If you travelled backwards at the speed of light, would you see anything?

Question

Light would presumably not travel fast enough to enter your eye.

Answer 1

U canot see the nearby objects but still can see objects thousands of kilometers away from you.

EDIT
1. And it seems that it will be possible for you to see an object at a distance of thousands of kilometer away from u without the help of telescope. Whatever u see would be far away within a fraction of second. The image remains on retina for at least 1/12th part of a second but by than the onject will be thousands of kilometer away while leaving behind an image to illude u. And than it depends upon the capacity of the eye nerves how fast they serve to see all the objects falling in the way. The speed of neurons is probably less than that of sound due to which everthing left behind may not necessarily be seen by the eyes while moving at the speed of light.

EDIT-2

THE OTHER POSSIBILITY WOULD BE THAT THE PERSON MOVING AT C WITH HIS FACE TOWARD OPPOSITE DIRECTION TO THE DIRECTION OF MOVEMENT MAY CONTINUE TO SEE SIMULTANEOUSLY ALL THE OBJECTS FALLING WITHIN HIS SIGHT LIMITS. tHIS IS POSSIBLE BECOUSE THE LIGHT FROM DIFFRENT OBJECTS IN HIS WAY WILL KEEP TRAVELING WITH THAT PERSON TILL ITS ARCH BECOME THIN ENOUGH TO BE INVISIBLE TO THE UNAIDED EYES. THE MAN IS EXPECTED TO WEAR PRANSPARENT PROTECTIVE GLASSES AT SUCH A TREMENDOUS SPEED.

Answer 2

Light and Darkness must Travel at the same speed - as One cannot exist without the Other.
Spin a symbol of Yin and Yang - First clockwise ( for Light ) and then Anti clockwise ( for Darkness )
Both take up the same space and travel at the same speed.
So in my Theory; What your Eye could see would remain the same as it was when you began the journey, as the eye could only percieve the Physical realm bound by Time and Space.
Beyond that we must move to the realm's of Quantum Physics and precognitive sub-atomic particles.Easier then to say ........
" The more thing's change,the more thing's remain the same "
Either Way ;Thank you for such a good Question,it made me think about something I'd never thought about before so I hope my insta-theory holds a little water atleast.

Answer 3

Why dont you attempt to travel forward first at the speed of light (impossible) and look behind you, I always find running forward is always much easier than running backwards especially when you are appraoching the speed of light :)

If you asking from the point of view of a light particle you would see other light particles following you.

Answer 4

No,

But not for the reason you think. The speed of light in independent on the velocity of the observer (I know it's weird but true), so the light from an object would still get to you no matter shat your velocity, however the light would be red shifted so almost everything you see now would only be visible in IR - which you can't see, although some UV sources like very hot stars might be still visible.

Answer 5

What we see is light being reflected off things. Different colors being the result of different parts of the colored spectrum being reflected and absorbed.

If you traveled backwards at the speed of light, and assuming that light was only coming from one direction, then the light would be stationery relative to you, in which case you would see light in it's natural state - i.e. nothing or 'black light'. Light only appears to be white but that's because we're seeing the effect of light and not light itself.

The reason it's dark in space isn't because there's no light but because there's nothing for the light to reflect off.

Answer 6

Light speed is entirley relative - two objects passing each other at light speed measure each others velocity as light speed, and not 2 times light speed. It is a finite absolute. Now, matter cannot travel at the speed of light (it just can't), but it can reach speeds colse to the speed of light compared to other objects. If you reached 0.9 times the speed of light relative to a stationary object, the weird thing is that you will still measure a light beam from any direction as travelling at the speed of light. the maths is comlicated, but you'll have to take my word that it works out.

Now, suppose that you, as matter, could some how travel at the speed of light - one of 3 things might occur - you might still see light beams as travelling at the speed of light. You might see no light beams at all, from any direction, as you no longer interact with them, so everything would become black - forwards and backwards. Or you might ride the crest of a light beam wave, so everything appears frozen in time.

No one is sure which would happen, and as light speed cannot be reached by matter, it is impossible to tell and futile to try to find out. If you reached very near to light speed, you would still see everything anyway (although you might experience blue shift going forwards and red shift going backwards, as reaching near to light speed does not affect the speed of light, but does change their wave lengths... again, this is very complicated to explain).

Answer 7

I believe you would see light in the place you travel. Light does not have to move with you when you travel backwards, it just is where you go, unless you go into darkness. I think I am right, what do others think?

Answer 8

Even if you could, light would still reach you from every direction except the exact opposite of direction of travel.

Answer 9

yes you would see. light travels at a constant speed relative to the observer.

Answer 10

no.bicoz you can't keep your eyes open at that e after the speed.it would be lucky of you if you survive after the speediest travel!