Say theoretically if I had a spaceship, and was close to the sun, but traveling backwards in time(if regular time is T, then I would go at -T), would the sun be cold?
2007-03-27 04:20:29 · 9 answers · asked by Luis 6 in Science & Mathematics ➔ Physics
I also wonder if the light from other objects traveling back into the sun would heat or cool the ship as it passed through?
2007-03-27 12:25:52 · update #1
I guess it kinda would. Given when time = T, heat energy is transferred to you by the sun, the when time = -T you must transfer heat energy to the sun. Of course, that means you'd start off burnt to a crisp, and end up back at the state you're in now.
2007-03-27 04:26:11 · answer #1 · answered by Bultimus 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
The flame would be exactly the same termperature, because the kinetic energy of any moving object has the same magnitude if it's traveling at the same speed. For example, a car running 60 mph backwards on the freeway has the same kinetic energy as a car running 60 mph foward. The complication with "things going backwards in time" (as distinguished from simply going in the other way) is that sometimes physics regards them as having negative kinetic energy, but nonetheless it's of the same magnitude.
2007-03-27 11:33:51 · answer #2 · answered by Scythian1950 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
if the hypothetical event you refer to breaks the laws of physics, then you can't expect the subsequent hypothetical events to be bound exclusively to the laws of physics - anything is possible.
if time was moving backward, and you were in a space ship near the sun, the space ship would move back to where it came from; meanwhile, the sun would become the way it was 5 minutes (or however far back time is going) ago. possibly leaving you without any recollection of moving 'back'.
2007-03-27 12:19:15 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
heat is vibration, so it will still be vibrating in but in reverse. all the obects in that realm will be giving heat back to the sun. but you are running in the opposite direction in reference to everything else.
so the sun will not influence you the same way as everything else. i think to be physically present in a universe running in opposite direction would cause a violent explosion like antimater coming into contact with matter.- i like your dwelling on time, i have done a bit of it myself. i have a theory that matter stetches time and slows it down because it cant occupy the same space. so thats what creates gravity between two objects. thats why light bends when it enters a glass prism, because it slows light down more, the thicker the medium. and if we were to grow as big as the universe, it would actually speed up in our point of reference. and if we shrunk that to an atomic level, things around at our present size would seem motionless. but no-one takes my theory seriously.
2007-03-27 11:49:17 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
it is impossible to make -T and if it possible to travel backward in time the sun will not get colder because before you go back in time the sun is already hot and the sun will get cold if you go to the beginning of the time.
2007-03-27 11:28:44 · answer #5 · answered by Iliyas H 1 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Yes! last time I tried that I had frost bytes.
I makes sense since the energy flow seems to be reversed.
Good question!
2007-03-27 11:28:41 · answer #6 · answered by Edward 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Sure, I just baked some muffins in my freezer tommorow, but you have to go back a week ago to eat them, hurry before they get to hot;)
2007-03-27 11:58:44 · answer #7 · answered by Yahoo! 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
i think...nope! traveling backwards in time is not directly proportional to temperature!! they are not even related...
a flame will always be hot because it is cause by friction, isn't it??
('u')
2007-03-27 11:31:58 · answer #8 · answered by simplycurious 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I don't think so. You'd still get sunburnt and if you went too close to the sun , you'd be HisTOry.....
2007-03-27 11:30:16 · answer #9 · answered by child of God 3 · 0⤊ 1⤋