Ever wonder what the speed of lightning would be if it didn't zigzag?
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that's is something to keep in mind when it is frying you like a chicken nugget...
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Actually....according to Einstein...if you could survive traveling at that speed the answer would be yes. Einsteins theory states the light from your headlights would be traveling at the speed of light! Let me make this simple...if the auto you were driving was travelling at the speed of light the light from the headlights at any given point in your travel would still be traveling forward again at the speed of light. His theory also states that at the speed of light the only variable that changes is time. Personally, I dont believe in the theory, in particle physics it has been proven that paired particles "know" when their particle twin has had a change of state regardless of how far away from each other they are...this being said...some form of communication between the two must travel faster than the speed of light!
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Let me ask you a question. \n\n If I shot a bullet straight up, and then dropped a feather..  would the falling object move faster than the one going upwards?
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no. 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)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, and if you want to know why, look at some of my answers to other questions about time travel (which involves velocity distorting time) and shining flashlights and such.
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speed of light = 299,792,458 m/s\nspeed of sound at sea level = 340.29 m/s\nspeed of electricty = probably around 8.4 cm/hour\n\nBut wait...why is electricity so slow?! Light bulb turns on almost instantly! \nAnswers here: http://www.discoverycentermuseum.org/experiments/272.htm
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Again, the speed of light is a constant!  It does not increase in speed of the flashlight is moving really fast.  Its' like sound, sound goes 700mph in air at sea level.  If the plane goes faster than that it catches the sound, the sound doesn't go faster in front of the plane.  Same with light. Same with the opposite direction.
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it would be called superluminal.\n\nyou can read more about it here - \nhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Faster_than_light
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If you are travelling fast I would think the signal would be completely disrupted...:D
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You would be in a different universe than you are now, because the laws of our universe say that a massive object can't go faster than the speed of light (or even as fast).\n\nAlso, if you changed the question to "...1 mile per hour less than the speed of light", you would have to specify "relative to ..." (what?)  And then you would have to say, what would happen as observed by (whom?).  In this question, relative to you, the headlights would turn on and you would be able to see things 186,000 miles ahead of you (as you measure miles) within 1 second (as you measured seconds) .  Relative to the observer that thought you were moving 1 mile per hour less than the speed of light - assuming you were moving toward the observer - you would get to him or her just a tiny fraction of a second after he/she saw the headlights turned on.  Your measurement of the speed of light would be consistent, but your measurments of time and distance would be very different.
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Right now, many scientists believe that we cannot go faster than the speed of light.  As you get closer, the plane would get heavier and heavier until it slowed down.  Right near the speed of light, the plane would weigh almost infinity so it wouldn't be able to go faster.\n\nIt might be possible to somehow bypass it, but that's mostly science fiction right now.
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einstein wondered what stuff would look like if he traveled the speed of light. One thing he wondered about is what would light look like.\n\nYou should know what a dopler shift is. When something is traveling away from you the wavelength of radiation emitted from that object increases in wavelength. If you look at the formula for calulating the shift in wavelength you see that the limit as we approach the speed of light is that the wave becomes flat (there is no wave). So we would see nothing.\n\nAlso the way the equation is set up, in conjunction with with fact that wavelength*frequency = speed of light, this also means that the frequency goes to infinity. This is because to travel at this speed is impossible. But you were wondering what the light would look like so the answer is the wavelength becomes zero and you see nothing.
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only in space where there is no air\n\nof  course there no clouds either but electrical spark can still be produced artificially\n\nedit: "a mile away for every second counted: -- make this about 4-5 seconds; the sound speed is about 300m/s
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As weird as it sounds, the theory of relativity says that if you are in a car traveling at 200,000,000 m/s with the headlights on, then the light from those headlights will pass a person standing still at 299,792,458 m/s and not 499,792,458 m/s. And if that stationary person shines a light at your car, you will see his light approaching you at 299,792,458 m/s and not 499,792,458 m/s.\n\nThe theory is so weird that numerous scientists have done numerous experiments to test it. The most famous of these experiments is the Michelson-Morley Experiment. All experiments have confirmed that this strange prediction of relativity is true.\n\nBelieve it or not!
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On the contrary, a light beam would merely percieve that it travelled instantly inbetween origin and destination. Space would be warped to Zero distance in the direction of travel, not Zero space. I know it seems like a sleight-of-hand trick with the mathematics, but the distinction is important.
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Here's a website that will explain it for you....http://science.howstuffworks.com/lightning5.htm
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Nothing happens, the car lights will travel at the speed of light in comparasion to the car. This doesn`t mean that the lights will travel twice as fast, you cannot add this velocities without taking into account Lorentz equations.\n\nIs it deja-vou or is it the third time this question has been asked?
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Asking such questions shows that you are of an outstanding nature and an inquisical individual. This question has llong been the subject of discusion ever since albert einstein's theory of relativity in 1905, and later quantum in 1934. It has commonly been accepted that since you would never be able to lravle at the speed of light, it is pointless to speculate. However, it is possibly to say theoretically that switching the headlights on whilst travelling at the speed of light would cause you to see nothing but blackness, or no change from the surroundings, since the strings have the smae frequency and you cannot pass through them since they have already passed. Trusting this is of measurable help, yours brightly, jgdyrh