If ur driving faster than the speed of light..

Question

If your driving faster than the speed of light and you turn your head lights on are the beams infront of you or behind you?

Answer 1

It's impossible to move faster than the speed of light, so let's assume you are traveling AT the speed of light.

The beams would still be in front of you. The speed of light is constant no matter what, so even though time would be dilated, the speed of light would not slow down at all.

Answer 2

1) you can't drive faster than the speed of light.

2) In front if you're going forward.  Behind you if you're in reverse.

3) The light would appear to be greatly red or blue shifted to an outside observer, however.

Answer 3

First off, the speed of light in a vacuum, 299,792,458 m/s (scientific abbreviation "c"), is the universal speed limit. Nothing can go faster than that. For an object to reach light speed would require infinite energy and it's mass would be infinite. Relativistic mass is given by:

m' = m / √(1 - (v²/c²))

As v approaches c the denominator approaches 0, so at v = c the relativistic mass is infinite.

Now, if you were traveling near the speed of light, the head lights would work as normal. However, the light of everything coming toward you would be blue-shifted, and everything to the sides and back of you red-shifted. Also, every thing would appear contracted, like a pancake, in the direction of motion.

Take a look at this video buy Carl Sagan:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6Vpu6yJPR...

Answer 4

If ur driving faster than 70 mph you can get a speeding ticket!

What are you doing at 670,000,000 mph?

It isn't a good idea to turn your lights on at that speed.

Due to the perceived increased concentration of hydrogen impacting your vehicle, the reflections will blind you. (Kind of like driving through fog at high speed and using your brights!) Because your equivalent mass is now greater than anything in the Universe, you may as well keep the lights off, and just plow through anything in front of you. This being the case, who cares about lighting things up that you'll be past before you can see them?

Oh, BTW most people consider it impossible to exceed the speed of light at all. The energy required to accelerate a mass even close to the speed of light becomes larger, and larger the nearer one gets to that velocity. But hypothetical questions should be answered too.

Keep laughing and always keep thinking! Best Wishes.

PS I have never drive faster than light, and don't really know the answer.!!!

Answer 5

in front because the speed of light is relative to the observer