Here is a question to think about.

More the opposite, actually. You would, in a manner of speaking, go forward in time, going faster than time itself.
 
Ah..no, I don't think time would stop.
Else, the light from the Sun would reach the Earth without having to travel the few minutes. Or am I wrong?
 
Actually everything else will stay the same by stopping you will be going forwards. But you wont be going forward in time because nothing will happen because of everything is the same.
 
Traveling greater than the speed of light is impossible, as far as we understand anyway, hyperdrive this, warp speed that. Someone's watch on Alpha Centauri is going to end up different than someone's watch on Sol even if they could be set exactly the same, because even though the speed of light is great, it still takes time for it to travel across the sheer huge-oscity of space. Your time is relative to you, not necessarily someone else. So if you travel at light speed, you'll find that your watch appears slow to the watch of someone where you arrive.

So I guess relative to you, time is slower.
 
Tacogeddon said:
Traveling greater than the speed of light is impossible, as far as we understand anyway, hyperdrive this, warp speed that. Someone's watch on Alpha Centauri is going to end up different than someone's watch on Sol even if they could be set exactly the same, because even though the speed of light is great, it still takes time for it to travel across the sheer huge-oscity of space. Your time is relative to you, not necessarily someone else. So if you travel at light speed, you'll find that your watch appears slow to the watch of someone where you arrive.

So I guess relative to you, time is slower.
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^^ This would happen.

Also, this is what some scientists believe could pose as time travel. They say that if one traveled at light speed for some distance then traveled back to earth, they would find themselves in the "future." It'd be a one-way trip, however, as there is no way to go back. Unless, of course, in the future, somehow, somebody figured out time travel...XD
 
I was told once that it was tested and proven that as an object approaches light speed, the object notices time slowing down. I don't fully understand it, but the people above are probably correct. Though I don't think you could call it time travel.

Or, in a more obvious manner, v=d/t, so t is inversely proportional to v, so as v increases, t decreases. I think I just gained a higher understanding of the theory. :D
 
I don't know, but I was watching something on the History channel that was talking about black holes and how when you reach the center of it, everything out side looks to be slower. But that's probably because you are being sucked in faster than the speed of light, right?
 
Mattysaurus said:
I don't know, but I was watching something on the History channel that was talking about black holes and how when you reach the center of it, everything out side looks to be slower. But that's probably because you are being sucked in faster than the speed of light, right?
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The event horizon of a black hole has an escape velocity that is mathematically greater than the speed of light, but since it's impossible for something to BE faster than the speed of light, you're going nowhere surprisingly fast. :P
 
i think that would be cool - traveling at the speed of light with everything slowing down
but i think you might just like rip a hole in the universe and create a black hole of doom o:
 
Everything in physics must have a frame of reference. If you consider the frame of reference of light, if I start moving the direction the light is coming from, I'm already moving faster than the speed of light. I think that's heavily related to how things behave at those speeds.
 
A theory that I consider, is that time doesn't exist. So in my opinion, being a mere concept, time wouldn't necessarily stop.
 
JakeyBoy said:
I was told once that it was tested and proven that as an object approaches light speed, the object notices time slowing down. I don't fully understand it, but the people above are probably correct. Though I don't think you could call it time travel.

Or, in a more obvious manner, v=d/t, so t is inversely proportional to v, so as v increases, t decreases. I think I just gained a higher understanding of the theory. :D
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Well done!

You're right... as far as we know, time doesn't increase when we travel at faster velocities, but actually decreases (relative to the traveler), and I believe it has been proven. Mu mesons are one of the more interesting examples: little particles that continually travel down from the sky at something like 0.8c, and while to us they survive for a a fraction of a second, to them they survive for much longer, and even see a distortion (length contraction) in the environment.

Interesting stuff!
 
I just imagined someone going so fast around the world that they manage to step on the back of their own foot and trip themselves. (Yes, I realize that's impossible.)

I lol'd, though.

Somehow I doubt time would stop. Then again, I have NO idea what I'm talking about here.
 
AaronOnPokemon said:
If you went out in space and was traveling at the velocity that is greater or the same as the speed of light do you think time would stop?
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I dunno?? ¯\(°_o)/¯ Has anyone experienced hyperdrive, teleportation and warp stuff??
 
I believe it is accepted that an object travelling at or close to the speed of light would experience time at a much slower rate that in actuality. For example, if you are travelling towards a planet at or close to the speed of light, mere seconds would have passed for you, but on the planet five years will have passed.
 
Tacogeddon said:
Traveling greater than the speed of light is impossible, as far as we understand anyway, hyperdrive this, warp speed that.
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  • Wormholes
  • Tachyons
  • Alcubierre Metric
Are all examples of faster than light travel that are absolutely possible.
 
I don't think time slows down at all when traveling at the speed of light. I think people just perceive things being slower than they really are. It's like doing 300km/h in a car and you go past a car traveling at 100km/h, and don't know it.
 
As fast as lightning, OMG.

I think that I would have died before thinkin' 'bout that, but I think no, the time would not had stopped~
 
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