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traveling at the speed of light. will my headlights work?

if you were traveling at the speed of light and put on your lights what woud happen?

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You wouldnt be alive to find out The g-forces on your body would kill you
At the speed of light time stops. Light doesn't age, it's the same age when it leaves a distant star when it arrives on earth. The physical process that generates light has to happen over time. Once you reach the speed of light no more light comes out of your headlights. But you wouldn't notice as your thinking, which also has to happen over time wouldn't occur.
1st) just to make clear, you cant travel at speed of light, but lets assume this is a theretical question which it is so for all those wo just want to write LOL, its impossible to travel at v=c...... go away ^^ 2) no they wouldnt work as light would travel at the same speed as you would so it would not reflect of any other object in front of you....
Nothing you could see. The light from the lights would continue at light speed, not go to 2x light speed because tyou are travelling along. It is NOT, Einstein said, like throwing a tennis ball from the car, for light CANNOT, even if you are going quickly when you beam it out, go faster than the standard speed of light. You would therefore keep up with the light from your own headlamps.
You can't travel at the speed of light. But no matter how close to c you travel relative to the ground or other bodies, you will observe your headlights to operate normally in every way. You will not be crushed by g-forces if you are traveling at constant velocity. The light will not get stuck in the headlights; it emerges from them at the speed of light, c, as measured by you. The light strikes bodies ahead of you and reflects back to your eye exactly as it does at 55 mph, except that the return signal will be very blueshifted if it is reflecting off of objects that are approaching you at nearly c. You measure light rays to travel at c. Someone standing stationary on the ground measures the light rays to travel at c. Everyone measures light rays to travel at c. That is what it means to be constant.

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