Would Headlights Work at Light Speed?
If you were driving at the speed of light and turned on your headlights, what would happen? Twitter: www.twitter.com/tweetsauce Instagram: www.instagram.com/electricpants Sources and extras below!! Thanks to Jude for asking me this question on twitter! twitter.com/stefanikj5/status/550865272895447041 “The Life of the Cosmos” by Lee Smolin: www.amazon.co.uk/The-Life-Cosmos-Lee-Smolin/dp/0195126645 “In Search of the Multiverse” by John Gribbin: www.amazon.co.uk/In-Search-Multiverse-John-Gribbin/dp/0141036117 “The Pig That Wants to be Eaten: by Julian Baggini: www.amazon.co.uk/The-Pig-That-Wants-Eaten/dp/1847081282 Relevant MinutePhysics videos: www.youtube.com/watch?v=IM630Z8lho8 www.youtube.com/watch?v=NnMIhxWRGNw light slowing down in glass: www.youtube.com/watch?v=FAivtXJOsiI a different perspective from Sixty Symbols about light slowing down: www.youtube.com/watch?v=CiHN0ZWE5bk Why is “c” the speed of light? math.ucr.edu/home/baez/physics/Relativity/SpeedOfLight/c.html Car at light speed: www.sydneyobservatory.com.au/2010/what-happens-when-a-car-travelling-near-the-speed-of-light-turns-on-its-headlights/ van.physics.illinois.edu/qa/listing.php?id=1355 www.scienceforums.net/topic/82191-i-am-driving-my-car-at-the-speed-of-light-and-i-turn-on-my-headlights-what-do-i-see/ www.desy.de/user/projects/Physics/Relativity/SpeedOfLight/headlights.html Light speed is the same in all inertial frames of reference: www.physlink.com/Education/AskExperts/ae558.cfm van.physics.illinois.edu/qa/listing.php?id=2605 hyperphysics.phy-astr.gsu.edu/hbase/relativ/mmhist.html#c1 Relativistic addition of velocities: demonstrations.wolfram.com/EinsteinsFormulaForAddingVelocities/ cnx.org/contents/e3a41220-af3f-40c6-b8ba-1a5d1bcbed92@6/Relativistic_Addition_of_Veloc doppler shift: commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:XYCoordinates.gif#mediaviewer/File:Doppler-velocity89.jpg Relativity: www.refsmmat.com/jsphys/relativity/relativity.html www.astro.virginia.edu/~jh8h/Foundations/quest7.html Light speed and catching-up to light. www.pitt.edu/~jdnorton/Goodies/Chasing_the_light/ math.ucr.edu/home/baez/physics/Relativity/SpeedOfLight/speed_of_light.html www.askamathematician.com/2010/11/q-what-would-you-experience-if-you-were-going-the-speed-of-light/ scienceline.ucsb.edu/getkey.php?key=1571 van.physics.illinois.edu/qa/listing.php?id=1354 Other good relativity resources: newt.phys.unsw.edu.au/einsteinlight/ Light echo footage: www.spacetelescope.org/videos/heic0617a/ “fine-tuned” universe: io9.com/5989467/how-does-the-anthropic-principle-change-the-meaning-of-the-universe en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fine-tuned_Universe rationalwiki.org/wiki/Anthropic_principle Irrational numbers: mathworld.wolfram.com/IrrationalNumber.html a million digits of pi: www.piday.org/million/ THERE'S MORE VSAUCE!! Vsauce2: www.youtube.com/Vsauce2 Vsauce3: www.youtube.com/Vsauce3 animated drawings by Guy Larsen twitter.com/guylar rocketship animation by Eric Langay twitter.com/ericlanglay
