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Jun 12, 2019 23:59:18 #
Canuckus Deploracus wrote:
The light from your headlights would be moving at the speed of light squared 
What about the fact nothing travels faster than light? Remember this fantastic car is already going at the speed of light.
Jun 13, 2019 01:14:23 #
EN Submarine Qualified wrote:
If your car could travel at the speed of light, would your headlights work?
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The lights would work, they won't benefit you at all, but they would still work. If you are traveling at exactly the speed of light and you have your headlights on, since they have a very limited range, the light they are emitting can not reach any objects ahead of you and return for your eyes to detect and identify obstructions before you hit them much less in time for you to react. That said, I suspect it is a very good thing light speed travel is impossible. Human reaction times are far too slow for us to safely travel at light speed. Even if we could receive the information with enough reaction time to make one course correction, our reaction times would be far too slow to make a second in time to avoid new obstructions in our path due to the previous course correction. Without light speed reaction times and light speed sensory technology, light speed travel is a guaranteed failure.
Jun 13, 2019 01:22:49 #
EN Submarine Qualified wrote:
What about the fact nothing travels faster than light? Remember this fantastic car is already going at the speed of light.
He is basing his answer on a hypothetical that if you were to fire a projectile from an object moving at a specific with the projectile be fired from that moving object in the same direction with that projectile coming out of the tube at a designated speed. While his hypothetical is based on solid principle and if we were talking about a light source capable of great range and turned on long before the vehicle were to reach light speed, then yes, under those circumstances, the light projected would hit their target before you reached it and perhaps made the return trip since it was en route longer. That theory does not take into consideration course modifications. The first course correction and you will have lost the benefit of having had the lights on before reaching light speed.
Jun 13, 2019 02:14:39 #
EN Submarine Qualified wrote:
What about the fact nothing travels faster than light? Remember this fantastic car is already going at the speed of light.
You would before energy
E=mC2
Jun 13, 2019 02:16:21 #
Common_Sense_Matters wrote:
He is basing his answer on a hypothetical that if ... (show quote)
Nope...
Making a joke about Einstein's equation
Jun 13, 2019 03:48:28 #
Jun 13, 2019 06:19:44 #
billy a
Loc: South Florida
EN Submarine Qualified wrote:
If your car could travel at the speed of light, would your headlights work?
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I love you guys! Wouldn't the light be travelling at the same rate as the car?Like the ash-tray and roll-up window handles?
Jun 13, 2019 07:10:47 #
EN Submarine Qualified wrote:
If your car could travel at the speed of light, would your headlights work?
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It’s a matter of relativity.
Jun 13, 2019 12:58:23 #
EN Submarine Qualified wrote:
If your car could travel at the speed of light, would your headlights work?
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I must confess EN
I dunno
question
do we have a car that will go that fast?
If so I volunteer Slatten to test it
Jun 13, 2019 13:10:55 #
billy a wrote:
I love you guys! Wouldn't the light be travelling at the same rate as the car?Like the ash-tray and roll-up window handles?
Well, that is a highly contested theory, one that can't be tested to any certainty. It is hypothesized that since the light is being "launched" from a vessel moving at the speed of light, that, hypothetically, it could travel at the speed of the vessel plus the speed it travels at normally, which would give it twice the speed of light speed, or perhaps slightly less than twice the speed of light. Others speculate that it might not go any faster than the vessel itself. It is not a theory that can be tested as we can not travel at the speed of light nor would we have a way to test the speed the light coming from such a vessel is traveling at. I suppose one could station themselves at about 2 light minutes in front of the craft and see if the light reaches them before the craft does and how long before the craft does, but what if we have miscalculated the distance that light can travel in a minutes time? It could end badly. Any volunteers to test the theory?
Jun 13, 2019 13:19:49 #
Common_Sense_Matters wrote:
Well, that is a highly contested theory, one that ... (show quote)
Adam Shift
Jun 13, 2019 13:38:49 #
badbobby wrote:
I must confess EN
I dunno
question
do we have a car that will go that fast?
If so I volunteer Slatten to test it
I dunno
question
do we have a car that will go that fast?
If so I volunteer Slatten to test it
Lolololhahahaha
Jun 13, 2019 13:50:19 #
EN Submarine Qualified wrote:
If you were traveling at the speed of light, since you'd cover the distance the lights could illuminate ahead in the tiniest split of a second, whether they were lit or not wouldn't matter much. You're still going to slam into wh**ever's ahead of you before you see it.If your car could travel at the speed of light, would your headlights work?
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Jun 13, 2019 14:29:42 #
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