2006-10-22 02:24:52 · 20 answers · asked by csnape2003 3 in Cars & Transportation ➔ Other - Cars & Transportation
The light would travel in front of you at the espeed of light, just as if you were standing still. The difference would be the frequency. The light you normally see would be in a much higher frequency than your eyes could detect, so you'd have to use a much lower frequency system. Believe in or not, depending on how well the frequencies compress you may need to replace your headlights with a set of speakers and play a continuous drone through them, as it may be voice frequency radio waves that you would see at that point. I don't know exactly how well the frequencies would compress so may not reach this level, but they would compress beyond microwaves and into radiowaves frequencies.
Using normal car headlights the light given off would probably appear as gamma rays to a stationary object.
2006-10-22 08:54:43 · answer #1 · answered by Bealzebub 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The Doppler effect would cause the light from the headlamps to travel at the speed of light PLUS the speed of the vehicle. As for Einstein's theory concerning the speed of light can't be exceeded, isn't that what some scientists said about the speed of sound?
2006-10-22 03:12:22 · answer #2 · answered by maxinebootie 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
If you where on a train travelling at 100mph and you ran along the corridor at 10mph you would collectively be moving at 110mph, I believe that light would do the same
2006-10-22 03:19:21 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
i guess whatever was in front of you wouldnt see the lights untill they actually hit them in the face, i guess if you were already traveling at the speed of light then the lights on your car would take the same time to get to something as your car would, therefor the light wouldnt hit it untill you were on top of it ???
lol i dont know, that just my theory
i failed science lol but the theory is right i guess
2006-10-22 02:28:11 · answer #4 · answered by david l 2 · 0⤊ 1⤋
The lights would go on - but light nothing up as you would reach whatever was trying to get lit up - it would already have gone past you- A bit like this answer!
2006-10-22 02:36:37 · answer #5 · answered by Knowitall 3 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Um, the head lights would come on. nothing since your *at* the speed of light. now, if you were traveling faster than that, your lights would be behind you. but, i could be wrong.
2006-10-22 02:28:27 · answer #6 · answered by NicotineFit 3 · 0⤊ 1⤋
You would see where you are.
2006-10-22 02:38:15 · answer #7 · answered by Thomas S 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
According to the theory of relativity, can't travel that fast. Einstein asked himself the same question, and it was the impossibility to answer it that led him to that idea.
2006-10-22 02:35:36 · answer #8 · answered by Kat D 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The lights would come on, then I suppose they would penetrate no further than the light itself. It is something we wwill see never happen.
2006-10-22 02:31:49 · answer #9 · answered by Thomas S 6 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Is thr car going forward or reversing?
2006-10-22 04:21:58 · answer #10 · answered by lulu 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋