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CrossViper
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If you travel faster than light, can you see?

Elaborate please.

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Graham
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your eyeballs would probably explode or something due to 186,000mph^2's G-force.

CrossViper
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*Excluding the MANY factors that make it impossible.

This is based on theory.

goumas13
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It's impossible to travel faster than light, so there is no answer to your question.

quakingphear
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your eyeballs would probably explode or something due to 186,000mph^2's G-force.


If you were traveling faster than light, it would probably in space, without gravity, so I dont think there would be much force on you.
Graham
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i'm not in physics yet!

i bet the answer is within here.

P.S. AG has a designated 'scientific community'?

Devoidless
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If you were traveling faster than light, it would probably in space, without gravity, so I dont think there would be much force on you.


G-forces have nothing to do with already existing gravitational forces. It is generated by the acceleration of an object, or the rapid deceleration in the case of Negative Gs. This is why gravitational forces in space can be made by spinning an object, such as a room or the area directly around it.
MageGrayWolf
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Good question. This one might be a bit over my head but from my understanding yes you would be able to see.

A rather simplified example of relativity
Time Travel And Einstein's Relativity Made Easy

Also is time travel even possible.
Is Time Travel Possible?

CrossViper
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Nova. I should have geussed.

Thanks guys, I (kinda) get it now.

FireflyIV
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G-forces have nothing to do with already existing gravitational forces. It is generated by the acceleration of an object, or the rapid deceleration in the case of Negative Gs. This is why gravitational forces in space can be made by spinning an object, such as a room or the area directly around it.


In any weightless vaccum, like in space, the environmental g force will always be 0.

G force is acceleration in relation to the environment you are in. Space is a vaccum, therefore you cannot accelerate or decelerate using only the force of gravity, and as a result you cannot experience g force.
iamsuperawesome
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yes, light would still bounce off stuff and in to your eyes, it would be rather blury, but you could see, if only for a moment.

theamazingway
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well, you would become unreal to the rest of the universe, and the rest of the universe would become unreal to you, if you were traveling faster than the speed of light. granted, you could still run in to something, you just wouldn't be able to see it.

Elitemagical
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According to General Relativityâ"I believeâ"time will halt when one or something reaches the velocity of the speed of light. So it would be quite hard to test what happens when faster than the speed of light.

I am no expert on physics though . . .

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If you somehow traveled faster than light, you would

hypoxia
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Grrr clicked submit by accident, anyway
if you somehow travlled faster than light, you would travel back in time and what you would see is the past.

Devoidless
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Errrm...no.

You would just go being faster than light. Only correlation between that speed of travel is that time would actually slow down for you. So if you flew around Earth for roughly twenty years at that speed, you would age much more slowly than those on Earth.

In theory at least.

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