what happens if you turn on the headlights?
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Edited by White Wolf : 11/15/2014 12:59:25 PMNothing would happen as the photons would be travelling at the same speed you are.
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What is a hypothetical question?
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Edited by Arbiter 739: 3/8/2013 1:12:16 AM... I think 'troll logic' would apply here. If I were to go at the speed of light, then turn on my headlights... Would the headlights push me backwards and cause me to decelerate until a balance is reached?
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Mind blown
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I doubt you'd be able to turn on the headlights in the first place. OP: You'll get superpowers, or die...
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Car implodes.
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Disregarding that this is impossible, and assuming your car is conforming to all other laws of physics and somehow resists inertia and all that, the lights would turn on and be moving at double the speed of light.
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The current mathematical model states that nothing with non-complex mass can move at the speed of light or faster. Complex mass has never been found, and there is no indication that it exists.
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You'd see the light travel forward at c. Special Relativity says everyone sees light travel at c. So if your friend is watching you he'll also calculate that the light is traveling at c, but that you're traveling slower. Btw, I should point out the assumption is that you're traveling very close to c. You can't travel at c.
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would the electricity even be able to reach the lights?
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Well, the lights would turn on but you wouldn't be able to anything than blurs because your eyes wouldn't be able to register anything going that fast.
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You probably wouldn't even feel yourself move.
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They would turn on and produce no visible light as you are moving at the same exact speed. Better question: If you're in a train of sorts, with a track spanning the circumference of the globe, traveling at just below the speed of light, what happens if you run forward in the train?
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You'd be in front of the headlights. It's possible to "drive faster than your headlights" already.
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you would pass them and you can't see anything you're faster than light
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You begin to see in third person - almost. I think. Your headlights are beside you. I think.
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Umm wow, ok lets say you actually can travel that fast i would think there would be a thin layer of light over the headlights matching the speed of your car, but because your matching speed ,no light will be going beyond the headlights so say if you put a piece of paper in front of the headlights while traveling at the speed of light (i know impossible but just bear with me) then there will be no light on the paper because the light cant catch up to it.
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You'd be dead, so it's not like it would matter. Haha, get it, 'matter'? I'm -blam!-in' hilarious.
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Firstly, how would you survive driving at the speed of light?
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They turn on.
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The light emanating from the headlights will move at the same speed as your car.
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If I were you, I would use my brain.
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The universe implodes