Wednesday, December 23, 2009

IF two objects move at light speed towards one another and another object?

hits them when they collide, do these objects fuse together?IF two objects move at light speed towards one another and another object?
It's impossible for any object to move at the speed of light, so that part is meaningless.





But take that as 99% of the speed of light, which is remotely possible. Due to relativity, the perceived speed seen from the first object to the second one is still less than the speed of light, it is 99% of c.





When they hit, there will be a large amount of energy released, and that can be calculated. Probably enough to turn them both into vapor, so the ';fuse together'; is meaningless.





.IF two objects move at light speed towards one another and another object?
Last time I checked this was theoretically impossible.





Due to relativity, if an object is moving at the speed of light towards another object traveling at the speed of light, then ';relatively speaking'; the 2nd object is moving towards the first at twice the speed of light, which is supposedly impossible.





Then you throw in the complication of energy requirements of actually getting an object to accelerate to the speed of light.





Also, with relativistic mass increase and length contraction. You have the problem of both objects having infinite mass, and infinitesimally short.





I don't understand where the ';Fusing'; would come into it....





So I would say .... NO!





I suppose to add to it, you could be talking about photons, which can travel at c, since they have zero mass, but how would 2 objects of zero mass fuse together....? what is there to fuse....?





Yeah, I'm sticking with ';No';
Are you asking, what happened when three objects traveling at the speed of light collide together? First what are the objects? Remember nothing can travel as fast as light, only mass less objects can “photons”. But objects in our experiment have mass and let’s say traveling at 99.99 % the speed of light, ok. The amount of energy that would be released at the moment of impact would completely destroy vertically all the mass in the objects converted in to pure energy. Some may form very heavy particles.

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