+133 If you drove at the speed of light and turned your headlights on, the light would be behind you, amirite?

by Anonymous 12 years ago

It wouldn't be behind you, but it wouldn't be in front either.

by Anonymous 12 years ago

Yea. I'm glad I wasn't the only one who noticed that.

by Anonymous 12 years ago

Maybe you'd explode and we just don't know it because it's never been done?

by Anonymous 12 years ago

no, it won't. The light particles would just move with the same speed as the car.

by Anonymous 12 years ago

But no one has ever done it, so its a possibility.

by Anonymous 12 years ago

It's not, stop having an imagination, it's not allowed here.

by Anonymous 12 years ago

:(

by Anonymous 12 years ago

It would be moving with you. It's like if you were tied to the front of a plane. You would be still, but you would be in front of a plane.

by Anonymous 12 years ago

Wait. I was wrong. What would happen is that your mass would become infinite. So this situation has become null and void.

by Anonymous 12 years ago

Unless the group that found the faster-than-light particle is correct.

by Anonymous 12 years ago

Are you talking about the people that tried to prove Einstein's theory of special relativity wrong?

by Anonymous 12 years ago

I'm not entirely sure; I haven't kept up with it. All I know is that something happened in a particle accelerator and supposedly the math came out such that the particle traveled faster than light.

by Anonymous 12 years ago

If it's what I'm talking about, I heard they were proven wrong. Don't hold me to that, I just remember hearing it.

by Anonymous 12 years ago

I'd have thought so. Even if it is possible, that'd require an extraordinary amount of energy.

by Anonymous 12 years ago

But it is fun to think about.

by Anonymous 12 years ago

The implications?

by Anonymous 12 years ago

Life today would be completely different. We could get anywhere instantly. We could explore the entire universe.

by Anonymous 12 years ago

Without consequences, at least. The biggest problem I can see with traveling with relativity (besides fuel) is time.

by Anonymous 12 years ago

True. Anyone that travels somewhere else would get there instantly for them, but for everyone else it would be many years. hmm

by Anonymous 12 years ago

Well, if you really hate your family...

by Anonymous 12 years ago

Good escape plan.

by Anonymous 12 years ago

I'll remember that for the future as soon as I construct my near speed of light machine.

by Anonymous 12 years ago

They did it in the Ender series, so it must be possible. y

by Anonymous 12 years ago

They also traveled faster than light in Children of the Mind.

by Anonymous 12 years ago

I'm not on that one yet! But I already read that on the back.

by Anonymous 12 years ago

Oh. Spoiler alert, then.

by Anonymous 12 years ago

Haha. A little late for that, but it's ok.

by Anonymous 12 years ago

Better late than never, said the student.

by Anonymous 12 years ago

They were. When they sent the particles, they forgot to calculate the direction that the GPS was going (that was tracking their speed) and it increased it by 10%.

by Anonymous 12 years ago

Is this reffering to the Ender series?

by Anonymous 12 years ago

No...?

by Anonymous 12 years ago

Sorry, I'm on touch. It doesn't show which comment you're replying to.

by Anonymous 12 years ago

Which is something us app and touch site users should complain about. Also is your background yellow??

by Anonymous 12 years ago

Yeah.

by Anonymous 12 years ago

Then the light would have to go through the car... light doesn't bend... there'd be like, two glowing circles on front of your car that don't illuminate anything else. lolwut

by Anonymous 12 years ago

and I was even politely ignoring the fact that it's impossible to travel at the speed of light. un

by Anonymous 12 years ago

(Kellie):light does bend. There would be a trial of out would light cone from headlights backwards to the direction of motion but never infront.

by Anonymous 12 years ago

Light bends over a massive scale, not over a few feet.

by Anonymous 12 years ago

No it wouldn't, Sir Isaac Newton, Einstein proved otherwise. The speed of light is always the same in your frame of reference. You'd see light come out the front just like when you're going a normal speed.

by Anonymous 12 years ago

THAT'S WHAT I WAS TRYING TO SAY DOWN BELOW VVVVVVVVVVVV jesus! People are dumb only the smart ones no-wayed!

by Anonymous 12 years ago

I'm just going to throw this out there. Light does bend.

by Anonymous 11 years ago

Actually, the light would move at the speed of light away from your car. Relativity, go study it.

by Anonymous 12 years ago

Will people just vote YYA on anything? If your car's moving at the speed of light, then there's no reason to think that the light from your headlights would be behind you. ono

by Anonymous 12 years ago

Even if we we're traveling faster than the speed of light it wouldn't be behind us because the light couldn't go through the vehicle we're traveling in.

by Anonymous 12 years ago

You would be driving inside the light. hello

by Anonymous 12 years ago

The light would not be able to propogate in the direction of the car BUT the horizontal componant still is in action when the light bulb is illuminated. The car would leave a trail of light perpendicular to the direction of motion

by Anonymous 12 years ago

Clearly there are many people here who think they know about relativity that don't.

by Anonymous 12 years ago

Light. Oh my god just get out. Light is relevant to whoever is observing. In the car, the light would be traveling the speed of light from the driver's point of view.... When you're observing the car, the light emitting from the car would be traveling the same speed as the car. Basic physics you anuses. I took that freshman year in HIGHSCHOOL and I was so fascinated by it that I'm Minoring in quantum physics.

by Anonymous 12 years ago

So where is light in presective on the person driving the car.

by Anonymous 12 years ago

Traveling the speed of light...

by Anonymous 12 years ago

If you were driving the speed of light your head "LIGHTS" would just sit still inside the bulb and not expand further than the back of the headlight. That and the things behind you would seem to be frozen completely. Also, you wouldnt age because you would be using all of your movement to move through space and not time.

by Anonymous 12 years ago

1. You guys commenting are smart as fuck. Why can't you be my teachers. 2. What's the answer to this? Obviously OP is incorrect, but what would seriously happen? *head hurts*

by Anonymous 12 years ago

Since we cannot move at the speed of light, this can only be practiced theoretically and not practically, so you can't be certain which is exactly correct. Although many things said were valid theories

by Anonymous 12 years ago

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vVKFBaaL4uM

by Anonymous 12 years ago