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Maxim2019-09-13 21:33:57
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Maxim, 2019-09-13 21:33:57

What will we see in the window of a rocket moving at near-light speeds, including the speed of light?

Let's say they created such an engine and heavy-duty material for a rocket.
Everyone interested in physics knows the theory that at a speed equal to the speed of light, time for a body with such a speed will stop (or something like this will happen, it is not known for certain). Nevertheless, I am interested in a question of a more practical nature: what will we see, for example, flying by the planets of the solar system in a straight trajectory during their parade into the window of the rocket, which will be turned towards them?
Moving at the speed of light, even within the framework of the solar system, the path will be passed, and the planets should be visible while moving along this segment. The radius from the Sun to Neptune is 4.545 billion km, the speed of light in km: ~ 1 billion km/h, i.e. 4.5 earth hours we will fly. On the other hand, in my question, probably, there is a problem about hours and 4.5 terrestrial for us will be nothing and in general we will not see anything. Here is such a paradox, but maybe I am mistaken.
And if I'm right, what will we see at, say, 95% of the speed of light? In this case, the time stop does not work anymore, and here we should already see something and the time should somehow flow, and not stop (although, it seems like the greater the speed of the object, the slower the time flows for it, but still this no stop)
In general, according to the formulas of classical physics, moving at speeds of 95% or even 100% of the speed of light, we must see the planet every earth hour (+ - 10 minutes) in the window (8 planets - 8 points of our path-segment). We must see how each of them approaches and how it recedes. And if for 100% of the speed of light you can say - no, you won’t see anything, there is such and such a magic formula and there is still a clock problem for it, then for 95% of the speed of light it’s already impossible to say so, and here the formula should simply work movement s=vt.

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Saboteur, 2019-09-13
@webmaxer

Everyone interested in physics knows the theory that at a speed equal to the speed of light, time for a body with such a speed will stop (or something like this will happen, it is not known for certain). Nevertheless, I am interested in a question of a more practical nature: what will we see, for example, flying by the planets of the solar system in a straight trajectory during their parade into the window of the rocket, which will be turned towards them?

The practical nature of your question is missing.
Because the speed of light is, roughly speaking, the speed of a reaction, the speed of propagation of something in space-time.
In practice - there will be nothing to "see" - matter (eye, camera, all this) - will lose its material component, turning into energy, and therefore will cease to be an organism / instrument and will not be able to fix anything. Any attempt to see something turns into an abstraction.
It's like "feeling the nucleus of an atom" - in fact, it is impossible, because it is impossible to create a material grip to manipulate the nucleus - the grip must consist of at least whole molecules of matter, you can make abstractions - manipulate fields, radiation, but this is no longer "feel".

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rPman, 2019-09-13
@rPman

At close to the speed of light -
First, the Doppler effect will shift the spectrum of visible radiation into X-rays, .. I think the radio will just become visible.
Secondly, you yourself will stretch out for the whole world, which means that for you the world will shrink into a tunnel in the direction of travel. Even
the simulator game was washed
down. person. A lot of things fly in a vacuum...

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ajaxtelamonid, 2019-09-14
@ajaxtelamonid

There will be empty space and two spots - white-violet in front and red behind.

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Developer, 2019-09-14
@samodum

A photon moves at the speed of light and there is no time for it, does not exist. All processes that could take place inside the photon are stopped. Even for a photon born 13 billion years ago, time did not exist. He was born a long time ago and died - for him this is a moment, although billions of years have passed. He didn't see anything.
In the same way, we will be like a photon - time will stop for us, we will simply freeze in place, we will not see anything and we will not be able to do anything.

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Adamos, 2019-09-13
@Adamos

There are no magic formulas. But the Doppler effect and red / blue shift - is.
So if you see something at near-light speeds, this is unlikely to help you in any way.
At least the picture will be unusual.
However, a dense object moving at an enormous speed within a star system will very quickly repeat the fate of the fireball in the atmosphere.

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indrick, 2019-09-14
@indrick

The answer is purely subjective, don’t swear, I’m not a physicist, and to be honest, I forgot all the physics from insta / techie / school like a bad dream.
If we remove the variable of the imperfection of human vision (because it seems to me that we personally will see either blackness, or everything in white light, or a strobe and the like, everything is relative to the looking light source)
Honestly, I don’t remember, if a photon moves at the speed of light relative to the source (looking), then we will probably see photons at a speed of about light, in all their great variety. Tobish everything will be white / red / gray / itditp. If the speed of a photon is relative to a certain zero point in the universe, then options are possible. Complete darkness, we overtake photons, and we cannot perceive them, since they are slower than us. Everything is light, we either see photons as they are, or their glow overtakes us and we see them as light sources. Or everything will depend on the phase. We see 299997 * 60 * 24 frames per second, if photons fly by simultaneously with the speed of perception, we see them, if faster, they move, well, let's say forward, slower, we overtake them.
Z.Y. Don't swear, I'm drunk ;)

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Nikolai Chuprik, 2019-10-27
@choupa

I am amazed that there is no correct answer. There are three effects:
1. Doppler effect: Stars in front will turn blue, stars behind will turn red.
2. Light aberration: The angles between stars in the forward hemisphere will decrease, i.e. objects will cluster in front closer to the axis of our movement; behind, respectively, the stars will be rarefied; on the sides, something intermediate will happen: the stars that were a little behind will move a little forward. (Yes, I know it's paradoxical, but that's how it is).
3. Lorentz length contraction: All objects of finite dimensions overboard will be flattened in the direction of our movement. Instead of a glider, cutlets will float in the side windows, and pancakes will float at sub-light speed.

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