• Question: If you were travelling faster than the speed of light in your car, what would happen if you turned the headlights on?

    Asked by ExplosiveBiskit to Aaron, David, Elaine, Sarah, Zoe on 18 Nov 2014.
    • Photo: David Foley

      David Foley answered on 18 Nov 2014:

      I love this question! I think that since your headlights are also traveling faster than the speed of light you would be able to see (if you climbed onto the bonnet and leaned into the lamp) that the lights were on, but you wouldn’t be able to use them to see the “road” ahead.

    • Photo: Sarah Ashwood

      Sarah Ashwood answered on 21 Nov 2014:

      Haha brilliant question!
      I have no idea! Would be kool to try though!!
      If you were moving at the speed of light you’d not be able to use the lights to see the “road”. But as David said, you could probably tell the light was on if you were to lean into the lamp itself!

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