If you fire a hollow-point bullet 200 grains in weight, at 1000 feet per second, into a mud bank from a distance of ten feet, you will create a crater several inches in diameter. If you fire a hollow-point bullet the same weight at 2000 feet per second from the same distance into the same mud bank, you will create a crater significantly larger than the first one. It's the same with any mass at various speeds. Think of the damage a 1957 Chevy traveling at 60mph hitting a brick wall incurs. Then think of the damage traveling at 120 mph. Then think of two Chevys, each at 120 mph in a head-on collision. At increased speed, the mass in the mass/energy equivalency increases relative to the speed. It's a manifestation of relativity you can observe anytime. You can feel it in your hands when you clap them together. The harder you clap the more heat you feel.
that has nothing to do with anything other than the speed
upon impact. nothing in that has anything to do with what I was speaking of.
mass is the amount of matter that makes up an object.
MASS you are speaking of the different amounts of force that an
object can apply in a collision or upon impact.
what I have a problem with is how people seem to think that the mass of an object will grow as the object speeds up , and even infinitely as it reaches or achieves the speed of light.
As for reflected light accelerating after the bounce; why should it? Does a rubber ball bounce back faster than it is thrown to the floor? No, it doesn't, because a portion its motion/energy is released as heat and sound, and some is used in the minuscule amount the floor is compressed in the impact. Otherwise the ball would keep on bouncing indefinitely. It is the same with light
we use light bouncing off of mirrors to determine the speed of light , but who really knows , if light does speed up when it is reflected off of a mirror or not.
when Danish astronomer Olaus Roemer determined c as 136,646 miles per second without using mirrors he was probably right.
I can remember reading somewhere that light becomes difused and increases in speed when reflected off of a mirror , of course that was before the speed of light was such a big factor in life , and it may just be that too many peoples reputations were on the line to correct the mistakes in the books.
think about a laser , why do they bounce light back and forth between mirrors to intensify light for a laser.
how can you intensify light by bouncing it between mirrors
when each time it bounces it becomes difussed?
if light can be can be slowed down by sending it through a dence medium such as water , glass , diamonds ...etc.
then to follow suit with everything else in nature there should
be a way to speed light up , such as mirrors by decreasing its intensity you proportionately increase its speed.
I will have to check into how the all knowing NIST determined the speed of light and see if they used mirrors or any other method that could have provided accelerated results.
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