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Fuzz Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Dec-14-06 10:44 PM
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Men who wear makeup, question.
If you travel at the speed of light and you turn your headlights on, do they do anything?
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Oeditpus Rex Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Dec-14-06 10:46 PM
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1. Related:
What's the speed of dark?

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evlbstrd Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Dec-14-06 10:50 PM
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2. Another question:
How do you put on makeup using speeding headlights?
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mike_c Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Dec-14-06 11:36 PM
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3. OK, you asked-- Einstein answers via the magic of Google....
"If I pursue a beam of light with the velocity c (velocity of light in a vacuum), I should observe such a beam of light as a spatially oscillatory electromagnetic field at rest. However, there seems to be no such thing, whether on the basis of experience or according to Maxwell's equations. From the very beginning it appeared to me intuitively clear that, judged from the standpoint of such an observer, everything would have to happen according to the same laws as for an observer who, relative to the earth, was at rest. For how, otherwise, should the first observer know, i.e., be able to determine, that he is in a state of fast uniform motion? One sees that in this paradox the germ of the special relativity theory is already contained. Today everyone knows, of course, that all attempts to clarify this paradox satisfactorily were condemned to failure as long as the axiom of the absolute character of time, viz., of a simultaneous, unrecognizedly was anchored in the unconscious. Clearly to recognize this axiom and its arbitrary character really implies already the solution to the problem."

--Albert Einstein, 1896


Clear? Good. More at: http://math.ucr.edu/home/baez/physics/Relativity/SpeedOfLight/headlights.html
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