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Stopping Light It is already possible to stop light in extremely low temperature BEC (Bose- Einstein Condensate) But, if i took say, a space ship and travelled at 300,000 meters per second (The speed of light in a vacuum), relative to Earth, and mounted a light on the back, would the light travelling in the opposite direction to the ship, be travelling at the same speed as the Earth?
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Asked by alexendoo
on 2010-04-20 19:45:48

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Categories: Our universe.

Tags: Speedoflight, light, Space, speed, lightspeed.

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Reply	PeteFowler365 says: Nope. All the weird consequences of Special Relativity result from the speed of light in a vacuum being the same for all observers. If you in your spacecraft travelling at half the speed of light shine a torch at me standing on Earth, we'll both measure the speed of the beam as 300 000 km/sec. (no votes) Tags: Speedoflight, light, Space, speed, lightspeed.
	posted on 2010-04-23 05:09:19 \| Report abuse

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