This question is aimed at those of us that actually have a space car capable of doing light speed; or those with a good enough imagination to wrap their brains around it.
2006-06-12 17:49:24 · 14 answers · asked by Anonymous in Cars & Transportation ➔ Other - Cars & Transportation
This is cool. I just told my boss about this very same question I saw on a show called "Newtons Apple" on PBS many yrs. ago. The question was posed "if you were in a VW...
The show said that the headlights would be dim
2006-06-12 17:55:59 · answer #1 · answered by Cornish_Rex 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
You can't travel at the speed of light. If your space car was going 0.999999999999999999 times the speed of light, which is possible, when you turned on the headlights, the light would move away from you at the speed of light. The speed of light is constant in all directions, no matter what your velocity.
2006-06-13 00:54:17 · answer #2 · answered by Hillbillies are... 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It is quiet bizzare.
Take on this fact
If you are driving a car at 100m/h and a car from opposite direction also comes at 100m/h then it will appear to be moving at 200m/h.
But according to physical theory nobody can exceed the speed of light.
Take the above example and assume the car is coming to you at the speed of light (and not 100m/h). But in this case the car will appear to move at the speed of light ( and not speed of light + 100m/h)
2006-06-13 01:00:06 · answer #3 · answered by Nik 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
If you do this, your light will travel at twice the speed of light, momentarily, and then quickly slow down to the real speed of light, just ahead of your car.
2006-06-13 00:54:21 · answer #4 · answered by Wilton P 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It is impossible for anything but light, to travel at the speed of light.
2006-06-13 00:53:52 · answer #5 · answered by scomp23 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
You can't travel at the speed of light, just almost. Regardless, the light will travel no faster. Thanks to relativity you'll see it move at the speed of light (and see the rest of the world move correspondingly slower), but an observer at rest (whatever you define as rest) will see you run slightly behind your light beam.
2006-06-13 00:56:02 · answer #6 · answered by geofft 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I wonder if the light would still emit forward...just like a missle launching from a fighter jet.
?? Good question!
2006-06-13 00:54:14 · answer #7 · answered by Shawne & Lexi 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Your lights chase after you. Even Dr. Science knows that!
2006-06-13 00:53:20 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
They fall out, hit the ground, blow out the tires, which kind of sucks
at that kind of speed
2006-06-13 00:53:29 · answer #9 · answered by wrench'n away 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I have the question about built and a speeding gun
2006-06-13 00:55:42 · answer #10 · answered by HEY boo boo 6 · 0⤊ 1⤋