I have no idea if anyone would want to have a go at this. It's a hypothetical, nothing to do with evolution or creation, but I can't think of a better place to pose the question.
For this we have to make a few suppositions. Suppose we could travel faster than the speed of light. Also suppose we had found a way to arrive at our destination at the speed of light without turning our destination planet into a heap of rubble and our spacecraft into particles. Oh, and without killing our observer on the destination planet, just beside the landing site.
What would our observer see?
Would the observer see the craft on the launch pad, then the craft on the launch pad and also on the landing site, without yet having seen the journey? Would the observer then see the journey in reverse? If the distance was short enough and the speed fast enough, would the reversing image finally get to the launch pad, whereupon both these images would disappear and we would be left with just the actual craft at the landing site?
If the speed was a bit slower (but still faster than light) and the distance great enough, when the reverse journey happens, would the image at the launch pad would start it's journey as well? Would the two images merge and disappear somewhere? Is the point they merge at dependent on the speed and the distance travelled?
Can anyone tell me if I've got this totally wrong? I'm certainly not a physicist, so don't blind me with physicist terminology.
To Admin ; God knows where this would go, possibly Coffee House.
{Cranky Adminnemooseus added the "(re: Travel faster than the speed of light)" part to the otherwise pretty worthless topic title}
This message has been edited by Adminnemooseus, 09-20-2005 12:01 PM
™ Version 4.2