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2007-11-28 16:44:39 · 38 answers · asked by bunchrockers 2 in Science & Mathematics ➔ Physics
well, then your headlights would be going twice the speed of light!
2007-11-28 16:47:50 · answer #1 · answered by Blue bird 2 · 2⤊ 5⤋
Well, you'd be travelling at the same speed, so the light from your headlights wouldn't project forward. So essentially the light would remain within the headlights and you would never see it. Which wouldn't be much help when you're driving in the dark at that speed. How can you turn your headlights on when you've already crashed into the side of a building?
2007-11-28 16:47:59 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
A good question. We can assume anything as you have done. Now lts analyse it.
When you turn on your lights, it (light) will run forward (in the direction of the motion of the car) at the speed of the car itself. Hence the relative speed = zero. With the result that any amount of light energy reflected by the reflector , will not come out of the headlight reflector.
Yes I have a funny answer too - Well we will reach your place to pay our homage. We will never forget you.
2007-11-28 19:40:24 · answer #3 · answered by Pramod Kumar 7 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Serious answer is that at the speed of Light when you on the headlights, then the light doesn't come out of headlights because you are travelling at the speed of light and light out of headlight's light also travels at the speed of light.
Now the funny answer: I think you would be mistaken for a asteroid.
2007-11-28 17:06:26 · answer #4 · answered by The Ranger 6 · 0⤊ 1⤋
The light wouldnt leave the headlamps. It would travel along with your car. Something similiar happens in the case of black holes where the light is unable 2 escape the atmosphere of the star because the star's gravity increases so much that nothing escapes... The light that leaves the star is pulled back into it.
I suppose something similiar would happen in your case...
p.s - try reading stephen hawking`s "the theory of everything"... u might probably get some ideas [ ; ) ] ...
2007-11-28 17:29:10 · answer #5 · answered by Kumaresan P 1 · 0⤊ 1⤋
The speed of the car added to the speed of the light would push the light from your head lights to twice the speed of light, creating a paradox resulting in Chuck Norris.
--Addendum: How is it possible that within the 10 seconds it took me to write my response, someone else came up with a Chuck Norris answer?
2007-11-28 16:48:08 · answer #6 · answered by Tha Nurd 3 · 4⤊ 1⤋
Oh oh...Your rear ended by someone who is relative to Star Trek. Good question! There are three universes and that is what the Bible says. Yes, the Bible. There is cross referencing in these! It stabilizes changes. It has been said that we live in an unstable universe, but that denies too many facts. We have heard that it is possible, mathematically, now, to go faster than the speed of light. Your question, however, leaves much to ask of you! What do you mean, what happens? We must assume that you mean to another observer. They would not see the light if at rest, relative to the vehicle you mentioned! What reference point do we use and what point of reference is at rest? Interesting is this creation. Yet, your answer is simple and can be proved in higher math..But, still, where is that point of absolute rest? Do we use the earth; the sun; the point that is considered where our universe began? That point used to say we are at the speed of light! God bless. Earl.
2007-11-28 17:01:53 · answer #7 · answered by ? 6 · 0⤊ 3⤋
There is so much noise on yahoo answers!! Almost every answer you've gotten is dead wrong.
You cannot travel at the speed of light.
However, you can travel as nearly the speed of light as you wish, any any travel at any speed has no effect on the behavior of your headlights. If you travel at c-1 miles per hour, you do not observe the headlight rays to travel at 1 mile per hour. You observe them to travel at c. Traveling at speed c-1, you observe EVERY light ray to travel at c. EVERYONE observes ALL LIGHT RAYS to travel at c relative to themselves. Period.
That is relativity--- not that c is "constant," but that c is "invariant." Every observer everywhere measures the speed of every light ray to be c.
2007-11-28 21:44:20 · answer #8 · answered by ZikZak 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The light moves away from you at the speed of light. (Serious Answer). No matter the speed of the car, asked my Physics Professor this same question and this is the answer i got.
2007-11-28 16:47:22 · answer #9 · answered by Ezz 6 · 3⤊ 1⤋
Nothing, you can't get there, all the energy in the universe would be required to take the mass of a car (or any mass) to the speed of light.
2007-11-28 16:52:05 · answer #10 · answered by Mike1942f 7 · 4⤊ 0⤋
your car turns into a delorian and you go back to the future. Or you hit a wall because you can see it because of the seep on light thingwhich makes quite an interseting splat which you can see cause the light has not caught up with you
2007-11-28 16:49:19 · answer #11 · answered by dreamlesssweetheart 2 · 0⤊ 2⤋