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Old 07-August-2002, 08:55 AM
David Hall David Hall is offline
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Another thing people keep forgetting is the doppler effect. Since light can't go faster than c, the energy gained from momentum instead ****s the wavelength up towards the bluer end. So the light from your headlights is still at c, but is shifted way up into the gamma-ray end of the spectrum.

Conversely, light from your taillights lose energy, and therefore get downshifted, they'd fall down into the radio-wave end of the spectrum.

There are actually several differest effects experienced as you approch c. This page is pretty good at explaining them:

http://www.fourmilab.ch/cship/cship.html
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