Can You See the Back of Your Vehicle While Traveling at High Velocity?

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Traveling around an object at high velocity does not allow you to see the back of your vehicle. To achieve this, one would need to exceed the speed of light, which is impossible according to current physics. Regardless of the size of the object, light is always perceived at a constant speed. Thus, even at high speeds, the back of the vehicle remains out of view. The limitations imposed by the speed of light prevent this phenomenon from occurring.
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Is it possible to travel around an object so fast that you would be able to see the back of the vehicle that you are traveling in? Possibly if the object that you traveled around was small enough?
 
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No. You would have to travel faster than light no matter how small the object.
 
As the poster above said, it is not possible due to the speed of light.
 
And you always perceive light at the same speed c, no matter how fast you are traveling .
 

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