Common_Sense_Matters wrote:
Well, that is a highly contested theory, one that can't be tested to any certainty. It is hypothesized that since the light is being "launched" from a vessel moving at the speed of light, that, hypothetically, it could travel at the speed of the vessel plus the speed it travels at normally, which would give it twice the speed of light speed, or perhaps slightly less than twice the speed of light. Others speculate that it might not go any faster than the vessel itself. It is not a theory that can be tested as we can not travel at the speed of light nor would we have a way to test the speed the light coming from such a vessel is traveling at. I suppose one could station themselves at about 2 light minutes in front of the craft and see if the light reaches them before the craft does and how long before the craft does, but what if we have miscalculated the distance that light can travel in a minutes time? It could end badly. Any volunteers to test the theory?
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