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    Million dollar question..

    If you were to have a car that drives at the speed of light,what would happen when you put the headlights on?

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    Quote Originally Posted by Tricky View Post
    If you were to have a car that drives at the speed of light,what would happen when you put the headlights on?
    Surely you'd see nothing as you'd always be past/up to the point where the lights were shining to ... ... dude, I'm glad I wasn't stoned when I read this question ... this is like trying to seriously fathom the universe when on funky muffins!

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    someone posted it on another forum today & its definately a head blagger!

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    lol, the lights would be on but they just wouldnt illuminate anything.

    now try and imagine an inverted sphere

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    Ewwwww! The image is wiggling!!!

    (I take it that is the aim of the image, right? )

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    Quote Originally Posted by _liam_ View Post
    lol, the lights would be on but they just wouldnt illuminate anything.

    now try and imagine an inverted sphere
    Is that supposed to be looking like anything other than a wierd image? I mean is there some kind of optical illusion I cant see?
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    "It's a schooner!"

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    Hahahahahaha

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    Postulate of special relativity

    The Speed of Light Postulate. The speed of light in a vacuum, measured in any inertial reference frame, always has the same value of 'c', no matter how fast the source of light and the observer are moving relative to each other. So, MZ got it right.
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    So, MZ got it right.
    *pumps fist in the air* yeeeeeesssssss!!!

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    Quote Originally Posted by CapnKnut View Post
    "It's a schooner!"
    YOU DUMB BASTARD, IT'S A SAILBOAT!

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    ROFLMALLRATS!

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    "YA KNOW WHAT?, THERE IS NO EASTER BUNNY!", given the time and season i thought id add that in, nd no i aint callin' it a spring bunny


    i agree with mz you may see the filament glow a little as it heats up but the lamps wont project a beam of light.

    plus if you stare at the image it starts to wobble, noyce, thats my new wallpaper


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    This question usually is asked by all physics professors even in highschool right after the chapters that cover Relativity......because the answer is partially nonintuitive to the previous chapter...makes students scratch their heads...
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    surely if you move at the speed of light everything would be pitch black?, pretty dumb to drive a car when theres no light bounceing off anything faster than you so you can, y'know ,see.


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