If you accelerate beyond the speed of light, would time change?

Answer 1

That's the problem. You can't go beyond the speed of light. It is the cosmic speed limit. But if you could, then you'll be able to travel through time, past and future.

Answer 2

"What gets us into trouble is not what we don't know. It's what we know for sure that just ain't so" Mark Twain.

According to Einsteins Special Theory of Relativity, yes, speed or velocity is very related to time!!! However according to the same theory it is not possible for matter to accelerate to or past the speed of light. However you do not have to go that fast to change time. If you just go up into Earth's orbit with an atomic clock that is synchronized with an atomic clock here on Earth's surface. when you come back you will find that a different amount of time would have passed for the two clocks. If you start getting very close to the speed of light the time for you will slow down much more. Time for you will slow down compared to a stationary reference body according to the following formula:

t= 1/(1-v^2/c^2)^(1/2) v = velocity, c = the speed of light As you can see as v's value approaches c's value the solution becomes undefined as 1/x lim x approaches zero. Another way you could see this is if you reached the speed of light your clock would completely stop while the stationary clock kept going.

Answer 3

It has already been proven with the aid of atomic clocks flown in high altitude high speed jets that time slows down as you speed up! This is no longer a theory, IT IS FACT! As far as what happens to time at the speed of light, theoretically it stops. It is still only specualation that mass turns to energy at this speed and I think it will be quite some time before we know the true answer.

Answer 4

This is only if Einstine's theory of relativity is correct. They have tested it using bowing 747's and atomic clocks. And the faster you come to the speed of light the faster time around you passes. Otherwords said, you atoms age or degenerate at a much slower pace than those around it. There is only one problem though, in order to travel faster than the speed of light you would have to become energy first. If you use the equation E=MC2 then you'll know that the kinetic force of matter to energy is too great for modern science to actually form without a nuclear explosion.. For your body to obtain such a state, and not be totally eraticated you would have to have somewhere around the power of a black hole exploding.

Answer 5

First of all, you can NOT get up to the speed of light, to say nothing of going faster. If you could move at some significant percentage of light speed though the rate of time you observe would be noticeably different than for others not moving with you.

Answer 6

According to the currently accepted theories time will begin to dilate as a body acheives a significant fraction of the speed of light. As a result, someone travelling close to the speed of light would experience a shorter time lapse than someone travelling at a relatively slower rate.

Answer 7

Warp speeds are fun things out of science fiction, but theoretically, exceeding the speed of light is not possible. Therefore, it would be fiction to predict what would happen at speeds in excess of the speed of light.

Answer 8

No - time is not based on the speed of light.

Answer 9

I think it depends on how you look at it.
If you were going faster than the speed of light, time would stand still for you.
So time might change for you but I don't think it would change for anyone else.

Answer 10

no i dont think it would change. but my theroy is that in order to go faster than the speed of light you would have to make a worm whole. sorry but my worm whole theroy is still being devoled so hope that helps some.