So, your in a plane...

[TrafficInSight]

Yes, the flashlight will appear to work normally to anyone inside of the airplane. It will look quite different to an observer outside of the airplane, however.

You had to take and ruin a good comedy thread with your facts and logic

 

[FN FAL]

You had to take and ruin a good comedy thread with your facts and logic

People that ask these questions should be shot out of a cannon with a flashlight, preferably at that wall. Then they can relate their experience at answering sub-speed of light flashlight questions, before moving on to the speed of light theories they'll never be able to prove.

 

[spngbobsqrpilot]

Yes...the speed of light is relative...however time slows down...

Meaning, of course, that since time is stopped at the speed of light, it would take FOREVER to reach the wall in front of you. (From the outside observer's standpoint, of course.) So no, from an outside observer, the beam of light will never hit the wall. Unless of course, as already pointed out, you put the flashlight on a treadmill.

 

[navigator72]

I don't get it, why are flying towards a wall at such a crazy speed?

 

[MarineGrunt]

It depends..... Which direction is the treadmill moving???

 

[skip 55]

NO,It

 

[FN FAL]

I don't get it, why are flying towards a wall at such a crazy speed?

It's only a crazy speed unless a cop sees you doing it.

 

[zugzug]

Why does the light have to hit the wall? Can't it just be friends with the wall? The wall has never done anything to the flashlight. When the fecal matter hit the fan, nothing good came from that. Why all the violence on this board why, why,why!

 

[minitour]

It's only a crazy speed unless a cop sees you doing it.

It's not a crazy speed....crazy speed's too slow....we need to go straight to Ludicrous Speed....

-mini

 

[MarineGrunt]

It's not a crazy speed....crazy speed's too slow....we need to go straight to Ludicrous Speed....

-mini

"Sir, hadn't you better buckle up???"

"Aaaah, buckle this........"