How faster do you age when going at the speed of light?
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[QUOTE=Zeke129;19239585]Don't wormholes bend space, kind of like folding a piece of paper up and jumping from one corner to the other?[/QUOTE]
Yes.
So you'd age slower at the top of a skyscraper than at the bottom of it?
What if you were travelling at the speed of light how long would your average life be, 800 years?
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[QUOTE=ferretsrule;19240602]So you'd age slower at the top of a skyscraper than at the bottom of it?[/QUOTE]
Yes but it would only be a difference of seconds
Well yes, it would be quite long. But the thing is that your life will still be only so long in your comprehension. To everyone else (using the standard measurement of time, in this case the rate time passes on Earth) it would be long. But because you're moving so fast doesn't mean that your brain comprehends faster. You'll still live the average lifespan of a human in your eyes, but it will have been much longer to everyone else.
Is that right?
[QUOTE=Yahnich;19241393]More like milliseconds[/QUOTE]
Much, much less than milliseconds.
You'd die. Turn into energy or something...
[QUOTE=lazyguy;19235550]The Earth rotates at 1,000 mph. It orbits the sun at 67,000 mph. The Solar system rotates around the Galactic Core at 220 kilometres per second. The speed of the Milky Way galaxy is travelling towards the Great Attractor at 1,000 kilometres per second.
Just because you're stood still doesn't mean you're not moving.[/QUOTE]
So if the Entire Galaxy stopped moving we would feel the full force of time? Everyone would age and die in a matter of a few days or weeks? My good sir you have just help me come up with an evil plan for world domination. (Sarcasm) I shall build a machine that will stop the galaxy!
[QUOTE=Yahnich;19234985]The baby would be one light year old :smug:[/QUOTE]
:rimshot:
[QUOTE=The mouse;19235813]*cough* Docter who *cough*[/QUOTE]
damn you must be like a detective or something
no one here has seen lost in space
[QUOTE=halo2142;19242357]So if the Entire Galaxy stopped moving we would feel the full force of time? Everyone would age and die in a matter of a few days or weeks? My good sir you have just help me come up with an evil plan for world domination. (Sarcasm) I shall build a machine that will stop the galaxy![/QUOTE]
No, it would be a full lifespan for them, but to anything moving faster it would seem much shorter.
[QUOTE=Azurionas;19241437]Well yes, it would be quite long. But the thing is that your life will still be only so long in your comprehension. To everyone else (using the standard measurement of time, in this case the rate time passes on Earth) it would be long. But because you're moving so fast doesn't mean that your brain comprehends faster. You'll still live the average lifespan of a human in your eyes, but it will have been much longer to everyone else.
Is that right?[/QUOTE]
Yes, I'm pretty sure you're right.
I'm think the baby would experience time normally and would age normally. But, as Azurionas said, everyone else moving at "normal" speed would have time pass much faster in comparison to the passage of time for the baby.
Wait, you age faster if you travel faster?
*Jumps out of plane*
I've always wondered how traveling fast will slow down biological processes. I did A-Level physics and this is the kinda shit we talked about, but I just don't get how you can slow down the biological process.
I don't even think there is a correct answer for a question like this.
Nasa has an article on how you age slower in space, without gravity. Their astronauts that go up for 2-3 years age a lot slower. I forget their names. Oh, and one day we will find a source of energy that will let us go. If you study UFO and physics you would understand.
Negative Gravy and Positive Gravity will make us go the speed of light, we have not discovered it yet, but it is there. Read about the "Ebens" I read a 9345 page article.
Negative Gravy lol.
you don't age any faster or slower, you just gain more mass when you exert more energy into yourself as you hit just before the speed of light
at least, that's what einstein thought
I don't think you can orbit anything if you were going the speed of light... so you'd just go on forever, never to see earth again, sure your trajectory would change a tiny bit but... See ya
thats what e=mc^2 means!
[QUOTE=booster;19235039]So if we ever discover how to go that fast, Wouldn't that mean that we would be able to travel really far without ageing?[/QUOTE]
For someone spectating from outside, yes. For yourself, it won't be any different from what you feel like now.
[QUOTE=Yahnich;19234985]The baby would be one light year old :smug:[/QUOTE]
no match for my throbbing dick thoughhh
he got it wrong if a baby went at 99% of the speed of like he would age much slower. and his mind would to his perseption of time would slow and he would think he is going at normal speed. looking at other everyone else he sees will be going fast and aging fast
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[QUOTE=TheTalon;19243742]I don't think you can orbit anything if you were going the speed of light... so you'd just go on forever, never to see earth again, sure your trajectory would change a tiny bit but... See ya[/QUOTE]
black holes and other big this can stop light
If you were in the dark blackness of deep space traveling at faster than light speed and you flicked on a light switch, would it still be dark? Could you see the light if you took one step back? Are all cats gray in the dark?
You guys maybe don't get one thing - if you traveled near speed of light, you could live for hundreds of years, but only for outside observer. For you, the time would go at totally normal speed. You would live your normal life, but the outer space would look extremely sped up for you.
The point is, you would live longer for the rest of universe, but you wouldn't live longer in your own eyes. Living in fast moving vehicle in sake of longer life wouldn't help you that much, because you would have the same amount of time to live as you would have on earth, but you would spend the time much slower than the rest.
[QUOTE='-[ Fizzadar ]-;19243314']I've always wondered how traveling fast will slow down biological processes. I did A-Level physics and this is the kinda shit we talked about, but I just don't get how you can slow down the biological process.[/QUOTE]
It doesn't just slow down biological processes, it slows down time itself.
[QUOTE=Zeke129;19239585]Don't wormholes bend space, kind of like folding a piece of paper up and jumping from one corner to the other?[/QUOTE]
[img]http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/a/af/Worm3.jpg[/img]
Basically, you make a hole through the paper and go through that instead of having to go around the long way.
[QUOTE=YoMother;19235730]You can't move at a minus speed[/QUOTE]
You guys forget that we can only perceive 3 dimensions, so possibly if we could discover a 4th then that is the key to moving his so called :airquote: "Minus Speed" backwards into time.
[QUOTE=AutoTurret;19249445]You guys forget that we can only perceive 3 dimensions, so possibly if we could discover a 4th then that is the key to moving his so called :airquote: "Minus Speed" backwards into time.[/QUOTE]
Then we could make a :airquote: laser beam, and with this :airquote: laser beam, we will blow up the moon.
This topic always hurts my head.
If a a person left the earth traveling at near-lightspeed, and keeps time as he normally would on earth, then returns to earth after 50 years of traveling, would more than 50 years have passed on earth?
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