2006-07-16 11:21:12 · 10 answers · asked by Anonymous in Science & Mathematics ➔ Engineering
First you have to discover if traveling at the speed of sound in a rear engine plane can you hear it running?
2006-07-16 11:25:07 · answer #1 · answered by joker45693 3 · 0⤊ 1⤋
That's actually something of an irrelevent question - objects with mass, like cars and lightbulbs, cannot travel at the speed of light. I know that probably doesn't satisfy your curiosity, but it's the truth. Due to the way that lightbulbs generate light (it requires the movement of mass), there's simply no point in asking what happens when you do it at the speed of light. It's a moot point.
2006-07-16 11:25:36 · answer #2 · answered by extton 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Ignoring the practical problems of how the head lights generate light, the light would move away from you at c - the speed of light.
Someone standing next to you (but stationary - i.e. someone who sees you moving at the speed of light in his reference frame) would also see the light generated by the headlights as moving at the speed of light.
You might think the stationary observer would see the headlight light moving at twice the speed of light, but Einstein's theory states the speed of light is a constant. That means everyone measures it at the same value.
2006-07-16 12:20:07 · answer #3 · answered by Jim H 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
You would be travelling at the same speed as the light coming from the headllight. You would not see the beam of light in front of you. It is like if you are travelling at the speed of light and you look in a mirror you would not see your reflection
2006-07-16 11:30:29 · answer #4 · answered by mr.answerman 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
they would pile up inside the bulb becuse the speed of light is consistent. meaning that your speed would not add to the speed of light (this is not true about sound)
extra information:
resons for it being imposable: if you whent that fast (the folowing would happen)
1) you would look like your infinitly thin.
2) you would be infinitly massive (im not talking about volume) from other peoples perspective.
3) time would be infinitly slower for you.
2006-07-16 11:47:46 · answer #5 · answered by Airblade 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
you'll see the light travelling at 'c'..that is speed of light....interestingly... when light velocity was first measured....it was actually....practically... seen that light travels towards you at a constant velocity...no matter what yr speed is.....einstein was first to solve this mystery and hence proposed the theory of relativity.
2006-07-18 07:47:29 · answer #6 · answered by arif_iftakher 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I think that you would be able to see in front of you but wouldn't "see" it until you were past it. You also wouldn't see anything behind you as the light from behind wouldn never catch up. So in order to navigate you would have to pick landmarks well in front of where you want to go so that you can slow down before you get there.
2006-07-16 21:49:10 · answer #7 · answered by innkeeper95 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
you would die because of the G-force and if you could survive it, light would be going at double the speed then it would usually
2006-07-16 13:07:05 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
you die instantly.... since it takes all the energy in the universe to maintain your speed, if you turned on your headlights they would suck up a finite amount of energy.. dropping your speed instantly.. or.. rather the cars.. and momemtum would splatter you across the inside of your windshield.
2006-07-16 11:27:06 · answer #9 · answered by ♥Tom♥ 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
then your head lights will be traveling faster than you. if you go in reverse and put your headlights on, it will be slower......
2006-07-16 11:26:12 · answer #10 · answered by goathead 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋