Originally posted by Ushgarak
NO IT WOULD NOT!Relativity states that you cannot exceed the speed of light from ANY point of view. It does not matter what your combined speeds are; from where you are you will NEVER see anything exceed light speed. It cannot be done (excepting some new hyperadvanced theories on the correct way up of the Universe). This can lead to different observers seeing different things, according to where they are and what speed everything else is moving at relative to them.
What you have said is so, SO wrong...
And in space you have no more or less point of reference for your speed than you would on Earth. In the end, the only important point of reference is yourself (though general speeds are measured relative to Earth).
To give some examples:
Light always moves at lightspeed, regardless of what you are doing. If you were on a bike and trying to race a car,logic dictates that the faster you pedal, the less quickly the car would get away from you. Light does NOT work like this. No matter how fast or slow you pedal- or even if you stay still- the light beam would get away from you at the same speed- light speed- as far as you are concerned. Even if you went to light speed (relative to an observer... and it would be impossible anyway), the light beam would still get away from you at light speed, as far as you saw it.
Now, it would seem logical that the observer, therefore, would see you moving at light speed and the light beam moving at TWICE light speed, because that is how it is moving according to the biker. But he wouldn't, because light speed at the limit. HE would see biker and light beam moving at thr same speed- light speed. This even means that the biker would see things illuminated that the observer wouldn't.
Relativity contradicts common sense- two observers can see the same effect differently. But light speed will NEVER be exceeded, from any point of view.
The reason that this happens is to do with time, but it gets too complex at that point.