Question

Suppose the speed of light were 50 miles per hour (22 meters per second).

How would this affect your everyday life? (discuss with respect to laws of Physics)

Answer 1

1. Having a conversation with someone who isn’t close at hand will result in really annoying delays. To send a message to someone on the other side of the world would take days at this 22 m/s speed of light.

2. The act of walking around would cause to lose time. And if we started moving around in a car at highway speeds, then we could expect to lose a considerable amount of time.

3. From your point of view the world around you undergoes length-contraction. From everyone else’s point of view, you’re travelling through time slower.

4. Even at running speed there would be enough relativistic doppler shift to change the colors around you. If you were driving past a yellow field of grain, it would appear blue in front of you and fade to deep red as it passed behind you