Is it true that if something moves faster than another thing, it reaches that specific moment in time earlier than the slower thing? Does that even make sense?
If someone could somehow survive being projected at the speed of light and they were a baby, would they die of starvation or old age in a matter of seconds? How does that even work?
Please explain.
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Basically as soon as we are born we are traveling space sitting on the earth at a speed of 270 km/sec relative to the barry center of the galaxy and we do not exactly know how fast galaxies are moving. Galaxies have been estimated to recede from the earth at the speed of light.
No one as ever sent a baby traveling at the speed of light for any good reason. Basically a baby cannot survive without a mother.
It is true that the faster you move to a destination the faster you get there . and if it was possible to move at near light speed you would get there even sooner.
It really does not matter how fast you are traveling time would always follow you.
You've got it backasswards. The thing going faster than the other thing reaches the other thing later according to the slower thing's timepiece.
For instance, if the faster thing goes 1/4 light speed and travels t = 365 days according to its calendar, it will find T = 376 days have passed for the slower thing. In other words, the slower thing's calendar will be T - t = 11 days later than the faster thing's calendar. Time slows down for the faster thing, but relative to the slower thing's timepiece.
The effect is called time dilation. The equation is T = t/sqrt(1 - (v/c)^2), where T is the slower thing time and t is the faster thing time, where the faster thing's speed v is relative to the slower thing.
T > t for any speed v > 0, even if v = 600 mph = 1/6 mi/sec, like for a commercial airplane. As one answer indicated, physicists using two synced atomic clocks found that T - t ~ nanoseconds where T was time at the airport and t < T was time flown by the airplane's clock. In other words, the passage of time on the plane slowed down relative to the passage of time at the airport terminal.
Do you see it? Every... every... time you fly commercial, you fly into your future. By nanoseconds, which are not noticeable to be sure. But they are and have been measured. So travel into the future is something mankind does every day.
In fact, every time you get up at night and go to the bathroom, your personal time slows down relative to the clock on your bed-stand. This difference would be so small as to be not measurable. But it's there nonetheless.
Time travel does not exist so we can't discuss how it works.
"Is it true that if something moves faster than another thing, it reaches that specific moment in time earlier than the slower thing? Does that even make sense?" no, no sense at all.
"projected at the speed of light" that is impossible and again, it's futile to speculate about it because all we know is that it is impossible.
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You're talking about relativistic time travel based upon Einstein's Theory of Special Relativity. Yes, it has been confirmed with two synchronized atomic clocks, and sending one around the world on a jet. The clocks had a slight difference after that. It's sometimes referred to as time dilation as it's sort've like stretching time.
At the speed of light, time stops. Even if the baby traveled for millions of years, it would just be an instant for the baby. There would be no starvation or old age for the baby traveling at the speed of light. Note it would take an infinite amount of energy to accelerate a baby to the speed of light.
Okay, it's like this: Pretend that on a rough scale, you live about a Kilometer away from your school, and your school and you house's distance can be seen as a vertical line. Like this:
House----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------School
And it takes you approx 15 minutes to get there by walking. But then let's say you got tired of walking and you decide to go by bike. Then you get there in approx 10 minutes. But let's say that you got tired of riding your bike and you take a car, and that will take you approx 5 minutes. Then, let's say you're really lazy, and REALLY rich, and you bought yourself a Jetpack. With the Jetpack, it takes you approx 2 minutes to get to school. Then let's say you got a Hovercar, and it takes you approx 1 minute to get to school. Then, you somehow reached there by the speed of light. If you went there by the speed of light, you'd be there before you even started. It sounds crazy, but Light is that fast! So, if you'd be there before you'd even started, and you were to travel home again at the speed of light, you'd again be there before you started, which means that you would be saying hi to your past self going to school, while you yourself are the future self and the one at the school is your School Self. When the past self reaches school, it will be the School Self and when the School Self reaches home, it will be the future self. Hope I helped!
These are assumptions. Since no earthly matter travels faster than light, this topic is nothing but a wastage of time.
You know, to believe this stuff we should really see some practical experiment. Else can't be sure. That's why scientists always try to put their theories into practice. They want others and themselves to be sure It's workin. :)
time travel is really confusing but it is true that if u travel faster than light it can cause u move ahead in time...
try reading this,..might help a bit
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Time_travel
it doesnt work at all. you just watch too much back to the future
Umm .. It doesn't !!!!