will i be able to see my image on a mirror infront if i travel faster than velocity of light.?
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Remember Einstein, It is all relative to the observer. You and the mirror would be traveling at the same speed so your observational world would be the same. Now if somebody was traveling with you slightly less than the speed of light, they would see a empty mirror. It is a paradoxical question just as if you where to travel the universe for 5 yrs at the speed of light, then return to earth, you would have only aged the 5 years, but all of your friends would have long ago died of old age waiting your return.Interesting, No? Good luck and happy perplexing.
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Unless the reflective surface is perfect (which is impossible in the real world) the light will loose a little energy with each reflection (the mirror will heat up a little), and in a very short time the light will just get redder until it is merged into whatever infrared energy is inside the sphere.
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well, its absolutely impossible to travel at the speed of light, but lets pretend you can so i can actually give you an answer to the question. The speed of light is actually the ultimate speed limit to the universe, nothing can travel faster than light, so although you would expect the light to be going at twice the speed of light (you plus the speed of light, because of einsteins theory of relativity)it can't because it is physically impossible for even light to travel faster than the speed of light so it would be going at the same speed of you and not reach any path in front of you. Of course, if you turned on your headlights before you started moving, the light would always be one step ahead of you.\n\nbut again, this situation couldn't happen anyway since you can't get to the speed of light, it would make the denomonator in the lorentz factor 0, and you cant have a 0 in the denomonator of a fraction.
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According to Einsteinian theory, yes, you would see the light.  Einstein postulates that the speed of light is relative to the viewer.  If you were travelling at the speed of light and turned on a flashlight, the light traveling out of the flash light would be traveling away from you at the speed of light relative to you.
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The speed of light - it can't go any faster!\nThere will be a distortion however, called blue shift.\nThe perceived (by a stationary observer) frequency of the light would increase, and the wavelength would decrease, so that the velocity is constant v=fλ\nThe distortion would be infinitesimal 30 parts in 186000*60*60.\n\nSound would experience a similar distortion, so that if a vehicle sounds its horn as it drives past, there is a perceived frequency change in the sound.  This is called the Doppler Effect - there is a link at the bottom of the blue shift link... (see also red shift)
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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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It would take too much energy to accelerate anything physical anywhere close to the speed of light. The amount of energy required increases asymptotically to infinity as one approaches the speed of light. However, canukinsocal made some interesting speculations. It is possible that we might eventually be able to send digital avatars of ourselves, connected into our nervous systems. Using something like this, we might be able to experience transmission of an extension of our senses and possibly consciousness at the speed of light.\n\nWhether this will happen in our lifetimes is an open question, but it is interesting to contemplate.
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Neglecting the lengthy derivation of why light speed travel is impossible, the first postulate of relativity is that light has the same velocity regardless of how fast you're moving.  So, at ANY speed you can achieve in your car, when you turn the lights on you'll see the waves moving away from you very very quickly.
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I would not recommend driving at the speed of light.  There is a very good chance that you will get pulled over by the cops, and unless you have a very good excuse, the will most definitely give you a speeding ticket.  Since, in most states, the amount of the fine is directly related to the speed you are traveling, most of the money you earn for the rest of your life will be going to paying off the fine.
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It isn't possible speed wise, the closer you get to the speed of light, the larger your mass, until it becomes infinitely large - there is not enough power in the universe to acellerate you that fast.  The only way to travel faster than light is to take a shortcut, find a way from point a to point b that doesn't involve a direct course - like a wormhole or some other type of spacial rupture. If you think of 3D space as a sheet of paper, light can only travel over the surface - if you fold the paper, you get to the other side quicker by going right through the paper. Technically, you dont go as fast as light (which would have to travel the length of the 'paper'), but you get to your destination before light going the normal space-path would, so in that respect you do go faster than light.
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Say you shine a flashlight into a mirror. Then put a mirror behind the flashlight and remove the flashlight. Given that the 2 mirrors are exactly parallel, will the light just bounce back and forth forever? No - the light travels in waves and each time it reflects back, some of the light is not hitting the mirror exactly at 90 degrees and is reflected off on an angle. The light will reflect away and eventually dissipate completely. \nIf you try to trap light in a box, as it bounces off the walls inside, it will dissipate into energy (heat). The temperature of the inside of the box will raise - but just infintestimly so.\nRemember all of this will take place at the speed of light.
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Assuming you are standing still relative to the airplane, and the airplane is going at the exact speed of light... yes you would see it, but only as it colides into you.  if you are asking if you would see if before it hits you, then no.  Due to it's speed, all of the light coming off of it would not be able to outrun the plane.
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A white object spreads the light into many directions. A mirror doesn't, it instead keeps the light focused, which is why we can see our images.
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First of your car can't go faster than the speed of light.  If your car were going faster than the speed of light, the laws of physics would not apply (since the car is breaking them), so there is no way to accurately predict what would happen.\n\nThat said, if you were going really close to the speed of light relative to some observer (keep in mind that velocity is relative, so it could just as easily be you standing still and the observer moving at near the speed of light), you would see the headlights behave perfectly normally, but he would see you almost catching up to them.  So if we imagine that you could go faster than the speed of light it would follow that everything would seem normal to you, but the observer would see you pass the front of the beam of light emitted by the headlights (actually he would see you in front of the light because he can only see the light when it reaches his eyes, and basically you would get there first, but it's the same idea).\n\n***Response to Cecil***\nAnyone with the audacity to assert that they *know* what would happen based on the laws of physics is mistaken.  Because the car CANNOT travel faster than the speed of light, and therefore the laws of physics DO NOT APPLY!  Any attempts to address this question are purely speculative, and an explaination based on science is no more likely to be correct than one based on Gene Roddenberry's imagination.  Anyone who attempts to apply Einstein's theory of relatively or any other scientific law or theory to this senario and present it as the absolute truth clearly has no understanding of the theories they are attempting to apply, and is, so to speak, the one "without a clue."\n\n***Response to Boomer***\nApparently I need to defend my answers yet again.  Nothing can travel faster than the speed of light.  There are no exceptions, and that's not a "belief," it's a fact.  Thus the car defies the laws of physics, and consequently its interactions with the physical world are unpredictable.  Meaning we cannot predict them, and thus cannot know what would happen.  And anyone who thinks that light and urine behave in the same manner is in no position to be calling others "ignorant morons."\n\n***Response to Cecil's Response***\nFirstly, if you're going to assert that your answer is correct based on the extend of your education, I strongly recommend the use of proper grammar.  As for the car and the light, if you had actually read my answer you may have noticed it is based on the assumption that the speed of light is constant.  For the person in the car, everything is perfectly normal.  He would see the light moving in front of him at 3 x 10^8 m/s and the observer (relative to whom we are measuring the speed of the car) would appear to be moving away from him faster than 3 x 10^8 m/s second, lets say 4 x 10^8 m/s.  The observer would also see the light moving 3 x 10^8 m/s, but he would see the car moving in the same direction at 4 x 10^8 m/s, so to the observer it would appear that the car reaches any given point before any of the light it had previously emmitted.  Also, I'm not sure what the doppler effect has to do with any of this, but it occurs because the wavelength of the sound waves decreases because the object creating the wave moves either closer to or farther away from the previous peak before creating the next one, not because the speed of the sound waves change.  This occurs with light as well, and can been observed as red shift and blue shift.  When this occurs, the speed of the light does not change but the wavelenght of the light is altered by the motion of its source.\n\n***Comment on Tjtindal's Response to Cecil***\nStar Trek is science fiction, but the entire concept of faster-than-light travel is pure fiction.  Nothing can move faster than the speed of light because mass increases with velocity and becomes infinite at 3 x 10^8 m/s.  Because F=ma the force need to i
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Actually by what Einstein explained, da light will still be in  front of da car, it won't go behind u no matter how fast u r going even if u r faster dan da speed of light. Weird? rit. I too thought so, It was explained in discovery channel. Well I'll try 2 explain it 2 u, But it wud hav been easier if I cud actually show it by som animations. When u r travellin at da speed of light, time stops. Ya it does. Time is somthin like per user setting, it is unique for u & each & every one. Think dat ur carrying an Einstein's clock, which is a simple devise with 2 mirrors facing each other with a photon bouncin of the mirror. Each time it bounces from a mirror u'll hear a tic sound, that will b 1 second for u. Say u travel at a speed little less dan light u r movin forward but da photon has 2 move a lot more distance than it initially had been, which was in a straight line, but now it's motion will b som what like a hypotenuse, so it has 2 travell more distance dependin on ur speed. So ur 1 sec will not be da same as 1 sec is for som 1 on earth. So actually ur headlight will be actually movin faster dan u no matter what
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well first, read my other answer to your question about the speed of sound.  You would probably expect the answer to be the same, and the light to reach the other car, but this is a special circumstance because nothing can travel faster than the speed of light, not even light itself.  when a beam of light is shone ahead of a rapidly moving space vehicle, and is expected to be moving at the speed of light plus the speed of the vehicle, it is still only moving at the speed of light, which is puzzling.  Physicists have defined the speed of light to be the ultimate cutoff point for speed.\n\nAnd also, you wouldn't be able to travel at the speed of light anyway because time would probably stop since it does get slower and slower the faster you go.  Velocity warps time, the faster you go, the slower time moves for you relative to a stationary object.  I've read this, and it is definately true, we had to derive the formula in physics from, and calculate the time, lenghth(which decreases with speed), and mass (which increases with speed) distortion as well.  The effects of this are very negligable unless you are moving at speeds very very close to the speed of light, at least over 90% of the speed of light, and we haven't gotten anywhere close yet.  The denominator of this factor that time, length, and mass are distorted by actually is 1 minus the square root of the speed of light(c) over the speed in which the object is traveling (v), so the reason you can't go faster than the speed of light is because if v was greater than c, then that square root would be greater than one, meaning the denominator would be negative, meaning the factor would be negative, and the light would actually be travelling backwards in time...\n\nIf you find any of this interesting, I highly recommend "The Elegant Universe" by Brian Greene.
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Um, well it depend on how you consider light. If you consider it as a stream of photons, then you might say that if you measure the positions of each of those photons it doesn't have velocity.\nIf you say it is a wave and always in motion then it is not relative to your velocity, exactly. Even if you were travelling at 30000000mph the light would still appear to be travelling at 3x10to the power of 8 m/s away from you. Light is the fixed speed limit for the universe. But at the far reaches where the material of space itself is expanding into nothing, it is expanding at a speed greater than the speed of light because that speed limit only applies to objects moving within the universe.