Can you make a shock wave of light by breaking the light barrier just like supersonic airplanes break the sound barrier?
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Yes and no.... Supersonic airplanes break the sound barrier by flying faster than the speed of sound. This is possible because sound is just a traveling vibration of air molecules.
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This is possible because sound is just a traveling vibration of air molecules.
As airplanes approach the speed of sound, their sound waves pile up into a wall of air pressure that shatters apart weak airplanes.
➡️Airplanes that are strong enough can poke through this wall of air pressure and create a shock wave that trails behind them.
When this sonic shock wave passes ground observers, we hear it as a sonic boom.
By analogy, if a space ship traveled faster than the speed of light, it would create a shock wave made entirely of light.
The problem is that nothing can go faster than the speed of light in vacuum, so a space ship can never go fast enough to break the light barrier. It's not a question of engineering, but of fundamental physics.
As an object approaches the speed of light, it takes an increasing amount of energy to accelerate.
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This is possible because sound is just a traveling vibration of air molecules.
As airplanes approach the speed of sound, their sound waves pile up into a wall of air pressure that shatters apart weak airplanes.
➡️Airplanes that are strong enough can poke through this wall of air pressure and create a shock wave that trails behind them.
When this sonic shock wave passes ground observers, we hear it as a sonic boom.
By analogy, if a space ship traveled faster than the speed of light, it would create a shock wave made entirely of light.
The problem is that nothing can go faster than the speed of light in vacuum, so a space ship can never go fast enough to break the light barrier. It's not a question of engineering, but of fundamental physics.
As an object approaches the speed of light, it takes an increasing amount of energy to accelerate.
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