which is faster?

Question

which is faster speed of time or speed of light

i saw in the movie they said they were going croos the universe with speed of light....like your here now and next second your 200 light years away....

Answer 1

I have to presume you are serious because otherwise this is a nonsense question.

Speed of time is a (philosophically) difficult question to answer. It has some meaning in that one can talk about whether there exists a "time" quantum that represents the fastest possible event. So far, theory and experiment have uniformly failed (as far as I remember) to find the "chronon" - the name for a time quantum. If there WAS such a thing as te speed of time, it would be represented by a chronon.

Having gone into the philosophy of it for a moment, I can return to the original question, which is an apples and oranges question.

Speed is measured by comparing some event to a timer. So "speed of light" makes sense in that you can talk about the distance traveled by light in a fixed time interval. But "speed of time" isn't a distance. It is a measure of the very thing that is to be measured. Unless you want to talk about time as a fourth dimension, you can't even talk about a graphical representation of the 'speed of time' simply because it is self-referential.

This makes the question hard to answer.

Answer 2

Time and light has the same speed.

We seem to always try to catch up with time. We always try to move fast to catch time. In the special relativity theory, when we try to move close to the speed of light, time seem to be moving slower, when you reach the speed of light, time does not move anymore, doesn't this mean the light speed caught up with time? The time you reach light speed, that's the time time is not moving faster than you. Therefore, light has the same speed as time.

Answer 3

how can time have a speed. speed is the distance traveled in a certain amount of time. time doesnt travel any distance. so time has no speed, its not a speed of 0, it just doesnt exist.

so basically your question is like asking: "Whats faster, something thats moving or something that isnt."

im actually going to agree with the guy above me.

speed=time/distance. so the speed of time would come out to be like 1 second/0, which would technically be infinity. so since light has a finite speed of about 186,000 miles per second it would be slower.

Answer 4

Is there even a speed of time? I think it is light

Answer 5

Speed is distance over time, so I think there is no such thing as speed of time. Can we calculate the speed of time? We can't even measure the distance Time traveled. The speed of light is 299,792 Km per second

Answer 6

A very tough question to answer.

For one thing, time doesn't have a constant rate. Time can move at different rates for different observers of the same event. Only the speed of light in a vacuum is constant.

Answer 7

Time progresses at a rate of 1 second per second.

Light moves at a rate of 300,000,000 meters per second.

Time moves at a unitless rate of 1, while light's speed has units of meters per second. This is a meaningless comparison. Quantities with different units can't be meaningfully compared.

FYI: If you were going the speed of light, it would take you 200 years to travel 200 light years. That's the definition of a light year - the distance light travels (in a vacuum) in one year.

Answer 8

u cant rly tell which 1 is faster bc time is unknown u cant define it can u o.o and light is faster then sound but i dunno about time..bc this 1 professer wrote a book about time or sumthin bc these miners got cavedin in a cave and 1 guy had a watch and the were in a small place so they would run out of air and then the guy with the watch said weve been in here for 1 hour but rly they been in there for 2 hours and then 3 hours later he says its only been 2 hours and then wen they got out the guy with the watch died bc he knew the time the rest of the pplz didnt... anyways i dont think i answered ur qeustion XD

Answer 9

speed of light

Answer 10

speed of light