Apologies to Mr. Wright, but I always wondered.
2006-11-18 06:11:47 · 8 answers · asked by Anonymous in Science & Mathematics ➔ Physics
Yes the headlights will work!! Einstein's theory of special relativity explains that space and time "dilate" as the observer approaches the speed of light so that the observer will ALWAYS be able to "measure" the speed of light to be 300 million meters per second no matter how fast he is traveling.
2006-11-18 06:32:34 · answer #1 · answered by jharr412 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
this question has been requested almost as many cases as "why is the sky blue?" Assuming you may boost up a spaceship on the point of the speed of light (shall we are saying almost three hundred,000 km/s relative on your planet), mild popping out of your headlights will go back and forth continually at three hundred,000 km/s relative to the spaceship. this does not propose that mild out of your headlights will be travelling at two times the speed measured from the planet you left. Time and area for each, the planet and the spaceship, will be diverse so mild will be travelling for both one in all them on a similar p.c..
2016-11-25 02:38:21 · answer #2 · answered by ? 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
A spaceship needs headlights?
LOL
If you are in space traveling at the speed of light, what would you need headlights for anyway? Not only would headlights be useless, but the human can't process visually that quickly... so again... A spaceship needs headlights?
2006-11-18 06:23:18 · answer #3 · answered by Laurie D 4 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Your question is exactly the question that Einstein pondered.
I think that Einstein theorized that, at the speed of light, time and space compress. To date, the theory still holds. So, at the speed of light, the light would go "nowhere" since the dimension has shrunk to zero (and time has stood still).
Didja get that?
2006-11-18 06:21:39 · answer #4 · answered by geek49203 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Yes, if you did manage to light something up in space. You would go extremely fast past it. Imagine you are in a high-speed train. You look out the windows, and see the sights as you go by. The train speeds up. Those sights turn to blurs. Now. Image you are in a space craft. You look out the windows, and see stars as you go by. The spacecraft speeds to the speed of light. Those stars turn to blurs.
Have you ever seen any movie where they "hyper-jump" to another location? It would seem as the stars were coming from one point in the distance and expanding as they came near.
Headlights in space themselves, wouldn't do much. Regardless of speed, Stars, and planets reflecting light from stars, light up the space sky.
2006-11-18 06:20:28 · answer #5 · answered by Pray 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
No, First Light cannont speed up or slow down unless it is traveling trough a material like glass or a diamond. Second there would be nothing to reflect back at you because your traveling on the same line at the same on the same point so nothing would happen
2006-11-18 06:19:06 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
no because aside from the fact that there is very little for them to light up in space, by the time you have seen anything you will have gone past it
2006-11-18 06:14:58 · answer #7 · answered by wyverex_auctor 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Well Einstein said that nothing goes faster than light so no.
2006-11-18 06:21:36 · answer #8 · answered by Put_ya_mitts_up 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋