Two men are sitting at the back of a bus travelling at the speed of light.One man decides to walk to the front
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What if that man flew a plane at the speed of light to the front of that bus?
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OK, to answer this question, we first have to make a few important assumptions, otherwise the question is meaningless.\nFirst, we have to assume that you can accelerate your car to the speed of light....this is not actually possible since it would have an infinfity mass and thius take an infinite amount of energy to achiece.  Secondly, wehave to assume that at the speed of light, your head lights will opperate noramlly (i.e. you turn them on and light shines out) due to [for reasons beyond the scope of this answer] the way head lights actually work.\n\nI would also like to preface my answer with say that traveling AT the speed of light is much different than traveling just UNDER the speed of light.\n\nOne VERY important thing to remember is that in ALL frames of reference, the speed of light is constant.\nNo matter who is watching the light travel and measuring its speed, it will always come out to be the exact some value, 299,792,458 m/s exactly.\n\nWhen you, inside your car traveling at the speed of light (with respect to some "stationary" observer), swtich on your head lights and look out the wind shield, you WILL see light traveling away from you at the speed of light.\n\nIf this "stationary" observer (by which I mean a someone who you are traveling past at the speed of light) watches all this happen, both you and the light are still traveling at the same speed in his reference frame....the speed of light.\n\nSo the answer depends on who's frame of reference your talking about.  From your point of view, yes, you would see the light traveling away from you at the speed of light as if nothing was out of the ordinary.\nFrom the "Stationary" person's reference frame, you and the light would be keeping up with eachother, neither moving infront or falling behind the other one...tied.
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Here are the postulates:\n\n(1) The laws of physics are the same as viewed from the perspective of any observer moving at a constant speed.\n(2) The value of the speed of light (denoted "c") is the same in every reference frame.\n\nThe first condition isn't very strange: You'd expect physics to be the same if you were on a very smoothly moving train as you would if you were standing on the Earth.\n\nThe second condition is very strange: Suppose you have two people moving with respect to each other.  One of them is moving at 1/2 the speed of light and the other is moving at 1/4th the speed of light.  Now, a beam of light is passing by them.  They'll both measure the speed of that beam RELATIVE TO THEIR VELOCITY to be c.  \n\nNote that this is a big contrast between what we'd normally expect.  Suppose you were moving at 7 miles per hour and I threw a ball past you at 10 miles per hour.  You'd see the ball moving away from you (another way of saying "moving relative to you" at 3 miles/hour because 10 mph - 7 mph = 3 mph).\n\nIn our light example we just saw that both observers measure the velocity of light relative to their own velocity to be the same.  It'd be like if your friend was moving at 5 miles per hour and you were moving at 3 miles per hour and you both claimed the ball was moving away from you at the same rate.\n\nAt any rate, what this is meaning is that neither time nor space is an absolute quantity.  If you were to observe a rocketship moving near the speed of light (as measured with respect to you), you would observe:\n\n(a) That the rocket appears to contract (shrink) in it's direction of motion, and\n(b) Events aboard the spaceship would appear to occur more slowly.\n\nHowever, they would measure the same things happening to you and the events along the spaceship to be proceeding normally.\n\nThat is only a very brief introduction.  If you'd like a better, but still accessable to a non-scientist, account of this I suggest you consider reading http://casa.colorado.edu/~ajsh/sr/sr.shtml .
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This question comes up very regularly. If you do a search you will find it has been answered dozens of times in the past few months.\n\nThe thing you need to relaise is that the speed of light is an absolute constant. It doesn't matter what speed you are travelling at, the light will always be travelling away from you at the same speed: the speed of light.\n\nThe freaky part is that the light from your headlights would seem to be travelling away form you at the speed of light (C), but to an observer who was sitting still the light would also appears to be travelling away from them at the speed of light. How can that happen? Well it's one of the tricky bits of relativity, but part of the solution lies in understanding that although light never slows down or speeds up relative to any observer it does change frequency.\n\nSo to you the light from your headlights will look quite normal, but to someone sitting still your headlights will appear to be emitting x-rays. The light would be invisible to them.\n\nThe corrolary of that is that any light approaching your windshield will be equally shifted into the x-ray part of the spectrum. Although the headlights will be emitting visible light, any time they strike an object and reflect back they will reflect back extremely low frequency light that is invisible to the human eye.\n\n\nSo yes, you most ceratinly would need headlights if a car is travelling at the speed of light. Unfortunately it won't do a damn bit of good to turn on your headlights. That's not because the light won't travel, it will travel just fine. The problem will be that any light that reflects back off the road will be invisible to the human eye.
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Well, if you're traveling faster than light, then the light can never be in front of you.  There would be just a big nothing, probably drive you crazy if you looked at it.  I know, I come from andromeda.  We travel through space backwards so we can see where we're going.
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This is one of the oldest questions in the world, after Einstein came out with his special relativity.  The answer is that no matter how fast you are going, your headlight beam is STILL shining ahead at the speed of light. This is exactly what the equations say, and it works.  If it wasn't true, then all the giant particle smashers in the world costing billions of dollars wouldn't even work.
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This is an impossibility.  Cars don't travel at the speed of light.
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the speed of light = 299 792 458 m / s
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No. First, matter can't get to the speed of light because it would be infinitly massive and would take an infinite amount of energy to do it so the question starts out with a bad premiss.\n\nHowever, if a plane were traveling at half the speed of light and turned on it's headlights, they would be going the speed of light to him and the speed of light for someone on the ground watching. You see the speed of light is constant for all observers in a non-Newtonian reference frame.
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Ignore the other retards who answered this.  This is actually a very intelligent question.  If you look into Einstein's theory of special relativity, you will see that no matter how fast you go (including light speed itself) light will always appear to be traveling at the same rate to you.  That means that you would still observe your headlights the same as usual.  They would still be ahead of you.  That also means that your time is slowing down greatly.  If there were a video camera on you while you were traveling this fast and someone were watching you on a monitor from the comfort of their own home, it would appear to them that you are almost frozen in time because your time reference would be so slow.  To you, your time would seem to go by at a normal pace.
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The speed of light. 186,000 miles per second.
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No there is no 'summation' of speeds involved with light.  Light is Electro-Magnetic Energy, although light travels as particles as well as waves.  In this Universe the speed of light is a constant, roughly 186,000 miles-per-second, or 300,000 km/sec or 300 Mega-Metres / sec.  Unless some POWERFUL external force acts upon light, it cannot change speed.  This entails the gravity of black-holes and such. (Not even light can escape from them.)\n\nA vehicle might weigh somewhere in the neighbor-hood of 3,300 lbs. (Approximately 1,500 Kg, for those of you who have not learned to count properly, just yet ...)\nCheck out da' math ...\n\n60mph = 100 kmph = 27.77r mps. \n(1,500 Kg x 27.77r mps) / 9.81 mps = ~ 4,246 N\n\nI doubt, very seriously, that a little over 4,000 Newtons is enough force to even put a dent in the factor of light-speed.  For more info, look-up Einstein's Theory of Realtivity' (Although I believe 90% of it to be short-sighted ancient crap ...)  This subject is covered in it ...\n(umm covered in Einstein's Theory, not copvered in crap .. which err .. is the same thing at times ...
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If your draw graph between distance and time for these two buses (assuming both starts with velocity=0), \n\nthe graph will be a straigh light passing through origin and having a slope 'm' which equals to the speed of respective bus.\n\nSince, the only difference among the buses is the distance travelled, the graphs of these two buses differ only in terms of slope. \nFor Bus-A, slope=speed=distance/time = 300/12 = 25 mps\nsimilarly for Bus-B, speed=slope = 200/12 = 16.67 mps\n\nHope this helps :)
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Very simply:\n\nIf he keeps flying at the same speed, he will be moving at his flight speed plus the speed of the bus.\n\nIf he stops flying, he will fall to the floor (or perhaps land a bit more gracefully than that), and be moving only at the speed of the bus (his flight speed has gone to zero).\n\nIf you jump in a bus, you continue to move forward at the same rate as when you were standing, so you land in the same spot on the floor.  Of course, if the bus changes velocity while you are in midair, your motion will be different from its and you will not be in the same spot when you land.\n\nThe same goes for the rotation of the earth... the circumference of the earth is about 24,000 miles at the equator.  Hence, at the equator, it is moving at about 1467 ft/sec.  If you jumped and stayed in midair for 1 second, the earth would travel 1467', but you are travelling at the same rate and you would land in the same spot you jumped from.
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Think of Einstiens theory of relitivity E=((MC)squared) Where C = the speed of light and M = th electrons flowing from the electric source to the bulb = E (the ability to do work) wich results in theroy the light bending around the vehicle eirgo the light bends becaus both the light and the vechile are travling at the same speed.
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Well, the man on the bus this morning was Rather close....
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the speed of light is constant no matter what your reference frame is, so the light from your headlights travels at the speed of light (as seen by you in the moving car and by a person standing on the side of the road)