What would happen if you were traveling at the speed of light and you turned your headlights on???

Answer 1

Please, do not try this at home!

"Hey, what happened to all the stars?"

"Uh oh, I'll bet steph-dawg was going the speed of light, turned on her headlights and tripped the universal breaker switch!"

"Darn, and I can't remember where I put the candles."

Answer 2

From the point of view of the person in the vessel with the headlights, all would appear normal. The beams would shine away from you at the speed of light and illuminate whatever is in the way.

From the point of view of an outside observer the headlights would not illuminate, because the photons (not the electrons, as one answerer used to illustrate) would be travelling at the speed of light, which your vessel was, too, and could not leave your vessel.

So, it isn't all that simple. Everything in luminary velocity theory depends on the point of view of the observer. To you, time moves normally, but to the point of view of an outside observer time for you has stopped. Also, to the point of view of an outsider, your mass has increased to infinity and your front to back length has decreased to zero. To you, none of this has occurred.

Read Allen Calder's "Einstein's Universe". It is an excellent essay on relativity.

Answer 3

Unless I am mistaken, regardless of the observer whether moving or stationary, the light will still speed at 670 million miles per hour to every individual. If you were going 600 million mph away from a sun the sun's light will still travel to you at 670 million mph if you measured it ( 670 - 600 will not be 100 it will still be 670). If you were stationary the same light would travel to you at 670 million mph. So, a stationary or speeding light source will reach you or leave you at 670 million mph whether you are moving at a constant speed or stationary.

Your headlights will still speed away from your car at 670 million mph. If someone on the street was watching, your headlights will measure to travel forward (ahead of you) at 670 million mph.

Edit: Since the light and you will be traveling at 670 million miles per hour a stationary person would probably not get to see the light.

Answer 4

I think that you can still see your headlights. Think of it as this Speed of your car+the speed of the headlight. So that means the headlight will now be twice as fast as the speed of light once it is combined with your car's speed. This means that the light coming out of the headlight will still be ahead of you.

Note: This is just a guess

Answer 5

The basic of relativistic physic is the premise that light will have the same speed independent of the observer's speed. So you will still see the headlight shone away from you at the speed of light.

Answer 6

if you were traveling at the speed of light, and your headlights were on, you wouldn't see the light from the headlights, because the speed of you and the lights are equal, which means that you won't be able to see the light.

Answer 7

LOL I doubt it would even make sense to turn the headlights on !?! lol See light travels at [86,oooo] miles per second !!"I'm not gonna try it!!.. yo.*`x,'' uh'mm lol btw going that fast without being properly/firmly strapped in MIGHT cause somekind of internal damage to the human body !?! ...

Answer 8

Your headlights will be left behind, sistah! You want to know the feeling of going through the speed of light? *** baby, just ***.! hahaha. Nah, really, im not joking. I think when Im with godspeed, it'll be like an orgasm all the way, so i wouldnt be able to turn the lights on. hahaha

Answer 9

if an electron in your head light is moiving at the speed of light and the light produced out of the bulb is moving at the same velocity of the bulb,the photon will be sitting on top of the bulbs and relative to the Bulb the photon is going nowhere.

Its very vely simple

Answer 10

AT the speee of light with respect to what?