Does time stop at the speed of light?

Question

If you were travelling at the speed of light, assuming it was even possible, would you age? Would your watch stop?

No really technical mathmatical answers please. They dont help really.

And also why is the speed of light a fundamental speed limit and constant?
If there is nothing to slow you down, ie a vacuum, then whats to stop you going faster?

Answer 1

Yes. From a photon's point of view, it is absorbed by your eyeball at exactly the same instant it was created in a supernova explosion a billion light years away.

Answer 2

The speed of light is constant, time is the variable. That's the head twister. At the speed of light an object will have infinite mass, no length and time will stop. Relax, on the space station the clocks run 1 1/2 seconds slow over a year to compensate for the speed.

Answer 3

The answer of "time" hasn't been explained as to why time is the fourth dimension. In reality the fourth dimension is part of the first three. The physics trilogy speaks of what the origin of this dimension is. E = mc2, m = E/c2, and c2 = E/m is the trilogy. The last of the three is that of a field of physical time, or that of a field of gravity. The first two equations have as their basis that of physical time, it being the "c^2" factor. Notice in the first equation that it is the multiplier and then in the second the divider. This factor is the basis of each of these equations. It is important to our universe that this value remains constant, for it is the basis of all creation. Everything in our universe is composed of this value; there is nothing in our universe which is not totally composed of the "c2" concept.

When a mass accelerates to the speed of light, the mass converts back into the radiation (electromagnetic energy) that it was formed of, and this transformation is considered to be that of the fourth dimension. In reality we are composed of this value, alone. This is evidenced in that the present time moves into becoming that of the past at this speed - never faster, never slower.

Answer 4

The reason you can never reach or go faster than the speed of light is explained by relativistic correction formulae.
The faster you go the longer you get.
At the speed of light you are infinitely long.
The faster you go the more mass you gain.
At the speed of light you have an infinite mass.

Both of these factors cause you to need an infinite amount of energy which no one has.

Answer 5

Time would slow down for you but stay the same for all those not travelling at that speed. Therefore your watch would tick slower and you would not age as much as in normal time. This is according to the theory of relativity. just a theory.

Answer 6

From what i have read it does. The explanation that i read was that we are travelling through both time and space at a combined speed of the speed of light. So basically the faster you go (through space) the slower you are going through time, once you reach the speed of light you will not be travelling through time at all.

Answer 7

Yes if we r moving exactly with the speed of light,then the stop would be seen as stotionary as point of view of the observer...

Answer 8

Asymptotically yes.

As for the maths, if it wasn't for the maths we couldn't have realised and made use of relativity. Common sense is of no use in quantum and relativistic domains.

Answer 9

yep..and everywhere else speeds up if u were on a space craft u would be a lot younger than your twin sister or bro..if even they were still alive

Answer 10

Yes, it just slows the aging process...