if you could travel at the speed of light and you had one flashlight in your hand pointing forward, what would happen to the light from the flashlight if you turned the flaslight on.
2007-06-10 17:16:26 · 15 answers · asked by adarba66 1 in Science & Mathematics ➔ Physics
You can't travel at the speed of light. You can get as close to it as you please, and when you do and turn on the flashlight, the light travels away from you at -- the speed of light. Which is a constant, regardless of how measured.
2007-06-10 17:20:30 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 1⤋
Theoretically if you traveled at the speed of light and you turned on a flashlight, you won't see the beam since you would be traveling at the same speed as the beam.
Check out the theory of relativity for a better understanding.
2007-06-11 00:28:22 · answer #2 · answered by pappy 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The speed of light in a vacuum is 186212 miles per second. You can never reach the speed of light, at any other speed the light from the flashlight will travel at 186212 miles per second.
2007-06-13 12:34:04 · answer #3 · answered by johnandeileen2000 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
You would never be able to see the ebam of light fromt he flashlight. This is because you are also travelling at the samespeed oflight.Think of two bikes moving next to each other at the same speed- neither one is ahead of the other.
The speed of light is 3 x 10^8 m/s
2007-06-11 00:20:26 · answer #4 · answered by Nikhil M 3 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Even if you could travel at the speed of light which requires an infinte amount of energy you couldn' turn the flashlight on. You couldnt do anything at all. Time stops at the speed of light...sorry you would be frozen time!
2007-06-11 00:23:43 · answer #5 · answered by kennyk 4 · 0⤊ 1⤋
speed of light=3 * 10^8 m/s
2007-06-18 23:46:41 · answer #6 · answered by luv Man U hate Chelsea 4ever 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
the speed of light is the speed that light travels, duh. lol just kidding. (true though) i dont know in #'s. but that is a good question. i would assume that it would slow itself down until it reached the correct speed.
i would assume it would be the same while in the ship though. my mind sees it as anything in the ship that has equaled its speed and momentum that is inside it is not moving in relation to the ship. so it would keep going while in the ship. but in reality be moving at twice the speed of light.
thats a very good question.
2007-06-11 00:25:11 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
same thing I would reckon happens when you travel Supersonic - silence. both light and sound are transverse waves and share many of the same properties.
2007-06-11 00:34:49 · answer #8 · answered by Overheal 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
3E+08 metres/sec in SI unit
2007-06-11 00:24:07 · answer #9 · answered by agent_ting 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
There would be an electromagnetic spectrum, where it separates into many colors
2007-06-18 16:13:11 · answer #10 · answered by Alicia R 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋