It is night and you are driving faster than the speed of light. You turn your headlights on. What happens?

You would go back in time! Is that right? If that's not right can someone just pat me on the head and tell me that it was a good effort anyway and thank you for participating.

you get the world's biggest speeding ticket, except the police can't catch you.

that's why you can't go faster than the speed of light.

Your arse lights up.

Well, the headlights are traveling the same speed I am, so would it matter?

lol

First, based on current understanding of physics, this can't happen. But pretend it could, I suppose the headlights wouldn't come on because the light would never reach its destination.

Plus the whole matter of what happens to mass as it approaches the speed of light would long since have destroyed the car, and you, so in either case the lights won't come on.

The intense friction between your car and the surrounding air molecules creates such a high temperature that your car, and everything in it, is reduced to a very fine ash in a matter of moments.

Okay, so let's imagine that our car is made out of some magical substance that is completely impervious to friction, some sort of super KY jelly for example...

Nothing. At least, you wouldn't notice any effect. You're travelling faster than the speed of light, so therefor any light that the headlights made would not escape from the headlights. It wouldn't be able to go backwards, because headlights have concave reflectors behind them. It would just kind of stay where it is.

Oh! But wait a minute! The car is made out of super KY jelly, so the concave reflectors are actually made out of transparent jelly...so the light from the headlights would stream backwards through your car making it a big glowing faster than light super KY jelly car!

Are worms with multiple tongues chasing me? I have to know this before I can answer.

The light appears behind you I suppose, so the headlights would be useless.

That is, presuming it's possible to travel faster than the speed of light......

You drive into the light of the headlights.

lol

???

*lick*

Yummy. Between you and ASB I'm going to be horny all the time.**bite**

I die.

Atzilut shows up and begins pontificating about how this is impossible.

OK, here's the neat thing about going backwards in time. The light looks to the outside observer like it's going slower than you are, that is backwards (and thus, being emitted from the objects your headlights are pointed at, towards your headlight where it is absorbed) in your reference frame. But time is backwards for you, so for you it looks like the light is going forwards.

Beats me

The EXACT same thing as would happen were you driving at any arbitrary rate x. The light would travel forward relative to the rate of the vehicle at the speed of light. Relative to other objects the velocity of the car would be a trigonometric function related to the path of the vehicle and the location fo the object, and the speed of light.

Relative to any observer, the speed of the light being emitted from the headlights would be a constant... C... or 'The speed of light..', however, the rate of time and subsequently the rate of the vehicle (being a function of time) would vary depending on the particular observer. They would be less than C, and probably a function that looks *something* like (Velocity Car=Vc), Point Observer=Pa, Point Car=Pb. Point Where Perpendicular of Path of Car running through observer meets Path of Car=Pc

Vc=C-C(sin(Angle PaPbPc)

you are still in darkness??

You hear remnants of your favorite Radiohead song.

My car breaks down, because it can't travel faster than the speed of light for long.

*waves* Hi!

zoooom!

er.. Hi! *waves back*

Your headlights will get cloged up with photons and eventually your wind shild will be pierced with light that will blind you. And also, if you're a black man, try to avoid zooming across any southern states, cause you will get pulled over. Allthough they wont have enough time to see your face. lol

You were an Arbelos student, weren't you?

nothing

I'm not quite sure what you mean by that.

Scotty beams you up.

My head explodes!

This is imposible.

Do I know you?

I'm gonna keep a close eye on you!

Teehee! Good.

You still can't see anything

???

Whats this gonna be crap? lol lol lol lol

You go back in time, if your vehicle withstands the stress. If not, you are ripped into your component molecules.

You leave your lights behind seeing that you're driving faster than the speed of light!

nothing

Oh where oh where can my baby be??
The Lord took her away from me
She's gone to heaven so ive got to be good
so i can see my baby when i LEEEEAVE this world.

we were out on a date in my daddy's car...

You hit the deer *before* it runs into the headlights.

You hit a tree.