Our science teacher had a thing on tape from a TV program basically about Einstein's E=mc2... It branched off into many other scientists that aided in all the basics of the equation. A few of the ways they portrayed it on the video were.
Einstein and his wife were sitting on a bench next to a river. Watching a small boat with a woman on it go by. From where Einstein was sitting, it looked as if the waves were traveling faster than the boat and that there was more than one. From the lady riding the boats perspective, it was a single wave, that was motionless because it traveled the speed of the boat.
What they got outta that was basically, if they were to be in a car traveling the speed of light, they would see the waves of light moving alongside the car, which they proved untrue because no matter how fast your going, light is still going an equal speed away... Therefore you seem to be catching up to light, but you're just slowing down time.
From my understanding the only thing that can go faster than the speed of light, is light itself. Which makes little sense to me still... But I'm very interested in this... It's the only interesting thing in science as far as I'm concerened.
It got me to thinking if a black hole in space, is just a place where the light cannot escape the gravitational forces... if we were to make something (ourselves or something else) go faster than light itself, we'd disappear?
To tell you the truth *again*... I don't like science much at all.... except for things that we can't completely explain... such as this.
EDIT: Although now I know I'm not even near completely correct... I found website on the television program my teacher showed us.
Take a look at it here!
