i hear that if you go the speed of light you can travel into the future,,, ok, cool,, but some one tell me "why"
2006-08-26 14:33:41 · 9 answers · asked by pops1954 1 in Science & Mathematics ➔ Mathematics
I'll steal something from another post i just did:
"It is all about how light travles to the person. IF (and this is a HUGE if) We could travel faster than light -- c in the equation -- If we moved fast enough we could see ourselves disappear if we ran behind where we were and turned around. The light would hit us standin still, bounce off, we'd run past the light, turn around, have the light hit our eyes and we'd see us disappear. ... just something to think about and if you don't understant that don't feel bad and ignore it, It was just a fun weird fact."
If you moved faster than light you could technically travel into the past, but nothing like they could do in the movies. You could only really see yourself in two places at once because the light that bounced off someone in 1953 is well gone away. You also wouldn't be able to interact with anything and we already have broken the sound barrier and can hear stuff well after it happens.
With that being said you would technically be able to travel into the future if you were moving slower than the speed of light ... which we already are just progressing though life.
2006-08-26 14:49:56 · answer #1 · answered by Icon 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Sorry you are wrong, time slows down.
According to Einstein’s Special Theory of Relativity as you go faster and faster approaching the speed of light things begin to change. To you they look normal, but to someone who is independent from your frame of reference your dimension, in the direction of travel, decreases, your weight increases, and your time rate slows down. All of these factors are approaching infinity or zero. So at just a hair below the speed of light you are almost as thin as a line, you weigh nearly an infinite amount, and time has all but stopped.
This theory has been proven at least twice. Atomic clocks put on airplanes and on the space shuttle have traveled around the world. When the time on the clocks were compared with clocks that stayed fixed on Earth then it was discovered that the clocks that flew were behind those that did not. The flying clocks had existed in a time frame where the time rate had slowed down.
According to Einstein Time Travel is impossible. However, according to Steven Hawking if you have access to a rotating black hole then all bets are off. The laws of physics break down inside a black hole and time travel is possible, but you can’t travel to any point in history before that rotating black hole was created. If the black hole is not rotating then you will be collapsed down to a single point; i.e. nothing. If you pass through a rotating black hole then you will have to somehow survive the gravitational sheer that is trying to tear everything apart, but that is considered a minor problem, although it is currently unsolvable. That’s physics for you.
2006-08-26 14:52:20 · answer #2 · answered by Dan S 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Becuase when you travel at the speed of light time slows down to you but to people going at normal speed like in earth it go be a thousand years when to you it was only a few months. So when you stop going at the speed of light all the sudden your in the future because everybody was going at normal speed but you were going at the speed of light which makes time slow down so you don't get old.
2006-08-26 14:49:07 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Hi. Mass or anything with mass can only get close to the speed of light. As you get closer, time slows down and so it appears to you (in the ships, say) that the outside world has speeded up. You'll feel like you went into the future.
2006-08-26 14:38:49 · answer #4 · answered by Cirric 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
When you are traveling at speeds close to speed of light relative to an approximately inertial system such as Earth, if you are traveling at speed V, when time t passes on Earth, time T will pass for you:
T=t/(1-V^2/c^2).
This formula follows directly out of basic relativistic theory equations and is verified by experiments
2006-08-26 14:38:12 · answer #5 · answered by Duke 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
beacuse you start going so fast that you almost go "slower" beacuse you're going at a "slower speed than everyone else, time goes by for the other faster tahn it does for you. therefore, you are, if you will, losing the race. once you stop traveling at that speed, you end up having aged less than everyone else. but don't blame me if this thesis sux. im only 14...
2006-08-26 15:34:28 · answer #6 · answered by My Lovee 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Ok first thing you need is a flux capacitor, which no one has invented yet, I'm working on it but it's all it does is make coffee as of yet. Now on to this myth about needing to go the speed of light. That's just abunch of Enstein gibberish. All you need to go is 88 miles per hour, and you need 1.21 giggawatts of power... and a mall parking lot.
2006-08-26 14:42:50 · answer #7 · answered by B Rob 1 · 1⤊ 1⤋
You cant travel in future but the fact is that the time becomes static.
2006-08-26 14:41:36 · answer #8 · answered by Mohammad b 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The answer is so _trivel_ it's not even necessary to explain.
2006-08-26 14:37:15 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋