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To: MtnClimber

Steve Wright asked an interesting question years ago. If you’re in a car traveling at the speed of light and you turn the headlights on, what happens?


9 posted on 10/14/2017 12:40:50 PM PDT by econjack
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To: econjack

You’re blinded by the light.


11 posted on 10/14/2017 12:43:45 PM PDT by Lurkina.n.Learnin (Wisdom and education are different things. Don't confuse them.)
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To: econjack

If the car is traveling (just less than) the speed of light:

The headlights look normal to you driving the car. The car and light from the headlights appear frozen to everyone else ( this would actually happen if the car were entering a black hole, just before the event horizon - observers would see the car stalled at the EV, “never” actually entering).


28 posted on 10/14/2017 1:01:40 PM PDT by steve86 (Prophecies of Maelmhaedhoc O'Morgair (Latin form: Malachy))
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