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Just tired it now in my fast car. Its amazing, the road in front of you looks red, the road behind is blue, and if you look out the window on your left/right it a mixture if all the colours :S The car's light spectrum must have got split up or something?
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[ This Message was edited by: se_p800 on 2007-08-19 00:00 ]
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Posted: 2007-08-19 00:59:53
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I reckon to you (sitting in the car) nothing will appear to happen, however to others they will see your headlights a tiny fraction of a second before you go whizzing past them
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Posted: 2007-08-19 11:55:46
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surely because you are traveling at the speed of light they would just turn on and you would see them as you are going at the same speed! So what would happen if you were going faster than the speed of light and turned them on, would you see the light in your mirror behind you ???
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Posted: 2007-08-19 19:16:16
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i think what will happen is the rays of light wil buld up in the bulb for the say 2 hours that you are driving and then when you stop for the idiot driver infront it emit's a flash so big it explodes with trumendus force thus ending the world. then the light will reach the end of the universe and destroy the whole universe. then we all get lost in the space time continum (whatever that is) where we all meet and form
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[ This Message was edited by: paul101 on 2007-08-20 16:50 ]
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Posted: 2007-08-20 17:45:57
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If you travelled faster than the speed of light you wouldn't see your headlights behind in your mirror as the light from them wouldn't be fast enough to catch up for you to see at all
In theory if you could travel faster than the speed of light you would be able to arrive at a destination before you could even see yourself leave the origin!;)
You'd be able arrive and look back to see yourself about to set off. This is therefore the basic theory of timetravel in a forward direction...simple
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Posted: 2007-08-20 19:09:35
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I think if i was going at the speed of light, I actually don't think i'd be worrying about my headlights lol, I'd be worrying about the fast approaching brick wall
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Posted: 2007-08-20 19:17:08
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You'd be able arrive and look back to see yourself about to set off.
Only if you turn your head fast enough.
As for the headlights thing - you wouldn't be able to see anything if the light was coming from behind.
If there was light coming from the front, then you'd be able to see things that happened in front of you twice as early as you are supposed to.
Conclusion: You wouldn't be able to see things behind you, but you would be able to see things in front of you, because the light that bounces off surfaces in front of you can come from all other directions (as in, other than behind you).
As for the headlights, you wouldn't see them turn on, as the light would be stuck in the light bulb, going with the same speed as you would.
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Posted: 2007-08-20 19:28:12
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On 2007-08-20 19:28:12, NightBlade wrote:
You'd be able arrive and look back to see yourself about to set off.
Only if you turn your head fast enough.
That of course depends on how far you have travelled;
e.g. if you travel 1 light year at twice the speed of light you would have six months until the light from the start reached you.
This then gives further thought to timetravel....
If you travel faster than light then you will not only reach a destination before the light leaving the start but you will also overtake light which left before you.
In the above example you would therefore reach the destination at the same time as light which left six months ago...
so in theory you could watch everything which happened at the origin over the last six months.
This could be seen as looking back in time and the length of time you could look back is determined only by the speed and distance you can travel.
Mik
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Posted: 2007-08-20 20:02:06
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what about my theory?
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Posted: 2007-08-20 20:42:11
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my head hurts....
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Posted: 2007-08-21 00:29:53
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