TIME SLOWS DOWN WEN U TRAVEL AT D SPEED OF LIGHT, only if our physical age does not increase, then its true ?
einstein said in his theory of relitivity that time slows down if we travell at the speed of light, THE QUESTION WHICH COMES TO MY MIND IS.... its only acceptible if our physical age also slows down and when we travel at the speed of light spending one year in outer space then our physical age should aslo increase one year only, other wise YOU MAY SAY , only your clock slows down at the speed of light ... WHAT DO YOU SAY ?
2006-12-11 07:13:11 · 6 answers · asked by cajohnson667 3 in Science & Mathematics ➔ Physics
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2006-12-11 07:36:38 · answer #1 · answered by Steve 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
You're correct. If you travel at relativistic speeds, ALL time is slowed down, which, by default, would "slow" your aging process. For example, if you flew at a VERY high rate of speed (without getting too exact because I don't want to do the math) for a year and returned to earth, then while only a year had passed for you (if you were 21 you would be 22 years on return), 400 years might have passed on earth. As you get closer and closer to the speed of light, time slows more and more, so feasably you could pass hundreds of thousands of years on earth IF (and that's a big IF) you could go fast enough for long enough). You could NEVER, however, reach the speed of light (the point at which time stops for the traveler) because this is a phsyical impossibility
2006-12-11 15:15:41 · answer #2 · answered by promethius9594 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Hi. ALL processes slow down the faster the object is traveling, not just at the speed of light. And yes, your body ages in proportion to the difference in clock speed. The problem is you do not FEEL the slowing. Only when you get go back and see how things have change back home will you notice any difference.
2006-12-11 15:18:36 · answer #3 · answered by Cirric 7 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Time is relative to the observer. So if you would travel at speeds close to the speed of light, time would slow down for you, but not for me.
Suppose you make a trip to the nearest star, Proxima Centauri, at almost the speed of light. Time would slow down for you, so much, that when you reach that star, only 1 hour has passed for you. However, for me, 4.2 years have passed.
The reason why I keep saying "almost the speed of light" is that we cannot reach actual "speed of light". An interesting side effect of traveling at near-light speed is that you get heavier - making it harder to accelerate further - until you become infinitely heavy. Light can travel at light speed, because it has no mass.
2006-12-11 15:27:10 · answer #4 · answered by Ronald B 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Under the Lorentz Transformation, the time interval for an observer in a stationary frame and a traveler in an inertial frame experience different measures of time due to the invariant velocity of the speed of light. The stationary observes a longer time interval for the moving traveler than the traveler experiences themselves.
2006-12-11 15:18:12 · answer #5 · answered by nckobra40 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Look at me, I'm living proof of this! I am a ancient son of a gun! I've been around since King Tut days and I'm still here. We have mastered time travel through worm holes and certain Solar events. All this takes place to make the perfect creation to jump time. It doesn't matter if its foward or backwards! It has to do with spinning and rotation at a high rate of speed.
2006-12-11 15:28:10 · answer #6 · answered by The King 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋