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Tricky
03-Apr-2007, 06:54 PM
If you were to have a car that drives at the speed of light,what would happen when you put the headlights on?
MinionZombie
03-Apr-2007, 07:09 PM
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 ... :confused: ... 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! :eek:
Tricky
03-Apr-2007, 07:11 PM
:lol: someone posted it on another forum today & its definately a head blagger!
_liam_
03-Apr-2007, 07:37 PM
lol, the lights would be on but they just wouldnt illuminate anything.

now try and imagine an inverted sphere

http://i45.photobucket.com/albums/f92/_liam_/optical3.jpg
MinionZombie
03-Apr-2007, 07:53 PM
Ewwwww! The image is wiggling!!!

(I take it that is the aim of the image, right? :p)
coma
03-Apr-2007, 11:19 PM
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?
capncnut
04-Apr-2007, 01:58 AM
"It's a schooner!" :lol:
Shadowofthedead
04-Apr-2007, 08:46 AM
CAMARO enough said YES MOTHERS:elol:
FoodFight
04-Apr-2007, 10:33 AM
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.
MinionZombie
04-Apr-2007, 11:47 AM
So, MZ got it right.

*pumps fist in the air* yeeeeeesssssss!!! :cool:
MikePizzoff
04-Apr-2007, 01:19 PM
"It's a schooner!" :lol:

YOU DUMB BASTARD, IT'S A SAILBOAT!
capncnut
04-Apr-2007, 01:53 PM
ROFLMALLRATS! :lol:
Danny
04-Apr-2007, 02:28 PM
"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:rolleyes:


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:lol:
Terran
04-Apr-2007, 03:08 PM
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...
Danny
04-Apr-2007, 05:12 PM
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.
_liam_
04-Apr-2007, 06:04 PM
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?

yeah the circles look like they are turning, here's a bigger one,a bit more trippy i think;
http://www.ritsumei.ac.jp/~akitaoka/rotsnake.gif
MikePizzoff
04-Apr-2007, 10:19 PM
1.21 Gigawatts!
MinionZombie
04-Apr-2007, 10:29 PM
1.21 Gigawatts!
:cool:

Liam - that pic, noiiice. Crazy how things like that work ... ... speaking of which, how the fudge do they work?!
DeadJonas190
04-Apr-2007, 11:38 PM
"It's a schooner!" :lol:

"It's not a scooner it's a sailboat"
Debbieangel
05-Apr-2007, 12:39 AM
i got that in an email ....it has something about how the eye and brain work!
capncnut
05-Apr-2007, 02:58 AM
"It's a schooner!" :lol:
YOU DUMB BASTARD, IT'S A SAILBOAT!

"It's not a scooner it's a sailboat"

Is there an echo in here? :D
Neil
05-Apr-2007, 11:54 AM
If memory serves me right light at the speed of light is odd!

Even though you are travelling at the speed of light - and nothing can go faster than the speed of light - if there was an object in front of your car, also travelling at the speed of light, your head lights would illuminate it.