The speed of Light

Australia
April 24, 2009 11:07pm CST
Even thinking about the following question gives me the shivers: If you are traveling at the speed of light, time around you will slow down. The faster you go, the faster time slows down. But what if you travel so fast that time actually, STOPS? But that's not all! What will happen if you go even FASTER? Will you go so fast that you are practically traveling back in time because the time around you goes backwards! Does this question make you stop and wonder? Or does it give you shivers like it gives me? Please tell me your thoughts!
2 responses
beachdune
@beachdune (907)
• India
15 Apr 10
as per me actually time slowdown so it ll be so slow that it doesn't run when we travel in light speed n we ll feel like it is going back
cvodrey
@cvodrey (225)
• United States
27 Apr 09
Time IS as time is. Whether we experience it from the human perspective, or in some ominous hyperspeed, it remains a state of it's own. If you were to travel around our planet faster than the speed of light, or even faster, it may appear as if time has stopped. But it hasn't. Time will continually move on, even though you may not experience it as others do. If it were possible to travel so fast that time SEEMED to stop, it would only be an illusion. And you can compare that illusion to one of a human watching a blade of grass grow. We never see it happening, but it does. Time, in and of itself, does not stop. We cannot move backwards. If time DID stop, we would not be able to move in any speed. For example, if an asteroid were to circle around the earth 100 billion times in one second, how would it affect us? It wouldn't. We would still experience life as we experience it. But as for that asteroid...it would be moving forward in time too, just as we are. You wouldn't be able to continue on a journey if there were no time to carry you there.