2006-10-13 12:32:57 · 19 answers · asked by ast5792 1 in Science & Mathematics ➔ Astronomy & Space
not unless you needed to reverse time to save lois lane.
2006-10-13 12:34:53 · answer #1 · answered by luckybluebunny 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
No, time is man-made concept of measurement. Travelling "faster than the speed of light" theortically would allow you to visit images of the past, but in reality, the light that created those images would have already changed to some other form of energy ... there is no such thing as "time travel" and no way for you to reverse "time". Our perception of time can change, as it is a measurement, so like a star you see in the sky right now may actually not exist anymore, it just takes that long for the light to reach earth ... so would you consider that time travel, because you are seeing what it looked like millions of years ago, but it doesnt really exist anymore ... same thing :)
2006-10-13 19:39:20 · answer #2 · answered by londonhawk 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
well, unless the "magical cape" can convert you into light,
which time becomes meanless to you,
then theoretically you could travel any point of time.
If not then, by law,
nothing can travel beyond the speed of light
and no matter that has mass can travel at the speed of light,
because as you increase the speed of any given object
you also increase the mass of object,
since you cannot have an infinite mass,
you technically cannot fly at the speed of light if you have a mass
2006-10-14 02:28:57 · answer #3 · answered by phenix2125 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Assumaing that 1. it wouldn't kill you, and 2. that this involves spinning the Earth backwards like in Superman my answer would be no. But if you did manage to make the Earth spin backwards you WOULD manage to turn everyone on the planet into jelly, collapse every man-made structure and, eventually, disrupt the core's rotation and destroy the Earth, causing an explosion equal to one billion h-bombs. So, that'd still be pretty neat.
2006-10-13 19:48:46 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Well, if by reverse time you mean that it would technically be an earlier date because you moved the earth's rotation back by that much... yes (assuming that you're able to exert enough friction to reverse the earth's rotation just by flying around it)... do you mean you could make events unhappen? No, that's just stupid.
2006-10-13 19:43:47 · answer #5 · answered by ensnentill 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
1. You can't fly 300,000 mi/sec, as that's faster than the speed of light.
2. if you did approach even semi close to speed of light, the earth would age more rapidly than you. So, to you, time would appear to progress much faster as you looked down upon the earthlings, and you would age more slowly relative to us. But it would seem normal to you.
2006-10-13 19:43:00 · answer #6 · answered by Morey000 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
No, however in theory time would affect you at a slower rate then those traveling at slower speeds. The faster something moves the less time affects in.... Seriously.
2006-10-13 19:35:16 · answer #7 · answered by browning_1911 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Yes, but unless you got all six billion of us to sign a disclaimer first, we'd sue your caped butt back to Krypton.
2006-10-13 19:45:36 · answer #8 · answered by wm_omnibus 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
you would be dead
first of all
all the blood in your head would rush out the pores in the back of your head due to gravity.
Your eyeballs would be sucked into your brain
your skeletal frame would literally splinter the entire length of your body due to the ammount of pressure
I think you would want to reverse time after tryin that one
2006-10-13 19:35:01 · answer #9 · answered by Xae 6 · 2⤊ 0⤋
I tried it once... all I got for my trouble was a wedgie and a splitting headache... I don't suggest it.
I thought I'd hid that damn cape better than that...
2006-10-13 19:40:46 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋