if i was to travel to work and back at the speed of light,would be younger than everyone else???...tom science

Answer 1

yes because they would have aged more than you would have

Answer 2

Your question is a very interesting one, and it is great to see that you are thinking about Professor Einstein's theory in this way, but unfortunately, you're probably not going to like the response. When you assume that it's possible to travel at the speed of light, you're taking the laws of physics and punching them in the stomach and throwing them down the stairs.

The problem is that you can't say, 'Hey, what would happen if you could go faster at the speed of light?' because that's totally physically impossible. It's not possible to go faster at the speed of light, so the laws of physics can't possibly say what would happen if you imagine things that way in some hypothetical universe. Physics is a complete package: once you decide to ignore one physical law, you're ignoring them all.

You run into a similar problem when you ask 'What if I could divide by zero?' or 'What if I could build a perpetual motion machine?' or 'What if I went back in time and killed my grandfather before I was born?' There's no answer, because the question doesn't make any sense.

Of course, this doesn't bother the writers of Star Trek. They go fasterat the speed of light every show and travel into the past like it's a trip to Disneyland. This brings up an interesting point, however: The idea of a space-warping engine is NOT entirely a bad one! Warping space would allow you to travel as if you were moving faster than light by changing the structure of the universe, at least temporarily. You would end up in a certain location much faster than if you travelled there the 'normal way,' kind of like a secret passage. Happily for relativity, you would STILL not actually be travelling faster at the speed of light in local space, so Einstein's 'speed limit' still holds.

mass is not constant - it increases with velocity and it goes to infinity at the speed of light. So that eventually you need infinite amounts of energy to accelerate infinite mass past the speed of light mark! (and as far as I know we have yet to find an infinite source of energy :-)

However if you would still like to choose if you are having the soup or the salad at the dinner you will not attend here is a thought.

We really do not know what would happen to time when an object passes the speed of light. The only thing we have to rely on is the Special Theory of Relativity (Einstein 1905) and according to it time in a moving reference frame (say your space ship) goes slower as compared to a stationary frame (say Earth) the faster you go.

I need to stress again that this is just a crazy thought experiment which produces some weird imaginary time and has no physical meaning.

Answer 3

Time change has only to do with the one traveling. What you proposed would be like leaving a person for a two hour period, while you zipped around at the speed of light, and then being supprised that nothing seemed to change upon your return.

For the experience to have a meaning, you would have to remain in that state for a long period of time. Consider the Twin Paradox.

The Paradox ...

Time is a velocity “c”. It is an increase of energy in direction of movement. This is realized as hf = mk (kinetic energy). As the energy in direction of movement increases, energy at right angles decrease proportionately.

The reason for stating the above is that, at rest a mass has the potential of energy moving any direction at the same speed. When a mass moves at the speed of light, minus 2 mps, energy has the potential of movement at right angles to direction of travel of 2 mps. At the speed of light, there would be no movement possible in any direction, for all energy would be in one direction only.

Being frozen in time due to linear movement means that all forms of energy transfer becomes less and less. When this happens all systems, electrical, bio, etc. move toward zero. The moving twin ceases to age, because he begins existing more and more in only a single dimension, and ceases to exist according to the three dimensions of time that his twin lives in.

Answer 4

I can see from your question, you don't work for NASA. So, the simple answer is no. According to Einstein's Theory of Relativity, time is relative to the observer. Since you probably work at the mall, the distance is not great enough to alter the observance of time to travel for so short of a distance. You will only be younger to anyone born after you.

Answer 5

Perhaps a better question would be, if I traveled NEAR the speed of light, which IS possible, though very hard. In that case, the answer is yes, you would be younger by probably about .00000001 sec.

Answer 6

I love hypothetical questions, because they ask for hypothetical answers. Well first and foremost for anything to happen it first needs the potential. And since there isn't any potential for that being able to happen, then it can't and won't happen. However, for the sake of imagination I will answer it. Light is a form of energy. The amount of energy ( assuming you had a secret stash ) you used would have sent your cells into shock ( assuming you re-emerge in human form ) and aged you quite beyond recognition.

Answer 7

yes but it is impossible.

for example:you have a car runs like the speed of light and your room mates car runs about 100miles=180km you both have the same everything(the same jobs and parking lots next to each other) when you both are coming back from your jobs you are the 1st who reaches home.

get the point but the bottom line is yes but it is impossible.

Answer 8

Well...

You would age less. However, you would not become younger then you were originally.

Please note: This method of travel is not possible.

Answer 9

No. But whats the hurry.

Answer 10

no, just a bit dizzy from the trip.