please help meeee
2007-09-30 15:48:42 · 8 answers · asked by kkga_1 1 in Science & Mathematics ➔ Other - Science
no your eyelids would be too heavy to open
2007-09-30 16:05:44 · answer #1 · answered by realme 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
If you were actually traveling AT the speed of light, your kinetic energy would be infinite, your mass would be infinite and you would instantly attract all of the universe into a super-massive version of the big bang.
I guess there is something wrong with your question because nothing massive can travel at the speed of light.
Maybe you meant to ask what would happen if you were to travel NEAR the speed of light?
In that case the light traveling ahead of you will still reach a mirror in front of you in a finite time, be reflected and come back to you before you hit the mirror. Of course, because of relativistic effects, the distance to the mirror would shrink and you would see all of this happen faster than a slowly moving observer would.
If you are traveling parallel to a mirror something else and quite interesting happens. I let you figure out what it is because I like to tease a bit. :-)
2007-10-01 00:02:24 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
no
but not for the reason you think
and yes
but I dont know how to explain it
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Something strange happens to time as speed approaches the speed of light. The flow of time slows down.
When you travel, the flow of time for you (in relation to the "outside world") is given by the time dilation equation (see wiki). Even if the light leaving your face towards the mirror may be affected by your speed (light has an absolute maximum speed in our universe), since time flow has changed for you, you will still perceive light inside you spacecraft to travel at the speed of light.
Time dilation has been tested and it exists. It works for real and seems to follow the equation.
Unfortunately, if you are going at EXACTLY the speed of light, the equation says that the flow of time that you perceive for the rest of the universe (or, for what the universe perceives of you) is EXACTLY zero.
Another way to say that is; at the speed of light, wherever you're going, you're already there. Go any distance and the elapsed time is exactly zero. No way to tell if you are here or there. Same as saying that all distances are zero.
In a universe of size zero, is there such thing as a distance between your face and the mirror?
Of, if time flow is stopped, will you notice whether the image of your reflection is moving or not?
2007-09-30 23:01:08 · answer #3 · answered by Raymond 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
No.
At the speed of light time stops. In order to see anything (including your reflection in a mirror) you would have to be watching for an infinite amount of time.
Probably all for the best. At the speed of light you (and your *ss) would be infinite in size!
2007-10-01 00:18:14 · answer #4 · answered by Craig L 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
IF the mirror was traveling at the same speed you were then yes.
2007-09-30 23:56:05 · answer #5 · answered by Zeppelin! 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Depends on how well the mirror is made..
2007-09-30 22:56:06 · answer #6 · answered by xyz 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
if you face the opposite direction from which you are moving
2007-09-30 22:53:00 · answer #7 · answered by darkpheonix262 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It would be impossible because you would be dead. :D
2007-09-30 23:31:23 · answer #8 · answered by mk 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋