Our server costs ~$56 per month to run. Please consider donating or becoming a Patron to help keep the site running. Help us gain new members by following us on Twitter and liking our page on Facebook!
Current time: June 12, 2025, 7:32 am

Thread Rating:
  • 0 Vote(s) - 0 Average
  • 1
  • 2
  • 3
  • 4
  • 5
The speed of light and discovering
#1
The speed of light and discovering
I've come to notice that because of the speed of light, communication and discovering etc will be restricted between planets and solar systems. E.g if let's say we want to find distant life in another solar system we can't see what's going on at the moment because the light that'll have reached us would've been very very old. To make matters worse, let's say in the far future we populate another planet, let's use Mars as an example, communication between Earth and Mars takes around 14 minutes or so, and that's at the speed of light.

My question is, is there any possible/theoretical way to work our way around this obstacle?
Reply



Messages In This Thread
The speed of light and discovering - by deleteduser12345 - August 9, 2016 at 6:01 pm
RE: The speed of light and discovering - by Minimalist - August 9, 2016 at 6:03 pm
RE: The speed of light and discovering - by Alex K - August 10, 2016 at 3:03 am
RE: The speed of light and discovering - by deleteduser12345 - August 9, 2016 at 6:04 pm
RE: The speed of light and discovering - by Banjo - August 9, 2016 at 6:09 pm
RE: The speed of light and discovering - by abaris - August 9, 2016 at 6:10 pm
RE: The speed of light and discovering - by Banjo - August 9, 2016 at 6:11 pm
RE: The speed of light and discovering - by abaris - August 9, 2016 at 7:27 pm
RE: The speed of light and discovering - by Jackalope - August 10, 2016 at 3:46 am
RE: The speed of light and discovering - by abaris - August 10, 2016 at 6:07 am
RE: The speed of light and discovering - by Cyberman - August 9, 2016 at 6:47 pm
RE: The speed of light and discovering - by Mister Agenda - August 10, 2016 at 9:05 am
RE: The speed of light and discovering - by Cyberman - August 10, 2016 at 10:28 am
RE: The speed of light and discovering - by brewer - August 9, 2016 at 7:05 pm
RE: The speed of light and discovering - by deleteduser12345 - August 9, 2016 at 7:09 pm
RE: The speed of light and discovering - by TheRealJoeFish - August 9, 2016 at 11:53 pm
RE: The speed of light and discovering - by Excited Penguin - August 10, 2016 at 12:54 am
RE: The speed of light and discovering - by vorlon13 - August 9, 2016 at 8:25 pm
RE: The speed of light and discovering - by Kosh - August 9, 2016 at 11:34 pm
RE: The speed of light and discovering - by bennyboy - August 9, 2016 at 11:57 pm
RE: The speed of light and discovering - by Alex K - August 10, 2016 at 4:06 am
RE: The speed of light and discovering - by deleteduser12345 - August 10, 2016 at 9:01 am
RE: The speed of light and discovering - by Alex K - August 10, 2016 at 9:18 am
RE: The speed of light and discovering - by deleteduser12345 - August 10, 2016 at 10:07 am
RE: The speed of light and discovering - by Mister Agenda - August 10, 2016 at 9:10 am
RE: The speed of light and discovering - by LastPoet - August 10, 2016 at 1:40 am
RE: The speed of light and discovering - by Alex K - August 10, 2016 at 3:55 am
RE: The speed of light and discovering - by I_am_not_mafia - August 10, 2016 at 4:19 am
RE: The speed of light and discovering - by Alex K - August 10, 2016 at 4:38 am
RE: The speed of light and discovering - by Alex K - August 10, 2016 at 4:43 am
RE: The speed of light and discovering - by Alex K - August 10, 2016 at 9:29 am
RE: The speed of light and discovering - by Alex K - August 10, 2016 at 10:24 am
RE: The speed of light and discovering - by Minimalist - August 10, 2016 at 10:57 am
RE: The speed of light and discovering - by vorlon13 - August 10, 2016 at 11:08 am
RE: The speed of light and discovering - by Cyberman - August 11, 2016 at 12:33 am
RE: The speed of light and discovering - by Edwardo Piet - August 11, 2016 at 3:04 am
RE: The speed of light and discovering - by I_am_not_mafia - August 11, 2016 at 3:16 am
RE: The speed of light and discovering - by Edwardo Piet - August 11, 2016 at 3:19 am
RE: The speed of light and discovering - by Mister Agenda - August 11, 2016 at 9:33 am
The speed of light and discovering - by LadyForCamus - August 11, 2016 at 2:06 pm

Possibly Related Threads...
Thread Author Replies Views Last Post
  Action and the Light takes all paths concept. Goosebump 2 621 April 12, 2025 at 1:52 am
Last Post: Goosebump
  Did Einstein Say Light is Massive? Rhondazvous 25 4708 July 8, 2019 at 10:15 pm
Last Post: brewer
  Puzzling thing about Speed of Light/Speed of Causality vulcanlogician 25 4443 August 24, 2018 at 11:05 am
Last Post: The Grand Nudger
  How Cn Gravity Affect Light When Light Has No Mass? Rhondazvous 18 2942 March 2, 2018 at 10:51 pm
Last Post: polymath257
  An Interesting thing About Light Rhondazvous 14 3455 October 31, 2017 at 5:33 pm
Last Post: Cyberman
  Organic Molecules Found 400 Light Years From Earth Minimalist 364 80709 August 21, 2017 at 4:35 pm
Last Post: Amarok
  Does the Higgs Boson Enforce the CCosmic Speed Limit Rhondazvous 14 4324 July 24, 2017 at 10:40 pm
Last Post: Alex K
  Why Can't Anything Travel Faster than Light? Rhondazvous 48 10400 December 14, 2016 at 10:50 am
Last Post: Rhondazvous
  Physics questions about light bennyboy 10 3262 September 20, 2016 at 9:26 pm
Last Post: bennyboy
  Where does the Light Go when you Turn the Switch Off? Rhondazvous 9 2867 August 5, 2016 at 1:04 pm
Last Post: ScienceAf



Users browsing this thread: 1 Guest(s)