2006-08-23 00:03:28 · 13 answers · asked by Gemma H 1 in Travel ➔ Other - Destinations
I know what physics would say, that yes because the light never travels at any other speed in normal circumstances, through normal space light always travels at the same speed no matter the viewpoint, even if that viewpoint also travels at light speed.
However, you would not be able to turn on the headlights. The closer to light speed that you go the slower time gets for you. It is theorized that reaching exactly light speed time stops. Light is no "older" than when it was created no matter how long it travels or bounces off things. If you were travelling slower than light speed, even a little bit you would be able to move as normal and it would appear slower or stationary to everyone else. But at light speed, without time how can you move? And also slower than light speed and you've ruined your experiment because light is now faster than you by a fraction.
2006-08-23 00:12:55 · answer #1 · answered by jleslie4585 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Modern science suggests that nothing, except light, can travel at the speed of light as it would take an infinite amount of energy to accelerate anything to that speed.
Or maybe the light from your headlights would travel at the speed of light relative to its origin and therefore travel at twice light speed. Then would the light from your rear lights stand still relative to a stationary observer?
Gotta go - it's time for my medication.
2006-08-23 00:14:29 · answer #2 · answered by Toubled 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I have always believed that if you travelled at the speed of light your mass would become infinite and fill up every available corner of the universe.
2006-08-23 00:23:16 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
yes because the lights would be going at the speed of light + the speed of light.
2006-08-23 00:09:06 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Maybe you are not traveling in something that has got headlights :D
2006-08-23 00:09:24 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
No, they will not work.
But I am sure some one will post it as yes since than light will then travel at twice the speed.
2006-08-23 00:27:49 · answer #6 · answered by Santosh 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
you and the car you are in would be crushed into a mass so small that working headlights would be the least of your concerns
2006-08-23 00:08:49 · answer #7 · answered by chicagoboars 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
yes, it's just that other people wouldn't see the headlights until too late!!
On the plus side you would be able to avoid detection be speed cameras because the flash wouldn't illuminate your numberplate :)
2006-08-23 00:04:33 · answer #8 · answered by BadShopper 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Yes if you switch them on, and you may be heading straight for someone who was not travelling that fast, so if they were not on, they might not see you! I think so anyway.
2006-08-23 00:06:45 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
I DON'T THINK YOUR FASTER THAN LIGHT CAR WILL HAVE ANY LIGHTS AS YOU SHOULD BE ABLE TO SEE IN THE DAY LIGHT
2006-08-23 00:15:24 · answer #10 · answered by RAMSBOTTOM 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋