Would you be able to see the road with your headlights on?
2007-03-19 15:30:11 · 9 answers · asked by FarOut 4 in Science & Mathematics ➔ Physics
I wouldnt be watching the road. I would be to busy getting road head.
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2007-03-21 16:04:03 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
You would, in fact, see the light beams ahead of you. The speed of any object is relative to the speed of light. Therefore, everything else is a dependent; the road, the car, and even time. as you begin to accelerate towards the speed of light, everything will appear to be normal and will continue to do so. However, to an onlooker, as you approach the speed of light you begin to slow down. This means that as you approach the speed of light (an increase in energy in the 3 physical dimensions) your speed through time slows down (a loss in energy in the 4th dimension) and that you would have no affect on the speed of light, only your traversion through spacetime. Since time and space are relative to light, the light would travel away from your car as you would always see it. The only difference is that space and time itself are warping around you due to your massive acceleration and increasing density. And by the way, you could not travel at the speed of light or see what would happen at the speed of light because you would be light. E=MC^(2) It would require and unimaginable amount of energy to reach the speed of light, effectively turning you into light and compressing you into an unbelievably small size. In fact, the compression of matter to that degree from acceleration would probably create a black hole.
2007-03-19 16:45:09 · answer #2 · answered by Creel O 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
There would be no road, and there would be no headlights, and there would be no car, and there would no traveling, because you would be on the road NOT traveled, (not just LESS traveled by), because of the fact that your question is hypothetical. Also, your car, the road, your body, and your mind would have turned into jelly owing to your velocity.
2007-03-19 23:58:44 · answer #3 · answered by Jacques 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
The speed of light is a constant, so you would not see any of the light beams from your headlights in front of you. You would be traveling at the same speed as the light beams and so, it could never light anything in front of you.
But, if you are travelling at the speed of light, you're going to have alot more to worry about than trying to see the road. Like, why has my mass increased to near infinity?
2007-03-19 15:41:19 · answer #4 · answered by Tunsa 6 · 1⤊ 2⤋
You CANNOT travel at the speed of light. Slightly slower, though, you would see light moving at the same exact speed anyone else would, TIME just passes differently between these observers to make this effect possible.
2007-03-19 15:46:20 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Hi. Why not? The road would be going about the same speed, right? Just under c?
2007-03-19 15:33:33 · answer #6 · answered by Cirric 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
TJ's right...your light beams would still be receding from you at the speed of light.
2007-03-19 15:46:51 · answer #7 · answered by gebobs 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Yes, everything's relative. You'd hear your car stereo too.
2007-03-19 15:38:13 · answer #8 · answered by T J 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
no u cant..when travellin at the speed of light,everything freezes...
2007-03-19 15:53:58 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋