2007-01-25 15:55:31 · 10 answers · asked by smeltings3214 1 in Cars & Transportation ➔ Other - Cars & Transportation
The speed of light is not a constant, but neither is it relative.
Since your lights are on your car going at the speed of light, the conditions for both your car and your lights would be identical, therefore, the light from your headlights would not exceed the speed of the car, and therefore would not leave the headlight nacelle.
Just as an aside, the speed of light is in no way affected by the speed of time. Both, however, are affected by gravitational forces. Both light and time slow in the presence of gravitational fields.
Thus the light from distant stars is not impeded by the vacuum of space, but slows as it nears galaxies and solar systems. It even bends as it skirts the outer edge of gravitational fields. Starlight can be seen on the opposite side of quasars, for instance, due to this phenomenon.
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2007-01-25 16:12:09 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
Some theorists believe that nothing can exceed the speed of light. Years ago there were some that thought that the sound barrier couldn't be broken. If the speed of light can't be exceeded, then there wouldn't be any light shining in front of the car. But if the speed of light can be exceeded, then the light from the headlights would travel at the speed of the car plus the speed of the light from the headlights, or, twice the speed of light.
2007-01-25 16:39:10 · answer #2 · answered by maxinebootie 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The light would leave the car at the speed of light relative to the car.
That is one of the paradoxes of the speed of light, because the light leaving the headlight will be traveling at the speed of light measured from the car AND from a third party who is stationary relative to the car.
Weird, no?
2007-01-25 16:04:17 · answer #3 · answered by TheSlayor 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
I don't know why i bother to answer this. Did you stop to think that if you were driving at the speed of light, the time it would take you to bend over and flip the light switch, you would be past your destination. "whew" that made me feel like a kid again!
2007-01-25 16:14:36 · answer #4 · answered by Auburn 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
You wouldn't have to worry about getting a ticket, since you wouldn't be able to see the flashing lights from the patrolman behind you.
2007-01-26 08:36:35 · answer #5 · answered by dbake50 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
You would still be driving in the dark. Also, you would likely get a ticket for going that fast, right after the horrific accident you are going to have.
2007-01-25 16:02:40 · answer #6 · answered by J.R. 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
you couldnt. Time stops when you hit the speed of light.
2007-01-25 16:00:43 · answer #7 · answered by Kyle M 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
What would it matter ?
Your brakes couldn't help you at all---
And, you would be toast WAY before you ever saw anything in the way-- anyway !!!
(please send plans of this concept car to: ShelbyGT, VanNuys, California)
2007-01-25 16:10:32 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
you wouldn't be able to tell. you would be past the light before it could be seen
2007-01-25 16:01:59 · answer #9 · answered by golfnutsjosh 2 · 2⤊ 0⤋
holly transverse universe implosion Batman
2007-01-26 04:07:34 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋