What is time? What time is?

[hello1]

Time, time, time. Wonderful time.

 

Maybe time is a field in space. Its strength is defined by the speed of motion.

 

Maybe space is filled up with something we don't know yet. That something is electrical charged and very very tiny, like e/10^100, maybe it has no mass too.

 

Maybe light travel in space is just like sound travel in air. That tiny thing is light's conductor/medium. Since it has electrical charge, so sound/light speed in it is equal to C.

 

When we travel in space, we against that tiny tiny thing and produce a resistance/force, that force act at every atom in us and our ship (not like air Resistance only act at the surface of a jet). When we speed up, that resistance/force will increase (therefor canceled part of the force in our system in our moving direction. And time relatively slows down). When we keep speeding up till the Resistance force reach infinity strong, we will be pressurized into 0 length. Therefor, motion less and time stops.

 

Wow, maybe when we travel faster then light, we will back in time and be young again. Then we slow down our ship and grow older. Then we speed up again. Repeat that, we can live forever.

 

If Einstein was right, then we have no such hope. Let's all hope he was wrong.

[ecoli]

Wow, maybe when we travel faster then light, we will back in time and be young again. Then we slow down our ship and grow older. Then we speed up again. Repeat that, we can live forever.

Expect that, due to relavistic effects, mass increases as a function of velocity... so if matter ever travelled at C, than it would become infinitely massive, which is impossible.

[Reaper]

You will also experience length contraction too, so if you travel at C, you will also be infinitely short; i.e. you will cease to exist.....

 

 

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You know, one has to wonder why people think immortality is desirable. I mean, seriously, what is so good about living forever?

[swansont]

If Einstein was right, then we have no such hope. Let's all hope he was wrong.

 

Unfortunately we have boatloads of evidence that he was indeed correct.

[Realitycheck]

Expect that, due to relavistic effects, mass increases as a function of velocity... so if matter ever travelled at C, than it would become infinitely massive, which is impossible.

 

Therefore, God, ie. the universe is C.

[Severian]

It is almost as if the question "What is time?" is a trigger (in certain individuals) to perform a complete mind dump onto the keyboard. A sort of typing diarrhea, so to speak.

[john5746]

A sort of typing diarrhea, so to speak.

 

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well, that feels better.

 

< Tightens Belt >

[Phi for All]

You know, one has to wonder why people think immortality is desirable. I mean, seriously, what is so good about living forever?

Immortality is like the Midas Touch; it sounds so good until reality shows you it's not. We always forget the law of unintended consequences.

[Blue Fire]

I used to think that time was merely the speed at which the mind thinks. But I'm better now.

[ajb]

Unfortunately we have boatloads of evidence that he was indeed correct.

 

This is indeed very unfortunate and frustrating. Without more "clues" it is hard to see what could be next.

[Reaper]

Oh, did we mention that it would also take an infinite amount of energy to accelerate an object to the speed of light?

[thedarkshade]

Oh, did we mention that it would also take an infinite amount of energy to accelerate an object to the speed of light?

Man, this sentence is ALL AROUND SFN!

[Riogho]

Not as much infinite as undefined.

 

n/0 is undefined, not infinite.

 

0/n is infinite

[Klaynos]

it tends to infinity as v tends to c...