What would happen if you were in a car going the speed of light and you turned your lights on?
These are the kind of questions that the internet poses. That one, in my opinion, is a darned good question. What would happen? Would it just stay dark? Wouldn't it be funny if we discovered that you gained enough mass at light speed to be impaled by light molecules?
Fifteen days until Italy. When I am in Italy, it will be great, because I can tell a ton of people to "get thee to a nunnery," and they will! It will be Shakespeare, and it will be good.
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Roy says nothing unusual would happen, because no matter how fast you go, the lights are still in front of you. There's a lot more to it, but I got a little lost.
A swamp dragon would probably explode. Just guessing.
Get thee to a nunnery, teh Kenzie! In 15 days! Or come back here because we miss you.
-Ruth
The speed of light is a constant. No matter how fast you are moving, the speed of light stays the same. It will look the same to you and to a person you were passing.
However, you can't accelerate a mass to the speed of light, because it gains mass as it goes faster, until it gains infinite mass at the speed of light. So it takes an infinite amount of energy to continue to accelerate it. So it can't accelerate to the speed of light.
Yay Quantum Mechanics and General Relativity Theory!
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