Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-9490823-20141023235024

The Doppler Affect is a natural phenomenan which affects the percieved color of objects in motion, whcih acts in two ways: redshift and blueshift.

Basically, the photons of light released from the "jiggling" of atom's shells is what we know as light, which the cones in our eyes pick up and are able to decifer color based off of the wavelength and frequency of the light.

This is why plasma generates light, when the atoms are being agitated by the heat to the point such that they seperate the atoms sufficiently enough to became intangible, ie, flames. Stars burn bright because of this, as do lights (through electricity rather than flames, both a plasma).

We are able to "see" objects because light is reflecting off of the object back at us, the albedo affect. But the wavelength of object's in motion is altared, as the same light is being released, but either stretched or scrunched based on the object's motion to or away from us. The longer wavelength and lower frequency results in the distortion of one's percieved color torwards the clor red, which has the long wavelength and low frequency. This affect if known as redshift.

Much like redshift, blueshift is the other way around. Objects moving torwards us are distorted down the color scale, torwards blue (yellow being in between, and other colors created from combinations of the three).

This leads to my question. At the mach speeds which Fasttrack, XLR8, and Jetray move, shouldn't their color be distorted such that they are red when moving away from us and blue when moving torwards us?  