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psymon
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psymon asked in Science & MathematicsPhysics · 1 decade ago

If your car could travel at the speed of light...?

...would your headlights work?

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  • 1 decade ago
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    i hope so or ill crash :S !!

  • Anonymous
    1 decade ago

    I believe if cars could travel at the speed of light then light would work at an even pace with the car. However, us humans will never no for we can't travel at the speed of light, that speed is so sudden that humans would probably be killed by the speed

  • 1 decade ago

    the headlights wud work but it wud be of no use. the headlights lighten up the road in front of you and henceforth helps u to see the ahead path. however if ur car and light travel at the same spped then the headlights wud only be able to lighten the area close to ur car and not the road in front of u. so in such a case the headlight is not able to perform its function properly.

  • 1 decade ago

    yes

    coz the light would speed away from your head lights at the speed of light, but in relation to the ground speed it would be travelling at 2x speed of light.

    just the same if you are stood inside a speeding train and drop a penny on the floor, the penny would fall at your feet not drop way off at the back of the carriage.

    Source(s): my head
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  • 1 decade ago

    Would they turn on? Well... yeah. If that's what you mean by if they "would work". If not then that has to do with your car's lights being broken, not physics.

  • 1 decade ago

    Depends on the engineer :)

  • 1 decade ago

    it cant so whats the point?

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