From wikipedia:
In special relativity, clocks that are moving with respect to an inertial system of observation (the putatively stationary observer) are found to be running slower. This effect is described precisely by the Lorentz transformations.
My Question:
Highest possible speed is c i.e, speed of light. If i approach the speed of light , time traversed for me is 0 according to the special theory of relativity. My age remains the same if i travel with the speed of light.What does it mean? It means I am IMMORTAL ???
2006-10-03 20:30:20 · 10 answers · asked by ATHeisT 1 in Science & Mathematics ➔ Astronomy & Space
Traveling at the speed of light is theoretical. In a few seconds you would be out of our solar system. If you stayed on Earth you would be orbiting at more than 50x the speed of a rocket re-entering the atmosphere. The speed of light is 186,000 miles per second. The Earth is 24,000 miles in diameter. Thinking about it is purely a mental excercise, but, yes, if you could, you would be immortal.
2006-10-03 20:43:56 · answer #1 · answered by FreddyBoy1 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Remember, to reach close to the speed of light relative to your twin sibling, you have to accelerate. And acceleration is not the subject of the special theory of relativity. However, if you do accelerate (with respect to an inertial frame of reference) and your twin does not, you are the one that is really moving, so the relativity fails. Your time really gets slower than your twin's time.
By the way, you cannot actually reach the speed of light; that will require infinite acceleration as your mass will increase with your speed.
2006-10-03 22:18:42 · answer #2 · answered by Seshagiri 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The way ur thinking is correct.But its totally hypothetical.
let me tell u one thing that the speed of light is totally unatainable.Even light itself cannot attain the speed of its own this is acc to einstein relativity to reach the speed of light ur mass should be infinity & this totally impractical.
Even still i have few queries regarding einsteins theory.
1)Is the speed of light the only highest possible speed.?
2)The eqn mentioned in theory for light is totally supportive ?
We cannot know the fact untill we have technology to attain the speed of light.If in future this becomes possible the day will greatest historical day for physics.
Even im also confused abt these theories(brain eaters) so are u.
2006-10-05 04:12:19 · answer #3 · answered by ADITYA S 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
What you are talking about the mystical side of science and relativity. The General theory talks of about the movement of Stellar bodies and the special theory about the microcosmo levels of quarks and other particles. General theory deals with identification of time frames which are disassociated and bringing them all to a single time frame like in Tensor mathematics using tensors to convert frames of references one to another. In microcosmo level it is the c the maximum speed attainable by an electron to traverse in a conductor or space. The special theroy tells us that e=mc^2, from which it is easier to infer the masses of electrons invloved in a signal flow. Mass of one single electron is 1.8x10^-18 gms/cub inch which multiplied by c^2 gives the energy it emnates in ergs.
Travelling in space and coming back and all interpretations of the dramatic effects of relativity.
General theory is resolved by the Curl in a vector space.
Special theory, consider a single electron moving with 1second time ie; a cycle ie; 2t =2
KE = 1/2mv^2= 1/ m v*2/sq.rt(1-v^2)
for whole cycle = 1/2mc^intergral 0 to 2 t dt
=1/2. mc^2. 2 = mc^2
ie; E= mc^2.
2006-10-04 03:14:02 · answer #4 · answered by Mathew C 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Im constructive newborns, iilliterate, and deaf and blind (on an identical time) in all likelihood would not be waiting to do it. Oh and me, i wasn't waiting to do it, and yet i began out learneding particle physics interior the 4th grade and might recite pi to the two hundredth digit and all of the countries interior the international. i'm additionally on the genuine of all my classes (or a minimum of tied), had a strait 4.0 all year, and have been given a 111% in technology type. Wow im so stupid for not being waiting to remedy the riddle.
2016-10-15 12:15:27 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
No, it doesn't mean your are immortal, it just means, from your perspective, everything else is frozen in time.
"Relative" being the key word in "relativity," time appears to run like normal for you: it's the time of others that you could notice a difference in.
Likewise, time for the people you are looking at runs normally for them, and (if they could see you) your time would look different than theirs.
2006-10-03 20:44:06 · answer #6 · answered by Logan 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
no you're not immortal. You just live longer, for an external observer.
so maybe you come back to Earth, having aged 6 months, but Earth has aged 2'000 years, and God only knows what you find. But for sure your friends and family are all gone.
2006-10-03 21:43:28 · answer #7 · answered by AntoineBachmann 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
No. From your own perspective you would live the stndard 70+ years and no more. It is only someone looking in at you that would see you as living longer than that.
2006-10-04 01:34:28 · answer #8 · answered by mathematician 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
You're immortal to everyone else but not yourself. Hence the 'relativity' part.
2006-10-03 20:43:59 · answer #9 · answered by BlueChimera 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
this scenario is impossible coz if u travel with speed of light, your mass would be infinite(weight problem!) and your length would be zero! you would altogether drop out of space!!
2006-10-04 02:16:07 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋