2007-02-19 10:30:56 · 13 answers · asked by Anonymous in Science & Mathematics ➔ Astronomy & Space
That's a funny line of questioning. Reminds me when Woody Allen once said that he wouldn't like going at the speed of light, because your hat would fall off
2007-02-19 15:09:08 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Blaringhorn above is right: if you achieved the speed of light, time would freeze for you. (Time doesn't *reverse* until you exceed the speed of light). Time freezes, so your journey is over before you realized it began -- even if you're flying across the whole universe. So, no, you wouldn't have time to see anything, even though you may be pelted with a lot of photons along the way.
Another way to think of it: the entire cosmos stretching out in front of you would appear to pancake flat into you. You could see this effect if you were going 99.999% light speed, but going at 100% light speed it would happen infinitely fast, meaning it wouldn't happen at all in any perceptible way.
2007-02-19 19:11:10 · answer #2 · answered by KevinStud99 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
If you are going the speed of light, per Einstein's theory of relativity, you would actually be traveling backward in time, and that would lead to all sources of problems. Plus, at the speed of light, there is so much energy when mass moves at the speed of light, any object striking the object moving at the speed of light would go clear through the object before any reaction could be made, so space dust, space rocks, that would bounce off an object traveling at 52000 mph would instead go right through the object. if your path was such that your head would be moving at an object with a diamater of about a quarter sized, you would be dead before you had a chance to realize what killed you, and if you survived that collision you would suffer the effects of explosive decompression and would still die anyway, as the object would render apart your spacesuit.
2007-02-19 18:41:00 · answer #3 · answered by Monisashula K 1 · 0⤊ 1⤋
The moment of emission and the moment of absorption are the same instant for something travelling at the speed of light. Time does not pass for light. You would never have time to know you existed, much less see anything.
2007-02-19 18:35:23 · answer #4 · answered by blaringhorn 2 · 2⤊ 1⤋
Isn't this the basis of time travel?
Travelling at the speed of light.. theoretically, wouldn't we see time as it HAD already been? I.e. the past?
My brain hurts to think about it.
2007-02-19 18:40:37 · answer #5 · answered by Straight Talker 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
yes and very simply because when you see objects in front of you the light is travelling towards you so you would be travelling in the opposite direction but you would not see anything behind you as the light would not be able to catch you up
2007-02-19 18:40:05 · answer #6 · answered by grahamralph2000 4 · 1⤊ 1⤋
Okay, the speed of light is what? 186,000 miles per second. So, you would have to be in space in order to go that fast without hitting the car in front of you. You would see black space, stars, etc. Thats about it.
2007-02-19 18:45:39 · answer #7 · answered by David L 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
My eyes water so much on the roller coaster
can't imagine what they would do at the speed of light!
2007-02-19 18:39:01 · answer #8 · answered by sapphire_630 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
it would depend on the surrounding enviroment, if you went the speed of light on earth, you wouldnt because everything is a smaller scale. If your in space you would be cause everything is on a larger scale and the distances between each other are by far greater. so the answer would yes if in space.
2007-02-19 18:37:14 · answer #9 · answered by sean_5505 2 · 0⤊ 1⤋
All relative, but wear protective glasses to keep out the cosmic dust.
2007-02-19 18:40:16 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋