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"C. Capps" <m_c...@garlic.com> wrote:

>Mark B. Haynes wrote:
>> 
>> Jason C. Wenger wrote:
>> >
>> > >> I started this thread loooooooonnnnnnnngggggggg time ago and im surprised
>> > >> it is back to the alt.games.descent.thread
>> > >> Actually it was a thread about packets and the speed of packets.
>> > >> I dont know how it got renamed and stuck on light speed.
>> > >
>> > > So you're the culprit...  I've got a question for ya:
>> > > If you are in a car traveling at the speed of light, and you turn the
>> > > car's headlights on, what happens?
>> > > And DON'T give me any technobabble.
>> > >                         C. Capps
>> >
>> > You get pulled over by the cops for speeding.  :-)
>> >
>> > Cya in 'da mines,
>> > Thursday
>> >
>> > +-------------------------------------------------+
>> > | Jason C. Wenger       www.clinton.net/~jwenger/ |
>> > | 'Thursday' on Kali          jwe...@clinton.net |
>> > | Illegitimi no carborundum      jwe...@juno.com |
>> > +-------------------------------------------------+
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>> The answer is nothing.  The light that comes from the headlight will be
>> traveling at the exact same speed you are.  It would remain where it
>> is.  In effect.

>Finally!  That *is* the answer to the question.  Finally someone with a
>serious answer.
>			C. Capps

>"When all else fails, read the manual..." - Anonymus

A serious answer but wrong (depending on where you are standing).
>From the perspective of the driver the light would travel away from
the car at the speed of light.  An outside observer would see the car
as going less than the speed of light (trust me) and the light would
advance the speed difference between observe car speed and the speed
of light.

I'm about 12 years out from my last college physics class, can someone
calculate the speed an object must travel so that time dilation makes
it appear to the passenger that they are going exactly the speed of
light?  If I remember correctly it is about .97C.  If that were the
case then the light would appear to an outside observer to leave the
car at about .03C.

If a car could travel at the speed of light to an outside observer the
passenger would percieve their speed to be above the speed of light
and more specifically at infinate speed because time has stopped for
them.  They couldn't turn on their light because they would have to
travel an infinate distance to have time to turn on the lights. 



It don't matter what you call a dog with no legs.

He won't come.