Originally posted by Einstein:
quick question to all you smart science people out there. if a vessel was traveling at the speed of light exactly, and had "head lights" on. Would you be able to see the light in front of you??
Hmm, this is a good one. This question appears also in the Cornell U physics class.I will give you the standard, mainstream answer from same webpage.They have a whole bunch of cool problems on that website. Here goes the answer:
If we admitted by ABSURD that the rocket COULD be accelerated to run at .99999c speed (it cannot, no massive particle can run at c) , the light from the headlights would STILL run at c in front of the rocket and wrt the rocket! So, we would see the light cone of the headlights.
I know that you may have received a lot of other answers but this is what SR predics. Unfortunately, we cannot put it to test
