Time in space reating to speed?

Question

Please explain how time theoretically becomes "gooey" as you get closer to the speed of light.

Does it go backward/ forward or stop altogether?

Answer 1

I believe what you are talking about when you say time becomes 'gooey' is called time dilation. Basically what is meant by this is that for an observer in a stationary (or not moving close to the speed of light) a clock in a moving frame will appear to move slower to the observer in the stationary. An example would be say you put a clock on a rocket that can travel near the speed of light and a clock on earth that are set exactly the same.well when the rocket comes back from it's trip (going near the speed of light) the clock on the rocket will now be behind the clock on earth. So the short answer to your question is as you get closer to the speed of light time 'slows' down as compared to if you where not moving.

Answer 2

For the observer approaching the speed of light, time does not change from their frame of reference. However, because the speed of light is a constant no matter what the reference, to an observer at rest with respect to the object just below the speed of light, the object will appear to slow down to a virtual stop. Time passes extremely slowly from the observer at rest's point of view.

Answer 3

t = (t_0)/sqrt[1- (v^2)/(c^2)]

To an inertial external observer, time within a reference frame nearing lightspeed seems to slow. The clock traversing the most space accumulates the least time. There is no perceptable internal change within the moving reference frame absent outside comparison.

The classic example is muons. We know the decay half-life of laboratory-frame muons at rest. Relativistic muons - whether from a particle accelerator or a cosmic ray collision - have extended half-lives versus velocity by the book.

Answer 4

Time is linear, a single direction - present to past. The physics trilogy describes the basis of our reality, and it gives a clue as to why things operate as they do. The trilogy is: E = mc2, m = E/c2, and c2 = E/m. The last is that of a field of gravity, which is a field of physical time. This equation describes the "c^2" concept as being an energy/mass relationship, while the first two describe the basis of our existence itself is this very same value of "c2".

In the first equation the value of "c2" is the multiplier and in the second the divider. In each of these it is the basis of the equation itself. What this means is that all forms of energy and mass are composed of this value. Our universe and all within are composed of physical time "c2". It is for this reason the present moves into becoming the past at the rate it does, and this rate of change is the same throughout our universe. Every event moves from "present time" to that of the "past", which means our universe moves in a single direction.

Mass moving to the speed of light would change into electromagnetic energy. Mass would change from being a three dimensional entity into becoming that of physical time. This may be thought of as m = c^3, or a cube of time. A cube of time "c3", as I remember, is that of 1 kg. or 2.2 lbs.

Were all the mass of our universe converted into electromagnetic energy (of which it is composed), then it would have changed from a three dimensional universe into that of a single dimension. At that instant physical time would have ceased to exist, for it requires the presence of a mass to form the concept of time.

Answer 5

time is a steady quantum pulse.
At a particular point in space your speed is measured by the number of pulses that occur at that point.
As you accelerate the number of pulses at any point becomes less.
When the speed of light is attained any point in space is occupied for one quantum time pulse,which can't be divided.
To increase speed would be trying to exist in a point in space for a length of time that cannot exist.