2007-12-29 23:41:03 · 7 answers · asked by Men are good too...... 3 in Science & Mathematics ➔ Astronomy & Space
The first thing is c is not a constant as einstien has said. So in theory if you were moving at the speed of light the source is taken as a staitonary. so it moves faster than time. you wont be able to see anything. Good luck driving in the dark
2007-12-30 00:30:14 · answer #1 · answered by dhiraj_reddy1988 2 · 2⤊ 1⤋
I am sorry but the brutal reality would forbid a vehicle to travel at the speed of light because the energy needed to do that would be infinite, BUT, let´s say that the vehicle is running close to the speed of light then you turn the headlights on, light would travel at the usual speed, no matter what the speed of your vehicle would be.
2007-12-30 00:09:57 · answer #2 · answered by Asker 6 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Hi Men!
The flaw in your reasoning is that we can't travel at the speed of light.
Einstein considered this question already, nearly a century ago. You might think, at first glance, that if you're traveling at half the speed of light and turn on your headlights, then the light would move at 1 1/2 times the speed of light. But this is not what happens.
Here's the trick: for light to move at 1 1/2 times the speed of light from a hurtling vehicle, you'd need some vantage point at absolute rest, from which you could measure the speed of both the hyperspace vessel and its headlights. But in reality, no such point of absolute rest exists. Everything is moving, and the motion we think we're measuring is only motion relative to one another.
The light from the headlights moves at only one speed: the speed of light.
2007-12-29 23:50:56 · answer #3 · answered by Anne Marie 6 · 0⤊ 1⤋
What would happen is that you and the light would be travelling at the same speed. Because when "things" (i.e objects, photons, etc.) move to near the speed of light or to the speed of light (only photons can do this last option), you have to apply Relativity to their movement. And in Relativity the sum of velocities is different from the one we are used to. So the light wouldn't be travelling to twice the speed of light. But just the speed of light itself.
To the one that doesn't believe in that... just look up how GPS works. It has relativistic corrections, otherwise it wouldn't be so accurate.
2007-12-30 00:45:52 · answer #4 · answered by Zaylha 1 · 2⤊ 0⤋
In the spirit of the game (this is the 753 rd time this question has been asked here) travel at the speed of light is not possible. But, if somehow you could travel that fast, and endured the 1000 G's of Acceleration to that speed, the lights would come on and travel outward at the speed of light.
2007-12-30 01:32:29 · answer #5 · answered by zahbudar 6 · 0⤊ 1⤋
ok Einstein.
first of all, you can't travel at the speed of light only come 99.9999999% of it, but not at that speed.
And if you could, you would see light as a frozen electromagnetic wave, which is not permissible by Maxwell's equations.
Thirdly, if you looked back, you would see darkness, since the light would not catch up to reach your eyes. This contradicts the Principle of Relativity which states that if you are moving at a constant speed, there is no way to tell whether you're moving or not.
2007-12-30 02:28:59 · answer #6 · answered by epsilon 1 · 0⤊ 1⤋
nothing you will see
2007-12-29 23:45:53 · answer #7 · answered by abdalla 2 · 0⤊ 2⤋