If you travelled at the speed of light and turned your headlights on, would you be able to see where you were going?
2007-10-04 12:53:29 · 12 answers · asked by stammer 1 in Science & Mathematics ➔ Astronomy & Space
Yes, but you might have problems on some of the tighter bends
2007-10-04 13:01:36 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋
No matter WHAT, light in a vacuum travels at the speed of light in a vacuum. So if you could travel at the speed of light and turned on your headlights, the light would still travel at the speed of light from YOUR perspective and you could see.
2007-10-04 20:01:52 · answer #2 · answered by Howard H 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
If you were travelling at the speed of light, i doubt you would be able to see where u were going with or without headlights
2007-10-04 19:58:05 · answer #3 · answered by Ryan 4 · 1⤊ 1⤋
well for one. traveling at or above the speed of light requires an infinite amount of energy, and anything with even the smallest mass would become infinitely massive.
and according to Einsteins theory of relativity the light would still be going 186,000 miles a second faster than you. time would completely stop for you. so you would be able to see (besides the fact that everything is blurred beyond recognition) but everything would never change, it would stay the same until you fell below the speed of light, it wouldn't be normal time it would be very slow, and the slower you got the faster time got until you stopped, and you experienced normal time. its called time dilation, and it happens with very fast speeds or when your near extremely massive objects.
and the the second guy is wrong.
2007-10-04 20:11:36 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Question just blew my mind!
Projecting light out in front of yourself whilst moving at the speed of light would (I think) cause the light to move out from you relative to your speed - so you would cast light forwards.
The problem, however is that you would see the light reflected back at you with all the Doppler shift problems that would cause. In addition you would have the time-dilation problem in that time from your point of view would be slower than everything else. The result would be that what you saw in front of you would be skewed and out of date.
All this is assuming that at the speed of light in a non-vacuum you didn't end up with particle annihilation; all your mass got converted to energy - and you destroyed the universe.
Best stick the to national speed limit.
2007-10-04 20:11:17 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
No, light cannot travel faster than the speed of light.
2007-10-05 08:38:14 · answer #6 · answered by Jim 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
NO i think the light leaves you at the speed of light, then as it is reflecting back youre approaching it at the speed of light, so to make the prespective speed of light it doesnt move away from the objects reflecting it until you reach them, so it is too late cos youve already hit it. and a crash at this speed would be deadly
2007-10-04 20:51:27 · answer #7 · answered by hobgoblin 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
no the light from the headlights would fade away. There would be no light actually and you wouldn't be able to see anything. Then your face would melt off.
2007-10-04 20:20:24 · answer #8 · answered by Austin D 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I remember reading something about a mirror image in Einsteins theory. I believe you can going off of the reflection you can see in the mirror at that speed.
2007-10-04 21:32:51 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
if you travelled at the speed of light
time would litterally freeze so if you turn your head lights on
light would be stored in the bulb and when you stop normal time is applied and the light will rush out
2007-10-04 19:58:46 · answer #10 · answered by filldwth? 3 · 0⤊ 3⤋