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For anyone too lazy to math, its a car that can go: 28.4 million km per hour (i.e. 17.6 million miles per hour) I wonder how much that speeding ticket would c

For anyone too lazy to math, its a car that can go: 28.4 million km per hour (i.e. 17.6 million miles per hour) I wonder how much that speeding ticket would cost. Disclaimer: Assuming the one-way speed of light is 300k km/s

TheRealNGenius 6y ago
No need to assume when we can define ;p
- bananabreakfast 6y ago
  I think they were alluding to the fact that it is impossible to measure the one-way speed of light, and even the definition is an assumption based on the two-way speed
  - 6nf 6y ago
    Since the one-way speed is impossible to measure can we just define it to be half of the two-way speed? There's no way to tell if that's correct or not but it makes no difference in any measurements you could make. So maybe for convenience we can just choose the one-way speed to be half the two way speed to simplify the calculations.
    - triclops200 6y ago
      That's exactly what's done most of the time, but it should be noted that it's convention and assumption.
faeyanpiraat 6y ago
This comment took effort and adds to the discussion; what's with the downvotes?
rbanffy 6y ago
> I wonder how much that speeding ticket would cost. I once got one for going at about 3x the speed limit (very nice road in Brazil, broad daylight, nobody in sight, short run, and very unfortunate radar gun positioning). The policeman was impressed and joked that he would like to, but couldn't give me 3 speeding tickets instead of one.
joshspankit 6y ago
There are some places where the cost of the ticket goes up the higher you are above the limit. Assuming it’s a school zone in one of those areas (pick whichever one you can answer for), what would the cost be then for going 28.4 mkm/hr?
- delecti 6y ago
  Fortunately you could quickly get to a jurisdiction that didn't extradite.
  - joshspankit 6y ago
    Hahahaha! Well played
MR4D 6y ago
> I wonder how much that speeding ticket would cost. Depends on the frame the officer is viewing you from, I suppose.
m3kw9 6y ago
The sonic boom would destroy anything in a few mile radius
- ygra 6y ago
  The heated plasma from compressing the atmosphere as well. I guess the progression of events and the carthage is similar to the relativistic baseball.
  - MrYellowP 6y ago
    Relevant xkcd: "What would happen if you tried to hit a baseball pitched at 90% the speed of light?" https://what-if.xkcd.com/1/ https://what-if.xkcd.com/1/

TheRealNGenius 6y ago

No need to assume when we can define ;p

bananabreakfast 6y ago
I think they were alluding to the fact that it is impossible to measure the one-way speed of light, and even the definition is an assumption based on the two-way speed
- 6nf 6y ago
  Since the one-way speed is impossible to measure can we just define it to be half of the two-way speed? There's no way to tell if that's correct or not but it makes no difference in any measurements you could make. So maybe for convenience we can just choose the one-way speed to be half the two way speed to simplify the calculations.
  - triclops200 6y ago
    That's exactly what's done most of the time, but it should be noted that it's convention and assumption.

faeyanpiraat 6y ago

This comment took effort and adds to the discussion; what's with the downvotes?

rbanffy 6y ago

> I wonder how much that speeding ticket would cost. I once got one for going at about 3x the speed limit (very nice road in Brazil, broad daylight, nobody in sight, short run, and very unfortunate radar gun positioning). The policeman was impressed and joked that he would like to, but couldn't give me 3 speeding tickets instead of one.

joshspankit 6y ago

There are some places where the cost of the ticket goes up the higher you are above the limit. Assuming it’s a school zone in one of those areas (pick whichever one you can answer for), what would the cost be then for going 28.4 mkm/hr?

delecti 6y ago
Fortunately you could quickly get to a jurisdiction that didn't extradite.
- joshspankit 6y ago
  Hahahaha! Well played

MR4D 6y ago

> I wonder how much that speeding ticket would cost. Depends on the frame the officer is viewing you from, I suppose.

m3kw9 6y ago

The sonic boom would destroy anything in a few mile radius

ygra 6y ago
The heated plasma from compressing the atmosphere as well. I guess the progression of events and the carthage is similar to the relativistic baseball.
- MrYellowP 6y ago
  Relevant xkcd: "What would happen if you tried to hit a baseball pitched at 90% the speed of light?" https://what-if.xkcd.com/1/ https://what-if.xkcd.com/1/