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If you are in a space ship traveling at the speed of light and you turn on the headlights, what happens?

5 posted on 03/20/2002 6:54:41 AM PST by Lokibob
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To: Lokibob
"If you are in a space ship traveling at the speed of light and you turn on the headlights, what happens?

Well, if you were at the speed of the Universe's expansion, they would become tail lights!

10 posted on 03/20/2002 6:59:17 AM PST by CT
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If you are in a space ship traveling at the speed of light and you turn on the headlights, what happens?

1) The photons, unable to escape, overheat the headlights and melt the cheap plastic mountings.
2) I get another @#$%^&! ticket.
3) I'd already have my lights on. If I get c out of my 6-cylinder Impala, I want people to notice.

24 posted on 03/20/2002 7:14:48 AM PST by VadeRetro
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If you are in a space ship traveling at the speed of light and you turn on the headlights, what happens?

Ask Dr. Science! He knows! He has a master's degree in science!

I've actually seen Dr. Science perform this very experiment on a PBS special about ten years ago. Extremely funny stuff.

53 posted on 03/20/2002 7:44:51 AM PST by Alex Murphy
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According to relativity you cannot travel the speed of light if you have mass. But lets assume you mean .999 the speed of light.

Interestily what relitiviy predicts is that you would see you tail lights function as normal. However the light from all the stars in front of you would be squished and you would they would see a shift to blue.Ligth from stars in the rear would appear to be streched out and would appear to be more red.

Unlike most star trek movies you would still see the stars appear to be relitively stationary. If astronomers are correct in saying that the the nearest start is many light years away that it would still take many years for you to pass that star while the surrounding starts would have moved so little you would hard pressed to notice.

74 posted on 03/20/2002 8:08:49 AM PST by LaFontaine
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IMO...the photons created by the headlights would travel at the speed of light relative to the car.
I do realize this was posted with a certain amout of frivolity too. :) Oldcats
112 posted on 03/20/2002 9:43:41 AM PST by oldcats
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If you are in a space ship traveling at the speed of light and you turn on the headlights, what happens?

The light is blue-shifted all the way to hogh energy gamma rays (relative to you) and you fry.

131 posted on 03/20/2002 6:39:33 PM PST by Salman
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