How to break the speed of light 

Step 1: name someone "Light" Step 2: name his vase "speed" Step 3: break it. Done! :D

Jbdragonfire then that would become "Light's speed broke." lmao

Crymane Frantora yes but still, you've broke "the speed" (vase) of Light (your friend)

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Funny

unless you have an arm that can throw things at light speed i doubt it's faster

+Austin Spurlock plus your arm will rip off

+The Potato Rocket, If the arm can throw something at the speed of light - it could as well be resistant to such forces, but might be not.

but guys, he means like, really really fast

Janesprutget lol

Yeah. Girls always go for the money. Not just dick

I'm a brain woman myself. But yeah, I wouldn't date a guy that was long-term unemployed. I don't really give a crap about money, but lack of career ambition is a turn off.

+Annie Trinity And a guy who was making money on the stock markets but was unemployed long term? :).

dosduros Mmmm... Probably still no. MAYBE if they're a professional stock trader with a degree in economics that spends all day researching the best investments. But then that's pretty much a job. Like if I asked him "What do you do?" he would probably answer that instead of "nothing". But the point is I want a man with hustle, and preferably some desire to be the best at whatever he does. If my avatar didn't give it away, I like the dominant type (and yeah, a sense of humor is pretty important too). Money is only tangential to that factor, but I'd rather a guy who plans to be rich but isn't yet than a guy who is a trust fund kid or something and has money but doesn't care.

+Annie Trinity, Suppose that this unemployed guy could still be a good stay at home dad, would that still be a turn off for you?

... or shall I really dumb it down?... It's _magic_

That is true, but it is quite a misleading title since it clearly states that you break the speed of light, not that you appear to do so. Of course, if you actually watch the video you would know what they mean, but I still think it is a bad title.

You are correct.

Pika Chu I think it's a decent title. It makes you think harder about the concepts actually presented in Einstein's Special Relativity paper. It's all about *Relativity*. The idea that, depending on your frame of reference, light can absolutely break the speed it's supposed to be able to move at. If someone doesn't get the play on words, it pretty handily proves they weren't paying attention to the video and listening between the lines.

Exactly what i was gonna say. This is just trickery! Nothing is moving faster than light! In this example at least.

+TZPokemonz THAT IS HOW YOU MAKE LIGHT FASTER

+TZPokemonz Go to school, dumbass. Recording a light doesn't mean it is travelling across your screen faster than anything, as mentioned in the video, pixels have no speed. They just flick on and off to give off the illusion of movement.

+TZPokemonz but....but 60 fps

+Professor_Smiley You must be fun at parties.

lel i dont care

I keep getting back to this video for the same question! Here is a comment that kinda explains it, "+Doctor DeathDefying As soon as the laser is rotated, emitting photons have a 1.3 second journey to reach the Moon surface... AH I get it !! Yes of course : just before the twist, a last photon leaves the laser and just after the twist a new one leaves... they will arrive quite at the same moment on the moon (having travelled 1,3s) but will be miles appart ! Ok Thats's convincing. but need an update for slow thinkers like myself." the comment is from Yan G, hope it helped!

Motaz Bukhari Ok, so they're talking about the point of impact traveling faster than the speed of light. My thanks to you and Yan G. for the explanation.

Jim Fortune yes the point on the moon, travels the 3,500,00 meters across the surface of the moon, faster than the speed of light.....but then this still doesnt fix the problem you mentioned, relating this idea to the water hose! in order for that point on the moon to be able to travel the 3,500,000 meters across the moon surface in the 0.005 seconds, that means the light photons leaving the laser, after initiating the wrist flick, need to reach the moon's surface, (and technically back to your eyes) in less than 0.005s! so if this wrist flick, causing the dot on the moon to move across surface rlly does happen, then that means the photons emitted from the laser are traveling waaaay faster than speed of light!!

There is a delay from when your wrist starts to move to when the point on the moon starts to move, and that is what corresponds to the speed of light. However the time from when the point on the moon starts and stops is the same as with your wrist, because the starting and stopping points are delayed.

Dan Albl yes thats also true, so therefore the the point on the moon will still appear to move across the surface faster than the speed of light. I was just wondering if the movement of the point is instantaneous with your wrist flick or not. and yes it is a good argument. So does the movement of the point on the moon get delayed by about 1.3 seconds?

he says the same thing in this video, "the photons of your laser travel" (from point A, your laser, to point B on the moon, and after you've moved it from point A to point C, the other point on the moon)

@@jbdragonfire Jesus can someone right a comment that means something in English. Not like this is too science, there just is no sentence structure to parse to figure out what the hell you’re saying

@@Alphabunsquad "not like this is too science" okay Mr sentence structure

@@Alphabunsquad the light is going from the laser to the moon at the speed of light, not moving across the moon at all

@@Alphabunsquad write

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Nina Thérèse Rosenørn and some flying shoes from your mother too. xD

lol next day they see random lights on the moon

+Ishika Jha +Flavio Toledo I think they are having a disco party there now.

+Ishika Jha i think we should have an event called "The everyone pointing their lazer pointer in the moon" day... lol!! That would be great!

+Ishika Jha lel

+william97able November 27, 8:00CST to 8:30CST

I can see it now; "Man blinded by light from the sky, scientists suggest aliens!".

I feel so good, having gotten 20 pluses.

Yes the laser travels the same speed as your wrist is moving, but the distance that dot moves is so great that for it to move that far in a milisecond is way faster than the speed of light. For instance, you can make that dot move across the entire surface of the moon in a milisecond. Yes the speed at which you move your wrist is less than that of light obviously, but the image of the dot that we see moves faster than that because it covers more distance in the same time.

blizzard0508 The photons from the laser are still traveling at C and the still take 1.5 seconds to reach the moon. There is no physical connection with your wrist there will still be a delay of 1.5 seconds un light spreads in the direction of wrist flick. The video is horrendously wrong.

saquist this is a half joke video. he knows you cant break the speed of light. but as he explained with the pixels, you can make it LOOK like you can... soo, yeah

saquist You missed the point. It has nothing to do with how long it takes the photons to move. If you flick your wrist to make the dot move from one side of the moon to the other, yes it would take 1.5 seconds because they have to travel the distance again, but the image of the dot that we see on the other side appears to have moved faster than light because it would take longer than 1.5 seconds for the light to travel like that. The point is that we can make an imagine move faster than light only because it's not the same one. Imagine this. You look to your right and you see a rock, you look to your left and you see another rock. The rock moved faster than light since it's the same image, just a different object. That's what the video is suggesting.

I assure you I understand...but that is an illusion since nothing is actually moving across the moon's surface. I had someone mention this at work and believed it because they saw it here. Let's call it what it is. A lie.

Such a well put arguement

Astute assessment, Manganese.

Actually it's true, because the light that would still be on the way the moment you start moving the laser will still be travelling towards the same point, while the light that appears when you're moving it will just travel along with the movement of your hand. So standing on the moon, you would just be able to see the light moving slightly later... Because light can't travel faster than light

+neverAskMeWhy07 it's like moving a hose while water is coming out, that is exactly what it looks like

Actually it does. For the image, not the photons. I can even send a snapshot of the same image with a small delay to two different stars in two different directions. Assuming the distance to the stars is the same, because of the delay the image will seem to jump instantly from one star to the other breaking all possible speed limits, however of course it is not the actual physical photons jumping from one star to the other, the images are made of different sets of photons.

Theoria Apophasis Verified but not a single like. Interesting...

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You make videos on how the government is Keeping conspiracies and shit

Lol

I have thougth so myself. The acceleration will become greater than the speed of light, but only theoretical.The same thing would happen if I tried running faster than t he speed of light, my mass would become infinint and so on.

+So Sorry Light is elecrtomagnetic radiation, and photons composing it are massless. Massless things cannot be accelerated. Light always travel at the same speed, the speed of massless particles, it cannot be accelerated because it has no mass. It does have momentum and energy thoguh, this is why it interacts with gravitational fields (even if very weakly). +impagic1 Acceleration cannot "become greater than speed", speed and acceleration are two different quantities and cannot be compared in temrs of absolute value with each other. Light that crosses the event horizon of a black hole gets sucked in at the same speed without being accelerated

thanks both of you for spending your precious......

+UnCavi but momentum= mass x velocity

Banter King Yes, that is the definition of momentum in classical mechanics. However, the momentum of a photon is a quantum physical quantity, and does not fall into the definition we learn in classical mechanics. The momentum of a photon only depends on it's frequency (or on it's wavelength, it's the same) and it is p = h/λ λ being the photon's wavelength and h being Planck's constant

***** Someone does not understand troll physics.

That's kind of tricky but I think there's a problem here. To observe something you have to reflect light off the object which your eye can then pick up. For instance to observe a cat, you would have to flash light on the cat so that the electrons on the surface of the cat can excite and de-excite to remit/ reflect part of the light which your eye (or in this case the camera) can pick up for observation. If you flash light on light, the beam you fired won't reflect back rather it would simply superimpose with the other beam of light. So in a way you ca never observe light. You can use light to observe different objects but you can't observe light itself.

Gustav Mårdby Lol now you're just saying you were joking because of how idiotic you realized you are lololol

Koear haha sure if you want to think so go ahead. XD

Koear it was definitely a joke.

its not the laser breaking the speed of light, its the red dot, the image that moves faster then the speed of light and that movement is cause by your wrist. And because of the distance the movement gets amplifed

"How to break the speed of light" So thats wrong.

Gianluca Perzan "The laser pointer on the moon is basically the same [as pixels]. Each photon travels to the moon at the speed of light, but the image of a dot that they form on the surface moves twenty times faster. No physical laws are broken because nothing physical is actually traveling faster than light. It's just an image." That is an exact quote that is accurate and coherent. If you can't understand that description, you need to go back to school.

Armaros He does? but I didn't finished the video as I already tought that the information he gave is misleading and wrong so yeah..

+_Ins3rt You know of Veritasium too?

salman sufi Yup, I've watched that video :D

i agree too

Come to Ukraine, the only truly free country in the world where you won't be arrested for pointing a laser beam anywhere :)

VioletGiraffe Or Come to India !

***** Or come to Egypt! which is in africa!!! ( i come from there)

You do realize nobody will know you did it unless you go snitch on your self right?

***** imagine the laser pointer as a machine gun which constantly shooting bullets(photons). When you flick the machine gun(laser pointer) up and down, the bullet(photons) will travel like a wave(up and down). So, when you flick the laser pointer, the image on the moon would not move at the very exact moment you flick your wrist. it will wait for the wave of photons to reach the moon first. Until then, it will not move.

the image itself is travelling faster than the speed of light not the photons making up the image that you see. the point is that the image can travel faster because it is merely an image that you can see.

Aiken Sujana Well said

Aiken Sujana Yea but it will still move at the same speed. The delay between the last photon to leave the laser before you started to move your wrist and the first photon after you completed the flick will be the same when they hit the moon. Just like your machine gun. If you fire a bullet, turn your gun and fire another bullet 1ms later at another target at the same distance. The delay between the 2 impacts will be 1ms, regardless of the distance between the targets and the speed of the bullets.

You contradicted yourself, at first you said the laser pulse will travel as a wave and then ended saying the laser light was physical, if its physical then the speed of light can be broken.

+william97able the title is misleading

"Let’s mount a megawatt laser on every square meter of the surface of Asia"

+Mucho Chen to do what? vaporize the moon?

To see the laser pointer on the moon! Vaporisation is an acceptable side effect.

Mucho Chen the thing is, you will probably be vaporized too. Like two seconds before you can see the lasers

@@mikea2363 lol!

Depends where you are.

Pilots are only 6 miles or so up: the moon is about 240,000 miles up.

That doesn't mean the police can find you

+DNAunion and your point is? the pilot can pass through the path of the light beam

Lol.. One single beam of lazer will go in a pilots retina? Flying 5-6miles high? Can someone calculate chances of happening that

As he said "...this implies that nothing with REAL mass can travel faster than light" which is why tachyons have imaginary mass, the sqrt(-1)

ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-ACUuFg9Y9dY.html I’m only about 7 years late

It is constant in vaccum, but the speed of light has speed variations in solid liquid amd gases . It's very simple one

Lol that sounds hilarious!

+TotallyTorchic you would see the plane unless there is a cloud blocking it

Don't point it at a plane doe

So you mean such a long rod can't be rigid. I know obviously no object is rigid but I meant practically rigid in my last sentence.

Will this patch also include a fix for Justin Beiber?

Light doesn't just disappear, so of course it will.

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***** What do you think? Everyone can be blinded by lasers >5mw

But 5mw lasers can still blind people, they may not be safe

***** Probably not, but never point lasers at the sky unless 1) You are educated & know what you are doing 2) You want to try to bring down a plane Usually only 5mw< lasers can be imported into the US through customs (there are loopholes and laws though)

***** Never point them at drivers. Police officers can shoot you if they see you point a laser and if they think you are using the laser to aid a sniper or to help with sights on a gun.

***** Never point lasers at anything except objects that you are sure are not alive or mirrors/lenses/refracting objects.

Same here

We are only measuring the image of the light formed on the surface. Like here is an example: Let's say that the sun was a flashlight like you said, and the solar system is floating in a giant box that is a light-year across. Let's also assume that the sun is stationary, looking at the same spot in that box. Now we grab that flash light and spin it 360º in only a second. At first, nothing happens to the image of the light inside that box, because it is going to take half a year for the light that we made to reach the walls of the box. We aren't measuring the speed of those photons, though, we only care about how quick the picture on the wall is. Half a year passes, and the light from us spinning the sun has just started to move on the wall. At this point, we begin to time our stopwatch. We spun the sun in only a second, so the light sweeps across the entire box and comes back to where it started in only one second. Yet each side of the box is a light-year across, making the total distance of that image 4 whole light-years. This works because we excluded the huge wait time that it took for the image to start moving, and only focused on the image against the wall.

Kanade Tachibana I don't think I will ever completely understand, though your explanation sounds...well, "sound". It is probably the fact that light is composed of photons, and the fact that photons are mass-less and behave differently than atoms is messing with me. If the example was water shooting out of a hose, would this still work?

Chris Osborne If they were going in a perfectly straight line, yes. Think of it as you have a water hose and are spraying at walls in your house. If you turn around and spay at a different wall, you are moving what looks like a wet spot on the wall, even though we know that the water isn't moving across it. Tis would be easier if I could show you a video, but I can't find one that actually explains it well. This one just uses pictures.

Kanade Tachibana I am starting to get it now...I am focusing on the example of the pixels he used. If we have a screen a light-year in length and have a bunch of pixels turn off from left to right at intervals where the lights turn off in half the time it would take the light to travel from one side to the other, the image on the screen would technically be swept by the darkness (lack of light) at twice the speed of light. Of course, no physical atom (or photon) would actually break the speed of light.

Chris Osborne Correct, our brains would visualize the sweeping image, but no physical thing would break the speed of light.

He later explained that the speed of "push" is as fast as sound. So slower than light.

Actually Veritasium said in a video that if you tried to push a board that long, all the atoms in it would have to bounce of each other toake the board move. The board would actually not move at all.

It would travel at the speed of sound because the atoms in the board moves on a wave similar to knocking over dominoes. I also think he started that you would need an infinite amount of energy for the waves to travel that far.

Ha. Ha. Ha.

No, that won't be virtual at all!! It's just that such long siccors won't behave rigidly meaning it would bend in some way.

@@tahamuhammad1814 My source is Etienne Klein, physicist and philosopher quite famous in France and in Academia. He even suggested that some ingeneering university should calculate and make such a (big) pair of scisors. And yes, the point where the blades cross is virtual and not physical.

-self-mind blown- I have no idea how I came up with that o-o

+Daniela Stefan actually this idea won't work cause if you search " how to break the speed of light" and search for vsauces video , you can see that the beam of the laser would bend and still "run" at the speed of light. But what you would see is that the light went straight and not curved.

Oh, thanks for explaining!

+Daniela Stefan you're welcome

it refers to the speed of the light (of the laser) that goes though the surface of the moon, not the speed of the laser going though space and traveling... however Vsause explains this in one of his videos :3

+Hugo Brice Wrong - after the delay of starting the movement across the moon the light is moving faster than light speed.

Nope. Kinetic energy moves like a wave, so while it may not seem like it, the long tube would just wave like a rope. This video itself is 100% wrong as well because of the same concept. Light travels like a wave. Light closer to the laser pointer when you flick your wrist will move first and then move down the long 'laser string' to the end.

The Timelords I can understand your concept, but still, if this rod is made from a hypothetical material that it does not have elasticity, viscosity and cannot create internal forces, meaning that the rod it cannot behave like a medium to transfer energy through it. In simple words, it cannot bend, is hypothetically absolutely rigid. What happens then? Since that material does not allow the propagation of a wave and thus energy, what happens in that case?

Panos La It might move faster then light in violation of the laws of physics. Remember, in order for something with any mass to travel the speed of light, it requires infinite energy, so you'll probably not have the literal infinite strength to flick your wrist while holding it

+Panos La In order to make that kind of speed, you would need an incredibly strong base. If we had that technology with the super high tech material thing, it would probably be possible. Its just like a whip cracking- the tip of the whip is breaking the speed of light. However, you cannot eliminate an object of physics. Like time lord said, " the long tube would just wave like a rope" and break. Even if the material is possible you would also need a lot of energy. We don't have that material and energy right now. Even using carbon-fiber nano tubes, the strongest man made material on earth right now, you would need a base as wide as the visible universe. The energy that is needed to move that is also extreme. So, it is not possible. But, using the warp drive,bending space fabric, it can be done.

+The Timelords I have prepared since puberty to be able to reach that amount of strenght with the flick of my hand if you know what I mean.

That's why there's something called warp drive...

+Sith Smasher You can't travel faster than the speed of light THROUGH space-time, but space-time can be bent, folded, stretched, compressed and otherwise manipulated. You just have to know how. Kinda like warp drive.

laurauraura I know about einstein-rosen bridges and Alcubierre and EM drives. But none of that stuff has been proven to work. It's just maths on a piece of paper. So unless someone is willing to throw an insane amount of money at experimenting with those drives and doing heavy research on producing antimatter I don't see it happening in our lifetime.

+Sith Smasher I say the glass is half full. If it's possible, then it will happen... eventually.

@@sithsmasher7685 I know this was 4 years ago but im still gonna comment... Hopefully ur awake by now or waking up like lots of other ppl in the world, but the U.S government has had the technology to travel space for decades. Who knows if they'll ever release it to the public?! Prob not until the oil runs out or their hand is forced in some other way but its real. Do some research on your own and not by googling main steam science. Main stream science is full of shit!

Depends on your pointer, your accuracy, and distance between you and the pilot.

Don't do it!!

+Sam Spinda nononono magic

Are You dumb?

+ED I.N.C Hey all im saying is, he was wrong.

Haakon Johansen on a scale of 1 to hitler, you're about a 7

+ED I.N.C says the guy with shit grammar...

"he is then saying that light is traveling faster than the speed of light." No he isn't, he's saying the dot is moving faster than light. It works because the dot isn't an object: it's a pattern. It's not a physical thing.

Schp Wuette Ok. Sorry. I was thinking way differently then but thanks.

Schp Wuette It only works if the light beam doesn't bend...like it will.

Peter Mirtitsch It works. Draw a picture, then maybe you'll get it. It's not special, it's barely even interesting, but it works. The dot moves faster than light. It doesn't matter, because you can't stick anything to the dot and send a message from one side of the moon to the other, faster than light. The dot itself - the only thing going FTL - isn't a physical thing, it's just a pattern that humans point to and give a name. Imagine pointing the laser at a wall 1 light year in front of you, then spinning around to point at a wall 1 light year behind. It won't be long after the light finally hits the first wall that the dot moves round to the second wall. It covered 2 light years in barely any time at all!

You would first have to get a gear to the speed of light, which scientists currently think is impossible. I can't remember the exact reason why, but there is a tonne of information on the topic

Of course it's impossible. Any object that has mass can't reach the speed of light. The question is theoritical.

By that logic, it's possible to accelerate anything to the speed of light, thereby making it possible to break the speed of light with almost any of the current means we use to accelerate objects.

Patrick O'Connell Yeah. I just mentioned one of these ways.

breezebro Kind of. The thing is that the two gears depend on it's other's speed. In the example you mentioned, the two speeds are not relative. But I see your point.

its to draw viewers

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