Question

Can an object move fast enough to where it appears in multiple places at the same time?

Answer 1

you'd get a blur so it appears to be in more continuous space than it actually is as opposed to seemingly being in multiple different and separated spaces. changing anything about its motion (velocity, direction, etc) would alter the stretched image you'd get, but it would just be a stretched image.

Answer 2

as it is possible..dont know much about examples bt its possible

Answer 3

wouldn't that fall under how many fps the eye can actually see?

Answer 4

well its possible...Like a blade of a turbine...it moves so fast that i appears all over.

Answer 5

This effect can be seen with the "propeller effect", there are quite a few videos of this on youtube.

Answer 6

Our eyes have the capability to observe changes happening in more than a certain time limit. If the change occurs very quickly , the object seems to blur. However in the point of view of physics , every particle has its own unique coordinates in space. Also no two particles can have the same coordinates. Therefore an object cannot occur in two places at once.

Answer 7

I don't know about speed producing the effect, but I know that gravitational distortion can. (Specifically, galaxy SDP 81.)

Answer 8

If you see a blur its because your brain cannot process visual changes so quickly. And if a photo has a blur its because the shutter was open long enough to pick up the object at multiple locations. So actually the way you worded the question, yes its possible that it APPEARS to be in two places at once, just because any observer is going to be limited to his viewing mechanism. But just from speed, no its not possible. When you look at quantum physics you get some weird stuff like in Young's double slit experiment, electrons are said to travel through neither slit and both slits and each slit individually, all simultaneously, but thats not a function of their speed.