i know theoridically speaking nothing with mass or whatever cannot go faster then speed of light. But what would happen if we could go lets say 10x the speed of light? will it result in time travel? will anyone be able to survive?
2006-09-21 12:57:23 · 19 answers · asked by Anonymous in Science & Mathematics ➔ Physics
If my understanding is correct (I am -not- a physicist), and if we disregard the impossibility problem. Anything traveling faster than the speed of light would appear to be moving backwards in time to an outside observer. Wether this apparent motion would result in actual time travel would require a graduate level study of multiple scientific fields.
2006-09-21 13:01:29 · answer #1 · answered by juicy_wishun 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Keep in mind that traveling at speeds even less than light does result in a type of time travel. Time is dilated or slowed for the accelerated body. Research Einstein and the twin paradox. This is a real effect and can be determined mathematically with simple equations. It is used daily in particle accelerators world wide and and allows time travel into the future, albeit for very small things. Understand that clocks actually tic more slowly on the first floor of a building that at its top. Gravity and acceleration are very similar things. A better question might be: Could an amount of energy large enough to drive something substantial to anywhere near relativistic speeds be harnessed? I personally think that it is moot, in that there may be other and much better ways to accomplish time travel. The definitive answers lie in quantum physics but you'll have to look yourself. It's a real brain teaser. In answer to your question though. Could god make a rock so big he couldn't move it? Think about it.
2006-09-21 14:12:09 · answer #2 · answered by Kim 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
time travel is definately possible, the key is, as you may know, to go faster than the speed of light. But you must take into consideration that if you will need something to prevent your body from combusting into flames from the heat of the speed. And let's say you do make it, you're left with one major problem, there's no way to return to your original time. I mean, a time machine will only work one way, the other way you have to figure out how to live forever. Which, would probably have to be out in space, because time slows down in space. But as far as going back in time, it's possible, Einstein said it was.
2006-09-22 05:40:34 · answer #3 · answered by ch_jakal_lv 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Theoretically I believe that faster than light travel will result in some sort of time travel...
We will never travel to the stars until we can either travel faster than
the speed of light or somehow bypass that limit as in Star Gate...
2006-09-21 13:06:45 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
there is no answer for that... let me tell you one thing the speed of light is constant and noting can travel faster than the speed of light at least Maxwell equations of electromagnetism prove it. this is a more philosophical question rather that a scientific question.
one think is for sure that everybody is traveling through space-time what does that mean that means that when you move,you are moving through space but you are also seeing your watch going 24 hr a day. correct? then you are also moving through time. at a rate of 24 hr a day, but that is in his or her own reference frame. got it? it all depends on motion.
2006-09-21 15:12:14 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
there is no primary rely that would return and forth above, or maybe at, the fee of light in any particular medium. whether, some physicists have theorized that physics would enable for the life of debris primary as tachyons, which may well be incapable of vacationing Slower than the fee of light. regrettably, the life of such debris has on no account been shown; nor do i think that's ever probable to be shown. the dating between velocity and time would propose that this form of debris would pass backward via time... for that reason, in the event that they have been emitted, you does no longer be waiting to hit upon them after the emission.
2016-10-01 05:41:32 · answer #6 · answered by ? 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Yes. Undoubtedly that would result in a form of time travel. Currently, we can not imagine a person surviving the experience with our technology, but given time, certainly, yes, such experiences could become routine.
2006-09-21 12:59:31 · answer #7 · answered by Isis 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
nobody knows. I have the feeling that someday soon someone will figure out ho to travel faster. If you constantly accelerate, you eventually have to travel faster than light
2006-09-21 13:06:09 · answer #8 · answered by judy_r8 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
no... time slows down the faster you go ..if you are able to travel that fast... the surviviors would be the people not travelling at the speed of light :-)
2006-09-21 14:26:55 · answer #9 · answered by Fondaweather 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
nothing happens because you break the laws of physics and mother nature is thrown for a wopper..she doesn't know what to do with you so she just puts you right back where you started...
2006-09-21 12:59:47 · answer #10 · answered by m_s_G_S 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋