Free Republic
Browse · Search
News/Activism
Topics · Post Article

To: ShadowAce

If you are in a spaceship that is traveling at the speed of light, and you turn on the headlights, does anything happen?”

h/t Steven Wright


66 posted on 10/10/2012 4:09:51 PM PDT by newfreep (Breitbart sent me...)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies ]


To: newfreep

If you were in a spaceship traveling at (just below) the speed of light and turned on the headlights the illuminated scene would look perfectly normal to you. To an outside viewer, however, the headlight’s photons would barely be making it out of the filament (or equivalent spaceship light emitter).


86 posted on 10/11/2012 3:06:14 PM PDT by steve86 (Acerbic by nature not nurture TM)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 66 | View Replies ]

Free Republic
Browse · Search
News/Activism
Topics · Post Article


FreeRepublic, LLC, PO BOX 9771, FRESNO, CA 93794
FreeRepublic.com is powered by software copyright 2000-2008 John Robinson