2007-06-04 22:46:01 · 6 answers · asked by Gaurav K 1 in Science & Mathematics ➔ Physics
No matter what speed you are driving the light will travel at the same speed from the headlight of your car and from the headlight from the stationary car.
In simple no time will pass when you are traveling with speed of light .the movement of time will became 0 .You will exist in many different frames of time.
2007-06-04 22:52:37 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
This question is on here a lot. If you're going close to the speed of light (possible, say) and turn on your lights, the light will propagate in front of you at c, the speed of light. To observers at rest, they, too, will see the light travel in front of you at c. This is observed behavior (not in cars . . .) so that's just the way it is. What gives? Your preconceptions about time and space. Einstein encompassed these observations under the umbrella of special relativity.
2007-06-04 22:49:48 · answer #2 · answered by supastremph 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Your question is the thought experiment on which Einstein built his assumption that nothing can travel with the speed of light.
If you are traveling with the speed of light 'c' relative to a stationary observer, and you turn your headlights on, light would travel with a speed of 'c' relative to your frame of reference, and a speed of '2c' relative to the stationary observer. This contradicts Einstein's first postulate, which states that the speed of light in vacuum is the same measured from all inertial frames of reference: it's a universal constant.
This contradiction arises from your imaginary situation: that you are traveling with the speed of light. So, we conclude that nothing can travel with the speed of light.
2007-06-04 23:23:35 · answer #3 · answered by ehabhamdy1983 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The light from your headlights will travel at double the speed you are travelling at and will be double the distance compared to you.
2007-06-04 22:52:38 · answer #4 · answered by Kripa 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
When you turned on the lights the beam would accelerate away for one-thirty billionths of a second to 1 cm then begin to burn the emitters out.
2007-06-05 05:03:36 · answer #5 · answered by Billy Butthead 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Well, for one thing you won't be the first to ask.
A couple of the answers here: http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index;_ylt=Apha2ki_wnsrBPtUk86RgYcjzKIX?qid=20061025063758AAGVnu3 look pretty good to me.
2007-06-04 23:05:18 · answer #6 · answered by tinkertailorcandlestickmaker 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋