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Faster than the speed of light...
Someone asked me the other day.
"what would happen, if you were driving faster than the speed of light, and you turned your headlights on?" so... any takers? I say, nothing would happen. to an observer outside your craft - you would be completely invisible; as vision as we know it depends on light to be reflected off a surface for it to be seen. from you're own point of view... you, your control panel, the interior of your craft and everything else would also be completely invisible as you would be moving faster than the light required for you to see other objects. ![]()
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What would happen? Well, Einstein might be really, really mad.
Anyway, wouldn't light reflected or emitted by an object moving faster than light also move...err...faster than light? Conservation of momentum and all that...
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Basically, you wouldn't see anything, regardless of whether something is in front of you, as the reflected light would be blue shifted well beyond what we can perceive. If you could, it would look...funky lol. All distorted and stuff. Though, it's not like your eye could track the object fast enough to actually get a good look at it anyway. Fun stuff to think about though! EDIT: That was at like 99.99999999% the speed of light. At 100% of c, nothing would really happen. Kinda like dividing by zero, only with your eyes. If you get my drift lol
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Somebody going the other way would flash his high beams at you.
![]() And you could also tell the judge that you didn't see the red and blue lights when you get caught speeding. I think that someone outside your craft would see you but at a point after you have passed, the light is reflected off an object, the head's rear reflector. Any light reflected to either side would be seen. Most certainly the tail lights could be seen. ![]() Or not Wasn't fast enough with the typing. Forgot about the Doppler shift thing. Magic
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on a not-so-serious note...I read driving and speed of light and my mind went straight to Porsche 917.
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Let's Sink Sumptin' !
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I say nothing, the navigation lights on the Enterprise (D) never caused any harm while in warp.
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Your light beam would travel at 2x speed of light ... same as when you throw something forward while travelling in a car. The objet has the speed of the car already and then also the extra one you gave it by throwing it.
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What kind of lights Xenon or Halogen, high beam or low, American or European systems? Any black holes in the area?
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![]() Hmm, thinking further,.... With an opponent having his headlights on, would you get double blinded if the opponent did a Picard Maneuver?
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The Ferengi have a simple but effective protection against visible light radiation... its called cowering under the table...
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