if we could travel at the speed of ligth (300.000 kph aprox) thst make a "curve" in the time and the space and the will travel in time...... cool rigth? but where are we going? to the future ? to the past? in what place of age ?
a lot of points to the best.
2007-03-16 19:13:22 · 5 answers · asked by Anonymous in Science & Mathematics ➔ Physics
If someone traveled close to the speed of light, time would slow down for him compared to everyone not traveling so fast (everyone still on earth). So when he decided to slow the craft down, from his perspective it will seem that he traveled to the future. However, he cannot get back to the present (his past). We do not know what happens if someone travels at the speed of light (or faster) and according to the best minds (including Einstein) we can't travel at or faster than the speed of light and there is no way to predict what will happen if that ever happens.
2007-03-16 19:32:48 · answer #1 · answered by misoma5 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
All curves eventually make a circle and so in the continuum you would be where you started at the end of the continuum. If the time you traveled did not complete the circle you would be a hell of a long way from home and in the future depending on the travel time. You may complete the continuum before any one could notice and age much faster than your surroundings. For example a speed freak looks old before his time, he was going to fast.
2007-03-17 02:47:10 · answer #2 · answered by Pablo 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
If we could travel at the speed of light we could certaintly travel to the future relative to observers as time would slow down for the person travelling at the speed of light but as for travelling to the past that raises lots of questions.Can you kill your mother and yet have been born to have killed her?At the moment we have no way of travelling to the past even theorethicaly as we can only travel to the future by slowing down time but no matter how much you slow time it won't go backwards.So at the moment present only, at the speed of light the future and the past never unless a breakthrough is made
2007-03-17 19:12:18 · answer #3 · answered by multiplayertim 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Cool question. It can't be explained in our present knowledge of time. U can go either to future or to past, depending on the 'direction of time' you are traveling through. And, being a curved thing, thats unimaginably dimensioned, we can't aim to the direction backward, to the past I mean. It is derived that, u can always go to future, but never returns. Thats, u will lose all information about your present time if u go in to a new time space! Anyway, this stuff is only imaginary, because it requires infinite amount of energy to accelerate a particle to light's velocity according to Einstein's formula e.
Hopes, this clears your doubt.
2007-03-17 03:44:10 · answer #4 · answered by lozer! 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
in past
or
future
the answer is in the future
2007-03-17 02:34:18 · answer #5 · answered by anchit_virmani 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋