Rat Race and a Mirror

Today [Sunday, Nov 26 2006] in mbc 2 they featured the movie, Rat Race. I had already watched this movie sometime back due to the huge hype given by one of my colleague; i did not like it much. Leaving that aside, I was just channel surfing and stopped at this channel to watch an interesting scene.

Whoopy Goldberg and another girl will be driving a 'speed machine' designed to break the sound barrier. They will be literally flying on the grounds in a desert. When they cross a petrol bunk, the bunk owner will accidently fire his pistol. Whoopy Goldberg and her partner will see this bullet travelling in the air, through their window. You should probably need a little more imagination if you cannot visualise what i tried to narrate ;)

Well, looking at it, some thought popped out of my mind. Let us assume we can travel faster than the light. Or atleast, for argument sake, we have found a time machine that travel at slightly higher speed than light. Assuming such an arbitrary situation, it will give us a facility to see us from the other side. That is, we can travel to the other side and see our image ourselves.

Now a trivia for the day :
In this modern age, there is a scientific phenomenon using which we can still see our own image even without travelling at the speed of light. What is it and how is it possible?

Tickle your brain and have a nice week ahead !

regards ... bright

PS : if you dont get the answer, just look at the title of blog entry again.