Episode 3 - The Fastest Car in the Universe and What Happens When We Die

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Mike McHargue

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🗓️ 2 February 2015

⏱️ 30 minutes

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Welcome to Ask Science Mike, a weekly podcast where I answer your questions about science, faith, and life. A lot of people seem to think that science and faith are on opposite sides, but my experiences have shown me they work together just fine. This is the place where no questions are out-of-bounds, and no ideas are too weird to discuss. If you'd like to submit a question, just tag a Twitter, Soundcloud or Youtube post with #asksciencemike. The easiest way to get new episodes is to subscribe on iTunes here. Here's some additional resources for this week's questions: Q1: The Fastest Car in the UniverseLight-speed headlights. What if you threw a baseball at 90% of the speed of light? Q2: Does God Answer Prayer?Studies on prayer. Q3: Antimatter, Black Holes and Hawking Radiation.A bit about Hawking Radiation. Q4: What happens when we die?Death and the brain.

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0:00.0	The Fastest Car in the Universe and What Happens When We Die.
0:04.4	All that and more on this week's episode of Ask Science Mike.
0:08.0	You've got questions, he's got answers,
0:12.0	even though we may not understand.
0:14.0	I'll talk anyway.
0:15.0	He has problems.
0:17.0	He won't solve it.
0:18.0	But I'll talk and talk and talking
0:20.0	until the flu in the face.
0:22.0	Science, faith faith in life. Ask Science Mike!
0:27.0	Welcome to the third episode of Ask Science Mike, a weekly podcast where I answer your questions
0:35.1	about science, faith, and life.
0:37.3	Man, you guys are giving me some great questions to work with and I'm at the Sundance Film Festival
0:42.0	this week and I've had an opportunity to meet some of the listeners of this program and have some great conversations about your experiences.
0:48.0	With that in mind, there's some wonderful questions this week and let's get it started.
0:57.0	Our first question this week comes from Corey Pitts on Twitter and he asked if you were traveling in a car at the speed of light and you turn your headlights on, would they work?
1:11.0	Now this is an interesting and common science question
1:14.9	uh... that has one major major obstacle
1:20.1	and that's you can't go the speed of light you just can't do it why well let's look at a couple of scenarios
1:27.2	You've got your car you've got a really really fast car in fact it's the fastest car in the universe and it can accelerate
1:35.6	from zero to 99% the speed of light in a milliseconds really fast. It would require an unfathomable amount of
1:46.1	energy to run that engine but forget about that for a second. You've got your car and
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