Ive figured out a way to look into the past... If you could make a camera travel faster then the speed of light... then take a picture... it would give you a picture of whatever happened X amount of time ago that you traveled faster then the speed of light...
RIGHT?
and! If you could reverse this process you would be able to look into the future right? But i think that is impossible...
2006-11-07 02:10:55 · 8 answers · asked by stratis c 2 in Science & Mathematics ➔ Physics
This theory is formulated by lot of laws and was given by a theory of relativity in which Albert Einstein says that if two things travel in opposite direction with or greater than the speed of light you could look into the future..
but it sounds to be impossible ...
while some scientists say that if a object goes near a black hole and a small torque is given to that it starts rotating at a speed nearly equal to light...
you can refer theory of relativity for more answers...
2006-11-07 02:28:51 · answer #1 · answered by nitin 2 · 0⤊ 1⤋
WRONG!!! But time travel may be possible.
Let me answer this in a time machine perspective rather than a camera.
There have been some toy experiments in which, at just the moment that the time machine is actuated, the universe conspires to blow it up, which has led Hawking and others to conclude that nature will contrive it so that time travel never in fact occurs. But no one actually knows that this is the case, and it cannot be known until we have a full theory of quantum gravity, which we do not seem to be on the verge of yet.
One of Hawking's arguments in the conjecture is that we are not awash in thousands of time travelers from the future, and therefore time travel is impossible. This argument I find very dubious, and it reminds me very much of the argument that there cannot be intelligences elsewhere in space, because otherwise the Earth would be awash in aliens. I can think half a dozen ways in which we could not be awash in time travelers, and still time travel is possible.
2006-11-07 02:54:39 · answer #2 · answered by Suja 1 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Since travel faster than light is impossible, your last statement is correct.
However, you could see the past, in theory, not really though, by looking at Earth in a big mirror with a telescope. If the big mirror was 10 light years away, you would be seeing the Earth 20 years in the past, since light from the Earth takes 20 years to go out to the mirror and back to your telescope on Earth. Of course in practice you could never get a big enough mirror many light years away or a big enough telescope to really do that. But at least it isn't theoretically impossible.
2006-11-07 02:41:29 · answer #3 · answered by campbelp2002 7 · 0⤊ 1⤋
That cannot happen sorry!
you see if a camera can capture an image very fast "fast as the speed of light" then you wouid only be able to capture up to 3.3333333333333333333333333333333e-9 of a second if you
time=distance/speed (say distance=1meter speed = 3*10^8)
were one meter away from your image to be pictured. thus it would take the image created by light at that instance of the second. thus it will be able to take the image of the past to up to a 3.3333333333333333333333333333333e-9 of a second. Not the way you may want it to capture! sorry and it wount be able to capture the future coz inorder to get an image the light from that image should reach you thus you cant be able to view the future even with the most sophisticated camera in the world!
2006-11-07 02:38:22 · answer #4 · answered by mich01 3 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Theoretically you can travel back in time; however, I do not understand why you want the camera to travel rather than yourself doing it. Hypothetically, you can travel back in time.
Check articles on Time Dilation.
Travel into the future is not feasible because the future has not happened yet, but if you are traveling in a spacecraft closing in at least at 1/8th the speed of light and you return home only after 20 minutes after you left home, you would find yourself 2000 years ahead from when you left because of time dilation and not because you have travelled into future and if your spaceship has a gadget to get back in time you could get back to that point in time where you started originally.
Also check articles on Lorentz Contraction.
2006-11-07 02:27:34 · answer #5 · answered by Gane 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Actually, astronomers look into the past all the time. The stars they observe are often millions or billions of light years away. So they are looking millions or billions of light years into the past when they observe them....
2006-11-07 02:31:56 · answer #6 · answered by heartsensei 4 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Right.
2006-11-07 02:12:30 · answer #7 · answered by BlueSea 7 · 0⤊ 1⤋
You would become your own father.
2006-11-07 02:19:11 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 1⤋