2006-07-23 05:23:23 · 10 answers · asked by ROPD 1 in Science & Mathematics ➔ Physics
no, ur headlights are movin at over the speed of light, so the light emitted wii travel at the speed of the car + the speed of light.
and anyways u cannot get anyhig goin above the speed of light..
E=MC2 can explain that mass gets converted into energy when it touches a velocity C, which is the speed of light, so your car would just become converted to energy, probably light energy... only light can travel at 3 x (10)8 m/s, if any thing manages to acquire that speed it becomes light!!!
2006-07-23 05:38:47 · answer #1 · answered by Rahul 2 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Your question actually has an answer. According to special relativity, the speed of light is the same in all reference frames. So, from the driver's seat, if you are travelling faster than the speed of light, you would observe the light project in the forward direction at the speed of light, just as you would at rest. This is consistent with your assumptions because you will also be travelling backward in time. The real questions are, though: (1) Where did you get a car with imaginary rest mass? (2) What is the S&P 500 index in the future when you started? And, since its speed can never fall below the speed of light, (3) Where do you park it at night? To help you remember this, I know a limrick:
There once was a spaceman named Dwight,
who its said could go faster than light.
He left home one day
in a relative way,
and returned on the previous night.
2006-07-23 13:22:39 · answer #2 · answered by Dr. R 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
At the almost the speed of light your lights would work just fine, but time for you would be slowed down so much that you wouldn't notice it. The beams at "Switch on" would move away from your car very slowly but time for you would be so slow that it would seem just find. From anyone watching this from some where else, they would see a car moving very fast with slowly advancing light beams. To answer your question at the speed of light, time for you would stop until you slowed down. Time is the answer. :-[
2006-07-23 13:37:38 · answer #3 · answered by buzzard 2 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
No.
1. Your car cannot go faster than the speed of light.
2. Nothing goes faster than the speed of light.
and
3. Although others have suggested otherwise: Speeds do not add up arithmetically. If you would go very fast, the speed of the light leaving your headlights will be measured by you as exactly the speed of light (c). Any stationary by-standers will also measure the speed to be c.
If the speed of your car is 0.8*c, then the speed of the light that you will measure is c. Everybody (regardless of their speed relative to yours) will also measure the light's speed as c. This is due to Einstein's velocity addition formula:
v = ( v1 + v2 ) / (1 + (v1*v2)/c^2 )
2006-07-23 12:51:19 · answer #4 · answered by Mausy 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The car CANNOT go over the speed of light.
2006-07-23 12:32:04 · answer #5 · answered by AnyMouse 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
everyone above who siad that the the light from the headlight wil go the speed of light + the speed of the car, they are wrong
if your car is going at the speed of light and you turned on the head lights, you wouldn't see any light from your head lights because the speed of light is a constant, it can't go any faster or slower (unless you go into a differant medium, then the speed of light depends on the density)
2006-07-23 13:01:24 · answer #6 · answered by Rajan 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
This is impossible, if your car was going at the speed of light, no, you could not see the headlights because the photons cannot move faster than the car.
2006-07-23 12:57:30 · answer #7 · answered by KAMSC_kid_09 2 · 0⤊ 1⤋
No, they would project ahead of you at the speed of light plus the car speed.
2006-07-23 12:27:20 · answer #8 · answered by fishing66833 6 · 0⤊ 1⤋
ill run faster then light
2006-07-23 12:28:55 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
No
2006-07-23 12:26:19 · answer #10 · answered by kayef57 5 · 0⤊ 1⤋