Are there any instances where travel faster than the speed of light does not cause time to slow down?

Question

Might teleportation achieve this, for example?

Answer 1

It is not possible to achieve the speed of light. Only to get very close to it. The moment you put energy into a subject to get faster it will use this energy to slow down time, to decrease its' volume and to increase its' mass.

Answer 2

You may wish you hadn't asked this question but here you go:

Traditionally there have been many theories about the speed of light and what happens as we approach it, or indeed surpass it. One of the common fallacies is that the speed of light is a constant, it is often forgotten that that speed is only achieved in a vacuum. For example light slows down to about 28 mile per hour when travelling through sodium at -271 kelvin. This means if you get a 1 mile block of sodium, waved at one end, jumped in a car, raced to the other end, you would see yourself waving.

You have gone faster than the light and have seen the past but not really gone back in time.

Of course this is not going faster than this mythical speed of light in a vacuum. (From here I will use C to represent speed of light in a vacuum.) Just because we have found light to be the fastest thing so far does not mean it is the fastest thing. So to show that increasing speed slows time does not show that time will ever stop or slow down. We simply assume that C is the fastest speed achievable.

There is however something faster, a shadow. put an extremely powerful light bulb in the centre of the universe and construct a curved screen around the edge of the universe. Put your hand on the light bulb and you cast a shadow on the edge of the universe. (in a few million years) move your hand halfway around the bulb, this will take less than a second. Your shadow will have moved a number of miles too big to write here in less than a second. Far, far faster than light speed.

The shadow idea is nice but how does it relate to super-luminal travel? Without going too deeply into it; An Austrian physicist has developed a theory which explains a possible mechanism for super-luminal travel. What is interesting about the theory is that the author was working on something else entirely and this is a spin off from his research. His theory holds a lot of weight, having done many things it did not set out to do. For example it unites quantum mechanics and general relativity, which has been the holy grail of physics ever since Einstein. Also many other thing, if you want to know more research Burkhard Heim.

Anyway, the main point here is that these theories, which have tested very well, indicate that there are more dimensions to our world than we are aware of. As many as 16 dimensions, with 2 of these being gravity and electromagnetism. It is conjectured that the 3D forms we see around us, everything we experience in the 4 dimensions we know of is in fact a projection (or shadow if you will) of the other dimensions. So, therefore if we can move the shadow of our hand faster than C by moving our hand, surely if we move what is in the other dimensions our projections here in the standard 4 dimensions can move faster than light. We can note that the shadow did not move backwards in time and therefore conclude that we need not. However if we can alter our projections in the 3 physical dimensions then why not our projection in the 4th (time for this theory.)

Answer 3

There are no known instance of anything moving faster then the speed of light. Also something moving at the speed of light or above it does not slow down time for everything, everywhere, the thing moving undergoes a change in the rate of time, things things outside it do not (hence the word relativity).
There is some speculation that there may be particles going faster then the speed of light and they can not slow down to the speed of light.
Of course this has nothing to do with teleportation, which has nothing to do with this universe (if you meant telepathic transportation).

Answer 4

If you consider that the definition of time is based on the speed of light then you might come with the same fantasist idea that Albert had after he started eating magic mushrooms moreover to travel at the speed of light you would have to be pure energy and I don't think you will ever be that bright.

slowing down time or better suspending time could only be done by freezing the entire universe at zero abolute which is impossible for as long as there is energy in the universe.

If like Albert you argue that time and space go hand in hand then you could try to reduced the size of the universe to an infinitly small dimension but again the energy will not let you do that and ultimately will escape resulting in a nice big bang.

Answer 5

Time does not slow down if you go faster than light. If you go faster than light, time goes BACKWARDS. That is, you can receive a response to a signal before you ever sent the signal, and so on. Because of these paradoxes (and other problems, like it would violate the conservation of energy), it's generally considered impossible to travel faster than the speed of light.

Traveling at speeds SLOWER than the speed of light, will cause time to slow down. This is most apparent at high speeds, but it is measurable even at fairly slow speeds. In theory, time slows down for you (just a little) even when you walk down the street.

Answer 6

SCIENCE, the magazine, had an article to this effect but
writter cannot recall item title nor issue particulars. Don't
recall 'teleportation' being mentioned. The readers were
invited to duplicate the lab' proceedure that suggested a
concept was possible. Its rather like the antigravity demo'
presented on television by a researcher soliciting funding
for development options, 240807. One might wonder as
to what will happen next in our lifetime.

Answer 7

No...Teleportation is a very valid way of traveling almost instantaneously but what you must remember is if anything is being teleported, that 'anything' is nothing but matter, and then the rulebook says" NOTHING can travel faster than speed of light"...so i guess even teleportation wont provide for required instances...

Answer 8

There are no instances of travel faster than light AT ALL.

Answer 9

There are no instances where anything can travel faster than light.

Answer 10

are you serious???? there is nothing as teleportation !!!!!!!
and as far as science for that matter physics is concerned, there is nothing faster than light.