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No, if you were traveling at the speed of light, you would not be able to see anything in front of you. According to the theory of relativity, as an object with mass accelerates towards the speed of light, its relativistic mass increases, and time dilation occurs.

As you approach the speed of light, time dilation causes time to appear slower for you compared to an observer at rest. From your perspective, time would slow down, and distances in the direction of your motion would contract. This phenomenon is known as length contraction.

As a result, light rays coming from objects in front of you would also experience these effects. The wavelengths of the light would be compressed, and the frequency would increase. This would shift the light into higher energy ranges, such as gamma rays or even higher-energy electromagnetic radiation.

Therefore, if you were traveling at the speed of light, the light rays from objects in front of you would be shifted into such high-energy ranges that they would likely be invisible or undetectable to the human eye or any conventional optical instrument.

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