I've always wanted to play with this. Let's say that, hypothetically of course, a train with people inside manages to reach speed of light (or something very, very close to it, if you will). What do you think happens with those people inside? Think of something original, don't say "they explode" and similar. And assume that after it reaches that magical velocity, it continues its trip without slowing down (or speeding up ha, ha) so there is no force felt by everyone in. I guess the first and the most obvious question is: what do they see? Share your thoughts! (be careful though, or you might be the one exploding ;))

It is impossible for anything with rest mass to travel at the speed of light.

Let's say that, hypothetically of course, a train with people inside manages to reach speed of light

the train burst into flames due to friction. steel is not made to survive such brutal speeds

everyone dies.

i piss on the corpses

Reminds me of Roller Coaster Tycoon 3.

Suicide Roller coasters anyone?

A train canoot reach the speed of light beeeecause....

The critical mass of an object when approaching the speed of light changes, its grows heavier and heavier. therefore more power is required to push the object. The harder you push it the heavier it gets.

to make 1Kg of mass even get close to the light barrier you would need the total radiation energy emitted by every star in the milky-way galaxy for around 1.7 thousend years.

Your talking about pushing a freaking TRAIN, there is no feasible source of energy in our plane of existence (dimension) capable of powering such an object.

honestly to get such a huge amount of power in one instant you would have to....lemmi think..... literally rip an hole in time and space and artificial create a hyperblack hole (i shit you not they exist) which is basicly a blackhole the size of a universe...

and then SUMHOW capture all the released energy before the blackholes gravitational field strength kicks in and sucks it all up, so a time frame of what? like 1/billionth of a second?

*DE flips hair*

^ i actauly did to :P cept i do it all the time so....yer....FAYUL

Jetpacks. We need these desperately.

Sigh.

dey weren't for you deathenhanced why did u tak dem

i want the game 2 be realistic i dont want mythilohical guns or dragons or demons or angels i want it 2 be like rela life realwar as possible

@SLAYER

DAT HAIRFLIP.

@rambobond Not about The game. But yeah it would be cool to be fighting on a moving train.

Also, you wouldn't be able to see anything, your moving faster then light so it cant catch up.

lol oo my bad

if you belive in stephen hawking he emplys that a viechle moving at such speeds will catapult the occupants forward in time!
and yes death is right you would need a huge amout of power to make a train go anywhere near the speeds your talking about
and on this planet it is simply impossible to gather such power

although death is not entirley correct it is possible that we may be able to harvest an EXTEMLEY powerfull energy source from a distant planet but then again maybe not

Geez AoS, why so serious?

@rambo So you don't want me in AoS... Thanks...
Technically, has Alucard is saying, if something is going in the speed of light they're occupants will be put in another time.
Unrelated note: Imagine if there was someone in a spaceship going through a black hole. If that person passes (Impossible to do as of now) they will be found in another black hole (that was linked to the one he passed) and is now in a different time. Possibly the distant past in where the dinosaurs lived.

Nothing happens to the people inside, but according to special relativity theory everything they see outside the train would be:

1) moving at nearly the speed of light, in the opposite direction
2) really stretched out
3) red shifted because of time dilation
4) have all their clocks moving very slow because of time dilation

I can't explain special relativity to these forums, so you'll just have to believe me when I say that this is what relativity theory predicts ;D

Instead, let's use Slip-space. THEN it get's interesting because it's simpler...

...Dat ida an clclton cannt go thru mi hed. I hte rlatvty. i hte thnkng ovrll

ohh, this was a example of time travel on a show that aired on the discovery channel.

NO THATS JUST UR NAME MAN U COOL JUST LIKE IF SOME ONE ASKED FOR A DRAGON TO RIDE ON THEN oops capps ........ then thats 2 much

hey can i have the death coaster?
and my thought to the trains: eh... sounds dumb...

the speed of light being a barrier is a conspiracy.

^This.

Oh hey there, cow.

while in the train when its moving it should make you see trippy colors =w=
that'd be fucking sweet!
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I guess some people didn't get the joke about AoS trains. :P

There's only one thing to be certain:
No matter how fast the train would go, it would still be late.

A Jet Going at the Speed of Mach 2 would enpress 9Gs of force on the pilot, usual unexperienced people would black out in a matter of seconds.
Imagine going at the speed of light.
Mach 872,093 is the speed of light. So yea. Good luck with that.

we'd be frozen in buckets