if a vehicle is traveling through space at the speed of light do the headlights work?

Answer 1

just as common sense, no. the vehicle would be keeping pace with the light , so it wouldn't work.

Answer 2

" If a vehicle is traveling through space at the speed of light do the headlights work?"

We must discount the fact that an object with mass cannot travel at the speed of light for many various reasons. Once we take that liberty, we can consider your question.

The answer is, yes, your headlights would work just fine. All laws of physics work the same at any uniform velocity.

For instance, any experiments concerning motion or the speed of light you may perform inside of a jet moving at a steady 600 mph will yield the same results on the surface of the earth while you are at "rest."

Answer 3

Yes the headlights work at any speed so long as the bulbs are good and there is power to them but, If you are traveling at the speed of light you will not have to worry about being able to see things because if you come to a traffic snarl you couldn't stop anyway. And, you would not need a watch to tell time because if you are traveling at the speed of light, time stands still.

Answer 4

well put it this way when traveling on Concorde you travel past the speed of sound yet if yu talk to the person in front of you no problem they can hear you its like landing in a plane once revers thrust and brakes are used your body moves forward because your body is still moving at the speed of the plane before reves thrust was used then eventually you go back to normal however light is different according to Einstein the speed of light is the cosmic limit and at which point time comes to a complete stop but lets not get off topic since the speed of light is the cosmic limit and you are moving at the cosmic limit the light would neve go past the little wire in the center of the bulb thus your lights would have no effect

Hope that helps

Answer 5

According to the General Theory of Relativity, as an object containing mass approaches the speed of light, its length in the direction of travel contracts, and its mass increases. However, the equations fail once an object with mass reaches the speed of light, implying that it would be infinitesimally small with infinite mass, lying within what to an outside observer would appear to be the event horizon of a black hole.
Once we cross that threshold of thought, Einstein proposed that even for an observer traveling at the speed of light, light would still travel away from them at 300,000 km/second from their perspective.

Answer 6

Travelling at the speed of light is impossible by today's science.

Answer 7

I would have to say no all the force would break the bulb! Do you know how fast light travels???
LMAO!
And then again I would say you wouldn't need headlights because you would be traveling with all the light....... =0P
Was that good or was that good? JK!
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Stacy M.

Answer 8

nicely i think in accordance to Einstein's theories, time has stopped and additionally you're thoroughly flat, so which you have gotten greater subjects handy...oh to not point out the limitless volume of power it took to realize the cost of sunshine :) yet as impossible because it incredibly is, the gentle out of your headlights would not have the flexibility to commute forwards, the cost of sunshine in a vacuum isn't a relative velocity, it is an absolute one

Answer 9

If you're going that fast why do you need headlights?
Or just don't travel at 'night'.
Maybe a 'blind cane'.

Are you a vegetarian?

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Answer 10

Hmmmm.