If your driving at the spped of light and turn your lights on can u see?

Question

I only posted this question once today.For you who refered to me as an idiot.

Answer 1

of course you can...unless you're blind....

Answer 2

1) One cannot reach the speed of light unless they have no mass. The closer you get to the speed of light the more energy you need to get a little closer (for example, it would take more energy to accelerate from 99% to 99.9999% the speed of light than going from 0% to 60%). You can only get closer and closer to the speed of light. You cannot attain it without infinite energy.

2) As you approach the speed of light time slows down for you. If I was going 99.9999% the speed of light I could get to the nearest star (4 light-years away) within four years from the perspective of people on Earth, but I would have only experienced a few days.

So, if you had miracuously acheived the speed of light time would stop for you therefore you would not be able to turn on your lights. If you were going close to the speed of light and turned on you headlights nothing would appear differently than if you were stationary, but people in front of you would see a blue-shift of the light from your headlights because the frequency of the photons from your lights would be much higher... its similar to the doppler effect which causes an ambulance to sound high pitched while speeding toward you and low pitched while speeding away.

Answer 3

Only the third time today I've seen this idiot question.

Traveling at the speed of light is impossible. Therefore the question is meaningless and cannot be answered.

But if you were traveling at 99% of the speed of light, which is theoretically possible, or even 99.99%, the beam of light would move away from you at the speed of light. That is Special Relativity. Speed of light is a constant for all observers.

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Answer 4

I'm not sure if you can travel at the speed of light, physics says you cannot (but there may be a loop-hole somewhere) - however if you did manage to go that fast I think you could see your head lights as speed of light is constant for each frame of reference. I'm not sure how your body would handle the massive acceleration to get there though.