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Clever, I like it. I wonder how many people read it and have no clue what it means.
Exercise for the reader: Assuming average human eyesight, how many picoseconds away from a collision are you if you can read that size of text and the relative velocity between you and the car ahead of you is large enough that the red label is sufficiently blueshifted to look blue?
for 800nm to 400nm, we need gamma=2. So v~.86c. At 20m this gives you ~80ns.
For perspective, this speed is:
- 928 157 450 kilometers per hour
- 576 730 301 miles per hour
In one second, you would travel around:
- 258 000 kilometers
- 160 000 miles
Which is around 6.43 times around the Earth’s equator.
But how many Olympic sized swimming pools full of jello?
About 3 large boulders the size of a small boulder.
Did you see the boulder post too?
We are all the size of boulders on this blessed day.
Depends on the flavor
So, some paint might get exchanged?
It was a graveyard graph.
He caught up in a flash!
The sticker should also say something like “But don’t worry, we’re going to be evaporated in a huge explosion anyway, due to the gigantic release of energy when you crash into my car in a few nanoseconds.”
I want to know how fast you need to go to be color shifted on a traffic camera. The more I think about it the less likely getting enough light to be picked up by the camera might be an issue even with perfect placement
I think the problem would be getting enough reflected light and not too much radiant light from the compression and/or fusion plasma.
So 75000km/s is too fast? Boooo, get off the road grandad!
So is the reader fast or would it work the other way where the car with sticker is fast?
If the sticker is blue, one or the other of you is about to cease being biology and start being physics.
Even then, a BMW would tailgate and flash its headlights at you on a German autobahn.
Anyone would do that on an autobahn, get out of the passing lane slowpoke xD
Best thing is when small car from 1990 push away large bmw or porsche because they have 900 hp engine with dual turbo and nitrous injection.
I love sleeper car.
I am not sure i understand. Is it something to do with redshift?
Yup. Here’s a neat visual and more info on the page where I found it:
https://stickmanphysics.com/stickman-physics-home/unit-10-waves/doppler-effect/
Damn it. Imgur is blocked in the UK. Cant see that image.
you’re going way too fast, shifting into UV now
UV is blocked in the UK.
Probably for the better. Even with it having Milla Jovovich, it wasn’t very good.
Oh, I didn’t realize. I wanted to upload it, but Lemmy wouldn’t let me, so I just picked somewhere. Try the original link:
No, it’s just that democrats tend to drive faster than republicans because of their better cars and increased motivation to get out of red states
Best kind of science joke: funny and educational. Bonus points for making people think about Doppler before speeding.
If that sticker is blue, only the laws of physics can judge me.
Hey I used I have one of these. Slightly different design though. Was always my favourite sticker.
This was good, had a hearty chuckle
Mine was sensible.
Half-Life
Doppler
Make it green, and add the line “If this sticker is red, then I’m going too fast”
Light speed? No! Engage Ludicrous speed!
Put on f-777
The color also depends on the ink’s near-infrared reflectivity (since the sun and halogen headlamps emit infrared, that will get shifted into the red to green parts of the visible spectrum when red becomes blue)
