How faster do you age when going at the speed of light?
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[QUOTE=radioactive;19235235]Time is a wibbly wobbly timey whiney thing full of stuff.[/QUOTE]*cough* Docter who *cough*
[QUOTE=YoMother;19235793]What defines backwards?[/QUOTE]
The opposite of forwards.
If you travel faster, you don't age faster
Hurry guys, we gotta invent a machine that can travel at a minus velocity, and make huge profit!
Amazing the properties of light are. Your little crappy CRT monitor is emitting light that's traveling faster than you could ever imagine.
Think about this:
If the light bouncing around your room is going X speed, would that accumulate with the speed at which the planet, solar system, and galaxy are traveling at?
O.o
Teleportation would never work because the earth is never in the same position, hence it would take one full year for you in teleport limbo to reach your destination
[QUOTE=FFStudios;19237871]Teleportation would never work because the earth is never in the same position, hence it would take one full year for you in teleport limbo to reach your destination[/QUOTE]
You could use a computer to calculate where the earth will be at the time of your arrival, it would be very simple math for a computer.
[QUOTE=radioactive;19235866]The opposite of forwards.[/QUOTE]
What defines forwards?
If you say "the oppsoite of backwards" then you're full of cow shit.
[QUOTE=booster;19234968]How faster would you age when traveling at 99% of the speed of light? I know that it would be pretty much impossible to make something carrying a human to go this fast but what if.
For example, If you put a baby in this and let it go for about 1 year. Would this mean that the baby had the body of a 10 year old, but the mind of an infant?[/QUOTE]
This should help you:
[media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V7vpw4AH8QQ[/media]
[QUOTE=YoMother;19235210]Is there any actual evidence time goes slower when you move fast?[/QUOTE]
Yes; flight recorders have been used and they discovered a tiny difference (a fraction of a millisecond, probably) between the time in the plane and outside it.
[QUOTE=Yahnich;19235161]What I find intriguing is that the time speediness isn't vice versa. Technically, if time goes slower when you go faster, time should go faster when you go slower, ergo, time should blitz past you if you stand completely still, yet this does not happen. Yeah I realize this only happens with extreme speeds, but still, interesting to think about.[/QUOTE]
Time does go faster when you go slower. But since we're all on the same planet travelling at the same speed give or take a few hundred km/hr, we don't notice it.
But if an alien race existed on a planet that moved slower relative to us, and we communicated with each other, we'd notice time discrepancies.
[QUOTE=Tools;19235670]So if you could somehow move at minus the speed of light, you could travel back in time!
gasp.[/QUOTE]
[QUOTE=YoMother;19235730]You can't move at a minus speed[/QUOTE]
[QUOTE=radioactive;19235741]Well, if you go backwards, then you go back in time?[/QUOTE]
There is this man named Dr. Ronald Mallett who is studying time travel and actually has an idea of traveling back in time.
[media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mGrBNtJjsU0[/media]
Lhc.
Proper way to calculate the time difference is by using this formula:
[img]http://latex.codecogs.com/gif.latex?t=\frac{\Delta%20t}{\sqrt{1-v^2/c^2}}[/img]
Where delta-T is the time that has passed for you.
C is the speed of light, which is 1 (100%)
V is your velocity, this also in the speed of light (percentage, eg .15 for 15% of C)
and T the time that has passed for the observer.
So assuming the baby in OP will travel for 1 year at 0.99c the formula would look something like
[img]http://latex.codecogs.com/gif.latex?t=\frac{1}{\sqrt{1-.99C^2/C^2}}[/img]
C is 1
Which give 7.08... years.
I think I heard once that we're actually moving through time at the speed of light. This may point that the faster we go through space the sides balance and we go slower through time, meaning that if you could be at a complete standstill in the universe, then you'll go at the unchanged speed through time, which means according to earth time you'll age slower.
[QUOTE=The Mighty Boatman;19238222]What defines forwards?
If you say "the oppsoite of backwards" then you're full of cow shit.[/QUOTE]
for⋅ward
  /ˈfɔrwərd/
–adverb Also, forwards.
1. toward or at a place, point, or time in advance; onward; ahead: to move forward; from this day forward; to look forward.
2. toward the front: Let's move forward so we can hear better.
3. into view or consideration; out; forth: He brought forward several good suggestions.
4. toward the bow or front of a vessel or aircraft.
5. ahead (defs. 4, 5).
If old Albert E is to be believed, it's an exponential slowing as you approach the speed of light asymptotically...
[QUOTE=Smasher 006;19239082]I think I heard once that we're actually moving through time at the speed of light. This may point that the faster we go through space the sides balance and we go slower through time, meaning that if you could be at a complete standstill in the universe, then you'll go at the unchanged speed through time, which means according to earth time you'll age slower.[/QUOTE]
No, you'll age faster, because time is at full speed and not balanced with the speed of space. If the speed of space is very high, then you'll age slowly because time will slow to a crawl.
[QUOTE=POLOPOZOZO;19235070]If we ever discover how to go that fast. I heard somewhere that to accelerate one molecule of fuel to around the speed of light, it would require all of the molecules of fuel in the universe.[/QUOTE]
That's because to make a piece of matter with non zero weight accelerate to speed of light, would need to use infinity amount of energy.
However, the time speed altering effect kicks in much sooner, and should be already measurable at speeds we can achieve today.
I have heard somewhere that some astronaut who orbited around earth in space station (which already goes really fast when it comes to speeds that usually humans travel) for if I think weeks, spent like 30 seconds less in the station than if he stayed at earth.
Physicists like to mash the opinion of space and time together as the same exact thing..always.. meaning if i go faster through space than it is as if it never existed.
Think of a race track theres 2 different routes to go to the finish line
1). Race down the straight away thats thousands of miles across and finish it in 60 years
2). Create a space ship that moves so fast, its as if it mashed the track into the size of a ruler and traveled over it.
2 cars go a different way by the end of the tract the meet at the same time
one dude is 60yrs older
the other is still 20yrs younger and is still young enough to fuck, therefore is fucked for making a cool spaceship
Physics=Sex
...Einstein was a great man
[QUOTE=Montroze;19239507]Physicists like to mash the opinion of space and time together as the same exact thing..always.. meaning if i go faster through space than it is as if it never existed.
Think of a race track theres 2 different routes to go to the finish line
1). Race down the straight away thats thousands of miles across and finish it in 60 years
2). [B]Create a space ship that moves so fast, its as if it mashed the track into the size of a ruler and traveled over it.[/B]
2 cars go a different way by the end of the tract the meet at the same time
one dude is 60yrs older
the other is still 20yrs younger and is still young enough to fuck, therefore is fucked for making a cool spaceship
Physics=Sex
...Einstein was a great man[/QUOTE]
This was the worst wormhole analogy I have ever heard. Traveling through a wormhole doesn't make you go faster, you just skip distance. God damn.
[QUOTE=Awesomecaek;19239417]
I have heard somewhere that some astronaut who orbited around earth in space station (which already goes really fast when it comes to speeds that usually humans travel) for if I think weeks, spent like 30 seconds less in the station than if he stayed at earth.[/QUOTE]
Nah that would be wrong, the ISS travels at around 8 km/s. The "relativistic change factor" would only be 1.000000000356048.
So let's say 52 weeks in space, which is 31,449,600 seconds. That times the factor gives, 31,449,600.0111976 seconds,
a change of only 0.01 seconds.
[QUOTE=Kybalt;19239556]This was the worst wormhole analogy I have ever heard. Traveling through a wormhole doesn't make you go faster, you just skip distance. God damn.[/QUOTE]
Don't wormholes bend space, kind of like folding a piece of paper up and jumping from one corner to the other?
[QUOTE=Swebonny;19238899]Proper way to calculate the time difference is by using this formula:
[img]http://latex.codecogs.com/gif.latex?t=\frac{\Delta%20t}{\sqrt{1-v^2/c^2}}[/img]
Where delta-T is the time that has passed for you.
C is the speed of light, which is 1 (100%)
V is your velocity, this also in the speed of light (percentage, eg .15 for 15% of C)
and T the time that has passed for the observer.
So assuming the baby in OP will travel for 1 year at 0.99c the formula would look something like
[img]http://latex.codecogs.com/gif.latex?t=\frac{1}{\sqrt{1-.99^2/1^2}}[/img]
Which give 7.08... years.[/QUOTE]
Isn't c supposed to be equal to the speed of light?
In [img]http://latex.codecogs.com/gif.latex?E=mc^2}}[/img] c is a constant representing the speed of light. c is always 299,792,458 m/s in that question.
You wouldn't make it .99 if you are traveling at 99% the speed of light.
[QUOTE=Kybalt;19239556]This was the worst wormhole analogy I have ever heard. Traveling through a wormhole doesn't make you go faster, you just skip distance. God damn.[/QUOTE]
Proving that the whole jump from physics to sex has no effect on your perception. You sir, have earned a rainbow.
YOu age slower, Time slows down in areas of extreme gravity or when nearing the speed of light, so, if you are on the top of a mountain all your life, you'll age faster than someone who lives at the bottom, because you're experiencing weaker gravity.
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[QUOTE=Montroze;19239618]Proving that the whole jump from physics to sex has no effect on your perception. You sir, have earned a rainbow.[/QUOTE]
yeh, it'd have to be 0.99c^2 not 0.99^2
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Oh wait, i see what he's done, by setting c equal to 1, he can then do v^2 as just 0.99^2 instead of 0.99c^2, my mistake.
[QUOTE=Spacetech;19239614]Isn't c supposed to be equal to the speed of light?
In [img]http://latex.codecogs.com/gif.latex?E=mc^2}}[/img] c is a constant representing the speed of light. c is always 299,792,458 m/s in that question.
You wouldn't make it .99 if you are traveling at 99% the speed of light.[/QUOTE]
I forgot the C. Which is 1 so it become .99 anyway.
Edit:
0.99 times C = 99% the speed of light.
C = the speed of light = 100% = 1
[QUOTE=Swebonny;19239570]Nah that would be wrong, the ISS travels at around 8 km/s. The "relativistic change factor" would only be 1.000000000356048.
So let's say 52 weeks in space, which is 31,449,600 seconds. That times the factor gives, 31,449,600.0111976 seconds,
a change of only 0.01 seconds.[/QUOTE]
Ok, my bad, but it's already measurable, isn't it?
[QUOTE=DMGaina;19235876]If you travel faster, you don't age faster[/QUOTE]
You age slower to others going not the same speed around you.
[QUOTE=Awesomecaek;19239917]Ok, my bad, but it's already measurable, isn't it?[/QUOTE]
Yes, by using atomic clocks.
[url]http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hafele-Keating_experiment[/url]
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