We as humans determine the characteristics of any type of body, mass or 'massless', from our frame of reference. However, if we were to change our frame of reference with respect to velocity and then take measurements from that frame would we see the speed of light increase. So for instance say we are traveling in that long debated car at 50% of what we use to perceive as the speed of light on Earth but now we have measured as 500% greater in the direction we're traveling.
Observation point A) Earth reference point parallel to beam of light the speed of which is 1x; Observation point B) Traveling 50% of observed point A speed of light now observed to be 5x so traveling at 1/10th the speed of light at observed point B.
This anomaly would only be detectable if we were traveling in the direction of the beam of light because that would be the frame of reference that would be significant to the study. Measuring light from a perpendicular stationary frame of reference while traveling at 50% the velocity of light of Earth observation point A would result in the same findings. I suggest the velocity of light is relative to each observation point and frame of reference and that light itself is subject to time dilation which is the difference observation points.
An important not:
If you can travel faster than light then its possible to make time travel.
Its just for your information to know.
The light beam leaving a black hole, the so-called "Jet" might be much faster than the usual velocity of light.
Experimentally it has been observed that this is not the case. Which ever direction you travel relative to the light propagation, the speed of light is measured to be the same:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michelson%E2%80%93Morley_experiment
This observation is the basis of the theory special relativity. And it is quite well established. You would have to get up pretty early in the morning to make modifications to that theory.
You're assuming that the velocity of light is fixed no matter which frame of reference you're in. You still wouldn't be able to travel faster than light, you'd just be subjected to greater time dilation. And as far as experimentally being observed as a counter argument you missed the explanation I purposed that any measurement conducted in the wrong frame of reference (a certain velocity of light will not show the accurate measurement). Think of it as another dimension we can't measure any aspect of that dimension unless we exist in that dimension. Traveling at a speed relative to Earth's reference a ship could travel at 50% the speed of light but to the observers on the ship they are only traveling 10% the speed of light (percentages used to demonstrate a point). If we witnessed a ship about to cross the event horizon from 100 Billion miles away we could see the ship appear to stop in time but in actuality the ship has already been destroyed because the action that matters is the ships destruction therefore the person in the ship is the real point of reference that matters. I would suggest that time is the real cosmological limit in the universe because if light can be manipulated by time then what we perceive as the speed of light from an outside observation point only applies to that observation. If you were traveling along the path of photons in parallel motion you may see the speed limit of c change and that is the only important observation because it directly relates to the action you're involved with traveling in a ship as fast as you can from one fixed point to another.
Ok, i have little more to add. I consider this forum a place of science, and if your theory produces any testable predictions, we can discuss these, otherwise I don't really consider it science.
Wow your ignorant, your term science is too broad and this includes theoretical science. You're talking about applied science. Many of the applied sciences started from people being able to use their imagination and see possibilities. Michael Faraday was able to view forces and imagine how something works. More recently we have the Higgs Field which was extremely theoretical and involved enormous support, would you call that non-science. I think you're an idiot and you've forgotten what science really is, grow up.
Additionally no self respecting credible scientist uses Wikipedia as a scientific resource in any format so I question the credibility of your Ph.D if you even have it.
@Thomas W Stief When it comes to Black Holes it wouldn't surprise me that electromagnetic radiation appears to have a greater velocity. It may be that the velocity of light is revealed as the local space-time is distorted at the BH allowing us to partially see the true characteristic of EM propagation. That's something I'll have to research, it might also apply at other levels of gravity. Maybe the velocity of light can be affected by a gravity field so the closer or farther away you are from a source of gravity the greater the difference is between the two locations. Thanks you've given me a few notes to think about Thomas.
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