For those of you saying the question is moot because we could never go that fast, keep in mind there was a time when it was considered impossible to go faster then sound.
Don't quote me, but I believe you could see because, if I remember right, light doesn't behave purely like matter or a wave, but something entirely different, which is why light always travels at the speed of light regardless of the velocity of the observer. That being said, I would assume our understanding of physics probably does not apply beyond the speed of light, so I'm not sure there's an answer to your question available.
I do not know about going faster than the speed of light. However, if you were going exactly the speed of light, with no acceleration in any direction, you would be able to see.
The famous example is that of a car flying through space at the speed of light. If you turn on the headlights, will they shine? or will the light just stay there in the headlights??? What Einstein did was to make everything relative, and said that light moves at a constant speed relative to an observer.
If you are in your spacecar traveling past the earth at the speed of light, and you turn on your headlights, from your perspective the light will move away from you at the speed of light, while the earth flies by you at an equal speed in the opposite direction.
An observer from earth would see you whiz by the earth, but the light from your headlights would stay 'stuck' since both the light and your car are moving at the speed of light in the same direction.
It seems logically impossible that the two scenarios could be correct at the same instance, however, these discrepancies begin to explain the slowing of time that we experience in general relativity... Maybe that helps.
This is theoretical. So any talk about impossibility to do this is true but is not taken into acount. in his post I will be talking about two parts. important fact: if light does get to you, you see.
Lets imagine that we have a white horse and that it is faster than k. It represents the faster than light(in this part k is the substitute for the speed of light). Now we have grey horses at a percise circle around the white horse and their speed is k. they begin runing at the same time, the white horse north and the grey horses to the white horse. Those that are the south do not catch the white horse, but the north grey horse catches him and also some more horses, depending on how much the white horse is faster. So we get a cone of those who don't and the rest do catch him. Now tirn this into 3 demention, turn the white horse into the object that is faster-than-light, the grey ones into light.
If you are faster-than-light, you will go back in time. Watch the video or read the wikipedia article.
part three: with time travel:
we'll return to the horsey egsample. we will take only the southermost horse. In the first part we dedused that he will not get to the white horse because of the difrence in speed. But the white horse is going back in time, and the faster he goes the farther back in time he is going. So we let a little-known algebra take course, and we have seen that the white horse sees everithing (or almost everithing).
Final answer: you will see everything (or almost everithing). Almost everything means without the little spot right behind you.
For those of you saying the question is moot because we could never go that fast, keep in mind there was a time when it was considered impossible to go faster then sound.
Simply put, and all other theoretical impossibilities aside, yes you would still be able to see if you were to travel faster than light. Firstly, any light emitted from near your current location and traveling the same direction as you would still be perceived, at least until the point where you move further than the initial waves of light. Secondly, any light moving at a different angle than you are will still be perceived so long as you are within visual range of that particular light wave.
What happens if you "crash" into light that is going from the same direction? Would you see what is coming from the back in the front? But you would still see what is in front of you as in front of you, in any case.
What happens if you "crash" into light that is going from the same direction? Would you see what is coming from the back in the front? But you would still see what is in front of you as in front of you, in any case.
I'm not quite sure I understand the question here. However I am going to put our perception of light into layman's terms. Hopefully an understanding of our perception of light will help you answer your own question since I don't understand how to approach it.
Light exists as a wave which occupies a position in space. For you to perceive light you must occupy the same space at the same time as that wave of light. If this occurs then you perceive that light, if not then there is darkness.
For those of you saying the question is moot because we could never go that fast, keep in mind there was a time when it was considered impossible to go faster then sound.
I think it may be possible to go near lightspeed, but not at lightspeed itself. You would need an almost infinite amount of energy to propulse even a neutron at this speed. So forget about an entire human :P
I'm not quite sure I understand the question here.
Lets say a car is moving at a certain speed (0< to a certain direction. Behind it there is a car that is going to the same direction on the same line, but with a greated speed. When they meet, a vrash happens. Now the slower car is light, and the faster car is you. What happens when you and the light meet?
