache.

[chris_78660]

einstein also theorized that if you were to spin a conical object fast enough, that you could actually travel back in time. if any of you know what the 'graviton' ride at the carnival is, just imagine spinning that at the speed of light. your brain would leak from your ears...

[shade]

You go back in time as has been proven with microwave quantum tunneling.

[wils0646]

Originally posted by shade
You go back in time as has been proven with microwave quantum tunneling.

Wha? hehe, I'm not really a physics guy, but I guess......YEA

[shade]

Unfortunately, it is governed by the uncertainty principle, and any true data sent through it becomes corrupt. In an experiment, a scientist sent the data of a song through the device, and half of it went back in time a few nanoseconds, and the other half continued at the speed of light. So you end up with a 50/50 corruption... basically the music sounded a little staticy. So no... you couldnt set up an array of processors using quantum tunneling to do computing of data (compute, send result back in time, repeat). One of the many reasons we dont have quantum computers yet..

[chris_78660]

i remember a test that blew my mind...
they took 2 watches and synchronized them. then one watch was put on an airplane and sent around the world once, while the other watch was left at the same place. they were no longer in sync when the plane landed....they were off by an eighth of a second. basically they concluded that you were traveling into the future by leaving the earth and flying around it. i wish i had more details on it....but it was awhile back on the discovery channel...

[ngc4594]

Originally posted by chris_78660
einstein also theorized that if you were to spin a conical object fast enough, that you could actually travel back in time. if any of you know what the 'graviton' ride at the carnival is, just imagine spinning that at the speed of light. your brain would leak from your ears...

Worse yet I would also loose grip on my chocolate glazed donut.

[chris_78660]

Originally posted by ngc4594
Worse yet I would also loose grip on my chocolate glazed donut.
HERESY!!!!
how dare you consume a chocolate glazed donut?! god's children only feast upon golden halos of gooey, glazed perfection! chocolate is dark and a sin....let's keep it golden, we don't need any temptation of sticky, cavity inducing, zionist chocolate.............sorry, i thought of a zionist chocolate donut and busted up laughing

[Instigator]

Break the speed of light yourself...Try it at home, kids!

http://www.newscientist.com/news/news.jsp?id=ns99992796

Light can break its own speed limit, researchers say:

http://www.cnn.com/2000/TECH/space/07/20/speed.of.light.ap/

[droogsteve]

Last time I broke the speed of light was when I was late for ten cent hot wing night at my favorite bar.

[ngc4594]

Originally posted by chris_78660
HERESY!!!!
how dare you consume a chocolate glazed donut?!
How dare I? You fool, you know not of what you speak. I will dwell upon a timeless eternity of eating chocolate. As you will dwell on a timeless eternity in hell eating soup broth. FOol!
Originally posted by chris_78660

god's children only feast upon golden halos of gooey, glazed perfection! chocolate is dark and a sin....
Wrong, we also feast upon white chocolate.
I can back that up too.
Hezekiah 4:5 ( look it up )

[Nocturnal]

I believe the sonic boom occurs when the air rushes back into the place where the plane just was.

[shade]

yeah he mistyped the subject. The question is actually about the speed of light.

[Nocturnal]

from what I have read as you approach the speed of light your mass increases, you wind up having infinte mass. Time is supposed to crawl to a stop also....

maybe Steven Hawking is reading this board... care to elaborate sir?

[shade]

Yeah... with current physics only energy can reach or pass the speed of light.

[chris_78660]

would lightning strike at the speed of light? if so, does that mean that our brain operates at the speed of light as well???

[anjroo11688]

Originally posted by Dumbass
What do you guys think happens when the speed of light is broken? Does time "stop", do people get transported to other parts of the universe? Please, your opinions.
Hey just search on google for a picture of when the jet broke the sounds barrier. And no Dumbass you will not get transported to an other part of the universe. lol:D

[anjroo11688]

pic of the sound barrier being broken (http://http://www.sadona.com/news2/sound%20barrier.jpg)
Click there

[droogsteve]

Your link is fucked.

[chris_78660]

http://www.physics.ohio-state.edu/133/demo/sonic_boom_lancer1.jpg
http://www.inflightzone.com/boom2.jpg

[disturbed2]

Posted by instgator in his link :
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i dont have that kind of money

[Voodoo]

I've been there a few times and I usually have an orgasm.

[Treeves]

Here is a link about sonic booms. http://www.af.mil/news/factsheets/Sonic_Boom.html

[ngc4594]

Originally posted by Nocturnal

maybe Steven Hawking is reading this board... care to elaborate sir?

He's dead I think.

[Treeves]

Originally posted by ngc4594
He's dead I think. Nope. He is about 60 though.And if he does die there goes a big part in space travel

[Delta]

That lancer pic is pretty cool considering that the B-1 only goes Mach 1.2 at its top speed ever recorded. To get a pic of that is pretty rare.