If you were travelling backwards at the speed of light what would you see in your rear view mirror???

Question

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Answer 1

Hi. Nobody gets it. Nobody. If you have accelerated to near light-speed you have a huge amount of kinetic energy. Unless you have an amount of fuel left equal to the fuel used to accelerate you then you are stuck forever going nowhere fast. Your answer? Your past.

Answer 2

It all depends on the distance of the object you are looking at. The farther something is that you are looking at, the longer ago you are looking at the past. However, because you are moving, you will only see a blur, if you're lucky to see even that. There's not a very easy way to explain it, but you can try drawing a picture and visualizing the situation, the crucial parts being the position of the vehicle, the position of the object you are looking at, the path from your eyes to the object, and the time it takes for your line of sight to reach the object relative to the speed of light. You will find that your vehicle will be much farther ahead by the time you glimpse the object. The fact that you are travelling backwards doesn't really change much.

This is the logical conclusion I have come to with all the physics background I've had in college, although there may be some factor that I am not remembering to include.

Answer 3

If you were travel ling backwards at the speed of light, the forces on your body, the environment you would be in, the radiation you would receive and the time taken to get to that speed would all add up to the fact that you would be dead.
Dead people see nothing in their rear-view mirrors.

Answer 4

According to the terms of your question, if I were travelling backward, then my rear view mirror would show me the empty space into which I was moving. It would look stable as far as we know relative to an object at the speed of light.

Answer 5

I don't know about AT the speed of light, but as you travel very fast, things would appear to have a "blue shift" looking forward and a "red shift" looking backwards. And this is exactly what we see as our universe expands -- red shift everywhere. At you approach the speed of light, looking foward would be invisible to the human eye because everything could be shifted all towards x-rays and beyond. Looking backwards, everything would also be invisible to the human eye as everything would be shifted towards radiowave and beyond. Looking to your right and left, colors would look more normal.

At the speed of light, you see a very old man sitting in front of a table with a candle. The room is dusty with heavy curtains drawn. You suddenly realize the man is you. You touch his hair with your hand, and you are waken up by your mother. She asks you to get dressed, have breakfast and go to school.

Answer 6

For a moment it would be like a "Freeze Frame" as light (photons) could not catch up to you to record new visual information nor could you catch up to any new photons to shed some light on your surroundings. As the photons surrounding you (and traveling at the same speed as you) exchange their energy with the environment things would slowly fade into total darkness. It would be like watching a movie until you reached the speed of light then it would be like the projector failed and slowly faded out. Light would not reach you from other angles as light travels in all directions at the same speed

Answer 7

No matter how fast I travel, either forwards or backwards, if I look in the mirror during the trip, I will still see myself.

Answer 8

a blur of colors, and maybe space- like light such as on Star Trek when they travel by light speed

Answer 9

The front of your car.....thanks for ten points and the million dollar prize.

Answer 10

THE SAME THING YOU WOULD SEE IF YOU WERE TRAVELING FORWARD AT THE SPEED OF LIGHT LOOKING OUT THE WINDSHIELD, OR THE SAME THING AS IF YOU WERE TO JUST TURN AROUND