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2006-10-04 20:16:19 · 8 answers · asked by Anonymous in Science & Mathematics Physics

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No. I don't think that's possible. Time consists of 24 hours....60 minutes for each hour. And time technically moves forward, not backwards.

2006-10-04 20:25:12 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 0 0

Einstein said that time was basically what a clock reads; the clock can be any action or change, like the movement of the sun. Einstein showed that people traveling at different speeds will measure different times for events and different distances between objects, though these differences are minute unless one is traveling at a speed close to that of light. Many subatomic particles exist for only a fixed fraction of a second in a lab relatively at rest, but some that travel close to the speed of light can be measured to travel further and survive longer than expected (a muon is one example). According to the special theory of relativity, in the high-speed particle's frame of reference, it exists for the same amount of time as usual, and the distance it travels in that time is what would be expected for that velocity. Relative to a frame of reference at rest, time seems to "slow down" for the particle. Relative to the high-speed particle, distances seems to shorten. Even in Newtonian terms time may be considered the fourth dimension of motion; but Einstein showed how both temporal and spatial dimensions can be altered (or "warped") by high-speed motion.

Einstein (The Meaning Of Relativity): "Two events taking place at the points A and B of a system K are simultaneous if they appear at the same instant when observed from the middle point, M, of the interval AB. Time is then defined as the ensemble of the indications of similar clocks, at rest relatively to K, which register the same simultaneously."

Arrow of time
Time appears to have a direction to us - the past lies behind us, and is fixed and incommutable, while the future lies ahead and is not necessarily fixed. Yet the majority of the laws of physics don't provide this arrow of time. The exceptions include the Second law of thermodynamics, which states that entropy must increase over time (see Entropy (arrow of time)); the cosmological arrow of time, which points away from the Big Bang, and the radiative arrow of time, caused by light only traveling forwards in time. In particle physics, there is also the weak arrow of time, from CPT symmetry, and also measurement in quantum mechanics

Time and the "Big Bang":
According to some of the latest scientific theories, time began with the Big Bang, and any inquiry into what happened before the big bang is either meaningless or totally inaccessible to us.


Time travel in science fiction:

Time travel is the concept of moving backward or forward to different points in time, in a manner analogous to moving through space. Additionally, some interpretations of time travel take the form of travel between parallel realities or universes. A central problem with time travel is that of causality - causes preceding effects - which has given rise to a number of paradoxes

2006-10-04 23:19:40 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0 0

in my own opinion, i do not think that time can be negative. Unless in the future, scientists invent time machines or maybe when the technology is so advanced, you can choose whether to go to the past, or to the future, or continue on your journey. I am not very sure though but in conclusion, i do not think that time can be negative as the saying goes: "time wasted is forever lost" i do not think that you can go back to the past in the NEAR FUTURE.

2006-10-04 23:17:04 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0 0

lay of that grass man

you have nothing to doo with the reality while time is positive what the f* * ** *

yap
or joust go on ckrack doped and act als if u had a brain you empty ballon


do`nt answer to this ghy its joust a waste of time
he do`nt understand annywhay
hes joust an empty shell

2006-10-04 20:35:41 · answer #4 · answered by bashkim n 2 · 0 0

I see time as a phenomena, a consequence, not something that exist by itself.

Energy exists. When it moves/travels, it 'creats' space and time.

Thus, I think it is not possible that time can be negative.

2006-10-04 20:29:48 · answer #5 · answered by back2nature 4 · 0 0

I know that -ve time is still not avilable.If it possible i can immediately jump to my childhood.Then i appreciate u for this oppertunity as a child.If it possible to produce a time machine so that u can go to -ve that casts -ve of this this time machine where u are

2006-10-04 20:31:12 · answer #6 · answered by Naddi S 1 · 0 0

no. time is a way of measureing movement. when movement stops (like at the speed of light) so does time. for negative time you would have to measure that something was going at least a little slower than stopped. quite a trick.

2006-10-04 20:50:55 · answer #7 · answered by karl k 6 · 0 0

time can be negative only in equations if the time you are substituting is smaller (earlier) than your reference

2006-10-05 00:55:10 · answer #8 · answered by Mad Dog 2 · 0 0

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