If you are in a spaceship that is traveling at the speed of light, and you turn on the headlights, does anything happen?
2007-09-23 17:55:14 · 5 answers · asked by Anonymous in Science & Mathematics ➔ Physics
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2007-09-23 18:10:09 · answer #1 · answered by bionicbookworm 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
No use. We will reach before the light reaches. Oh! Sorry, If you run and bowl a cricket ball its velocity will be more. Likewise, the light bfrom your headlight will have double the speed.
2007-09-24 03:51:29 · answer #2 · answered by Joymash 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Traveling at the speed of light messes up the laws of physics, so your radio comes on instead. However, all you can get at that speed is NPR.
2007-09-23 18:11:02 · answer #3 · answered by injanier 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
You can't be going light speed. Sorry, it's the rules. But if you were going 0.9999% lightspeed and turned on the headlights the light would go lightspeed relative to you and all other reference frames.
2007-09-23 18:30:59 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
No, nothing happened, dear.
u should read more max planck's and einsten's book.
There's nothing could exceed light velocity. light velocity is the absolute top velocity in the universe. for the cases that seems exceed the light velocity based on conventional physics (newton's law), see details on modern phisics - relativity theory explanation.
2007-09-23 18:06:40 · answer #5 · answered by 1st 2 · 0⤊ 1⤋