2006-07-21 10:01:15 · 30 answers · asked by oakesy1971 3 in Science & Mathematics ➔ Astronomy & Space
If you could compensate for the effects of time dilatilon and mass increase by using some kind of warp drive, then if you stop suddenly and turn around - you'd see yourself coming.
In Einstein terms, as you get closer to the speed of light, time slows down, your mass increases and you get smaller. Therefore, to accelerate faster, you need more power. In theory, at the speed of light, time would stop, your size would be zero and your mass would be infinite.
2006-07-22 05:47:06 · answer #1 · answered by nemesis 5 · 2⤊ 0⤋
That's quite fast. Especially today, there are more substantiated scientific hypotheses to treat the subject more intelligently, but still in the realm of theorem. Inclusive of an artificially created black hole to serve the same purpose.
But would it work?
Our bodies are so constructed to serve such an end. Ultimately, time travel is in view. Whether feasible or no, I think that it would not happen even if theoretically possible.
To put it in laymens' terms, do we want to monkey around with established history by interferring, alter it?
Do we have the power to?
Is it allowable?
By whom, or what?
Time, I believe, like a good story, ( Funny how we have something called ' History ' ) has a beginning, a middle, and an end. That's why it is so called. If it ends, this could only be done while it exists.
Simple movement as the question requires, would mean we'd vaporize first and foremeost. These are my views, not necessarily an answer, that would be an absolute in this case.
2006-07-21 17:12:52 · answer #2 · answered by vanamont7 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It's immpossible to do that without your vital organs being ripped from the inside. Light is very fast and even though you think you can travel at any speed your wrong. If you were in a car traveling at 60 miles per hour, then you and your organs are traveling 60 miles per hour. When the car stops you don't stop. And so thats why we have seat belts. It's basic inertia. You just can't travel that fast without have injuries or death. And if you could travel that fast it would be hard for the human eye to keep pace. You wouldn't even see when your going. One no light and two your eyes can't keep up.
2006-07-21 17:20:04 · answer #3 · answered by Scientist 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
You can't
It is not just that it is difficult, you just fundamentally can't
For some reason I find myself coming back to some key points loads of times on these answers and the speed of light is one of them.
If you could get to the speed of light then time would cease to exist, given this then it is clearly impossible to keep accelerating to get any faster. There is also the fact that it would take infinte energy and infinite time to get there. Given that you can never get this fast there really is no point in worrying about going any faster.
But physicist are curious people who like to think about the impossible so they created the word 'tachyon' as a plaything to work out what the maths would look like. Sadly the word spread and people started to think that it referred to something real.
2006-07-21 18:43:44 · answer #4 · answered by m.paley 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I do not know; but I think that once we reach the speed of light we would become a wave such as light. Once we became light, we would be both a particle and a wave. Would we be alive? Would we ever be able to slow down enough to become "ourselves" again. If we did, would we be alive? What happens to a wave traveling faster than its propagation rate such as sound at above Mach one? I hate to answer with questions. That is what I think and wonder/ponder.
2006-07-21 17:48:43 · answer #5 · answered by Jack 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Hate to sound like a boffin, (which I really am not) but travelling at the speed of light is physically impossible due to the closer you reach the speed of light,the greater the mass of the vehicle becomes and as you approach the speed of light, the vehicle would reach critical mass and you would all die in a tiny little flash of space dust,,,
2006-07-21 17:11:36 · answer #6 · answered by Dark Angel 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Have you ever heard of a character called "Tacheon-Man"? If we could travel faster than light, then we'd start to behave like him. I suggest you read TIME : A TRAVELER's GUIDE by Clifford A. Pickover. It's a scientific book, but presented in a simple and layman's way of understanding. I'm sure you'll find answer to such questions - if you're really interested, that is!
2006-07-21 18:01:06 · answer #7 · answered by Xertxes 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The body couldnt handle the stress, and we would burn up at the insane rate. However, as Enstien proposed in his Theroy of relitivity, if you COULD go faster than the speed of light, time travel would be possible.
2006-07-21 17:23:18 · answer #8 · answered by iam"A"godofsheep 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The very same thing that happens to the sub atomic particle that has been recently been discovered to move faster than the speed of light (incidentally disproving part of Einstein's Special theory of relativity)..Absolutely nothing special
2006-07-21 17:32:24 · answer #9 · answered by colostomybag4fun1 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
There was a young lady called Bright
Who could travel much faster than light
She set out one day
In a relativity way
And came back the previous night!
2006-07-21 17:17:02 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋