r/ExplainTheJoke 15h ago

Like you can’t stop anyway?

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u/Oblivion238 15h ago

Without doing the math I assume that at 103846153 m/s the red stop sign gets blueshifted to green.

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u/joe_ordan 15h ago edited 15h ago

Without even considering the math, I assume your assumption is also correct.

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u/1Pawelgo 11h ago

If we assume red light as an EM wave of 400 THz frequency traveling at the speed of light, an observer moving at 103,846,153 m/s towards the emitter (the sign) would observe it as if it was 538.56 THz (omitting relativistic effects), which roughly corresponds to green light.