2007-05-08 08:06:02 · 21 answers · asked by Anonymous in Cars & Transportation ➔ Safety
If you want to know the actual answer according to physics, it's this:
First of all, you can't go EXACTLY the speed of light. It would take an infinite amount of energy. But we can say you're going pretty much the speed of light... say 99.9% of lightspeed.
To an outside observer, you will be travelling at about the same speed as the light coming from your headlights. For all practical purposes, it will probably seem like all the photons are bunching up in front of you. In fact, they WILL be bunching up and making the beam from your lights about a thousand times more powerful. It's the same thing that causes a sonic boom from an airplane from engine noise. Only this would be a 'photonic boom', so to speak.
YOU, on the other hand, wouldn't notice anything strange. Your lights would flick on and your headlight beams would look much the same as they always did to you. This paradox is explained by time dilation. The reason the photons from your headlights seem to be going away from you at normal speed is that you experience LESS time. About a thousand times less. Every second that passes for you is about sixteen minutes for your headlights.
Peace.
2007-05-08 09:29:03 · answer #1 · answered by Doctor Why 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
The dylithium crystals will project a phase beam through the force matrix that will eanble the channel inverters to project the light out in front of you at half the speed of a photon traveling at light speed plus .3. Oh, by the way...there's a cop at the 1,003,884,884,092 mile marker...hiding behind a moon.
2007-05-08 13:23:10 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
The speed of light is relative. so you would see the headlight beam moving forward at the normal speed of light. 186000 mps.
2007-05-08 08:16:20 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Light from the headlights will move 2X times the speed of light.Really you would be going to fast for lights.A force field of some sorts, needs to be made to prevent micro meteors from damaging ship.
2007-05-08 08:15:36 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 2⤋
You are traveling at the speed of light,so when you turn on your headlights you will never see the beam from them,but your lights will be on.Now if you had them on before you reached the speed of light,you would have a beam you could see.So make sure you turn your lights on before reaching the speed of light.
common sense
2007-05-08 08:19:47 · answer #5 · answered by cactusjoe 2 · 0⤊ 1⤋
The headlights will project. You really need to consult Einstein's Theory of Time Dilation to understand the principles involved.
2007-05-08 08:10:14 · answer #6 · answered by Gemma 5 · 2⤊ 1⤋
it'd be the speed of light, plus the speed of light when you turned the lamps on...
however, if we follow newton, then the car is doing lightspeed, when we put the lights on, it will apply an opposite and equal force... so it'd be like putting the brakes on..
but then we have to consider mass inertia and kinetic energy...
and instead of illuminating the way, the doppler red shift would kick in... and youd see where youve been, but not where youre going...
2007-05-08 08:19:29 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
All I can say is thank you for turning on your headlights, most poeple who drive that way don't have their lights on and is not easy to see them...
2007-05-08 08:16:17 · answer #8 · answered by xyz 6 · 2⤊ 0⤋
You won't have the option to turn on the headlights as your eyes and lips would have already been blown away and your arms will be dislocated.
2007-05-08 08:18:55 · answer #9 · answered by Jewel 6 · 0⤊ 1⤋
I have one better: If you are driving across the panhandle of texas going 70 miles per hr with the windows down and there is a fly in the car. What happens if he flies OUT. And is he going 70 MPH in the car???
2007-05-08 08:14:53 · answer #10 · answered by dtwladyhawk 6 · 2⤊ 1⤋