Assuming you can travel the speed of light, would you actually be able to see anything...?

Question

...Since you would be travelling at the same speed as the light around you?

Answer 1

No matter how fast you go or think you are going, light always appears to be going the speed of light.

Even if you are going 0.99999999999 c from the viewpoint of an outside observer, you would still see light traveling at the speed of light around you. Now, light sent by objects moving at 0.9999999999 c towards you (those "ahead" of you) would be severely blue-shifted and light from objects moving away from you at that speed (those "behind" you) would be severely red-shifted.

But light from any object moving the same speed as you would look perfectly normal. In fact if you covered the windows of your spaceship (it better be a spaceship, since you won't be in any atmosphere for very long), you wouldn't know you were moving at all!

Answer 2

To answer your question a secondary question needs to be answered. Is the processing speed of the human brain as fast as the speed of light? Remember that the human eye only captures the light. Your brain converts the impulses / signals generated into an image. In my opinion, You'd be seeing one big blur. Since the human brain processes electo-chemical impulses and the speed of electricity is not as fast as the speed of light I firmly doubt one would be able to see clear images.

Answer 3

You're not human anymore.
you can't do it since you have a material body and the friction would be impossible for you to move like the speed of light. But if you can do it....and you do it inside a vacuum where there will be less friction in the air... you wont see anything because your if you open your eyes and you move very fast..... your brain could not process what you could see... so it still wont register in your mind even you can see a light or a darkness.....

Answer 4

In front of you you would see black since the light wouldnt be able to pass you thus creating an image infront of you. but you would see light at your side and at the back because of the already emited light which may be at that point they"photons" reached there.

but you would exist unlike the first responce in which states that using module E=MC^2. That formular was able to release energy stored in an atom out of a collision by spliting the atom. Not converting the atom into pure energy.

Answer 5

Of course you would! Remember that you are not the first "light" there - er - here or where ever! Light has preceded you! Now according to the best scientific information available (this also is almost changing at the speed of light) you might be seeing something that has not yet happened and so - you might not .. er .. believe your own eyes.

Answer 6

The speed of light travels at 186000 miles per second,which equates to approximately seven and a half times around the earth per second.You would be able to see when travelling in outer space because of the vast area.Stars and planets are light years away,a light year (using 186000 miles per second)is approximately,six million,million miles.So yes in this case you would see something.

Answer 7

read up on speed of light aka warp speed as some know it.

to travel at such speeds, time before you and after you would be bunched up while the time you are in remains constant. you would see all around you almost normal even moving at that speed.

its a quantum theory on how it all works and time bending allowing such a speed to be possible.

Answer 8

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Answer 9

Let me answer your question with a question.(this should put it in perspective) When you travel at the speed of sound, can you still hear ?

Answer 10

Well u will slow down time. So wht u'll see will be very disorted and hardly visible and it might happen tht if ur travelling at tht speed u might just disort urself.