If you went faster than the speed of light, would you travel through time?

Answer 1

Through time or backwards in time?

Answer 2

assuming you are talking about traveling back the answers is 75% yes and 25% no

75% yes because the time does actually progress slower the faster you go its been tested by airliners and space shuttles that carried atomic clocks (ones that tick about 6 billion times a second i don't know the exact number you can look it up in chemistry under half lifes) the greatest progress has been made by space shuttles of course and its because they travel faster but the speed is still ridiculously slow in comparison to the speed of light but for the space shuttle the difference in time between it and the earth was about 1.2 seconds after about 65 hours. so theoretically if you do go faster than light you would go to the pint where time cant travel forward anymore so it would travel back words.

25% no because it has not been tested nor pruven sure there are theories that its possible sure there is time differentiation but there are also theories that if you were to approach the speed of light you'd collide with a barrier and get crashed (but then again the same theories went for traveling faster than sound) some believe you'd rip Throu the fabric of space(have no idea what it is or what it even means) some believe you'd make a mini black hole if you were to cross the speed of light so as you can guess its possible but then again you cant be sure.

Answer 3

Technically, *you* cannot go faster than the speed of light because you have positive mass. It would require an infinite amount of energy to accelerate you up to the speed of light c, much less surpass it. Theoretically, though, if there were any objects with imaginary mass, they would necessarily travel faster than c all the time and, yes, they would travel backwards in time according to special relativity. The particles that such an object would be made of are called Tachyons. Tachyons have never been observed, so it's all very hypothetical. However, if you could somehow harness them or create them in an accelerator, you could at modulate their intensity and at least send signals into the past. This leads to the classic "grandfather paradox", so it may not be possible in principle, and looking for tachyons may be futile.

Answer 4

Technically, faster that light travel is impossible in 'normal' space. There is no existing theory that would explain how an object could travel 'faster' than light in ordinary space. Going forward through time is no problem though, you're doing it right now.

There are several theories that suggest the geometry of space could be bent in on itself in such a way as to allow what is termed a 'closed timelike loop'. Such a theoretical construction might allow a traveler to move backward in time.

Many theorists have debated the principal of reverse time travel as a paradox of causality (although traveling forward through time at accelerated speed is taken as established fact, with the relativistic effects of near-light speed presumably attainable).

The problem with traveling backwards is the concept that, if you were able to and, in doing so you say 'shot your grandpa' for example, then you wouldn't be born, so wouldn't be able to do it to begin with.

Others have argued that you might be able to, and that the minute you did the universe you were in at that moment would simply diverge from the one you left when you chose to go backward in time. You'd effectively be in one of an infinite number of possible realities beside the reality where you were originally born.

You'd also be trapped in that new reality, never able to return 'home' again.

Answer 5

Read Einsteins "Theory of Relativity" for a clear and concise answer to your question. There isn't a "definitive" answer there, but it's about as close to one that you will perhaps get from anyone past present or future. Of course, perhaps someday in the future mankind will figure out a way to travel so fast. Now to answer your question in a very basic way, yes, it is possible to travel "faster" than time, not "through it" given that we area ALWAYS travelling THROUGH time. Now, if we (COULD) go faster than the speed of light, then essentially, we'd be going faster than time, and hence, time would slow for us, DRAMATICALLY. For instance, if you travelled at the speed of light for about, oh, say a few weeks (your time)... your family/friends will have aged many many years back on earth. Check out my links below to bolster my words/theories.

Answer 6

Yes
But the main fact is you cannot first achieve the speed of light.Then how are you going to get beyond it?
If you just attained the speed of light then your mass will become equal to infinity and that all of our universe will be destroyed in a movement as you will affect the space-time.

Answer 7

Impossible to be faster than speed of light since your weight will be infinite

Answer 8

i believe that the faster you go the slower time does... When you are going at super speed time is likely to stop completely. So No.

Answer 9

Read Einstien's Theory of Relativity.

Answer 10

Think about this, seriously. With the inane questions that are asked at this site, and taking into the consideration the spelling and grammar used with most, do you actually think that someone could answer that question? It is hypothetical, anyway.

Answer 11

I believe we are all pretty much 'traveling through time' all the time, aren't we?