If you were moving faster than light, would you still be able to see light. And if you weren’t accelerating any faster, just staying constant, would you be able to see the light traveling behind you?
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Speed of light is a brainfuck. Saying you can’t go faster than the speed of light isn’t innacurate. But it’s a bit simplified. What actually happens is no matter how fast you’re going you’ll always measure light as propogating at the same speed. What does change is the wavelength of the light. So if you travel very close to the speed of light and look at a stationary lightsource behind you it’ll be redshifted to a wavelength that human eyes can’t detect. Of course a lightsource on your ship will look normal to you but be redshifted to the people back home.
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