Comments on: can you make 1 minute last forever if you travel extremely fast?

By: Meklar

Meklar — Sun, 06 Sep 2009 17:08:47 +0000

>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.

By: oklatonola

oklatonola — Fri, 04 Sep 2009 14:16:05 +0000

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.

By: G-unit

G-unit — Tue, 01 Sep 2009 03:30:56 +0000

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

By: eelfins

eelfins — Sat, 29 Aug 2009 05:47:12 +0000

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.

By: HUMANISTIC SCIENTOCRACY

HUMANISTIC SCIENTOCRACY — Fri, 28 Aug 2009 08:34:38 +0000

The closer you get to the speed of light he slower time flows!