can you percieve yourself moving faster than light?

[CPL.Luke]

I ran into an interesting question, if you move at .999C then time is moving extremely slow for you, so if you tried to check your position say relative to several stars, wouldn't it appear as if you had moved faster than the speed of light?

[ydoaPs]

outside observers would see your time as being slower. you would see time flowing normally.

[CPL.Luke]

thats it, thought I was confusing myself on this one

[ydoaPs]

you would see yourself as being at rest and the stars as moving .999c. you would see their time slowing down.

[Janus]

I ran into an interesting question, if you move at .999C then time is moving extremely slow for you, so if you tried to check your position say relative to several stars, wouldn't it appear as if you had moved faster than the speed of light?

 

As pointed out time runs slow for you only as measured by someone who measures you as moving with respect to them.

 

Now, from their standpoint it means that your clock will accumulate 1/5 of a year while you travel the distance from earth to Alpha Centauri (4.3 ly), while their clock accumulates 4.3 years.

 

From your viewpoint, your clock will also accumulate 1/5 y, but not because your clock ran slow, but because, due to length contraction, you will measure the distance between Earth and Alpha Centauri as only being 1/5 ly, which you traveled at .999c

[wormholeman]

Ya I can, all I have to do is imagine.