The Naked Scientists
Toggle navigation
Login
Register
Podcasts
The Naked Scientists
eLife
Naked Genetics
Naked Astronomy
In short
Naked Neuroscience
Ask! The Naked Scientists
Question of the Week
Archive
Video
SUBSCRIBE to our Podcasts
Articles
Science News
Features
Interviews
Answers to Science Questions
Get Naked
Donate
Do an Experiment
Science Forum
Ask a Question
About
Meet the team
Our Sponsors
Site Map
Contact us
User menu
Login
Register
Search
Home
Help
Search
Tags
Recent Topics
Login
Register
Naked Science Forum
Non Life Sciences
Physics, Astronomy & Cosmology
Is there a possible method of stopping time?
« previous
next »
Print
Pages: [
1
]
Go Down
Is there a possible method of stopping time?
2 Replies
3832 Views
0 Tags
0 Members and 1 Guest are viewing this topic.
The Scientist
(OP)
Sr. Member
286
Activity:
0%
Its great to be me!
Is there a possible method of stopping time?
«
on:
01/07/2010 15:16:25 »
Is there a possible method that can stop time and control it the way you want? Thanks.
Logged
The Scientist
Ron Hughes
Sr. Member
363
Activity:
0%
Is there a possible method of stopping time?
«
Reply #1 on:
01/07/2010 19:06:37 »
If zero is the slowest that time can run then you can never reach zero, you can only approach it. In the other direction I suspect time can run infinitely fast.
Logged
From a drop of water a logician could infer the possibility of an Atlantic or a Niagara without having seen or heard of one or the other. Sherlock Holmes.
LeeE
Naked Science Forum King!
3382
Activity:
0%
Thanked: 3 times
Is there a possible method of stopping time?
«
Reply #2 on:
03/07/2010 07:31:25 »
First of all, you need to stop thinking of us as being stationary and time as something that flows past us. Thinking of time in this way can never make sense, and more to the point, it has been shown to be incorrect. We travel through time just as we travel through space.
There would appear to be a maximum rate at which we travel through time, equivalent to the speed of light 'c' through space, otherwise the Lorentz equation for time dilation would not work in its established form, and experimentation shows that it does. In fact, the implication of the Lorentz solution is that we are always constantly travelling at the speed of light 'c' through the combined space-time environment, but as we slow in one direction we speed up in the other and visa-versa.
You can picture this by imagining that you are driving a car/automobile continuously at its top speed, let's say at 100 mph (because it's not a very fast car/auto). While you are driving directly North, moving at 100 mph in that direction, you're moving at 0 mph Eastwards or Westwards. However, if you start diving directly East, then although you're moving at 100 mph Eastwards your Northwards speed has now dropped to 0 mph. Finally, when you're driving in a direction somewhere between North and East, you'll then be moving at 100 mph, in that direction, but this means that you're now moving at less than 100 mph in both the Northwards and Eastwards directions. All we've done here is use North and East instead of space and time, and used a top speed of 100 mph instead of the speed of light.
Logged
...And its claws are as big as cups, and for some reason it's got a tremendous fear of stamps! And Mrs Doyle was telling me it's got magnets on its tail, so if you're made out of metal it can attach itself to you! And instead of a mouth it's got four arses!
Print
Pages: [
1
]
Go Up
« previous
next »
Tags:
There was an error while thanking
Thanking...