If you were traveling at the speed of light, would the light be in front of you, behind you or would there be none at all?
2006-11-20 12:57:25 · 8 answers · asked by Anonymous in Science & Mathematics ➔ Physics
Traveling near the speed of light, everything would be in squished in front of you by a factor of (1 - v^2/c^2)^0.5
At the speed of light you wouldn't see anything (factor becomes zero). Same as looking through a black hole's event horizon.
2006-11-20 14:47:58 · answer #1 · answered by Mark in Time 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
"you" can't travel at the speed of light -- only light can. If you tried to do so, before actually reaching the speed of light you would be nearly infinitely heavy, requiring nearly infinite energy to push you that last little bit to be "at" light speed, which you could never do.
The question makes no sense from that point of view, and from another: Einstein showed that the speed of light is always the same no matter what the speed of the observer is. So even if you could possibly travel the speed of light, it would still appear to you as if light were going the speed of light *relative* to your speed. I don't know how that translates to "in front of you or behind you", but it's not "none at all."
2006-11-20 13:02:40 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
I would be the light so none of the questions would be right.
2006-11-20 12:59:16 · answer #3 · answered by ponitail 55 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
the light will travel beside you because you travel at the same speed..
2006-11-20 13:05:48 · answer #4 · answered by akoaypilipino 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
it depends who started moving first, you or the light
if it was you, then the light be behind you
if it was the light, then youd be behind it
or, if you both began to move at the same time
neither of you would be ahead of behind each other.
common sense?
2006-11-20 13:00:15 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
time would stand still to you... you would travel with the light around you and stay with it... the past would stay there and the future would be ahead of you... you know what I mean?
2006-11-20 13:00:07 · answer #6 · answered by duh..... 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
wow
2006-11-20 13:05:39 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
none
2006-11-20 12:59:44 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋