Kind of, they are due to crash with energy equal to 120mph as long as they are travelling at a very minute fraction of the speed of light. If they are moving at or close to the speed of light then the forces and energy/t concerns are not additive in the same way as they are at very low speed. The lorentz contractions forbid an energy greater than c, and greater than an additive value of 2ce in a co-moving speed of two entities travelling at c^2 mass/e. We have proven this in experiment. It appears that light which is supposed massless propagates at c always, it appears that no matter can reach c, it appears that this is a natural law of the universe, as to why who knows, it just is it seems.HexHammer wrote:You are extremely unclear and it seems you are very wrong in beginning to talk about 240mph.James Markham wrote:I think the point is understandable if we think of the same situation regarding cars. If two cars are both traveling at 60mph, and they collide head on, it's only equivalent to a car crashing into an immovable object at 60mph, in the case of the head on collision, each car acts in place of an immovable object, so that each car experiences a 60mph crash. If we make the mistake of assuming they crash together and each suffer the equivalent of a crash at a speed of 120mph, then each car would suffer one half of a 240mph collision.
I think the point is that they each converge on a given position, and relative to that position they are each only traveling at c.
If 2 cars each drive with 60mph, they only due to relativity crash with a force of 60mph, not 120.
It seems that light travels at c or when it is propagating is always travelling at c and no less, it is not that light is the speed limit of the universe, it is just that some "particle" travels that fast.