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[–]MrBrawn 44 points45 points ago

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I tried running towards my monitor at full speed and it still was red.

[–]eat4fun 19 points20 points ago

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You need to go a bit faster. Try strapping a ramjet engine to your back. That may help.

[–][deleted] 4 points5 points ago

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A ramjet will not do, at least not to get it to be perceptible to the human eye. You need relativistic speeds for that, an engine capable of propelling a human to that speed is way beyond current technology.

[–]ToxiJuice 8 points9 points ago

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So... Two ramjet engines?

[–]firepelt 1 point2 points ago

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At least four.

[–]BlazeOrangeDeer 0 points1 point ago

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Try 60.

[–]esoteric416 3 points4 points ago

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You needed to run through the monitor. Keep at it though.

[–]EvilEconomist 256 points257 points ago

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[–]ubernood 321 points322 points ago

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Like I'm 5, please?

[–]Forscyvus 257 points258 points ago*

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Color is based on how fast (edit: or more correctly, how often) waves of light hit your eyes (basically, how close together the waves are), if you move towards the source of the waves, youll hit them faster than if you were just standing still, therefore you'll perceive a faster frequency of the waves.

Red to blue happens to be the shift in color perception of moving towards a light source. However the humor is that for blueshift have that sort of change from pure red to pure blue, you'd have to be moving astronomically fast.

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[–]MikeSD34 671 points672 points ago

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God did it

[–]anxiousalpaca 195 points196 points ago

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Like I'm an Atheist, please?

[–]kenneth415 410 points411 points ago

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[–]anxiousalpaca 119 points120 points ago

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i see what you did there

[–]snosrep 24 points25 points ago

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the cycle of explanations

[–]robdiao -3 points-2 points ago

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I'm a Christian and I laughed my ass off at this clever response.

[–]Anman 22 points23 points ago

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Cool.

[–]mysuperioritycomplex 35 points36 points ago

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Sagan did it.

[–]conandrum 29 points30 points ago

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Simpsons did it.

[–]Worryaboutstuff 8 points9 points ago

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OJ did it.

[–]Dukelicious 7 points8 points ago

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Dammit! What didn't Diddy do?!?

[–]Walleek 8 points9 points ago

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Actually it was hubble who did it

[–]eat4fun 4 points5 points ago

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Further Observations on the Spectra of Some of the Stars and Nebulae, with an Attempt to Determine Therefrom Whether These Bodies are Moving towards or from the Earth, Also Observations on the Spectra of the Sun and of Comet II., 1868

Huggins, W., 1868, Royal Society of London Philosophical Transactions Series I, 158, 529

[–][deleted] 0 points1 point ago

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Attack MikeSD34.

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[–]Forscyvus 66 points67 points ago

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Well you know how russia is always red? Its like if you took america and went toward russia and eventually it would become true blue democracy

[–]lengau 0 points1 point ago

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But... But the DEMOCRATS are blue!

[–]ARCHA1C 9 points10 points ago

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Light waves come in. Llight waves go out.

You can't explain that.

[–]Garfield234 2 points3 points ago

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Don't worry your head with the discussions of men. Now go make me a sandwich.

[–]f03nix 0 points1 point ago

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[–]AsAChemicalEngineer 5 points6 points ago*

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This isn't correct my friend. Light always travels at the same speed. The speed of light. What does change is the wavelength or how energetic the light-wave is.

Color is based on how much energy the light has.

More energetic (shorter wavelengths) skew towards the blue side of the spectrum and lower energy light waves (longer wavelengths) are represented on the red side of the spectrum. (Ignoring anything that isn't visible)

However when an object is moving towards you, the emitted light exhibited is observed to have a shorter wavelength or closer to the blue side of the spectrum. If the object is moving away from you, then you observe a longer wavelength or the red side of the spectrum.

The same principal applies to situations involving gravity wells instead of motion.

[–]Forscyvus 1 point2 points ago

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like he's five though

[–]xyroclast 0 points1 point ago*

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If you're traveling at .99999% the speed of light, do things look bluish?

Edit: To my embarrassment, I made a common written error with the percentage.

I meant to say 99.99999%

[–]EarthRester 0 points1 point ago

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space magic, got it.

[–]reminiscence 23 points24 points ago*

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I'm sure you're aware of the Doppler effect, which is observed in situations like when an ambulance with its sirens blaring passes you on the road. First you hear the sirens in a certain pitch but as soon as it passes you it suddenly becomes lower in sound. This is not because the siren is actually playing different-pitched sounds (in fact if people in the ambulance will hear the same sound throughout) but is instead due to the difference in speed between you and the moving ambulance.

Whenever the source of sound is approaching you, the sound waves will literally be "squished" to make a wave with higher frequency. On the other hand, if the source is moving away from you, a lower pitch will be observed because the waves will be spread out more. I think this gif will explain the situation better than my words will.

So basically we have established how the Doppler effect works, and how it can be observed in sound waves. Light is no exception as it is also a wave and the Doppler effect can also exist. The only difference is that instead of observing a difference in pitch (which is what humans hear when the wavelength of a sound wave is altered), the Doppler effect in light waves is observed as a difference in colour. Light waves with "low pitch" is seen as red by our eyes, and as the wavelength becomes shorter the colour alternates between the colours of the rainbow to finally become violet.

The joke here is that to see any significant differences in wavelength due to the Doppler effect, you must be travelling at within ~10% of the speed of the wave in question. In the case of sound, you'll be able to hear differences in pitch by travelling at around highway speeds because it is within that approximate amount of 10% the speed of sound. However, 10% the speed of light is pretty damn fast, a speed humankind has not been able to achieve thus far. That is why driving towards a bumper sticker at max speed will not create any noticeable differences in colour, as the speed at which your car is travelling is simply too slow to be significant enough for light.

P.S.- As other fellow redditors have mentioned, the Doppler effect in light (also known as redshift/blueshift) is observed with stars and it is one technique to judge the relative speed at which a certain star is approaching/moving away from us. So it's definitely a useful technique- you just can't use it to judge the speed of really slow things (i.e. everything on the face of this planet ha)

[–]Necromas 6 points7 points ago

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"To observe such a change in color, the object would have to be traveling at approximately 5200 km/s, or about 75 times faster than the speed record for the fastest manmade space probe."

[–][deleted] 2 points3 points ago

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O.O Damn!

[–]Stevengodz 0 points1 point ago

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Sheldon says hi.

[–]Sebguer 21 points22 points ago

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Next time you want something explained like your five, just go down the left side of Wikipedia, with all the languages, and hit "simple english".

http://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Red_shift

[–]redditallreddy 5 points6 points ago

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TIL

[–]ilt 2 points3 points ago

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I did not know this. I was explaining natural log to my niece yesterday (she's 12) and sent her a link to the wiki page. Unfortunately there's no simple english page for Natural logs.

[–][deleted] 1 point2 points ago

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When you move towards a source of light at a high enough speed (very very fast - about 35% of the speed of light), you essentially squish the light waves together. A smaller wavelength (the distance between two waves) means a higher frequency, which humans perceive as a blue colour. Lower frequencies of light appear red.

[–][deleted] 1 point2 points ago

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It's the Doppler Effect for light.

[–]Spookaboo 1 point2 points ago

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It's like sounds, a motorbike sounds higher pitched as it come towards you because the waves compress sort of and likewise they stretch when the bike passes you and is moving away.

[–]Airazz 0 points1 point ago

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Imagine a row of cars on a highway, going at, say, 60 mph. If you stood still, they would move past you at 60mph. If you were moving to the same direction at 80mph, they would be moving back from you at 20 mph, so slower than before, even if they keep the same speed. Same with light, it looks slower if you move very fast to the same direction (or away from it.)

And these gaps between bits of light is what makes color. Slow is blue, fast is red.

[–]PrettyPony 0 points1 point ago

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Psssh..yeah. I totaly knew that, not like I'm dumb.

[–]factoid_ 0 points1 point ago

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I'll hold on to one end of a slinky. You hold onto the other. The coils represent a beam of light moving as a wave through the air.

We both start running. If we run as the same speed, the space between the coils is the same.

If I'm in front of you, and you're running faster than me, the space between the coils gets smaller.

If I'm running faster than you, the coils get farther apart.

The close together light waves are blue in color. The far apart light waves are red in color.

So if you start with red bumper sticker and drive really fast toward it, the slinky compresses and starts to look blue in color.

Of course "really fast" in this instance means "close to the speed of light". You'll never achieve that in a car.

[–]lemmy101 0 points1 point ago

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When an ambulance goes by, you'll notice the sound changes so when it's coming toward you the pitch is higher, and it does like a bend as it passes and it's lower pitch as it's going away. This is doppler shift, and works with all waves including light ones. Instead of a pitch difference, in light it's obviously a colour difference. But otherwise the same phenomenon.

So when an object is coming toward you the light reflected off it and therefore its colour is slightly tinted toward blue, and when they are moving away they are slightly tinted toward red.

In the case of an ambulance's light instead of sound, due to the MASSIVE speed of light compared to sound, the tint to red/blue would be so minute you'd never be able to perceive the difference. It's only noticeable on stars moving apart at super fast astronomical speeds as the universe expands. Hence it's funny to think that someone could be speeding so much on the roads as to make that change to blue (meaning relatively the car in front is moving toward you, aka tinting toward blue)

EDIT: Damn beaten to it. Even with the ambulance analogy ¬¬

[–]CrackedPepper86 15 points16 points ago

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I get it!

[–]worrst 4 points5 points ago

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Dammit, i dont get it. Please explain!

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[–]larkable 28 points29 points ago

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<~~~~~~ Move towards an object, lightwaves get smaller, therefore bluer - Blueshift

~~~~> Move away from an object, lightwaves get longer, therefore redder - Redshift

(Hope I'm right, this is from memory and I didn't look it up)

[–]tick_tock_clock 5 points6 points ago

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You've got it.

[–]conandrum 1 point2 points ago

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a better word for smaller would be shorter, but yes indeed you have it right! As someone who deals with this stuff for a living, I am glad the knowledge is being shared.

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[–]BlazeOrangeDeer 0 points1 point ago

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They actually do have a different wavelength from our perspective. The Theory of Relativity says that all observations made at a constant velocity are equally valid, so whatever we see is what it is, at least for us.

[–]faultydesign 6 points7 points ago

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Redshift!

[–]BlazeOrangeDeer 0 points1 point ago

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...Actually blueshift!

[–]butyourenice 6 points7 points ago

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[–]ajayvee 5 points6 points ago

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Simple wiki? Wow. I had no idea. That is going to be very useful.

[–]tanketom 2 points3 points ago

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Most often I find Simple Wiki a bit too simple. And it uses the words "things" too much, eg.:

"A person uses a computer by telling it to do things, like playing movies or going to Wikipedia"

Whenever I read Simple Wikipedia I hear a woman talking to foreigners and/or 8th graders. Very slowly, very loudly, and with a high-pitched annoying voice.

[–]ajayvee 1 point2 points ago

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That would be annoying, but there are times that regular Wiki is too complicated when I just want a quick understandable explanation. Maybe the simple version isn't the answer.

[–]tanketom 1 point2 points ago

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Yeah, it's highly subjective. Also, I find the quality of Simple Wiki articles vary more than the normal English one. Although, there's probably not that many contributors and moderators in the Simple one.

[–]funknut 1 point2 points ago

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Finally, a physics joke which I understand.

[–]RedRing86 4 points5 points ago

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Magic. Got it.

[–]afungi 1 point2 points ago

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From the article:

To observe such a change in color, the object would have to be traveling at approximately 5200 km/s, or about 75 times faster than the speed record for the fastest manmade space probe.

[–]kingds 2 points3 points ago

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GUYS, IT'S REDSHIFT!

[–]PolishRobinHood 12 points13 points ago

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No, it's Blueshift.

[–]Kruse 61 points62 points ago

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Redshift, blueshift. One shift, two shift.

[–]The_Schwenk 3 points4 points ago

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night shift

[–]douglasr007 1 point2 points ago

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grave yard shift

[–]GoldwaterAndTea 1 point2 points ago

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Oooo I get it. I get jokes!

[–]hpymondays 0 points1 point ago

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Scientifically inaccurate: it could also be you're color blind.

[–]Physics101 0 points1 point ago

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That is not how colour-blindness works.

[–]ivtecdoyou 0 points1 point ago

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I passed Algebra 1 once... damn southern schooling

[–]crustyspot 0 points1 point ago*

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Thank you. I wonder if Half Life: Blue Shift was an inside meta joke.

[–]sirisaacnuton 1 point2 points ago

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Yeah...it's a little double entendre based on the "cop" type character starting his shift, plus the physics concept. Basically the same as with Half Life and Opposing Force (opposing force is not really an actual physics term like half-life or blueshift, but in the context it would be a reference to Newton's 3rd Law, about equal and opposite forces).

[–]WendyLRogers2 30 points31 points ago

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Years ago, in Germany, I saw a Porsche with a spectrum paint job with red on the front and blue violet on the rear, with hazy gradation. Sure enough it was owned by an astrophysicist.

[–]SlimThugga 28 points29 points ago

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A fabulous astrophysicist.

[–]StinkyQuassia 8 points9 points ago*

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Isn't that backward? If the implication is that the car is moving quickly, then the wavelength of the light from the tail end as it speeds away would be elongated (redshift), and the light in one's rear view mirror as it gains on you would be compressed (blueshift).

Maybe he was a self-deprecating Woody Allen astrophysicist.

[–]digitalsmear 5 points6 points ago

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Maybe he likes driving in reverse.

[–]rooktakesqueen 1 point2 points ago

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Maybe he drives really slow, and expects to be the one being passed, not the passer.

[–]TheCannon 68 points69 points ago

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I saw one the other day I liked that said:

Stupidity Kills (But not enough to really help...)

[–]IHateDolphins 27 points28 points ago

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I like the one:

You! Out of the gene pool!

[–]hbdgas 1 point2 points ago

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One of the stupidest people I know has a sticker that says "Think. It's not illegal yet." :/

[–]eat4fun 0 points1 point ago

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He them proceeds to slam on the brakes.

[–]doublelen 24 points25 points ago

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A car sticker that I like*

[–]invicem_fricamus 2 points3 points ago

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[–]doublelen 0 points1 point ago

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oh, well I guess I'm wrong. That stinks

[–]jumpup 15 points16 points ago

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someone should paint him blue to mess with the driver

[–]k_bomb 7 points8 points ago

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How fast do you have to be going for the red to appear blue?

[–]TrainOfThought6 20 points21 points ago

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For a shift from red light (~450 THz) to blue light (~650 THz), you'd need to be travelling towards the source at about 35% of the speed of light (assuming I did the math right).

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So does this mean if you were traveling toward, say, Mars in a spaceship going over 35% the speed of light, and could see Mars whizzing by (hypothetically), you wouldn't perceive the colors of the planet to be the same as they normally are? It'd seem blue?

[–]christian-mann 5 points6 points ago

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Only if you're heading towards it.

[–]EncasedMeats 6 points7 points ago

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In which case, you'd likely have bigger problems than planetary identification.

[–]xenidus 1 point2 points ago

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Even if you might be able to even perceive that you're looking at anything at a third the speed of light before you impact and vaporize.

[–]EncasedMeats 1 point2 points ago

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All of my Asteroids games ended exactly like this.

[–]cesiumpluswater 3 points4 points ago

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That's what you get for moving. YOU NEVER FUCKING MOVE IN ASTEROIDS.

[–]rooktakesqueen 2 points3 points ago

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THE GAME IS NO FUN IF YOU DON'T MOVE.

I blow up all the big and medium asteroids until I just have a bunch of tiny asteroids, and fly around in them. I pretend I'm Han Solo.

[–]covenant 1 point2 points ago

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...or the source traveling at you at ~%35 the speed of light.

[–]TrainOfThought6 14 points15 points ago

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Same thing, really.

[–]BlazeOrangeDeer 1 point2 points ago

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Exactly the same thing. This message brought to you by Albert Einstein.

[–][deleted] 2 points3 points ago

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Or you travelling towards it at ~12.5% and the object towards you at ~12.5%. But now i'm just being a smartass.

[–]snarkfish 23 points24 points ago

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well if we are being smartasses

*17.5

[–]RabbaJabba 1 point2 points ago

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If we're being smartasses, relativistic velocities don't follow simple addition. It's closer to 27% and 27%.

[–]snarkfish 2 points3 points ago

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i am not going to check the math of the composition law for velocities

but touche :)

[–][deleted] 0 points1 point ago

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Dammit my brain isn't working today! Thanks for the correction (seriously). Just strange how your brain can interpret a word or calculate something and be totally sure it's correct and come back adn look at it and look like a total imbecile. LOL.

[–]fishbert 1 point2 points ago

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at about 35% of the speed of the light

FTFY

(light can travel at a wide variety of speeds, depending on the medium; the speed of this particular light is what's relevant)

[–]TrainOfThought6 1 point2 points ago

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Light (photons) always travel at the same speed, c. Always, for ever and ever. In a medium, light only propagates slower because it takes some amount of time for the photons to be absorbed and re-emitted by the material. In the empty space between atoms, even in a solid material, light still travels at c.

[–]fishbert 1 point2 points ago

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Assume there's a riotous mass of people in London (I know, crazy talk... but just roll with it). People in the riotous mass may be very hurriedly dashing about, smashing windows, burning cars, looting businesses, etc., but if the riotous mass is only progressing down the street at a very slow speed, the news reports are going to warn people that the riotous mass is traveling in some direction at that slow speed, not at however fast the individuals are hurriedly dashing about.

Similarly, when people speak of the "speed of light", what they are usually referring to is the "speed of light in a vacuum" ... which more explicitly belies the context of propagation.


Now that semantics is out of the way...

What we care about when speaking of redshift is the phase velocity of the light. This is a property of light that is absolutely affected by the medium in which it travels.

Wikipedia has an interesting animation that may help illustrate the difference. In this animation, when it is taken as a reference to light, the red dot (front velocity) can be usually assumed equal to the speed of light in a vacuum. But the phase velocity (again, what we care about relative to redshift) is the much slower blue dot.

[–]TrainOfThought6 1 point2 points ago

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Good call, I didn't consider that the phase velocity affects redshift, not the front. Great analogy with the riotous mass by the way.

[–]fishbert 0 points1 point ago

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Thanks

[–]anexanhume 51 points52 points ago

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It's funny because it implies the reader is traveling at relativistic speeds.

[–]tick_tock_clock 23 points24 points ago

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Technically, anyone who is moving is traveling at a relativistic speed; of course, not nearly fast enough to cause noticeable blueshift.

[–]latticusnon 2 points3 points ago

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I'm pretty sure the word "relativistic" actually means close enough to the speed of light that the theory of relativity is used instead of Newtonian physics to describe behavior.

If he had said "relative" speed you would have been correct.

[–]TheDunadan 2 points3 points ago

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Right, but that judgement is arbitrary. There is not a specific velocity where suddenly the laws change from Newtonian to relative. The faster you're moving the more innacurate Newtonian physics is going to be. Typically one would incorporate relativity at speeds greater that 1/10th the speed of light. But what if you're working with something at 9/20ths the speed of light but you need your results to be ultra precise?

[–]jebiv 2 points3 points ago

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"Fast enough to notice that the universe is not accurately described by classical mechanics" is the commonly accepted definition of "relativistic speeds."

[–]ThatsALogicalFallacy 9 points10 points ago

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Technically, don't try and use the word "technically" when there isn't a technical definition for the word "relativistic" in the context it's being used in.

[–]shigal777 3 points4 points ago

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Technically, it was a valid usage seeing as he was providing a technical explanation for the speed of "anyone who is moving."

[–]ThatsALogicalFallacy 17 points18 points ago

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Technically, your comment is incorrect since I'm retroactively defining the technical definition of "incorrect" to be "comments made by shigal777."

[–]MogusMaximus 18 points19 points ago

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Technically, SHUT THE FUCK UP BOTH OF YOU!

[–]Pruneyy 10 points11 points ago

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that's a logical fallacy

[–]UF0118 0 points1 point ago

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You're technically correct, the best kind of correct!

[–]mr_greenguy 5 points6 points ago

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Did you know people with cars stickers are more likely to be aggressive drivers.

[–]spattersp 7 points8 points ago

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what's a car sticker?

[–]joegekko 52 points53 points ago

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It's a sticker shaped like a car, but that's not important right now.

[–]OverlordMcDart 25 points26 points ago

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Looks like I picked the wrong week to quit sniffing glue.

[–]alkorion 9 points10 points ago

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Surely you can't be serious?!?

[–]CasualFridays 15 points16 points ago

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I am. And quit calling me Shirley.

[–]airwalkery2k 3 points4 points ago

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PHYSICS PROBLEM:

How fast must you be going for the sticker on that car to turn blue? Answer gets an upvote.

[–]Physics101 1 point2 points ago*

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105000000 m/s

Approx.

[–]sutherlandan 3 points4 points ago

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Stephen Hawkings explained this really well to me in "A Brief History of Time."

[–]jscoppe 8 points9 points ago

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Finally a car sticker that I like.

FTFY

[–]shark2000br 1 point2 points ago

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Maybe he meant he's been waiting his whole life for a car sticker. He likes car stickers. So here: Finally a car sticker, which I like!

[–]jscoppe 0 points1 point ago

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Ah, yes. He likes having finally, after so many years, having gotten hold of the elusive car sticker.

[–]invicem_fricamus 1 point2 points ago*

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The that/which distinction is a stylistic choice that which is only insisted upon by certain American style manuals. A relatively recent innovation, it was first popularized in 1926 by H.W. Fowler--who himself did not even defend it as much as later pedants would:

Some there are who follow this principle now; but it would be idle to pretend that it is the practice either of most or of the best writers.

[–][deleted] 1 point2 points ago

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Bitch please, I learned about this phenomenon from the Half-Life expansion. On a more serious note, does anyone know where I can buy this?

[–]EncasedMeats 1 point2 points ago

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Bummer. Apparently, you would have had to have been at the 1999 APS meeting in Georgia. I'm willing to travel through time but no way in hell am I going to Georgia.

EDIT: baelish found it (well, close enough).

[–][deleted] 1 point2 points ago

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[–]ninjasenses 1 point2 points ago

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I would not know this if I didn't watch into the universe with stephen hawking last night.

[–]uB166ERu 0 points1 point ago

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upvote for watching that!

[–]Slivilth 1 point2 points ago

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If this works with maroon, I will be experimenting by running towards Lothian buses tomorrow. I will let you all know my results.

[–]VoodooIdol 1 point2 points ago

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I saw that sticker on a car in Northern VA a while back when we were having some awesome Pho for dinner.

[–]dude_bro 1 point2 points ago

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I posted a different image of the same sticker 3 months ago and made the frontpage as well. This makes us eskimo brothers. http://www.reddit.com/r/pics/comments/h8k0k/amazing_bumper_sticker/

[–]n3onlights 3 points4 points ago

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This one is probably my favorite.

[–]tofurocks 0 points1 point ago

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Explain, I don't get it.

[–]BlazeOrangeDeer 0 points1 point ago

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Reminds me of this.

[–]squaretwo 2 points3 points ago

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Finally, a car sticker that I like.

[–]Oh4Sh0 2 points3 points ago

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"They've gone to plaid!"

[–][deleted] 1 point2 points ago

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[–]zoidberg005 1 point2 points ago

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Good old Doppler effect. Good job sir.

[–]givesparingly 1 point2 points ago

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"Death before dishonor; nothing before coffee."

[–]jubi23 1 point2 points ago

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How fast would you need to be going in order for that to actually happen?

[–]TrainOfThought6 6 points7 points ago

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About .35c

[–]Robincognito 2 points3 points ago

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Which is ~235 million mph. (for those who don't know that 'c' represents the speed of light)

[–][deleted] 5 points6 points ago

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slightly over the average highway speed limit.

[–]furbiesandbeans 0 points1 point ago

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Yes

[–]coozyorcosie 1 point2 points ago

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Shouldn't the sticker be white, and if he was speeding away it would turn red... if you were speeding toward it, it would turn blue?

The red sticker implies that I'm currently moving away from the bumper.

[–]Squid_Tamer 3 points4 points ago

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The idea is that once a red sticker blueshifts enough to be blue, then you're going very, very fast.

[–]highguy420 0 points1 point ago

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Exactly what I thought when I saw it.

[–]anotherkeebler 1 point2 points ago

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Fails to take into account that the reader may be stationary while the physicist is driving very fast in reverse.

[–]DarkSideofOZ 1 point2 points ago

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Hi, stickerish.com here, I love the sticker too. I'm gonna put it in my science/math section. Here's what I've come up with, do you guys like it?

[–]milfordcubicle 1 point2 points ago

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i think i've seen this post stuck to reddit's front page about 10 times in the past year.

[–]fxpstclvrst 0 points1 point ago

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I had a sticker on my car with the same message. It eventually faded to white. What are the implications of that? (Besides "time to get a new sticker.")

[–]BodePlot 1 point2 points ago

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That the reader should see a doctor.

[–][deleted] 0 points1 point ago

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I want one!

[–]subdep 0 points1 point ago

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Either that, or he's backing up way too fast.

[–]joerund 0 points1 point ago

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Whenever I come across these posts; blatantly saved and reposted from someone else (I remember it being posted not too long ago) but I still like it and want others to see it, I wonder if I should upvote for others to see, or downvote for the poster to realize that he/she is just doing it for his/her own karma. Its as close to a moral/ethical issue as I can come at the moment. /firstworldproblem.

[–][deleted] 0 points1 point ago

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you just referenced red/blue shifting and got 1000 karma. my faith in humanity has been restored.

[–][deleted] 0 points1 point ago

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My physics teacher had one on the board in his room, but i have yet to see one on a car.

[–]Cdf12345 0 points1 point ago

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I was following a car that had this bumper sticker on it once. I had to floor it, redline my car, and shift into 5th gear to catch it to be able to read what it said.

[–]mwatson1010 0 points1 point ago

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Awesome. Simply awesome

[–]fastsauce 0 points1 point ago

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I EAT STICKERS ALL THE TIME, DUDE!

[–]weasel707 0 points1 point ago

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If you drive fast enough towards a red traffic light, it'll turn green.

[–]Vindowviper 0 points1 point ago

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A buddy of mine got on his ford Taurus "Yes my tits are real... So is my Dick"

that one got a chuckle out of me...

[–]Henry132 0 points1 point ago

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Old, but I'll give you an upvote.

[–]PhantomGenocide 0 points1 point ago

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Repost. I think this was actually the very same picture that made me sign up and stop lurking...

[–]Ireland1206 0 points1 point ago

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You don't know how excited I was to understand this. I did a project on Relativity last year in 11th grade physics.

[–][deleted] 0 points1 point ago

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When you use "which" in place of "that", it's obvious to everyone else that you're trying too hard. Take pride in who you are, sir.

[–]grnieec_unsrmeae 0 points1 point ago

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You mean bumper sticker?

[–]FaKeShAdOw 0 points1 point ago*

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Next on Reddit:

People who still think the ocean is ONLY blue because it reflects the sky, folks who don't know what "lift" is and give God all the credit of keeping planes in the air, and possibly more stickers to expose this!

[–]Devywhop 1 point2 points ago

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Everyone knows planes stay up on sky hooks.

[–]timtamboy63 0 points1 point ago

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I just learnt about redshift/blueshift half an hour ago in Physics. Good timing!

[–]KnuttyD 0 points1 point ago

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I can only wonder how many redditors upvoted this to reaffirm their superiority complex.

I know I did :D

[–]sunkenOcean01 0 points1 point ago

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My astronomy professor showed us this. And a few TMBG videos. :)

[–]pratham3sh 0 points1 point ago

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That, or you're way too drunk to drive

[–]BoredBeyondBelief 0 points1 point ago

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lame

[–][deleted] 0 points1 point ago

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Then he must be driving too slow.

[–]Wistuba17 0 points1 point ago

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Like I'm Michael Scott, please ?

[–]chriscrowder -1 points0 points ago

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How many times is this going to be reposted?

[–]dontmakelists 4 points5 points ago

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How many times is this going to be resposted?

[–]farkle_motion 0 points1 point ago

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I had no idea what that was referring to until seeing this last week. Thanks again Carl Sagan!

[–]Tashre 1 point2 points ago

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This was the very first thought that popped into my mind.

Carl Sagan was one of the best science teachers I ever had.

[–]Thirsteh 0 points1 point ago

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...which, sadly, nearly no one is going to understand, especially considering it completely fails to mention anything about remembering 9/11, scumbag muslims and terrorist presidents, or even just supporting Sarah Palin, guns and the Bible.

[–]the_knee_grows 0 points1 point ago

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Finally, a new..... Wait, nope.... It's a repost.

[–]Think4Yourselff 0 points1 point ago

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Growing weed helps me understand this joke.

2700k vs. 6500k = lolz

[–]scb8mp 0 points1 point ago

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[–]brazalien 0 points1 point ago

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My favorite car sticker i saw in downtown dc about 2 weeks ago. It says "i know i fucked you all, but thanks for blaming it on the black guy" with a picture of bush