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On 2002-08-06 17:26, KULA wrote:
If you were in a car doing the speed of light and you turned the lights on, would they do anything?
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Smart-aleck answer: Yes. Somewhere above Mach 1 (a very tiny fraction of the speed of light,) the glass in the lights would melt as the car falls apart and burns up while accelerating.
Answer you probably want: No. If you had a magic car that traveled at "c" - when you turn on the headlights at the speed of light (assuming you mean the headlights and not the inside dome light, but even then...) the headlight beam would go at the speed of light relative to the magic car.
Since this is the "bad movie" page: In the movie "The Last Starfighter," actor Robert Preston drives just such a car. (Its a disguised alien spaceship.)
<font size=-1>[ This Message was edited by: Chip on 2002-08-06 17:53 ]</font>