re: Here are three fun physics questions to ponder this weekend.

This is how I see it, since we are taking quite a few liberties here in the first place.

Everything in your little "bubble", i.e. inside of your car, would appear the same as it normally does. As information can only travel as fast as the speed of light, we could hold off on the troubles with the headlight question up until the moment the information is received in the headlight itself, producing light. Because we are moving at maximum momentum, everything in our field of view ourside of this momentum would appear to instantaneouly zip by, before appearing to stand still as a form of light. So the addition of the light from the headlights would have zero effect upon the travelers.

The cop car could and would never catch us at light speed because that would require the cop car to travel faster than light, and having already taken enough liberties with ole Einstein's work, we won't make it worse by adding FTL speed into the mix.

An outside observer would simply observe two streaks of light travel by very, very quickly, if they could even perceive these two objects.

On a more scientific note, you can take this car analogy and change all of it over so that the car is the Earth, and some other physical object in space is the cop, and another the outside observer. From these perspectives, light looks and would behave similarly in these roles just as they would in the car analogy. This entire concept is basically how we have come to learn everything we know about the universe and physics, figuring out how to read light and make something of it all. Such as all of the different wavelenghts of light, their properties, etc. And as a tool for observing far away objects, billions of years in the past.

Tl;dr: Take the entire idea behind the red shift.

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you are driving through space at the speed of light

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Nothing with mass can travel the speed of light

That's a cute little dog.

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Here are three fun physics questions to ponder this weekend.
1) If you are driving through space at the speed of light and turn on your headlights, does the light proceed forward or stay in the headlight mechanism?

2) What happens to the light from your tail lights?

3) If the cosmic police manage to catch up to you, how would the strobe lights on the officer's car appear to an observer traveling slightly slower than you in the other lane?

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Damn!!!

I stared at this picture for about 3 mins thinking "i know OWL didn't post porn..What's going on.. Then I finally saw the dog, I was mainly looking in her twat area..

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I stared at this picture for about 3 mins thinking "i know OWL didn't post porn..What's going on.. Then I finally saw the dog, I was mainly looking in her twat area..

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youre the twat area of the OT

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WHOA. What a revealing response. Now I know your emotional currency. If you lose your internet service for a week, I bet you'd struggle to get by

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Would it be a sad revelation for you know that TD upvotes don't really matter?

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well no, post count matters more, but upvotes do matter



dont take me or this place so seriously,, you already admitted I was a prolific troll

Relative velocity applies to the last question. The first two do not involve an observer.

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Trick question. Nothing can go faster or slower than the speed of light so the headlights are producing light that doesn't exist except at a higher velocity light speed.

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I think its just a problem of perspective

So when you say something is moving at the speed of light, that speed is judged in reference to some already defined point (you)

But let's say you and I (no homo) are in space moving past each other at 51% the speed of light (to make it plausible) in reference to the earth. But when I look at you, you would be moving away from me at faster than the speed of light. How is that possible?