What If Spaceship Crashed Into Earth at the Speed of Light

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    In this video, we will talk about a hypothetical scenario where a spaceship crashes into Earth... at a speed of light.
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Komentáře • 396

  • @Dannnika13
    @Dannnika13 Před 7 lety +17

    +Anton Petrov 10:50 before launching Halley's comet, the launch velocity had changed to about 10% the speed of light... a decimal place was missed out.

  • @jualmi
    @jualmi Před 7 lety +44

    Someone should put the graphics of SpaceEngine in UniverseSandbox.

  • @supermendi0078
    @supermendi0078 Před 7 lety +6

    The mass of the object remains the same when accelerating, it is the force required to accelerate the spacecraft what increases so that you'd theoretically need infinite force to get to the actual speed of light with an object whose mass isn't zero. This is a consequence of the definition of the relativistic momentum of a massive object.

  • @mattdavis9371
    @mattdavis9371 Před 7 lety

    Nice to see your channel growing so quickly Anton :) I've been here since you had >5,000 subs, and I love to see your progress!

  • @LinkinPark4Ever1996
    @LinkinPark4Ever1996 Před 7 lety +11

    Try in the same simulation to place a black hole beside the object's trajectory going at light speed, to see if the hole bends the trajectory and avoid a crash on Earth

    • @SahilP2648
      @SahilP2648 Před 7 lety +3

      LINKINPARK4EVER1996 it wouldn't mostly do anything. the effect of gravity is relative to the speed of the object approaching it and the distance between the two objects. if the asteroid came really close to the event horizon, it will get deflected. but the angle of deflection will quickly start to decrease as you go beyond event horizon.

    • @LinkinPark4Ever1996
      @LinkinPark4Ever1996 Před 7 lety +1

      Sahil Pethe Thank you

  • @waengwang5313
    @waengwang5313 Před 7 lety +6

    ...what about Canada?.....:( we get blasted by a voyager one going at lightspeed and he doesn't point us out :( l

  • @roynxfox2686
    @roynxfox2686 Před 7 lety +98

    I love your channel the stuff you do is interesting

  • @henryscott370
    @henryscott370 Před 6 lety

    Love this channel! Keep up the great work! :)

  • @Milkymalk
    @Milkymalk Před 7 lety +2

    "There's Norway, anybody would be able to survive this!"
    Vikings are tough.

  • @mikekeenan8450
    @mikekeenan8450 Před 2 lety

    Charles Pellegrino's novels "Flying to Valhalla" and "The Killing Star" explore this concept. He imagines RKVs, as well as ordinary spacecraft, propelled by matter-antimatter annihilation to about 0.92c. What's unsettling is that once one civilization develops annihilation-powered spacecraft, it has an incentive to see any other civilization that develops them as a potential threat, as well as the means to eliminate that threat.

  • @goliath257
    @goliath257 Před 6 lety

    Very interesting video thanks!

  • @samueljett7807
    @samueljett7807 Před 7 lety +9

    Love the new intro.

  • @ahmadtamimi9057
    @ahmadtamimi9057 Před 7 lety

    I would really like it if you go into relativistic equations and talk more about the Lorentz factor and how at very high speeds there are drastic changes in the value of the Lorentz factor (in the next videos. I love your videos as they are interesting and informational. Thanks for making them.

  • @mmc3137
    @mmc3137 Před 7 lety +6

    I know I had a random planet in Space Engine which had two moons. These moons had so strange orbits that they touched each other sometimes. That didn't look very great...😑😑

    • @Versuffe
      @Versuffe Před 5 lety

      They must merge till they big and fat and weird orbits

  • @logicalmusicman5081
    @logicalmusicman5081 Před 2 lety

    "Absolutely nobody would survive this"
    Cockroach: I got this.
    Tardigrade: what explosion?

  • @BRUMAICANGYAL87
    @BRUMAICANGYAL87 Před 7 lety

    Love the new introduction Anton

  • @fos427
    @fos427 Před 7 lety

    Anton, and Ridddle have the coolest videos on youtube.

  • @nathanaelashnonmusic2615

    +Anton Petrov> please play scanner sombre. it's about going through a huge cave with no light and a LIDAR scanner. it's amazing you should try it.

  • @Blakearoberts
    @Blakearoberts Před 6 lety

    2 black holes colliding could create MASSIVE AMOUNTS of energy with its shockwave

  • @DataStorm1
    @DataStorm1 Před 6 lety

    mass will not get larger when approaching speed of light, it's inertia is what is going up (resistance to accelerate). Mass of a object stays the same.

  • @robertgaudet7407
    @robertgaudet7407 Před 6 lety +1

    The important thing to remember about the speed of light is that as the traveller the distance in front of you shrinks as you approach the speed of light. This means that even though technically you never 'reach the speed of light', you can cover 4 light years in much much faster than 4 years just by travelling at 9/10s light speed. That speed would shrink the distance in front of you by the lorentz factor, which is about 2.23 in this case, so you'd travel less than 2 light years to the object (as you'd perceive it) at almost the speed of light, travelling four light years as observed from earth in 2 years or less as experienced by you. Earth would still see your journey taking slightly more than four years. Confused yet?

  • @IonKattTMCE
    @IonKattTMCE Před 6 lety +8

    What if the earth hit light at the speed of spaceship?

  • @andrasfogarasi5014
    @andrasfogarasi5014 Před 7 lety

    About relativistic kill vehicles.
    Once a proton was detected travelling at ~99.99999999999999999999951% of the speed of light. It had the same energy as a baseball travelling at 26 m/s.

  • @gdacharnemouse3172
    @gdacharnemouse3172 Před 7 lety

    nice video interesting great commentary :)

  • @TristanVeerbeek
    @TristanVeerbeek Před 7 lety

    An object moving at the speed of light would probably turn into energy when it hits the atmosphere since it's moving at (less than) 299.792.458 m/s. Something comparable would be the particles in the Large Hadron Collider. This energy would be released together with the kinetic energy of the object creating an unbelievably large explosion. Pretty cool to think about... :)

  • @Emppu_T.
    @Emppu_T. Před 7 lety

    1:11 Dopest Drift Ever !

  • @sevaciii
    @sevaciii Před 6 lety +2

    SPOILERS FOR THE LAST JEDI,
    this happens in the movie, but with two ships. the rebel cruiser rams into Snoke’s Star destroyer, causing a huge explosion.

  • @PerrenialMillennial
    @PerrenialMillennial Před 7 lety

    Love your videos man . (y)

  • @AFFEmitMACKE
    @AFFEmitMACKE Před 7 lety

    The Explosion shown from the 5KG bowling ball was orders of magnitude larger than 150MT. with afirebal of that size, it's more likely to be i nthe GT-Range.

  • @sciblastofficial9833
    @sciblastofficial9833 Před 6 lety +1

    Can you try to recreate the entire Local Group using the galaxies in the game?
    Tip: To get Milky Way and Andromeda, go to the collision simulation and separate them from each other, about 2.5 million lightyears
    After that add some other galaxies which serve as satellite galaxies of Milky Way and Andromeda, and Triangulum is in the Galaxies menu

  • @benmcdaniel
    @benmcdaniel Před 6 lety

    Mass doesn't change with velocity; momentum does.

  • @wingsunfurl7030
    @wingsunfurl7030 Před 6 lety

    I did not know the info about not being able to reach Light speed, because of mass.. thanks

  • @greatbullet7372
    @greatbullet7372 Před 6 lety

    u would need to koordinate a thing around the gravitational fields to accelerate so there would be a way to travel really fast singshot over slingshot precalculated

  • @JohnDoe-wy2wm
    @JohnDoe-wy2wm Před 7 lety

    Already did this but nevertheless still entertaining to watch

  • @nathans6486
    @nathans6486 Před 7 lety

    what dos more damage? an object traveling with low mass but large radius or large mass with low radius?

  • @Cheezymuffin.
    @Cheezymuffin. Před 6 lety

    If something moved at the speed of light, the formula would indicate infinite energy, if there is mass, that's why foto so which have no mass can move at the speed of light.

  • @BenDover-wk1bs
    @BenDover-wk1bs Před 6 lety

    Many scientists have said that a craft travelling at the speed of light would build up so much energy that it would destroy the planet it was travelling to. That you would have to aim it at slightly off.

  • @ArcaneTurbulence
    @ArcaneTurbulence Před 6 lety

    It would pass straight through. You'd notice a shockwave, and that would be about it.

  • @Selfir123
    @Selfir123 Před 7 lety

    Would it be possible to set it up object to hit Earth exactly as a speed of light? I know its theoreticly impossible because in theory amount of energy to get object to that speed would be infinite but im wondering if something would really hit at this speed what would happen? explosion with infinite energy destroying universe?

  • @DarkTranqz
    @DarkTranqz Před 6 lety +1

    Extremely near the speed of light, each Particle constituting an object would carry a charge of roughly 25 trillion electron volts. At those energies, an object just 30 meters wide would glance through our atmosphere, the earth's crust, and into the mantle, without hardly noticing it. Before you could blink your eye (literally), the opposite side of the planet would be bulging and turning into plasma from the incomprehensible amount of energy being transferred through it. Everything we've ever known or loved, would be gone in an instant, and our planet would be a cloud of plasma, which would be pulled into and consumed by the sun. THAT, is what would happen with a light speed impact.

  • @VelociraptorsOfSkyrim
    @VelociraptorsOfSkyrim Před 7 lety

    Now, assuming you can possibly make it happen, would Mass Effect's FTL method be theoretically possible?

  • @archsixx2845
    @archsixx2845 Před 7 lety +7

    Use the tardis plz

  • @kossboss
    @kossboss Před 7 lety

    I want one of these top down view where u hurl the sun at the speed of light thru the solar system to see what happens to it and the planets orbits

  • @ravoniesravenshir3926
    @ravoniesravenshir3926 Před 6 lety

    What about a Photon/Quantum Torpedo Fired at warp 9? Star Trek... it is basically my idea of dealing with the borg... a Nasell Gun.

  • @daniellepasley2600
    @daniellepasley2600 Před 7 lety +54

    Don't hit North America I live there

  • @supershenron9162
    @supershenron9162 Před 5 lety

    Tech speaking lightspeed has nothing to do with light. A More appropriate name would be the speed of causality. I.e the only speed any object without mass can travel anything with mass even on the smallest imaginable scale can only get close but never catch up or exceed so if the speed of causality is the only speed a massless object can go then matter occupies everything else in between. From 0 to 99.999 repeating % speed of causality. We call it lightspeed because it's by far the easiest massless object to actually observe and calculate and was the first clue to what exactly the universal speed limit is in its purest form! Leading us to a deeper understanding of the universe as a whole :)

  • @empathywolf4172
    @empathywolf4172 Před 7 lety +3

    Oh lol you said my name Free shout out xD 4:22

  • @OdeeOz
    @OdeeOz Před 6 lety +1

    Einstein's theory has never really been put to the 'acid test'. So Faster than Light speeds may well be possible, outside of our solar system.

  • @twltheakumaandoni9025
    @twltheakumaandoni9025 Před 7 lety

    Dude, thanks for killing me....RIP East Coast Inhabitants. RIP Me, I'm dead. XD

  • @NoobGamer3D
    @NoobGamer3D Před 7 lety

    What if we made a giant cartridge containing nukes as propellant, and very very stiff material casing and projectile? Could its projectile reach anything close to the speed of light?

  • @Mr30friends
    @Mr30friends Před 7 lety

    Nice videos mate. But you should distinguish the words diameter and radius...

  • @cyrillayman7431
    @cyrillayman7431 Před 6 lety

    do you have one about a Gamma ray hitting Earth that would be very interesting show it hitting Earth at different Light years away.Please show if you are able,thanks.

  • @sillychimera943
    @sillychimera943 Před 6 lety

    The experiment with Voyager 1 going at light speed and hitting the earth won't do anything as big as what you've seen in Universe Sandbox 2. Especially if it was in the sea because the damn thing would be slowed down by the atmosphere and water!

  • @lordvega328
    @lordvega328 Před 6 lety +1

    If aliens threw our trash back at us?
    That would be the world's biggest burn.🔥

  • @fakie285
    @fakie285 Před 7 lety

    I don't believe a bowling ball would create that big of an impact, lol.

  • @valasfar1557
    @valasfar1557 Před 6 lety

    Not omega. Gamma is the usual convention when representing the Lorentz Factor.

  • @Top_Weeb
    @Top_Weeb Před 7 lety

    This is the solution to the Fermi Paradox right here.

  • @netdragon256
    @netdragon256 Před 2 lety

    Supermassive black holes and neutron stars can accelerate things to this speed.

  • @michaelbrady2015
    @michaelbrady2015 Před 3 lety

    Man you like blowing the Earth up.

  • @sicfxmusic
    @sicfxmusic Před 7 lety

    Will be lucky see this happen in my lifetime

  • @seanjensen8064
    @seanjensen8064 Před 7 lety

    you should do this but the ship is spaceball1 and it has gone plad and is going at LUTICRIS SPEED!

  • @Xnoob545
    @Xnoob545 Před 6 lety

    If two objects are hitting each other close to lightspeed the force would be bigger than lightspeed

  • @sebys1414
    @sebys1414 Před 7 lety

    Pause at 3:52, it got Asia? That's 3 billion people in that one spot evaporated from Earth

  • @poolsclosed
    @poolsclosed Před 7 lety

    how do you make these scenarios, like the simulator

  • @benjamingoldstein14
    @benjamingoldstein14 Před 6 lety

    I bet that when we have the capabilities we will launch objects at very high speeds at other countries

  • @acanofspam4347
    @acanofspam4347 Před 6 lety

    It creates a huge explosion because all its mass gets converted into energy

  • @desiguy55
    @desiguy55 Před 7 lety

    In star wars , the death star destroys planet by accelerating a mass to almost the light speed . the kinetic energy produced by the object is enough to destroy the planet.

  • @SouthwesternEagle
    @SouthwesternEagle Před 6 lety

    Wow. If an alien spacecraft travelled at light-speed and accidentally crashed into Earth, we'd definitely know about it!

  • @kingofthejungle3833
    @kingofthejungle3833 Před 7 lety

    so warp speed as referred to in sci-fi movies etc. is impossible to achieve?

  • @TubbyLumpkins
    @TubbyLumpkins Před 6 lety +1

    This gets me thinking, if the xindi in star trek enterprise really wanted to destroy earth, they didnt have to go through all this trouble building a crazy weapon, they could have just launched one or a few ships or asteroids at the planet and there they go, easy, no mess 😂

  • @SideBit
    @SideBit Před 7 lety

    Light has mass. EVERYTHING has mass.

  • @Harrun
    @Harrun Před 6 lety

    what's the name of the programme used ?

  • @Elliandr
    @Elliandr Před 7 lety

    Hence why the rail gun is such a devastatingly powerful weapon. All the force of a nuke, but none of the fallout. Incidentally, if an alien race wanted to kill all humans, this video shows just how futile a human resistance would be. Even without acceleration they could just throw rocks at the Earth until humanity dies or surrenders.

  • @xcvsdxvsx
    @xcvsdxvsx Před 6 lety +2

    If something with mass were traveling at the speed of light it would have infinite energy. It wouldn't just destroy the earth. It would destroy the universe.

    • @xcvsdxvsx
      @xcvsdxvsx Před 6 lety

      Nice catch! Well played sir.

  • @1979draaven
    @1979draaven Před 6 lety

    It is not bigger than what "killed the dinosaurs". Your 800kg craft resulted in aprox 2 Teraton explosion (2 million megatons). Asteroid you refer to released around 50 times more energy (more than 100 Teraton).
    Check en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chicxulub_crater and
    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TNT_equivalent

  • @clayel1
    @clayel1 Před 6 lety

    Well subatomic particles can travel faster than the speed of light, but never faster than c

  • @user-zi8ht1fi6c
    @user-zi8ht1fi6c Před 7 lety

    Can you check the scenario from the book Seveneves and explain if its real or not?

  • @seedenturtle3807
    @seedenturtle3807 Před 6 lety +2

    My life!!!!! What have you done to me!!!

  • @katiekatie6289
    @katiekatie6289 Před 6 lety

    Wouldn't it be ridiculously easy to do this in almost any space based sci fi setting?

  • @onlyonewhyphy
    @onlyonewhyphy Před 7 lety

    I'm curious if Earth would ever, in any way, recover after an impact like that, given enough time.

  • @sky2198
    @sky2198 Před 6 lety

    What game is this before universe sandbox 2

  • @alexamisty7916
    @alexamisty7916 Před 6 lety

    (launches a bowling ball at earth and destroys asia) Welp, i'm going to be scared of bowling balls now.

  • @mickeyg7219
    @mickeyg7219 Před 7 lety

    I think "a little bit more powerful" might be an understatement, the explosion looks like an impact that killed off the dinosaurs. An explosion twice the size of Tsar Bomba wouldn't even destroy 1/3 of Taiwan, a small island off the coast of mainland China. I think mathematically, 150 MT might be right, but the game simulation doesn't reflect that well.

  • @sebastiangrigore2844
    @sebastiangrigore2844 Před 7 lety

    what if a large object going at .99999 times the speed of light hit the earth going at .99999 times the speed of light in the other direction. Or, additionally, what if the two were sent in opposite directions with the same enormous kinetic energy values?

  • @QuietGamer24
    @QuietGamer24 Před 7 lety

    I'd feel better as a whole if the title had an "A" right between the words "If" and "Spaceship"

  • @tibayonex4505
    @tibayonex4505 Před 6 lety

    By the time you hear the air raid sirens, you've already been burned alive.

  • @malachimendez2434
    @malachimendez2434 Před 6 lety +2

    The smallest asteroid wouldn't create that big of a explosion proved by bill nye

  • @canabalninja
    @canabalninja Před 7 lety

    what program is that'

  • @YenLoWangx
    @YenLoWangx Před 7 lety

    So basically every little spacecraft in star wars or similar have the power of the death star?

  • @davzmusic
    @davzmusic Před 7 lety

    Well, our ice caps melted twenty thousand times faster than we expected.
    Are we dead yet?

  • @CoorDaLoor
    @CoorDaLoor Před 7 lety

    now crash the earth at the speed of light into something bigger

  • @N1650andTheCPG
    @N1650andTheCPG Před 7 lety

    It would also completely destroy the South American coast from tsunamis and cause worldwide earthquakes

  • @snowman9555
    @snowman9555 Před 6 lety

    Plot twist, it was decelerating when it hit earth at light speed.

  • @cerezabay
    @cerezabay Před 7 lety +2

    What happens if an object has a lot of mass but very low density? Like opposite of a black hole

    • @rogerxd45
      @rogerxd45 Před 7 lety

      the density of an object doesnt change the amount of kinetic energy. how it effects the impact crater i have no clue but at such high speeds im not sure if there would be much of a difference

    • @Swmarly
      @Swmarly Před 7 lety

      it would become a white hole

    • @SahilP2648
      @SahilP2648 Před 7 lety

      Cereza so if you are implying that something like 1 million tonnes of tissue paper came and hit earth at 99% speed of light it would still do some damage but not as much as an asteroid definitely.

    • @davzmusic
      @davzmusic Před 7 lety

      Cereza everything( I think except light) has mass, so either light spews out of a white hole or, well, nothing, I guess.

    • @SahilP2648
      @SahilP2648 Před 7 lety

      DavZ Razorblades well light is a form of energy. So it doesn't have any mass. But speed of light is the speed of causality. If you are interested in more of this I suggest going to PBS Spacetime. You won't be disappointed.

  • @rJaune
    @rJaune Před 6 lety

    In the beginning I thought you were going to crash in the same place as the asteroid that killed the dinosaurs.

  • @iCIlluSioNSs
    @iCIlluSioNSs Před 6 lety

    but surely anything going that fast through our atmosphere would just burn up?

  • @jj-iu3ni
    @jj-iu3ni Před 6 lety

    Can you do an atom hitting earth a billion times speed of light?

  • @RodCornholio
    @RodCornholio Před 6 lety

    Ain't like dusting crops...

  • @tysonas1
    @tysonas1 Před 6 lety

    Intriguing video, on a more realistic level, what would the affects be if a Musk BFR coming back from Mars lost control and hit earth at 150k kph.

  • @betterert
    @betterert Před 6 lety +2

    the comet is a xk-end of the world scenario!!
    anyone who likes scps gets it