What would happen to my body if I instantaneously started traveling into space at light speed???

Question

Thanks again for you information and time.Sincerely,Tom Science 3

Answer 1

1. You couldn't quite go the speed of light (that requires infinite energy), but you could get really, really close; let's say 99.9% of it.
2. You would age more slowly because of the theory of special relativity.
3. Your body would be ripped to individual quarks by the force put on it by speeding up that quickly.

Answer 2

That wouldn't exactly be possible- as matter accelerates to the speed of light, it becomes more massive as it gains energy. In order to accelerate a grain of salt to the speed of light, it would require and essentially unlimited amount of energy.

Assuming you didn't accelerate, and just popped right to the speed of light by whatever means were possible, your body would have to have been transformed into pure energy.

If you weigh 60 kg, e=mc^2 results in a matter-energy conversion producing an amount of energy equivalent to 5.39253107 × 10^18 joules- the equivalent of 1,288 megatonnes of TNT.

That's roughly eighty six thousand times more energy than was released upon Hiroshima in the US nuclear attack, and twenty five times the amount of energy than was released from the largest thermonuclear bomb ever detonated.

I think a more appropriate question would be 'what would happen the the surface of the Earth'. That is a mighty big explosion. Depending on where you took off from, you would probably be killing at least a few million people and be leaving a crater in the earth a couple kilometers wide.

Now, assuming you found some way to actually achieve the essentially infinite amount of energy to accelerate your matter to the speed of light by 'borrowing' it in a quantum mechanical way, you would probably collapse into a singularity, taking the rest of the universe with you, and then promptly explode as a new big bang as soon as that energy dept was repaid.

Answer 3

Einstien told us what would happen with his thought experiments and relativity.

It is actually impossible with present laws of physics, and no known way around the laws to travel at that speed. What actually happens to you is dependent on the person viewing it. To people on earth your would scrunch up into a little ball and your mass would increase massivly. From your perspective, nothing will change to you but your surroundings. The Earth would appear much larger, and time would speed up around you, also everything would be much heavier.

Answer 4

By twinns paradox theory, you will nearly b immortal i.e ur age will very very very slowly increase. In motion time becomes slow.
twins paradox thry-story
a & b were 2 twin brothers.
"a" travels in space at lights speed at the age of 10.
"b" is on earth.
after travelling for 10 yrs, "a" came on earth.
What did he see?
"b" was 70 yrs old !!!
Gottcha?

Answer 5

best assumption is your body mass will become pure energy by the formula E=MC^2.
this energy, in the form of light, will travel at the velocity of c (light speed)

Answer 6

body will disintegrate - as according to energy mass relation e=mc2 when velocity tends to speed of light - mass tends to zero...

Answer 7

For one thing, your mass would become infinite.

Answer 8

Time would stop for you.