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A spinning laser and the speed of light.
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Say you have a laser that is rotating at 60 rpm. in a vacuum. The light hits a wall that is 1 km away. Now if my logic is correct that beam should have a relative velocity to the wall of 3.14~km/s. Now as you increase either the distance from the laser to the wall or the rpm the relative speed of the light to the wall should increase. What happens when that speed gets closer to the speed of light? I hope this is clear. Thanks in advance.
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