Red....Proven to be fastest with the assistance of science!

[Viper Wizard]

All you other Vipers colors, get in line!


Light travels the same speed through a vacuum at all wavelengths, but when we send the light through something other then a vacuum, like glass we see that light bends/slows, this is seen through snells law below:

n1*sin[theta1] = n2*sin[theta2]

The parts of the equation n1 & n2 are called the index of refraction, this is the ratio of the speed of light in a vacuum divided by speed of light in that substance, so an index of refraction of 1 means that you are in a vacuum, because the speed of light travels the same speed it would in a vacuum. But if you send light through water, water has an index of refraction and light slows down. The process of light slowing down bends the angle at which the direct ray of light travels, so the MORE light slows down the MORE it bends, now say you have a drop of water suspended in a vacuum above your head, white light [which is composed of all frequencies of visible light] hits this clear drop of water and is slowed down and bends, but the different frequencies of light that compose the white light bend different amounts [this amount is small but visible from a distance] the lower frequency light is less affected by the drop of water as it has a longer wavelenght and oscillates a lesser amount of times through the distance of the water drop, the higher frequency light oscillates many times through the same water drop and is slowed down more because of it, so it bends more. This process is called diffraction and causes the spectrum of colors in white light to diffract when sent through matter. the blue light [higher frequency] is bent more and the red light is bend less and through this distance of bending is a gradient of light that we call a rainbow.

So, the speed of light is the same for all frequencies in a vacuum BUT when you send light through matter is slows down a certain amount, red light [lower frequency] travels faster than blue light [higher frequency].

The lower frequencies are affected less by traveling through matter, this is why infrared light is used in fiber optics as opposed to ultraviolet or visible light.

Using the Acronym "ROYGBIV" [red, orange, yellow, green, blue, indigo, violet], those are the colors of the spectrum from lowest frequency to highest frequency, so red light travels faster then all the colors that have higher frequency that it.

So to sum up....

RED is proven to be fastest!

Courtesy of RT/10 Dave from the UK VCA site.

 

[GR8_ASP]

Great description but I guess I always knew it deep down. Always good to have some physics behind the gut feel!

 

[klamathpro]

Maybe I need to call you with more technical questions since you seem to have all this spare time lying around.
But red is the fastest color. That's why Dodge originally only offered the fastest.

 

[2000_Black_RT10]

Hmm.. interesting.. I think that would only explain a relative perspective of the observer, not the car itself. It only looks faster?

Using that theory think of a clock on a wall, if you were to paint the hands red, and observing the clock from a distance away, you would see the hands / time change quicker than if the hands were painted blue?

Therefore in a relative sense, it only appears that red is the fastest.

 

[IEATVETS]

Chuck is bored!!

 

[V10SpeedLuvr]

Ok seriously, has Chuck ever lied to us? This ought to settle it. I'll be awaiting apologies from all those slower Viper owners who have argued against red in past.
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[2000_Black_RT10]

Red is just cosmetically exciting, sort of a human instinct, a natural reaction of alertness / panic when exposed to red because of seeing blood, why stop signs are red, tail lights, safety or emergency buttons, etc..

Black of course is the fastest because of the radiated / reflected heat from the black paint, a lighter layer of heated air encompasses the surface of the car making it more aerodynamic.

 

[grcforce327]

hmmmmmmmmmmmm........ #6 below!

http://forums.viperclub.org/showthread.php?t=601429&highlight=fastest

 

[Bill Pemberton Woodhouse]

Ah, but then a Black Hole will **** in matter faster than the speed of light...........ergo a Black Car would be the fastest since we are only talking about the color spectrums and the consumption of light with this anomoly means red is likely in second place.....hmmmm.

 

[viperdude118]

Ah, but then a Black Hole will **** in matter faster than the speed of light...........ergo a Black Car would be the fastest since we are only talking about the color spectrums and the consumption of light with this anomoly means red is likely in second place.....hmmmm.

Yeah Bill. Do you know many viper folks driving around in a black hole though? Heh that's what I thought. red is the fastest in earth's atmosphere anyhow.

 

[Madduc]

This only applies to 'light' not paint pigment, were it is a known fact that blue with a strip or two of white is THE fastest!

 

[2000_Black_RT10]

http://www.madsci.org/posts/archives/feb98/888081702.Ot.r.html

Another benefit is that black cools faster!

 

[PDCjonny]

Ah, but then a Black Hole will **** in matter faster than the speed of light...........ergo a Black Car would be the fastest since we are only talking about the color spectrums and the consumption of light with this anomoly means red is likely in second place.....hmmmm.

I'm just excited someone used the word "ergo".
Apparently my combination of red AND black would make me the fastest of all? I concur!

 

[PatentLaw]

Ha ha ha funny......really funny.

Copied from Wikipedia

The Doppler effect for electromagnetic waves such as light, is of great use in astronomy, and results in either a so-called redshift or blueshift. It has been used to measure the speed at which stars and galaxies are approaching toward or receding from us, that is, the radial velocity. This is used to detect if a single star is, in fact, a close binary and even to measure the speed of rotation of stars and galaxies.
The use of the Doppler effect for light in astronomy depends on the fact that the spectra of stars are not continuous. They show absorption lines at well defined frequencies that are correlated with the energies required to excite electrons in various elements from one level to another. The Doppler effect is recognizable in the fact that the absorption lines are not always at the frequencies that are obtained from the spectrum of a stationary light source. Since blue light has a higher frequency than red light, the spectral lines from an approaching astronomical light source show a blueshift and those of receding sources show a redshift.

So, in other words,

That receding object in the rear view mirror, well, that is the red viper. Blue is fastest as the blue is in front. Blue comes at you, red is seen receding. Blue overtakes. Plain and simple.

Check out the chart....Blue is fastest and then it degrades to red.....as everyone knows that it does...Those new Violet Vipers, however.....they may have us all beat.

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[2000_Black_RT10]

I think you may be on to something about blue PatentLaw, check this out..

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http://www.lsrpca.com/member_services/fastest_color.htm

This can be an advantage to the driver of a blue car with a flashlight since merely shining the light on the hood of the car at night is good for an additional 10 mph.

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Only if I had a blue car because I do have a big flashlight!

 

[PatentLaw]

Exactly..........

I did not know people with black cars were so bright. Pun intended. I will give you the code word and the secret handshake so that you can attend the "Blues Brothers" meetings.

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Of course, with their Dodge.

Now, I will give you some kudos.....since black is not a color, it does not fall into the spectrum of the other car colors, so therefore, it is an unknown.

 

[Tom F&L GoR]

Red means stop. Only green means go.

 

[PatentLaw]

Hold on there:

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[Zan186]

Sorry but just look at a Rainbow and you can obviously see that Red Travels the fastest as it takes the largest distance and still arrives at the finish the same time as the other colors who took shorter routes.

 

[Silver_Snake]

Well, I hate to burst everyone's bubble - but you should have referenced the Periodic Table:
Silver is the best conductor of heat and electricity, and is also the best reflector of visible light known. So, it is only logical that silver is "hot" and "electrifying" - unlike all the other dull "colors". Further, as noted within the indisputable realm of the laws of science, all other "colors" are a mere reflection in silver. Put simply, other colors merely LOOK like they are going fast (see "reflection" above). Ergo (there it is again) - any "color" is at a standstill in comparison to silver.

 

[VENOMAHOLIC]

Red light may travel through water faster but, for a red Viper to go through water, it would have to be a submarine.

 

[VIPER BAZ UK]

And yellow means go faster before they go to red.....

Hold on there:

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[Warfang]

Is it winter or something?

 

[grcforce327]

The only proof I have, is that I was sitting at a stoplight,and a cop clocked me at 100+ mph!!! Let me off with a warning!!!

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[mike & juli]

Wow Chuck--We've never felt sooooooo........................................inadequate~
~juli~