can you make 1 minute last forever if you travel extremely fast?
space12 asked:
if you could travel at the speed of light if it were physically possible from one end of town to another it would happen so fast you would not experience the trip. But if you could take things in and see things around you traveling at the speed of light you would see everything around you frozen like statues as you went through the town. What I want to know is can you make 1 minute last forever if you travel extremly fast way faster than the speed of light. I know it is completly impossible to travel at the speed of light or faster but this question wont work unless the laws of physics get broken. So if you can imagine a clock like big ben and a spaceship going around big ben in a circle and the spaceship constantly flew around big ben in a circle and just say this spaceship could break the laws of phsics and travel faster than light. Say it could travel at 1 trillion times the speed of light I know this is complety impossible but it has to work this way in order for this question to work. Now say for every second that passes on a stopwatch the spaceships speed increases to another trillion times the speed of light so say after 10 seconds the spaceships speed would be 10 trillion times the speed of light and after 30 second the spaceships speed would be 30 trillion times the speed of light and kept on accelerating like this and never stoped. I know this is way to fast but to make a minute last forever you need to travel this fast. So traveling at this speed its complety impossible for anyone to take things in and see things frozen traveling at this speed so say there was a super computer on this spaceship that had the ability to see and take things in it saw in normal time as it traveled at these amazing speeds. So for example as the super computer looked at the clock on big ben as the spaceship circled big ben while traveling at this high speed and the clock read 12:00AM the computer would determine that it would take so many amount of years for the clock to change to 12:01because of the spaceships constant accelerating speed because the super computer can take in and see things frozen like people and other objects frozen while traveling at these high speeds. So the computer is going to have to wait trillions and trillions of years to see the clock change from 12:00 to 12:01 but this space ship is constantly accelerating by 1 trillion times the speed of light every second so the computer from its perspective is never going to see the clock change to 12:01 because its speed is constantly accelerating and never stoping so the amount of time it takes for the clock to change from 12:00 to 12:01 is always growing in years so the computer will never see the clock change to 12:01 so is this how you can make a minute last forever. Thank you
Wyman
if you could travel at the speed of light if it were physically possible from one end of town to another it would happen so fast you would not experience the trip. But if you could take things in and see things around you traveling at the speed of light you would see everything around you frozen like statues as you went through the town. What I want to know is can you make 1 minute last forever if you travel extremly fast way faster than the speed of light. I know it is completly impossible to travel at the speed of light or faster but this question wont work unless the laws of physics get broken. So if you can imagine a clock like big ben and a spaceship going around big ben in a circle and the spaceship constantly flew around big ben in a circle and just say this spaceship could break the laws of phsics and travel faster than light. Say it could travel at 1 trillion times the speed of light I know this is complety impossible but it has to work this way in order for this question to work. Now say for every second that passes on a stopwatch the spaceships speed increases to another trillion times the speed of light so say after 10 seconds the spaceships speed would be 10 trillion times the speed of light and after 30 second the spaceships speed would be 30 trillion times the speed of light and kept on accelerating like this and never stoped. I know this is way to fast but to make a minute last forever you need to travel this fast. So traveling at this speed its complety impossible for anyone to take things in and see things frozen traveling at this speed so say there was a super computer on this spaceship that had the ability to see and take things in it saw in normal time as it traveled at these amazing speeds. So for example as the super computer looked at the clock on big ben as the spaceship circled big ben while traveling at this high speed and the clock read 12:00AM the computer would determine that it would take so many amount of years for the clock to change to 12:01because of the spaceships constant accelerating speed because the super computer can take in and see things frozen like people and other objects frozen while traveling at these high speeds. So the computer is going to have to wait trillions and trillions of years to see the clock change from 12:00 to 12:01 but this space ship is constantly accelerating by 1 trillion times the speed of light every second so the computer from its perspective is never going to see the clock change to 12:01 because its speed is constantly accelerating and never stoping so the amount of time it takes for the clock to change from 12:00 to 12:01 is always growing in years so the computer will never see the clock change to 12:01 so is this how you can make a minute last forever. Thank you
Wyman
August 28th, 2009 at 3:34 am
The closer you get to the speed of light he slower time flows!
August 29th, 2009 at 12:47 am
There are no physics to explain what will happen at faster than light speed, since this is supposed to be impossible. But you will see time slow down around you as you near the speed of light, stopping completely at the speed of light. This introduces a paradox, since the rest of the world would also see time slow down for you too. The only resolution to that paradox is that you and the rest of the world cannot observe each other instantly, but instead any communication is delayed by the speed of light. I may be getting away from your question, but the only way to make time stop is to go exactly the speed of light, which would require infinite energy if you still contain mass. You would have to be converted to energy yourself.
August 31st, 2009 at 10:30 pm
That’s exactly why if humanity ever discovers warpspeed……people who travel through space would be able to travel forward in time for hundreds if not thousands of years while travelling on a spacecraft for only several years
September 4th, 2009 at 9:16 am
YOUR clock doesn’t seem to change how fast time passes, even if you are traveling at the speed of light. From YOUR perspective, everyone else’s clocks tick slower the faster YOU go, until everyone else’s clocks stop ticking. From every one else’s perspective, you are immortal. For you, time is passing at it’s normal rate. So, no, you can’t make one of your minutes last forever for you.
BTW, please stop posting questions that are rants. I read less than the first third of your question. Another person who thinks he/she is God and can dictate how the laws of physics SHOULD work to please them personally. The arrogance of such people has no limit, does it? Amazing. Arrogance is one of the seven deadly sins.
September 6th, 2009 at 12:08 pm
>Can you make 1 minute last forever if you travel extremely fast?
No. If you move at the speed of light, you can make forever last one minute, but even that requires an infinite amount of energy.
>But if you could take things in and see things around you traveling at the speed of light you would see everything around you frozen like statues as you went through the town.
Not really. By the time you’ve reached the speed of light, the Universe has shrunk down to a plane and your spaceship appears to extend all the way around the Universe. You wouldn’t be able to see much of anything out the windows.
>What I want to know is can you make 1 minute last forever if you travel extremly fast way faster than the speed of light.
It’s impossible to go faster than light. It takes an infinite amount of energy just to reach the speed of light. Time and space are linked by the speed of light, so if you went faster than light, it would act as if you were going backwards in time.