2006-06-13 15:45:42 · 24 answers · asked by takkun 1 in Society & Culture ➔ Other - Society & Culture
don't take is so seriously good gawd it was jsut a joke!!!
2006-06-20 06:47:46 · update #1
Your battery will go dead.
2006-06-13 15:47:06 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 3⤋
You can't go AT the speed of light. Things that do so go only at that speed, never faster and never slower.
If you're going at ALMOST the speed of light, and you turn on the headlights and measure the speed of the light that comes out from them, you'd read the same speed of light that you'd read if you and the car were standing still.
Many people know that moving at some speed relative to the observer (hence the "Theory of Relativity") causes changes in the mover's length, time, and mass. (The equations that describe the changes are called the Lorentz transformations.) "Speed" is, after all, length per time. As you move closer to the speed of light, the changes in your length and time work out in such a way that the length-per-time of the light from the headlights comes out to be the same value of length-per-time as the sitting-still value is. So you'd measure the same speed of light from those headlights at any speed you were going.
2006-06-13 23:01:14 · answer #2 · answered by engineer01 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
This is an important concept, so stay with me on this, please:
If you turn on your headllights, they will illuminate hazards on the roadway ahead of you. However, at the speed of light, you would not be able to maneuver fast enough to avoid hitting obstacles, even with rack and pinion steering.
That said, leave the lights off. Better you shouldn't see what you're going to hit, anyway.
(By the way, I'd think you'd have a hard time staying tuned into any particular radio station, too.)
2006-06-13 22:53:56 · answer #3 · answered by Stuart 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Nothing you have to go faster than the speed of light before you aren't able to see the light. I think thats right I'm not a scientist
2006-06-13 22:48:00 · answer #4 · answered by nyeboy9 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Absolutely nothing. The lights would come on, but there'd be no beam, seeing as how the headlight's moving at the same speed as the light itself.
2006-06-13 22:54:03 · answer #5 · answered by Rod B 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
theoretically, nothing can travel faster than the speed of light, so the lights would turn on, but they wouldn't light up anything ahead of you, because the light couldn't get in front of the car
2006-06-13 22:51:04 · answer #6 · answered by mcvanagon88 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
They come on, since you're not traveling faster than the speed of light.
2006-06-13 22:49:20 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
You'll never find out because the friction on the metals would melt the car before it got going that fast.
2006-06-13 22:49:50 · answer #8 · answered by Professor 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I think once your car reaches 88 miles per hour you go back to the future.
2006-06-13 22:48:38 · answer #9 · answered by wordnerd27x 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
i think if anyone got up to the speed of light in their car... their gas would run out.
2006-06-13 22:50:08 · answer #10 · answered by Emily! 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
You plow into a planet when you look to find the lights switch.
2006-06-13 22:51:41 · answer #11 · answered by TazNomad 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋