I am really interested in time travel and i was just wondering does anyone know how to travel at the speed of light and what happens when an object travels at the speed of light.
2006-10-18 03:52:51 · 26 answers · asked by paige_luna_pearl 1 in Science & Mathematics ➔ Astronomy & Space
It "gets" there before it's left. At least that is the consensus on working with a light pulse being sent down a fibre optic cable...the receiving device recorded the arrival of the light BEFORE the send switch was fully pressed.
2006-10-18 04:01:53 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 1⤋
How to travel at the speed of light... just convert yourself into a photon.
According to famous theories and equations... if you were to achieve the speed of light you would be converted into pure energy and it's highly unlikely that you would survive the trip.
I've read the arguments and seen the math and I still don't necessarily agree that the speed of light is a barrier. Prior to the 1940's... most in the scientific community thought that the speed of sound was a barrier.
But travelling at or faster than the speed of light still does not create an opportunity to travel through time. Travelling faster than light would give you the opportunity to OBSERVE past events, but not be an active participator in past events. If you took off from the Earth at 2x C and travelled for 10 minutes, you would then be able to stop and turn around and observe 5 minutes into the past. This is only because you have outpaced the light given off of the object(s) you are observing.
2006-10-18 04:04:06 · answer #2 · answered by Telesto 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
As an object is accelerated to the speed of light,as it approaches this speed its mas will increase to infinity at the speed of light. But that will be in a long rope like fashion in the plain which it is traveling. There appears to be no shield which could prevent this from happening.
2006-10-18 04:02:19 · answer #3 · answered by JOHNNIE B 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The modern 'agreed' value of the speed of light is 186,000 miles per second. Einstein predicted that it is impossible to travel beyond the speed of light, but if you did some rather strange things are supposed to occur. These range from changes in the way light itself appears to the object (moore's law, etc) to other more obscure effects. Try reading some literature on the subject, as there are some excellent works in this area.
2006-10-18 04:09:38 · answer #4 · answered by steven g 1 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Einstein was close, but backwards. Objects (a.k.a. matter) will desolidify into energy as they approach the speed of light. Light is simply the ultra-energized state of matter. Think of water turning into fog then into invisible vapor.
The opposite of this is what creates a black hole - call it static quantum mobility if you'd like, where atomic particles cease all movement. Black holes are not accelerated masses they are decelerated masses exhibiting maximum atomic immobility resulting in maximum mass.
In order for you, or any object to travel at the speed of light you/it will need to achieve the laser-effect - focusing all energy in the same direction at the same time. That's the easy part. Putting the parts back together without resulting in an explosion is the hard part. At best, and if you're lucky, you might even become a new entry in the Table of Elements.
2006-10-18 04:03:44 · answer #5 · answered by that'sBS 3 · 1⤊ 1⤋
Time is relative. Travelling at light speed will stop time for everyone else but not for you. When you stop, everyone else will look the same age as you left them, but you will have aged normally. Travelling faster than light speed will reverse time for everyone else.
It is IMPOSSIBLE to accelerate to the speed of light and experience this. But if you built a car fast enough, you can travel at whatever speed you like below the speed of light and time will still slow down. As long as you travel slower than 3000000km/s!
It is impossible to travel faster than light because as you accelerate to that speed your mass increases (E=MC squared), which results in an impossibly infinite amount of energy to accelerate you to that speed.
Good luck trying though!
2006-10-18 04:22:51 · answer #6 · answered by quantum_wedge 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
i reccomend reading theories about time travel - frank tipler for one.
i think light begins to shed its mass for energy - and when traveling at the speed of light, this becomes a problem, lol especially if your are traveling alone (scary)
best high speed travel would be instantaeous, or via another universes or using quantum inseperability.
time travel may not even be possible, being that essentially you would have to re-arrnage the whole universe to exactly its previous positions etc if the past is not somewhere tangible
2006-10-18 04:51:12 · answer #7 · answered by Mr Gravy 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
when an object travels at the speed of light,it travels through time.
2006-10-18 03:56:13 · answer #8 · answered by genius sonia 3 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Speculatively, as an object approaches the speed of light, its mass increases correspondingly, at an exponential rate. Therefore, theoretically, if the object attains the speed of light, its mass would be infinite
2006-10-18 05:23:07 · answer #9 · answered by RG 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I would have answered this Question the same way that George did.
Einstein did come up with the equation, E=MC2.
The way that I understood it though was that as mass increases, as it approaches the speed of light, it is transformed into energy.
I would think about manipulating dimensions.
I believe this is how time travel will eventually come about.
2006-10-18 04:20:33 · answer #10 · answered by theodore r 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It goes very fast!
Seriously though, isnt time said to slow down when objects travel at speed, so perhaps if our poor frail bodies could take the massive forces of speed required then maybe we could time travel.
2006-10-18 03:56:35 · answer #11 · answered by huggz 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋