Monday, January 01, 2018
Moving faster than light
An object cannot be seen moving faster than light.
But it's shadow or just a projection of it could be seen to be traveling at any speed you wanted.
You could accelerate the image without expending significant energy, and without causing local disturbance.
Sounds rather like the recent description of UFO's seen by fighter pilots.
I guess you would not need much more than a batman like laser beam.
Not sure how you beam a dark light/shadow but maybe you could ionise the cloud?
The images would, I guess, have more Newtonian laws of motion, except they may not be seen to be affected by gravity of other forces.
This all depends on having an effective screen to protect onto. This might not be too difficult locally, other than you might physically affect the surface. But this might enhance the impression of the power of the imagined craft.
I would want to see whether there was an increased chance of UFO's in cloudy or hazy conditions.
I rather like the idea of going faster than light, just swing a laser across the sky, very fast.
Say you could see 100 kilometers of clouded sky, ie 10 ^ 7 cm, then you need to spin your light in the order of 1000 revs per second. Quite possible.
Martin
