Which color is the fastest?

[Koing]

Originally posted by: Bigsm00th

Originally posted by: Bassyhead

Originally posted by: Bigsm00th
the color of an object does not affect how fast it is going. it only affects how fast you see it.

Red is faster, think Ferraris. And cops love to pull over red cars so that proves red is definitely faster

:beer:

 

[pkme2]

Think heat. Heat dissipates faster than cold. Red is heat. Blue is cold. Hence, red is faster.

 

[adwilk]

The Red one is only faster if it has more stickers...

 

[Eeezee]

Originally posted by: beansbaxter
Which color, between red and blue, is the fastest?
So does this mean that all things considered equal, red vehicles travel faster than blue vehicles?

It depends, are these cars made entirely of photons? If yes, then the red one moves faster. If no, then color is irrelevant to the speed of the vehicles themselves (but the red photons reach your eye first if you're looking at the stationary car).

 

[sdifox]

Err, no. Your car is not light. And you are not driving through a prism. All things considered, they both travel at C, but when it hits prism, they react differently so you got separation of colours from the 'white' light.

Originally posted by: beansbaxter
Which color, between red and blue, is the fastest?

When the light bends through the prism, can we say that the red is the fastest? Nearly all the time, yes.

One particular kind of glass, for example, the index of refraction (c/v, where c is the speed of light in vacuum and v is the speed of a particular frequency of light in glass) is 1.514 for red light and 1.54 for blue light, so in this case the red light travels at c/1.51, and the blue light travels at c/1.54.

The result is that red light travels 2% faster than the blue light.

So does this mean that all things considered equal, red vehicles travel faster than blue vehicles?