This way to man-made eternity?

Question

Since scientist have measured and found atomically, that clocks on the ground different from those on a jet going thousands of miles per hour when tested later (time was moving slower on the plane),

Does that mean if you invent a plane fast enough (near the speed of light, or equal to it) that you time will stop for you?

If you reach the speed of light and time stops, does that mean that you will live forever without aging?

If you go beyond the speed of light, would you go backward in time to events that had already happened?

What is weird is... if the solution to reaching eternity is going the speed of light, & going faster than leads you backward, how do you reach the future?

By totally stopping? If earth stopped on its axis, instead of going 26,000 mph through space, would the future come to us?

What is the answer?

Leviathan, the big hole in your theory is, you claimed you will run into something going that fast with no time to get out of the way.

If it were possible to reach this speed & time stopped, wouldn't that also mean that you stopped moving?

The weird thing is, light moves awful fast, if time has stopped for it. You would think there would be bolts of it, froze in mid-air, where time had literally stopped for it.

But if you stop, then your not going at the speed of light, so time speeds back up.

Here, we arrive at a contradiction.

Light speed travel (186,000mps) = time stop (eternity) = you stop = 0mph = eternity

How can eternity = lightspeed + 0 mph at the same time?

At the same time, if you reach time stopping by going light speed, why does it matter if you crash into anything, since, won't you have to live forever?

Even more scary, if you obtain immortality & decide to take it back were you to not enjoy it or get bored, is that possible to do?

Or will you be always immortal?

Answer 1

When you travel very fast, time slows down for you as AS SEEN BY A STATIONARY OBSERVER. To you yourself, everything seems normal, but to the stationary observer, you are acting in slow motion. To you, it only takes a second to say hello to that person back on Earth, but that person back on Earth hears you saying hhhhhhheeeeeeelllllllloooooo in slow motion, taking many seconds or maybe even a year just to say it, if you are moving very near the speed of light. So it is not as if you could fit more living into your life, you are not aging more slowly, time itself has changed. You could not write a million operas, or whatever you like to do, you would only write the 10 operas that you would have written on Earth, but it might take a million years to do it, AS SEEN BY THE PERSON BACK ON EARTH. You take a clock with you on a fast space flight and when you get back, your clock says you were gone one minute. During that time you do not even have time to start writing your first opera, because it takes weeks to write one, but when you get back to Earth, wishing you had more time, the person back on Earth says, "what are you talking about? You have been gone 10 years! You should have written many operas by now. What have you been doing all that time?" to which you reply that you were only gone 1 minute which isn't time enough to do anything. That is because time has changed for you but not for him.

Answer 2

You can't go faster than the speed of light - as you approach your mass gets bigger and bigger therefore requiring more and more energy to go faster. You can't possibly accelerate up to the speed of light and its not physically possibly for anything to go faster.

If you could travel at the speed of light time, for you, would stop. Of course the danger would be that wherever you were headed you might crash in to something - you could hardly steer safely since you'd have no time to do so (literally) you'd experience the whole universe in an infinitesimal instant.

Quickest way to reach the future is by standing still - that way all your movement is through time and not space - the faster you move the less movement is directed through time. I recommend reading about Einstein's theories as thats basically what you're talking about. Can't go wrong with Greene's the Fabric of the Cosmos.

*No... I didn't say time would stop - time would stop for YOU subjectively. As you said yourself, they've done experiments where an atomic clock flown around on a plane experiences less time than a clock left on the ground. This really is very basic stuff. Look it up. Its been proven many times.*

To have time stop subjectively wouldn't make you immortal - quite the opposite really because no matter how long you spent whizzing around the universe you wouldnt experience any time so the whole Universe from your perspective would end instantly and you'd be dead.

Its not my theory, its Albert Einstein's and there are no holes in it - unless you're talking about singularities and p-branes - and you're not.

Answer 3

Yeah relativity is a weird thing. If you travelled at the speed of light, time would stop. But you can't do it as a person. You need to BE light. Apparently if you tried to go faster, the extra energy you have to GO faster is transformed into mass. So you'd just get bigger and bigger. Like a planet. Why are they perfect spheres? My bet is that it was once light and tremendous energy that transmuted into mass.
Another thing, if you travelled billions of miles at the speed of light, you could reach a distant galaxy and to you it would seem instantaneous. But to us on earth, looking through a telescope, we would watch you go for years. Isn'that weird? Relativity...
So in a sense, you can go faster than the speed of light..planets and stars do. They look slow but they have created a gravitational pull and therefore more space and time. So compared to what used to be when light and energy were exploding at the speed of light,the planets go faster.
The speed of light changes according to the space-time fabric.

Also, if you could stand perfectly still, likely in the center of a galaxy or a black hole, planets and stars would come and go extremely fast for you. You would be going "to the future".

Answer 4

You can't surpass the speed of light,you would need to alter time to do it.
Time was established by the first space-time that came into existence when the universe started.
you can't even look at the present,the speed of light mandates that when you look in any direction you are looking back in time,
Even your immediate surroundings are in the past.
Time and space will be constant til they go out of existence.

Answer 5

sorry, but you cannot go past the speed of light. Light is electromagnetic energy, and what holds out atoms together...... electromagnetic energy

so if you go past the speed of light your atoms will break up into electrons, protons and neutrons and you will cease to exist

if you do get to 99.999% speed of light, yes time will probably slow down to nearly where it stops

If the earth suddenly stopped we wouldn't see the

Answer 6

Hi. Life IS time. Slow down time anyway you like and life would pass more slowly but you would not "feel" this as living longer.