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On Tue, 12 Nov 1996 AndyMi...@MENSA.OverAchievers.com wrote:

> On Tue, 12 Nov 1996 01:39:55 GMT, Chris <coop...@cf.ac.uk> wrote:
> 
> >Victor Major wrote:
> >> 
> >> Benjami...@brown.edu wrote:
> >> >
> >> > <snipped actual contents of message>
> >> >
> >> > > ROFL,
> >> > > Biggo.
> >> > > --
> >> > > *** If your car could travel at the speed of light,
> >> > >     would the headlights still work?            ***
> >> >
> If you are travelling faster than the speed of lightand put your
> lights on, would your headlights become tail-lights ??
> 

First of all, you can't go faster than the speed of light. If you ever got
close (maybe 99.99999% which is close enough for government work) You
would look out your window and see your headlights going away from you
at the normal speed of light. An observer who is at rest would also see
the head lights leave the car at the speed of light; only he would see
the lights Doppler shifted such that they would be somewhere in the ultraviolet 
range. Their would also be time dilation and length contraction.

Isn't physics cool?

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There once was a lady named Bright,
Who traveled much faster than light.
She departed one day, in a relative way,
And returned on the previous night.

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