ooooo physics ponderance

[mscupcke]

"I went to a job interview the other day, the guy asked me if I had any
questions , I said yes, just one, if you're in a car traveling at the
speed of light and you turn your headlights on, does anything happen?
He said he couldn't answer that, I told him sorry, but I couldn't work
for him then."
-- Steven Wright


now thats a damn good question... does anything happen? now, like i said before, the nuns didnt let me take physics, so you boys who know whats going down in the world of physics need to tell me if something indeed happens...

[Buu]

It's a hypothetical question that has no definitive answer.

Only objects without mass, like photons, can travel at the speed of light. As a massless object approaches the speed of light the amount of energy needed to accelerate it increases more and more, so that an infinite amount of energy is needed it to increase it to the speed of light.

Say the car was going just shy of the speed of light then. You wouldn't notice any observable difference. Light from your car's headlight would appear to be moving at the speed of light from your relative position, and would be reflected back by other objects in classic form.

[mscupcke]

aww youre so smart it makes me smile

intelligence is sexy...

[XKnifeXBuu]

1 if cars went the speed of light it wouldnt have paint on it .... 2 it possibly could be on fire soo i dont see why u need headlights?

[mscupcke]

why wouldnt it have paint on it?

[XKnifeXBuu]

cause the fire would melt it duh!

[mscupcke]

[XKnifeXBuu]

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