[simeonie (OP)]

Do you think that if you go faster than the speed of light you would go forward in time or backwards or neither. I forget how the theory goes. I am sure you can't see or go forward in time because it won't have happened yet... duh!
However I am not sure about backwards in time or anything. I think if you went faster than the speed of light then I would have thought everything would go black and you wouldn't see anything.
Is this Einsteins theory or relativity?

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[ADD HAHAHA]

it u go forward in time and the only thing that in theory goes faster then light is gravity and ppl arnt exactly shore on what gravity is. so i dont no how u could go that fast.

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[simeonie (OP)]

Yeah but what I am saying is "what if" you went faster than the speed of light.


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[realmswalker]

well i wonder if it could be possible to move to another faster than the speed of light without actually traveling faster than the speed of light.
ill try to explain.
lets say your in antartica  and penguins are running along on the ice, the fastest penguin running on the ice = speed of light. Well what if you broke off a chunk of ice and just floated past this fast penguin? Your not running faster than it (which is impossible) but are over coming it with out moving (spacially) faster.
Basically if you broke off a chunk of space some how and were in it, you could beat a light beam in a race but your not really moving...or something...

[simeonie (OP)]

How would the penguin be moving faster than the speed of light? And how would the ice be moving faster than the speed of light? That would have to be an olympic penguin! lolz


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[Ultima]

That’s called reducing the distance you are travelling! If you start warping space; so that you are going the same speed but have less of a distance to travel, you get somewhere quicker (no ****). LOL sensor!

wOw the world spins?

[daveshorts]

Relativity is formulated on the assumption that the fastest information can travel is the speed of light. so even if you and your mate travel in opposite directions down the road and from a person standing still you both look like you are travelling away at 3/4 of the speed of light. If you each look at the other you think they are going away at slightly below the speed of light. All the inconsistancies in this are dealt with by changing time, and space so it all works.

It sounds crazy but it seems to work increadibly well, so why not go with it...

[realmswalker]

quote:Originally posted by Ultima

That’s called reducing the distance you are travelling! If you start warping space; so that you are going the same speed but have less of a distance to travel, you get somewhere quicker (no ****). LOL sensor!

wOw the world spins?

How probable is it that humanity will ever be able to do this?

Warp 9! ENGAGE!

[simeonie (OP)]

I am wondering though..... you probably could move faster than the speed of light but whatever is moving that fast you wouldn't be able to see because the light wouldn't reflect off it because it couldn't keep up. Plus I really doubt we will be able to go the speed of light.... EVER. Also does anybody know what "warp speed" is from Star Treck? Is that supposed to be the speed of light or something?


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[diegostation]

You don't have to beat the speed of light to travel in time. The more your speed gets closer to the speed of light the more you're traveling to the future. Just study Einstein's time dilatation.

The most popular example to explain this is the twin's paradox, when one of the twins travel with a speed of 0,5C out of earth and then returns with the same speed 40 years later, but to the traveler it only passed 17.3 years, so he sees his twin brother much older than him.

You have to use some formulas to calculate all this...

[simeonie (OP)]

well that is really cool.... But what it 0,5C ? That is a cool theory though!

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[diegostation]

C is speed of light, 0.5C being 0.5 times the speed of light (or half the speed of light)

[simeonie (OP)]

yeah but hyperthetically speaking if you did go faster than the speed of light would you see things that happened before? Or would everything just go black and you would see no light? hmm

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[simeonie (OP)]

hmmm I don't think time travel is possible but I do think that if you moved faster than the speed then you would see something weird.
The sun's light take 8 and a half minutes to get to here so if we traveled from earth to the sun faster than the speed of light abd looked down at the earth with a super cool telescope we would see things that happened so many minutes ago.

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[realmswalker]

light travels through space though. I was using the penguin ice as an example!

[simeonie (OP)]

I think that you would only see the things that happened in the time you skipped when you were travelling at the speed of light.

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[DoctorBeaver]

AS far as I can make out, relativity doesn't preclude something from travelling FTL so long as it has no mass. If there were such a thing as negative mass, it wouldn't be able to travel SLOWER than C.
But at C time stands still. So FTL? Hmmmm... would it be like a photon for which time & space are meaningless?
*goes back to counting his toes coz it's easier to fathom*

[simeonie (OP)]

Right I think that is slightly beyond my intelligence at the moment... I am only at G.C.S.E level Science at the moment! lol But you seem to know your stuff! Are u lot like in university or something!?!

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[DoctorBeaver]

quote:Originally posted by simeonie

But you seem to know your stuff! Are u lot like in university or something!?!

I'm just good at bluffing! heh [:p]

It wasn't me - a big boy did it & ran away

[chimera]

Which is how he got his degrees, ofcourse. []

Eth, now tell me: do you think that an upper limit to something implies there is a mirror function  at work on the other end? A realm where time would flow backward? Or where things only stayed in one piece as long as you kept using it and shelving something would mean instant decay, because of reverse entropy?

Isn't that just a bit of a philosophic twick with miwwows?

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