If a bullet were to travel at the speed of light what would the velocity be in feet per seconds?Anyone good at math?

I don't have the answer to your question, but I have a question of my own: If I plant Seeds of Light, will they grow into sunflowers?

I messed up on the spelling I know!But there is no way to edit it so I just left it go.Sorry!!!!!

983,492,241.6 feet per second. hell, if you can't get more than that out of a bullet, i'd quit reloadin and take up another hobby.

Thanks for the info!I only asked this question because I just saw the movie Eraser where some how scientists figure out how to make an assault rifle that fires an aluminum projectile the speed of light!!Imagine the recoil and the penetration capabilities of a rifle like that.

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I came up with 983,571,056.43 fps, But maybe were using different powders.
Mark

Akuma-
I saw that movie too. That little detail kinda bugged me. Rail guns (the electromagnetic variety) don't propel their projectiles at anything near the speed of light. Even if they did, how would it survive the friction in our thick atmosphere??

I don't want to kick sand on your barbecue BUT, according to Einstein's theory of Relativity, the only thing that can travel at the speed of of light is light itself. Any object approaching the speed of light gains mass exponentially, making it harder to accelerate until at the speed of light it has attained infinite mass, which is absurd. Light itself has no mass and therefore the infinite exponential of zero is zero, enabling it alone to travel at "c" the speed of light.

It has nothing to do with that other famous equation E=mc2, incidentally.

Cheers

pete

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