r/BeAmazed • u/billibillibillendar • Nov 27 '24

Science If you travel close to the light

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u/darwinn_69 Nov 27 '24

The cool thing about relativity is that the person going at the speed of light and the outside observer are both correct in their measurement of distances.

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u/Iamlabaguette Nov 27 '24

Please explain that phenomenon, how can a physical distance (lets say a km) can shrink if I travel fast enough (if I understand well what this dude say, become about 15cm)

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u/ntd252 Nov 27 '24 edited Nov 28 '24

This is the best demonstration about that kind of question. Hope this helps you and others I never understood why you can't go faster than light - until now!

Edit: the video above is more of time dilation, another video (same channel) addresses the space shrinking in an intuitive way. And thanks for the compliments, glad to see it's really useful for someone.

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u/warriors17 Nov 27 '24

I read a bunch of these comments and it just couldn’t click. This video finally broke down the wall. I expected to cut out, but I watched the whole thing. This dude is great, thank you for sharing