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How fast would the rose have to be going to blueshift that much? Someone please do the math
For a shift from about 700nm to 350nm: coming right at you at 0.6c
It would also have a kinetic energy of about 1.1234 Petajoules, on the order of magnitude of the Tsar Bomba
Kinetic energy or total energy? Assuming the rose weight 10 grams I get that 1.12PJ total energy, but only 0.23PJ is kinetic.
In hindsight I was a bit generous with the weight, I assumed 50g
chonk rose 😳
Only 10MT instead of 50 then?
One ton of TNT is 1E9 calories which is 4 gigajoules. So 0.2 petajoules should be only 50 kilotons of TNT?
A fart in the wind next to the Tsar Bomba. My disappointment is immeasurable and my day is ruined.
I don't know about blue but here is all the math to turn a red light green.... Don't think of doing it though while you could probably get out of a ticket for running a red light I don't even know what the fine is for driving many thousand times the speed limit is.
Edit: just realized I forgot to post the actual link.... https://sciencenotes.org/fast-go-make-red-light-look-green-relativistic-doppler-effect/#:~:text=If we take the speed of light to,to convert to km%2Fhr%2C you get 197%2C640%2C000 km%2Fhr.
To bad the traffic light is in the speed radar's reference frame, when your licence plate is on the photo I doubt the judge will care that your yellow car is clearly blue in the photo
Actually I think that would then add a additional charge for registration fraud
Impossibly fast and it would have to be coming right at us.
60% of lightspeed, according to another commenter.