I came up with an enigma: Say you point a laser beam into the night sky?
(It doesn’t have to be night but it looks pretty, especially when using a green laser). The light of that laser will shoot out into space at…you guessed it, the speed of light (pat yourself on the shoulder). That’s plain and simple enough. Now the enigma; what happens to that beam of light way out into space when I suddenly shift or jerk the laser pointer to the side? I can’t expect the beam to traverse half the universe in a split second, ’cause then my beam would be traveling at many times the speed of light, so what happens? Does the beam bend when it reaches C sideways? Or does it break at these points into however many pieces necessary?
Cheers!
According to all the answers with the hose analogy, I can infer that the light beam will break at the necessary points so as not to bend nor exceed c sideways. Many thanks.
