2006-10-13 19:51:46 · 9 answers · asked by Astronomy Freak 1 in Science & Mathematics ➔ Astronomy & Space
I think you mean Relativistic Speed. You will still die eventually. It's just that the world you were in when you weren't going that speed will go at the same speed it has been going and your body will sort of be in a sort of suspended animation without being suspended if you know what i mean.
Say you left on a trip from Earth at realativistic speed. What would seem like a week long trip would be several years on Earth. So in effect in your point of view, you would have traveled into the future.
2006-10-13 19:56:33 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
The accepted theory is that if u go as fast as the speed of light, u will travel even faster than time which will slow down aging, but it will not stop u from dying. U will still live 80 years according to the count on ur spaceship, but when u get back to earth a lot of time would have past. Example 150 years. The problem is that according to einstein no mass can enter the speed of light. Even if we could travel at that speed, we havent invented that technology yet.
2006-10-14 15:00:03 · answer #2 · answered by t2d 2 · 0⤊ 1⤋
You would eventually die because you would still grow old. Look at it this way, if you were on a spaceship going near the speed of light, (you could never go the speed of light because of the tremendous energy it would take) everything around you would be 'normal'. Events would still be happening, time will still be passing. Now if I was looking into the spaceship from outside it would appear that you are not moving at all, because as you approach the speed of light time slows down. Hence the saying 'time is relative'.
2006-10-14 14:53:37 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
if u travell at speed of light u will die,because traveling at a light speed effects time in a sense that it will slow downu know when u r travelling in a fast locomotive things around u seems to be very slow moving its like that time will not stop around u but it wont pass away quickly either..........
2006-10-14 03:56:00 · answer #4 · answered by Ozzy 2 · 0⤊ 1⤋
G'day Astronomy Freak,
Thank you for your question.
I don't know why someone would say that. It is unlikely to be correct. Just think of the impact if you hit something travelling at the speed of light. It is highly unlikely that you would survive it. The speed of light in a vacuum is exactly 299,792,458 meters per second (fixed by definition). Think of the famous equation of energy = mass x the speed of light squared (E=mc2) and you would see what would happen.
Regards
2006-10-14 03:02:53 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
As has been said, it is because if it were possible to travel at that speed, time would stop for that person.
2006-10-14 03:31:19 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Because Time stops
According to Einstein's Special Theory of Relativity as objects approach the speed of light they change with the distorted space time. This theory has been proven with experiments using atomic clocks on airplanes and on the space shuttle.
As the object speeds up then its length, in the direction that it is moving, shrinks, the mass increases and time slows down. If you reach 99.99% the speed of light then your length will be almost zero, your weight will approach infinity, and time will stop. These are all relative to your viewpoint, as described in the theory.
2006-10-14 02:58:57 · answer #7 · answered by Dan S 7 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Time would slow down as you neared lightspeed, but if you hit a speck of dust at that speed you'd definitely die.
2006-10-14 16:17:55 · answer #8 · answered by Nomadd 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
If you consider being a beam of light not dead,then sure,why not.......Tom Science
2006-10-14 04:14:22 · answer #9 · answered by tom science 4 · 0⤊ 1⤋