Here is another one...

[tcook33]

If you were driving a car at the speed of light, and you turned the headlights on , would you be able to see them?

[riverroyal]

ive done it

[OGShocker]

If you were driving a car at the speed of light, and you turned the headlights on , would you be able to see them?
What color is the car?

[Tom Brown]

The switch would melt down and entropy would ensue.

[HocusPocus]

yes you could see... but only what was behind you. :skull: :skull: :skull:
now what would a chair look like if your legs bent the other way! :p

[maxwedge]

I think it depends what kind of car. Are they pop-up headlights, or the kind in the grill where you can't see them anyway? And are we talking about the head lights themselves or just backside of the housings. :confused:

[Chase]

So if the light source was travelling the speed of light..would the light emmited from that source travel twice the speed of light

[MagicMtnDan]

Are they incandescent, halogen or Xenon? Some light travels faster than others :yuk:

[tcook33]

So if the light source was travelling the speed of light..would the light emmited from that source travel twice the speed of light
THIS is the magic question...my friend.....

[tcook33]

What color is the car?
Don't know, I coundn't see it. It's irrelevant though.... :cool:

[Chase]

Exactly...So Mr. Braino...whats the verdict??

[tcook33]

I think it depends what kind of car. Are they pop-up headlights, or the kind in the grill where you can't see them anyway? And are we talking about the head lights themselves or just backside of the housings. :confused:
It's a porsche, so the pop-up ones....

[NorCal Gameshow]

No... you'd be dead
http://images.google.com/images?q=tbn:TFI0nlGQui4J:adweek.blogs.com/photos/uncategorized/trabant_1.jpg

[maxwedge]

I've tried to get my F150 up to light speed in the interest of science, but I keep getting pulled over for some reason. :D

[tcook33]

Exactly...So Mr. Braino...whats the verdict??
You guys are no fun......
Mr. Braino would have been Mr. Einstein....
The physical theory of space and time developed by Albert Einstein, based on the postulates that all the laws of physics are equally valid in all frames of reference moving at a uniform velocity and that the speed of light from a uniformly moving source is always the same, regardless of how fast or slow the source or its observer is moving. The theory has as consequences the relativistic mass increase of rapidly moving objects, the Lorentz-Fitzgerald contraction, time dilatation, and the principle of mass-energy equivalence. Also called special theory of relativity.

[Chase]

I don't think that answers the original question though....if the source is travelling the speed of light, yet the speed of the emmitted light is the same...what happens to the light emmitted?? The light emmitted in the direction of travel??

[bigblockbill]

That one is over my head... I am no light expert.

[tcook33]

I don't think that answers the original question though....if the source is travelling the speed of light, yet the speed of the emmitted light is the same...what happens to the light emmitted?? The light emmitted in the direction of travel??
The speed of light is a constant. Light cannot go faster than the speed of light. Therefore, it does not matter if the car is going 65mph, or if the car is going the speed of light (186,282.397 miles per second).
Einstein came up with the theory, not me. So, I guess until it's proven wrong, it's right.....

[Chase]

So the light emmited would stand still in reference to the source if the emmited light was travelling the same direction as the source...
Like yeah, I was cruisin' along and hit this big effin pile of light...

[NorCal Gameshow]

my headlights go the same speed as my car(most of the time)

[bigblockbill]

Hey thats a good way to put it... I see the light...so just cause the car is moving at the speed of light, the light that is emitted from the head lights travels at the cars speed (the speed of light) plus the speed of light. So that would make the head lights light moving at twice the speed of light.

[Sleek-Jet]

If you are in the car... your headlights would appear normal, both you and the lights are traveling at the same speed, the lights would project ahead...
Now if you're sitting in one spot and a car passes you going the speed of light and turns their headlights on, you experience something completely different.
Another analogy would be traveling faster than the speed of sound in an airplane. You can still hear normally, but people on the ground experience something completly different.
Of course, the only way to travel the speed of light (that we know of) is to fly into a black hole, and gravitational increases as we get closer to a singularity would crush our poor Civic long before we got to the speed of light. :D (I think)

[Chase]

Hey thats a good way to put it... I see the light...so just cause the car is moving at the speed of light, the light that is emitted from the head lights travels at the cars speed (the speed of light) plus the speed of light. So that would make the head lights light moving at twice the speed of light.
That is kinda what I am thinking...but Mr. Braino :D :D ...says that Einstien says otherwise.....

[tcook33]

So the light emmited would stand still in reference to the source if the emmited light was travelling the same direction as the source...
Like yeah, I was cruisin' along and hit this big effin pile of light...
Yes, this is what the theory proves.

[Throttle]

I'd need a pair of good goggles to tell the truth!

[tcook33]

That is kinda what I am thinking...but Mr. Braino :D :D ...says that Einstien says otherwise.....
I agree with you guys. It sounds really weird, but the thing here is, none of us can comprehend the speed of light or how it works. Obviously, Einstein could. If you want to argue with Einstein....well, you can't...sorry.
Read this. The proof is in the pudding....
http://www.amnh.org/exhibitions/einstein/light/constant.php

[LHC30Victory]

and so, you would not be able to see the light in or from the headlamp because for it to be seen, it must travel. Since it is already going the velocity it is capable of, it wont project - Right?

[Chase]

I agree with you guys. It sounds really weird, but the thing here is, none of us can comprehend the speed of light or how it works. Obviously, Einstein could. If you want to argue with Einstein....well, you can't...sorry.
Read this. The proof is in the pudding....
http://www.amnh.org/exhibitions/einstein/light/constant.php
Well I think because you started the thread...YOU would have all of the answers.... :D :D

[tcook33]

Well I think because you started the thread...YOU would have all of the answers.... :D :D
I gave you all the answers you need.......did you read the attachment? What more do you want? I can translate it into my own words if you'd like. Actually, I think I already did that a few posts back..... :D

[Chase]

No I was just being a dick.......

[tcook33]

No I was just being a dick.......
HAHA. That's cool then. I can take it.

[Chase]

Oh my god...you like to take dick!!!

[ROZ]

If you were driving a car at the speed of light, and you turned the headlights on , would you be able to see them?
can you see the headlights raguardless? I mean, they're on the front of the car.... The answer to this is no. You can't see the headlights. photo ray is another question...
next!

[Sleek-Jet]

can you see the headlights raguardless? I mean, they're on the front of the car.... The answer to this is no. You can't see the headlights. photo ray is another question...
next!
Thank you Mr. Loophole... :D

[FHI-prez]

Of course, the only way to travel the speed of light (that we know of) is to fly into a black hole, and gravitational increases as we get closer to a singularity would crush our poor Civic long before we got to the speed of light. :D (I think)
Actually instead of crushing it, a black hole (as physics theorizes) would pull a little harder on the front of your civic than it would pull on the back of it. The acceleration difference would eventually pull you and your civic into a string of atoms a process they call "spagettification" I think. :p Either way, you're F@kt. :cool:
Nick

[Sleek-Jet]

...they call "spagettification" I think.
Now there is a Scrable word... :D

[Chase]

I used to have a civic.....lucky I kept my foot off the gas...I now have a CRV...would the same happen to it??

[Sleek-Jet]

I used to have a civic.....lucky I kept my foot off the gas...I now have a CRV...would the same happen to it??
Only if the conveyor stopped... :D

[Chase]

But then wouldn't I be going backwards...would the airbag deploy?? :D :D :D

[tcook33]

Oh my god...you like to take dick!!!
outta my pants when I piss or bone.....you're a weirdo.

[Tom Brown]

This thread has achieved entropy.

[Chase]

outta my pants when I piss or bone.....you're a weirdo.
:D :D :D

[ROZ]

This thread has achieved entropy.
Don't they all? :D

[harrisonmirage]

With my PIAA Plasmas ya sure can eh. They have super rayphonic,beamomatic,starbrite powers