2007-05-05 17:22:17 · 9 answers · asked by cora1 1 in Science & Mathematics ➔ Physics
they would work but the light and you would be traveling the same speed thus it would not illuminate the roadway in front of you. just travel with you. thats logical isn't it
2007-05-05 17:26:15 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
You cannot go at the speed of light so why bother if your headlights would work in such a situation? Another thing to note is that you would no longer have a headlight to turn on or a hand or whatever to turn it on because you would have already changed into a different form of energy at the time of light-speed travel.
This is a serious answer. I've asked my physicist friend if if I could see stars being born if I am near a black hole and he answered that I would be crushed by the black hole before I could even see any freaking stars to start with.
2007-05-06 01:30:12 · answer #2 · answered by Ava 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
You can't travel at the speed of light because you are made up of massive particles and your mass would become infinite and there is no such thing as infinite mass. Long before you reached the speed of light, you and your car would become so massive that you would collapse into a mini-black hole, and you would essentially disappear from the universe. You can only approach the speed of light. This is a crucial principle of Einstein's theory that people forget.
If you were travelling at some speed arbitrarily close to the speed of light, the light from your headlights would appear to you to be travelling away at the normal speed of 186,000 mi/sec, but to a stationary observer it would also appear to be moving at 186,000mps, so it would look like it was barely moving away from you. This is because your time would slow down relative to the observer. One second on your clock would be many seconds to the observer. As you approach the speed of light, your second approaches an infinitely long time to the observer. There is also no such thing as infinite time.
If you were actually driving close to the speed of light your lights would be useless because the light wouldn't have time to reflect off anything and get back to your eyes before you passed it. I.e., if the stationary observer was standing on the road in front of you, the light from your car would hit him just before you did, in both time frames. So the short answer is no, they wouldn't work.
2007-05-06 02:43:59 · answer #3 · answered by mr.perfesser 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
If you were going at the speed of light, you wouldn't have the strength to turn your headlights on because of the g-force.
2007-05-06 00:25:24 · answer #4 · answered by octopus hand 2 · 0⤊ 1⤋
yes!!just because that headlight works on battery and if u put ur button on then it will surely work!!but g law u cant hav the power to switch on the headlight!!
2007-05-06 00:32:06 · answer #5 · answered by cool d 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
if you were going the speed of light you would be frozen in time. so, yeah, your headlights would work.
2007-05-06 00:25:42 · answer #6 · answered by jason 2 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Of course they would. And you would 'see' the light from them travelling away from you at the speed of light.
HTH
Doug
2007-05-06 00:28:02 · answer #7 · answered by doug_donaghue 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Ofcourse it will work. Since the laws of relativity are not applicable on light.
2007-05-06 00:33:13 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
if a tree falls in the middle of a forest and britney spears cuts her hair, does it rain in Abu Dhabi??
2007-05-06 00:26:35 · answer #9 · answered by abby j 5 · 0⤊ 1⤋