Is it possible to stop time ?

Question

If time is continuously moving and people are continuously getting older, can time be stopped to stop people getting older. Could people still live without getting older or is it time which effects this? and exactly what is time?

Answer 1

What does this have to do with Earth Science?!?!!?

Answer 2

You are not the first person to ask this question. This has been asked from age old times. Thats life all of us want the time to be stopped so that we would remain as what we are but unfortunately no so. Time cannot be stopped for whatever reason it might be and keeps on running and if it is not so the world would never exist. Anyway be positive the Human Growth Hormone (HGA as it is called ) is being advertised by so many in the net will now or later will become a reality and if you are lucky enough then you can live for ever hale & healthy.

Answer 3

Don't forget that time is only a perception - and time/clocks were invented/developed by people so they could tell the passing of time for certain events and so on. You certainly can't stop it other than dying as others have said already but for some animals it HAS been done by using cryogenics - freezing in liquid helium or liquid nitrogen and then thawing them out slowly but although people in some countries (America mostly I believe) think it can be done for humans too and pay a LOT of $$$ to be put to sleep and woken up when a cure has been found for their illness or disease, there are no guarantees and whether or not this technique will ever be perfected, I've no idea.

Answer 4

Time is relative. There have been experiments to show that when you travel at great speeds time slows down.

One example was two clocks were synchronised and then one was put on an aeroplan and flown to somewhere like south america, afterwards when the brought the clocks back together one clock wa a second (or few seconds) out.

I think Einstein said that time stops if you travel at the speed of light. But with time being relevant, the time you experience could be different to time under other conditions, but to yourself time will still tick on.

Time is as infitnite as space itself. There wasn't a beginning and there won't be an end. whatever happens, even if the universe implodes or explodes time of some essence will still go on.

Answer 5

This should really be classified under physics or philosophy, I think, but I would say that time is most easily understood as one of the dimensions of our world, analogous to but different in nature from the three spatial dimensions. We can no more stop time than we can make the world two-dimensional instead of three-dimensional. However, we can, sometimes, stop events and processes from happening. Getting older is generally regarded as not so much a matter of time passing as of biological aging processes, and we can affect those. Nevertheless, it seems that each living species has its own inbuilt limitations, individuals of some species run their course from birth to death in hours or days, while others manage centuries or even millenia.

Answer 6

Only Einstein could. His theory of special relativity included time dilation which resulted in the twin paradox. The twin paradox, sometimes called the "clock paradox", stems from Paul Langevin's 1911 thought experiment in special relativity: one of two twin brothers undertakes a long space journey with a high-speed rocket at almost the speed of light, while the other twin remains on Earth. When the traveler returns to Earth, he is younger than the twin who stayed put.

Or, as first stated by Albert Einstein (1911):
If we placed a living organism in a box ... one could arrange that the organism, after any arbitrary lengthy flight, could be returned to its original spot in a scarcely altered condition, while corresponding organisms which had remained in their original positions had already long since given way to new generations. For the moving organism the lengthy time of the journey was a mere instant, provided the motion took place with approximately the speed of light.

Answer 7

Light travels faster in dense material (I think this has been demonstrated in the lab) as the universe expands it becomes less and less dense. Some physicits say that light begins to travel more slowly in less dense media. Extrapolating this to when the universe has expanded so much that, in theory, it is infinitely dispersed, light stops or slows right down. When light stops, time stops. When time stops or almost stops, then events with tiny probabilities happen quite often, even the birth of a new universe.

Answer 8

Physical time is a velocity. It is that of the value of "c". The "present" moves into the "past" at this rate. Everything in our universe moves at this same rate. There is a physics trilogy that describes this. E = mc2, m = E/c2, and c2 = E/m. Notice that the basis of the first two is that of "c2". Energy and mass are variables but that of c2 (time) is not. Then there is the c2 = E/m. Notice that the c2 value here is still the same. The energy and mass relationships may change, but that of c2 does not. It becomes greater or less in intensity, yet remains the same. c2 = E/m describes the formation of a field of physical time, or that of a gravitational field - they are the same.

There is an experiment demonstrating this value. It is found at http://360.yahoo.com/noddarc it is entitled "Gravitational Experiments".

Answer 9

What a great question! This gets the old Gray cells working. Do we pass through time, or does time pass through us? Quantum physics is the best area to study on this subject, but the answer to your question is no, you can not stop time. As one gets older, time seems to go more quickly, hence you may say, "is it Thursday already" Time is something we can never explain, all we can do is make the best of it.

Answer 10

Yes, I think it is possible.

Time is relative.
It is possible to stop time (and its degenerative effect) by one person for himself or herself.

How to do it ? Truly, this yahoo Q!A is neither sufficient nor the right place to discuss this at length.

But it is my belief it is possible.
I already look much younger than I really am.

In Matericalistic science (contemporary Science) Time is a quantity that can be used to measure rate of displacements of masses in Space(s ?).

In spiritual science - Time is the phenomenon that causes degeneration, delays etc. Hence in spiritual science, time can be stopped or almost stopped to produce its degenerative effect for a human being.

Answer 11

no, time cannot be stopped at all . . but the theory of relativity makes it seem as though time can be stopped, but only relative to an observer. this is how:

if you were able to travel at the speed of light and i was watching you from a stationary position somewhere: to me you will not be aging at all. it would appear to me as though for you, time was frozen . . . .but the interesting thing is, you will experience time as normal, therefore will age as normal in whatever vehicle you may be travelling in!!!

if you were then to come back and say hello to me, i may have aged several years than before you set off and to me, you would look exactly the same as when you first left.

time is the 4th dimension outside of which there is no life. . . you canot escape it or manipulate it!!!!!

hope that helps. . ..