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What is the fastest moving object in the universe?
So I'm interested, what is the fasted moving object in the universe?I know that nothing is faster than speed of light, but light is not an object you know :)
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- steven mLv 71 decade agoFavorite Answer
Fastest moving Through "What" ?
Air, Void, or something more solid
Scientists have measured Sound waves, Atomic particulates and other things moving through various materials and gases
Ask Nasa
- 1 decade ago
The Speed Red Shift Theory is one theory that is used to explain the red shifting of stars and galaxies. This theory suggest that these objects are moving away from us at a very high speed, the more distant the galaxy the greater the red shift. There are other theories that may also explain the red shifting of star light but I won't go into that now. Scientists believe that it is impossible for anything to travel faster than the speed of light. However Astronomers have noticed light objects with incredibly high red shifts referred to as Quasars. Some Quasars show red shifts of 200 and 300 percent which would equal distances of up to 12 billion light years. Some Quasars show speeds exceeding 90% the speed of light. As a result of this discovery some astronomers dropped the speed red shift theory as the explanation for the red shifting of star light. Then more discoveries were made of Quasars showing red shifts of 300-400%. Astronomers discovered 3 Quasars that were exceeding the speed of light. One was traveling at 8x the speed of light. This discovery has created big problems for evolutionists. "An increase of 100 percent in the Hubble Constant would decrease the computed age of the universe by 50 percent." (Vincent A, Ettari)
- ?Lv 51 decade ago
Particles. Through the usage of particle accelerators, they can nearly reach the speed of light. (Particle accelerators use electromagnetic fields to propel charged particles to high speeds and to contain them in well-defined beams.)
"Since the special theory of relativity requires that matter always travels slower than the speed of light in a vacuum, in high-energy accelerators, as the energy increases the particle speed approaches the speed of light as a limit"
As stated in that quote, nothing can possibly travel faster than the speed of light, so time is actually slowed down for these objects that move at the speed of light. By doing so, the half-life of these particles can be drastically increased, long enough for scientists to identify them. So excluding light, the fastest moving object would be particles. (I know it's not related, but this is what helped build the theory that nothing can travel than the speed of light)
Source(s): http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Particle_accelerator#... + Documentaries and other sources - Anonymous1 decade ago
you are mistaken in your belief that "nothing is faster than speed of light"..... many many things are faster. What I am sure you meant to say was that no object with mass can be accelerated to a speed greater than that of light.
For example the superluminal transmission of information was accomplished back in the eighties, and Feynman showed that a beam of light is composed of photons whose "average" speed is that of light but some photons exceed that speed and some lag behind.
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- zi_xinLv 51 decade ago
light is an object. It is an object with zero mass. It is carried by the particle photon. The next fastest thing would be Cosmic rays, which are probably electrons or other subatomic particles.
- 1 decade ago
The superhero, Flash.
and to answer your question seriously, light IS an object in a way, because it actually has mass.
- Anonymous1 decade ago
My wife heading for the John in the middle of the night.
- Anonymous1 decade ago
A chicken running for its life