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Hi all.
I'm working on writing a sci-fi story and I'm really just getting into researching relativity and time dilation. I'm a layman, but the ideas excite me, so I'm trying to figure these things out the best I can.
Here is my hypothetical: Say someone were to have a vehicle that could travel the speed of light, and on the front of it, a video camera was affixed to relay the image to a television set in real time. The man in the light speed vehicle travels such a distance that he returns to find everyone 20 years older, while he has barely aged. 1) What do the observers watching the television see once the craft is traveling at light speed? Do they see exactly what the man in the vehicle is seeing? 2) Would the image keep going for all 20 years, and as these people aged they could keep watching the image of lightspeed travel?
Obviously, the scenario is ignoring the time it would take for the television image to be broadcast to the television. That would make things much more complicated. I think I know the answer to this question, but I want to run it by the people who know a thing or two.
Please explain in the simplest possible manner! Thanks in advance.
I'm working on writing a sci-fi story and I'm really just getting into researching relativity and time dilation. I'm a layman, but the ideas excite me, so I'm trying to figure these things out the best I can.
Here is my hypothetical: Say someone were to have a vehicle that could travel the speed of light, and on the front of it, a video camera was affixed to relay the image to a television set in real time. The man in the light speed vehicle travels such a distance that he returns to find everyone 20 years older, while he has barely aged. 1) What do the observers watching the television see once the craft is traveling at light speed? Do they see exactly what the man in the vehicle is seeing? 2) Would the image keep going for all 20 years, and as these people aged they could keep watching the image of lightspeed travel?
Obviously, the scenario is ignoring the time it would take for the television image to be broadcast to the television. That would make things much more complicated. I think I know the answer to this question, but I want to run it by the people who know a thing or two.
Please explain in the simplest possible manner! Thanks in advance.