2006-07-04 19:35:19 · 8 answers · asked by COOKIE 5 in Science & Mathematics ➔ Other - Science
ordinary headlights obviously won't work
they may even break and stop working even when your "car" gets back on ordinary speed: photon beams might have bombarded the filaments even as it creates more photon beams,
SO, not only will your headlights not work, but stop working at all, it will self-destruct
BUT of course, your tail lights will work, just like the stars
2006-07-04 20:01:42 · answer #1 · answered by seth Nimbosa 2 · 2⤊ 0⤋
it's all relative.
Special relativity says that that light always goes at the same speed no matter how fast you go. Events that are simultaneous in one reference frame will happen at different times in another that has a velocity relative to the first. Space and time cannot be taken as absolute. On this basis Einstein constructed the theory of special relativity, which has since been well confirmed by experiment.
thus, if you are a passenger in the car, the headlights will appear to work normally, the lights would appear to shine forward away from you at the speed of light, and reflect back to you at the same speed.
also, if you are outside the car, both the car and the headlights appear to be moving at the speed of light.
2006-07-05 03:08:51 · answer #2 · answered by noshyuz 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
No. Headlights would break down before you even approach an appreciable fraction of c. At the speed of light, the car would simply become light energy.
2006-07-05 03:13:22 · answer #3 · answered by rayndeon 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Yes clearly they would work. You woud not have the beam in front of your car any longer though as you would be travelling at te same speed as the light which come from the headlight.
2006-07-05 02:41:28 · answer #4 · answered by Havok 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
yes because light is always traveling at the speed of light. your car would have to get to that speed first so you would always see your headlights ahead of you.hypothetically speaking
2006-07-11 23:20:18 · answer #5 · answered by dddaddy3000 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
If your car could travel that fast and not turn into energy as Alberts theory says it would....yes, the lights would still work and no matter what speed you were traveling, at any given instant the light would still travel at the speed of light.
2006-07-05 02:41:10 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
No, see Stephen Hawking's "The Universe In a Nutshell."
2006-07-05 02:41:50 · answer #7 · answered by deaner123654 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
I don't think they would shine ahead of your car, no.
2006-07-05 02:38:46 · answer #8 · answered by Kittyfish 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋