I know that if you travelled faster than the speed of light that time would considerably slow down would it be possible to take a deep space trip and come back a little after you had left? Travelling at the speed of light? If doing said thing was possible
2007-07-09 16:05:37 · 4 answers · asked by Anonymous in Science & Mathematics ➔ Physics
No. The time compression effects work in just the opposite of the way you're thinking.
When a spaceship travels at near light speed, much MORE time passes back on Earth than does for the people on board the spaceship. When you got back to Earth, 1 year might have passed for you on the ship, but 100 years might have passed on Earth.
2007-07-09 16:08:47 · answer #1 · answered by lithiumdeuteride 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
A mathematician named Dwight
Could travel much faster than light
He took off one day
In a relative way
And returned on the previous night!
I first read this tale 40 years ago!
(I have more faith in physics than in limericks.)
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2007-07-09 23:09:07 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
No. It's impossible no matter what anyone says. It is posible, however, to leave at, say, noon, Jul 10, 2000, and come back noon, jul 10, 3000, even though it's only been a few years for you.
2007-07-09 23:22:07 · answer #3 · answered by flibbitygibet 2 · 1⤊ 1⤋
NO
2007-07-09 23:23:24 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋