I had been thinking how to get this achieved using basic components that you could buy from many electronic stores, some items may already be in your shed.
Speed of light is approx 186,000 miles per second.
This means if light was able to travel at that speed then it would take light 1 second to cover a distance of 186,000 miles.
Another way to put this is to imagine if light was able to travel in a gigantic round about, with a circumference of 186,000miles, then it would take light 1 second to go around once every second, in a circular path
Please refrain from telling me that light can only travel in a straight light, I know it does, I am not as dumb as you think.
Now, if we convert that imaginary gigantic circle, whose circumference is 186,000miles, that means its diameter would be circumference divided by pie, or 186,000 / 3.14 which gives you approx 59,236 miles diameter, or a radius half of this which is 29,618 miles.
Now, this a still a huge length as far as my experiment is concerned, so we must reduce this by a factor of at least 1000, so we get 29,618/1000 which gives you 29.618 miles.
Now what we need is a small laser pointer pen, finely balanced on a high speed motor shaft, capable of rotating at least just over 60,000rpm, which is not an impossible thing given our modern day technology.
Mount this laser on the motor shaft (similar to laser leveller used in building construction) and project the beam on a surface at a distance of just over 29.618 miles away, or say at 30 miles,
Most lasers will have no problem covering this distance.
Once the beam is projecting on to a special screen mounted at 30 miles away from the centre of the motor shaft, with a laser pen switched on, we should be able to observe the beam as well as use very high speed laser light detectors, then switch on this motor, which could be a pneumatically driven from a tank of compressed air, to attain such high revs per second, i.e. 1000 rps or 60,00rpm, thus we are scribing an arc on our special screen which is travelling at a speed faster than the speed of light,
Now the only question is whether we will be able to see this arc at all as it is travelling faster than the speed of light! our eyes might not be able to detect it, or even the fastest detectors may not detect it, but in reality the laser beam is scribing an arc at a speed faster than that of light itself.
(Please also stop telling me that at 60,000rpm the laser pen will fly off due to centripetal or centrifugal forces, assuming we take care of its mounts and drive and enclose it in a very solid steel structure balanced precisely to rotate at 60,000rpm to 70,000 RPM, most car turbos will handle 100,000rpm yet they are made of no special materials, turbine blades in aeroplane engines is another example that can rotate at 100K rpm with blades as huge as 10 foot diameter!
If you guys are more scientific, tell me then why it wouldn't scribe an arc at 30 miles away on a screen at a speed faster than that of light itself?
Do you think the centripetal force itself may eject light (photons) out of the laser pen and help it travel even faster than it normally does?
Speed of light is approx 186,000 miles per second.
This means if light was able to travel at that speed then it would take light 1 second to cover a distance of 186,000 miles.
Another way to put this is to imagine if light was able to travel in a gigantic round about, with a circumference of 186,000miles, then it would take light 1 second to go around once every second, in a circular path
Please refrain from telling me that light can only travel in a straight light, I know it does, I am not as dumb as you think.
Now, if we convert that imaginary gigantic circle, whose circumference is 186,000miles, that means its diameter would be circumference divided by pie, or 186,000 / 3.14 which gives you approx 59,236 miles diameter, or a radius half of this which is 29,618 miles.
Now, this a still a huge length as far as my experiment is concerned, so we must reduce this by a factor of at least 1000, so we get 29,618/1000 which gives you 29.618 miles.
Now what we need is a small laser pointer pen, finely balanced on a high speed motor shaft, capable of rotating at least just over 60,000rpm, which is not an impossible thing given our modern day technology.
Mount this laser on the motor shaft (similar to laser leveller used in building construction) and project the beam on a surface at a distance of just over 29.618 miles away, or say at 30 miles,
Most lasers will have no problem covering this distance.
Once the beam is projecting on to a special screen mounted at 30 miles away from the centre of the motor shaft, with a laser pen switched on, we should be able to observe the beam as well as use very high speed laser light detectors, then switch on this motor, which could be a pneumatically driven from a tank of compressed air, to attain such high revs per second, i.e. 1000 rps or 60,00rpm, thus we are scribing an arc on our special screen which is travelling at a speed faster than the speed of light,
Now the only question is whether we will be able to see this arc at all as it is travelling faster than the speed of light! our eyes might not be able to detect it, or even the fastest detectors may not detect it, but in reality the laser beam is scribing an arc at a speed faster than that of light itself.
(Please also stop telling me that at 60,000rpm the laser pen will fly off due to centripetal or centrifugal forces, assuming we take care of its mounts and drive and enclose it in a very solid steel structure balanced precisely to rotate at 60,000rpm to 70,000 RPM, most car turbos will handle 100,000rpm yet they are made of no special materials, turbine blades in aeroplane engines is another example that can rotate at 100K rpm with blades as huge as 10 foot diameter!
If you guys are more scientific, tell me then why it wouldn't scribe an arc at 30 miles away on a screen at a speed faster than that of light itself?
Do you think the centripetal force itself may eject light (photons) out of the laser pen and help it travel even faster than it normally does?