your headlights?????
2006-08-17 17:56:12 · 14 answers · asked by smallandbubbly67uk 1 in Science & Mathematics ➔ Physics
so let me get this right not only are you traveling at the speed of light and so breaking the speed limit you have also not got your light on, what would happen? well i guess you would get a ticket
hope this helps and please for the love of god dont friveso fast and if yourdriving n the dark put your light onok pet
cheers
chris
2006-08-17 18:15:56 · answer #1 · answered by chris s 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
First off I am assuming you are going SLIGHTLY slower than light since you can never reach the speed of light.
From your point of view, the light would travel out of your headlight and forward at the speed of light. From a bystander, the light would travel out at the speed of light, only slightly faster than the car.
The speed of light is constant no matter what your frame of reference. The difference is the time it takes to do this. Time would slow down for the person in the car. So an hour long trip in your car might take weeks or years to the people outside the car.
2006-08-17 18:04:22 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
The flash of the light wouldn't even be able to be seen if you were traveling at the speed of light. The speed of light can travel over 1000 times in less then a millasecond. It would be going so fast that it couldn't be able to be seen.
2006-08-17 18:02:30 · answer #3 · answered by Jenniferz 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
With or without your lights on your car would remain invisible to speed cameras as the flash would arrive after you and your car have left the frame. Since the law enforcement agencies cannot signal ahead any faster than the speed of light they will also be unable to book you for exceeding all known speed limits.
2006-08-18 01:17:03 · answer #4 · answered by lightfoolstheway 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
According to Einstein's special theory of relativity, the speed of light is the same in all inertial reference frames. The light from your headlights would be traveling at 2.998x10^8 m/sec from your perspective as well as from an outside observer's point of view. As odd as this may sound, there is strong evidence supporting Einstein's theory of relativity.
2006-08-17 18:15:29 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
You would not see the light.
Light is invisable. We only see the refraction of light bouncing off of objects. Even dust particles in the air.
If you were traveling at the same speed of light, you would be moving too fast to see light bounce off of ANYTHING.
You would only see darkness and light coming toward you millions of miles away.
But nothing would be illuminated, since you're traveling faster than the light can bounce off of objects.
The only way you could see anything lit up, is if the source of light was inside the car with you because it TOO, would be traveling at the speed of light with you.
2006-08-17 18:05:12 · answer #6 · answered by Molly 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
lol. I never thought about that. I guess they will not do any good because the light would travel at the same speed as your car. I don't know for sure though.
2006-08-17 18:02:07 · answer #7 · answered by amalyn 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
well, in the first place, it would be damn hard to travel far at the speed of light, ergo, you wouldnt have to turn your headlights on since you've probably crashed into something or someone.
2006-08-17 18:12:26 · answer #8 · answered by GiGiL 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
That's useless! By the time other people see your headlights, you will already bump into them, and by the time you see what is in front clearly with your lights, you will already crash (right through) it.
2006-08-17 18:01:42 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
nothing....thats the same thing explained by einstien.
if u travel at light speed and hold a mirror infront. ud stil c ur face. ud stil c the light thats comin off the head lights infront of u
2006-08-17 18:08:17 · answer #10 · answered by siripala 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋