What u think of this theory of space travel?

[mf doomer]

Relitivity or not, I'm sure the body couldn't adapt to that type of travel 20 light years away. So, essentially light years are not earth years so thetiming would differ which would alter humankind.

 

[supervi11ain]

time stands still for you when you are traveling at the speed of light but everything else around you is still moving at regular time. so you traveling atspeed of light for 40 years you would go and come back to earth looking not a day older. but on earth 40 years would have passed. in this way time travel ispossible. its just not in the way that everybody thinks it is like in the movies.

 

[drsfinest72]

Originally Posted by SuperVi11ain

time stands still for you when you are traveling at the speed of light but everything else around you is still moving at regular time. so you traveling at speed of light for 40 years you would go and come back to earth looking not a day older. but on earth 40 years would have passed. in this way time travel is possible. its just not in the way that everybody thinks it is like in the movies.

So your sayng if I travel at the speed of light in space, I won't age? I don't know. Your going so fast that you'll age slower maybe but timeitself stops?

 

[retr0sxual]

Originally Posted by JBnSOUL

Originally Posted by retr0sxual

20 light years is a measure of distance.

20 years is a measure of time.

There would be no difference in time between someone on Earth and someone traveling at the speed of light.

That is incorrect. Your last statement directly contradicts the theory of relativity. You should be thinking of space-time as one entity, not space and time individually.

I'm saying that, at the speed of light, it takes 20 years to travel 20 light years.

So, considering the scenario that the OP described, time should not have "stopped" on Earth while you were off traveling through space.

Earthlings will age 40 years (as you will), because, even at the speed of light, it still took you 40 years to travel back and forth from the planet that is 20light years away.

Is that what you're saying is incorrect? Tell me where I'm wrong (no smartass on my part).

 

[allday allnight]

Originally Posted by retr0sxual

Originally Posted by JBnSOUL

Originally Posted by retr0sxual

20 light years is a measure of distance.

20 years is a measure of time.

There would be no difference in time between someone on Earth and someone traveling at the speed of light.

That is incorrect. Your last statement directly contradicts the theory of relativity. You should be thinking of space-time as one entity, not space and time individually.

I'm saying that, at the speed of light, it takes 20 years to travel 20 light years.

So, considering the scenario that the OP described, time should not have "stopped" on Earth while you were off traveling through space.

Earthlings will age 40 years (as you will), because, even at the speed of light, it still took you 40 years to travel back and forth from the planet that is 20 light years away.

Is that what you're saying is incorrect? Tell me where I'm wrong (no smartass on my part).

I'm no physicist, but I think this is where you're wrong.

While time has not stopped on earth, the OP and DaJoka's jailbait on the spaceship are traveling relativistically much, much faster than anyone else onEarth. Viewed backwards, it means that everyone on earth is moving at a much slower pace than OP and JB on the ship...relativistically.

So while one year spent on a ship traveling at the speed of light will feel like exactly one year to the ship's cohabitants (who will have only physicallyaged one year), much more time will have passed on earth.

Which means that if OP and JB went on a 40 light year round trip, it's a good bet that when they come back, most people they know will be either dead orgone. Word to T.I.

 

[dendanskesimon]

Originally Posted by DaJoka004

Originally Posted by drsfinest72

i mean i read an article that if you take a plane from US across the pacific to india or something. that your actually a few minutes younger than you were in the us. i dont understand this time + distance crap. but im just saying.



yeah sunlight takes 8 minutes to reach earth.so if the sun exploded. we wont know until 8 minutes after it exploded. pretty crazy.

No. Time distortions are not felt until you travel a significant fraction of the speed of light.

NOT TRUE

if you travel in a plane around the earth for your whole life, assuming you live for 100 years, your age is actually modified by 1/10000 of a second. Thechange is definitely existent, just not that large.

and basically the entire OP is flawed, i dont feel like explainin it all lol, let someone else do it

 

[june0kang]

Cute story.

 

[drsfinest72]

Originally Posted by dendanskesimon

Originally Posted by DaJoka004

Originally Posted by drsfinest72

i mean i read an article that if you take a plane from US across the pacific to india or something. that your actually a few minutes younger than you were in the us. i dont understand this time + distance crap. but im just saying.



yeah sunlight takes 8 minutes to reach earth.so if the sun exploded. we wont know until 8 minutes after it exploded. pretty crazy.

No. Time distortions are not felt until you travel a significant fraction of the speed of light.

NOT TRUE

if you travel in a plane around the earth for your whole life, assuming you live for 100 years, your age is actually modified by 1/10000 of a second. The change is definitely existent, just not that large.

and basically the entire OP is flawed, i dont feel like explainin it all lol, let someone else do it

Okay so like you said 1/1000 of a second. Now that's not going the speed of lght. Let's say the plane is going around 500Mph, that's not even closeto the 186,000 mph thatlight travels. So obviously traveling that fast my whole life would accumulate the 1/1000 of a seconds to months even years

 

[dajoka004]

Originally Posted by dendanskesimon

Originally Posted by DaJoka004

Originally Posted by drsfinest72

i mean i read an article that if you take a plane from US across the pacific to india or something. that your actually a few minutes younger than you were in the us. i dont understand this time + distance crap. but im just saying.



yeah sunlight takes 8 minutes to reach earth.so if the sun exploded. we wont know until 8 minutes after it exploded. pretty crazy.

No. Time distortions are not felt until you travel a significant fraction of the speed of light.

NOT TRUE

if you travel in a plane around the earth for your whole life, assuming you live for 100 years, your age is actually modified by 1/10000 of a second. The change is definitely existent, just not that large.

and basically the entire OP is flawed, i dont feel like explainin it all lol, let someone else do it

That's exactly what I meant. But you're not going to feel a change of a fraction of a second. Nowif you traveled at 99% of the speed of light, then you would actually be able to tell there was a distortion.

If anybody is confused, just re-read what I posted before.

Actually, if you travel at the speed of light, you experience everything instantaneously. It would take you absolutely zero time to reach anywhere traveling at the speed of light. But from the perspective of someone standing still, it would take 40 years for you to return from a 40 light year round trip.

 

[retr0sxual]

Originally Posted by DaJoka004

Originally Posted by dendanskesimon

Originally Posted by DaJoka004

Originally Posted by drsfinest72

i mean i read an article that if you take a plane from US across the pacific to india or something. that your actually a few minutes younger than you were in the us. i dont understand this time + distance crap. but im just saying.



yeah sunlight takes 8 minutes to reach earth.so if the sun exploded. we wont know until 8 minutes after it exploded. pretty crazy.

No. Time distortions are not felt until you travel a significant fraction of the speed of light.

NOT TRUE

if you travel in a plane around the earth for your whole life, assuming you live for 100 years, your age is actually modified by 1/10000 of a second. The change is definitely existent, just not that large.

and basically the entire OP is flawed, i dont feel like explainin it all lol, let someone else do it

That's exactly what I meant. But you're not going to feel a change of a fraction of a second. Now if you traveled at 99% of the speed of light, then you would actually be able to tell there was a distortion.

If anybody is confused, just re-read what I posted before.

Actually, if you travel at the speed of light, you experience everything instantaneously. It would take you absolutely zero time to reach anywhere traveling at the speed of light. But from the perspective of someone standing still, it would take 40 years for you to return from a 40 light year round trip.

I don't think that's correct, though.

1 light year = the distance that light travels in 1 year.

If you travel at light speed for 5 years, you will have traveled a distance of 5 light years.

If you travel at light speed for 10 years, you will have traveled a distance of 10 light years.

The light speed space traveler would "experience" 1 year at the same rate that Earthlings would.

A 40 light year round trip in space would take the same amount of time as 40 years on Earth.

Tell me where I'm getting it wrong.

 

[reigndrop]

Originally Posted by retr0sxual

Originally Posted by DaJoka004

Originally Posted by dendanskesimon

Originally Posted by DaJoka004

Originally Posted by drsfinest72

i mean i read an article that if you take a plane from US across the pacific to india or something. that your actually a few minutes younger than you were in the us. i dont understand this time + distance crap. but im just saying.



yeah sunlight takes 8 minutes to reach earth.so if the sun exploded. we wont know until 8 minutes after it exploded. pretty crazy.

No. Time distortions are not felt until you travel a significant fraction of the speed of light.

NOT TRUE

if you travel in a plane around the earth for your whole life, assuming you live for 100 years, your age is actually modified by 1/10000 of a second. The change is definitely existent, just not that large.

and basically the entire OP is flawed, i dont feel like explainin it all lol, let someone else do it

That's exactly what I meant. But you're not going to feel a change of a fraction of a second. Now if you traveled at 99% of the speed of light, then you would actually be able to tell there was a distortion.

If anybody is confused, just re-read what I posted before.

Actually, if you travel at the speed of light, you experience everything instantaneously. It would take you absolutely zero time to reach anywhere traveling at the speed of light. But from the perspective of someone standing still, it would take 40 years for you to return from a 40 light year round trip.

I don't think that's correct, though.

1 light year = the distance that light travels in 1 year.

If you travel at light speed for 5 years, you will have traveled a distance of 5 light years.

If you travel at light speed for 10 years, you will have traveled a distance of 10 light years.

The light speed space traveler would "experience" 1 year at the same rate that Earthlings would.

A 40 light year round trip in space would take the same amount of time as 40 years on Earth.

Tell me where I'm getting it wrong.



You're not getting it. Time stands still for anyone traveling at the speed of light. If you were 16 and embarked on a 40 light year trip, you don'tWILL BE 16 when you return, because time stands still. The society that you come back to though will be 40 years up. So in theory, people could live foreverif they were constantly traveling at the speed of light since time stands still; resulting in non aging.

 

[allday allnight]

Originally Posted by retr0sxual

I don't think that's correct, though.

1 light year = the distance that light travels in 1 year.

If you travel at light speed for 5 years, you will have traveled a distance of 5 light years.

If you travel at light speed for 10 years, you will have traveled a distance of 10 light years.

The light speed space traveler would "experience" 1 year at the same rate that Earthlings would.

A 40 light year round trip in space would take the same amount of time as 40 years on Earth.

Tell me where I'm getting it wrong.

Read my explanation up above and you'll get your answer.

The thing you're having trouble understanding is THE THEORY OF RELATIVITY

. Which is what this whole thread is about.

 

[HEATHEN]

Man...40 yrs away from my loved ones...


I'd rather off myself...

 

[abernja]

Fact is it's just a theory and not physically possible. Why waste time thinking about it?

 

[allday allnight]

Originally Posted by abernja

Fact is it's just a theory and not physically possible. Why waste time thinking about it?

Yeah, because innovations in science are all about resting on our laurels and not even trying to reach new levels of excellence for the benefit ofmankind.

I hope you've got a career in politics in mind. You'd be good for that.

 

[knightngale]

just use wormholes

 

[danikerhino]

Originally Posted by knightngale

just use wormholes

This man read my mind, I was just about to post this. Why travel the speed of light when you can just take a shortcut and fold spaceitself.