Traveling at the speed of light....?

Question

If you were in a car traveling at the speed of light and you turned your headlights on, what would happen??

Answer 1

Absolutely nothing!

Answer 2

First off, you can't go the speed of light. However, if you were going nearly the speed of light, and you turned on your headlights, they'd shine out like normal, to you. The speed of light is constant, regardless of your speed.

Think about it this way - you and a friend are the only two things in the universe, and you pass each other. How do you know which one is moving, and which one isn't? Really, you can only measure your speed in relation to other things. Thus, when you say the speed of light is constant, it means exactly that - if your friend shined a flashlight when he was passing you, it'll be going the same speed for both of you, but for you, it'll be slightly compressed, changing the color.

Answer 3

The following things will happen, or continue to happen:
1) the headlights would get on.
2) The car would continue to travel in which ever direction you are going
3) The light from the car's headlight will travel faster than the car

Answer 4

You would not see the light since the light produced by headlights would never be able to get out ahead of the car since car traveling just as fast as the light

Answer 5

Relitive to what?

To someone sitting in the car, you'd see the headlights come on, and light up anything that was moving at close to the same speed as you like what happens in a car here, the road is moving close to the same speed as you (with a difference of a hundred KPH or so, when compared to the 107,300 KPH that the road and the car are doing around the sun at the moment)

To someone standing on a planet as the car moves past, how can you even SEE that there is a car when it's moving past at 1,079,252,848.8 km/h?

Answer 6

If you were in a car traveling at the speed of light and you turned your headlights on, then simply the lights will get on.
but the speed of yours and light being same, you and light from headlights may travel at same speed.
hence the light may not get reflected from anywhere and so u may not see the headlights getting on

Answer 7

You wont see anything in front of u since the car is also travelling at the same speed as that of light.

Answer 8

Well if you were traveleling at that speed you and your car would dissolve.I don't think that you would get a chance to turn your headlights on.

Answer 9

I think the light would not be able to go forward so it would hit the back of your head lamp assembly. I think, then, that extra drag on your car from those light particles would cause you to slow down. Speed and mass depend on each other. You can not travel at the speed of light. The closer you got to light speed the more the mass of your vehicle would increase slowing you down. I think.

Answer 10

According to Einstein's theor, E=mc^2, as you approach the speed of light, your mass will be so great, you will disintegrate.

You cannot travel at the speed of light. Physically impossible. So, this is a redundant question.

But, to think thru this deeply, for the fun of it - I would say your head light will be travelling much faster than the speed at which you are travelling (which is speed of light). So, the light will be ahead of you. You cannot catch up..!!

You will get a speeding ticket...lol.

Answer 11

Your headlights would turn on.


However, you wouldn't be able to see this anyway. Everything infront of you at such a speed would be white and everything behind you would be black, because light can't catch you anymore and light infront of you is hitting you faster than normal.

But remember no human being would be able to survive at even 99% C, so these questions are very impractical.