Hey guys, I'm just wondering some thing about the speed of light...
I know how when you travel in the speed of light, you think time stops, this is because that the "new" light cannot reach your eyes, as you are goping away in the same speed as it is comming towards you. Right?
So as you travel in speed of light, or close to it, does time ACTUALLY slows/ stop or just SEEMS like it is slowing/ stopping.
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As you approach the speed of light (note the word approach.. you will never reach it), time ACTUALLY slows down. This is due to the idea that no matter how fast you are traveling relative to another observer, as long as you are not accelerating then all laws of physics must be the same to both observers, which includes the speed of light, a concept known as relativity, something you can't talk about Einstein without bringing it up. There is some simple thought experiments that give rise to the logic behind this idea, which you can look up yourself, but the simple answer is yes, time does indeed slow down for you relative to the other observer, it doesn't just appear to slow down.
Anonymous
The aspects of Einstein's theory of Relativity state that nothing can travel faster than the speed of light.
When particles are accelerated to near light speed, they will slow down. So, if a train full of passengers traveled at 99% light speed for 2 outside years, time for them would only elapse for 1.
P.S. this is time travel to the future.
Anonymous
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