Faster Than Light

Out of curiosity, assuming that we can travel faster than light, what would be the effect on your relative time. As you get closer and closer to the speed of light, time slows down, and if you could approach it, it would stop altogether, correct? Does this mean that if you could travel faster than light, you would move backwards in time. I'm just curious what would happen, no real reason that I'm asking except a conversation I had with a friend.

Yes, you would move backwards in time.

I hate theoretical physics discussions though, since 99% of the people arguing think they're experts on the subject after watching a 30 minute documentary on the Science Channel.

Most of then are an hour long.

You'd go back in time, but it doesn't matter since nothing can travel faster than the speed of light.

The correct answer is, "Theoretically, yes."

Yes, you would move backwards in time. I hate theoretical physics discussions though, since 99% of the people arguing think they're experts on the subject after watching a 30 minute documentary on the Science Channel.

Considering that I'm Black Jesus, and I made physics, I would say I'm an expert.

I saw it on Science channel last night too..

Aparently we gotta harness the wormholes.. which are fractions of the width of an atom...

... And I hear that can be pretty hard.

I don't assume we would ever be able to approach anything even remotely near the speed of light. Maybe a superior race after we die out.

Just get D3V on the case. That's about how big his penis is.

... And I hear that can be pretty hard. I don't assume we would ever be able to approach anything even remotely near the speed of light. Maybe a superior race after we die out.

Someone has sent information faster than light, he sent music information.

Out of curiosity, assuming that we can travel faster than light, what would be the effect on your relative time. As you get closer and closer to the speed of light, time slows down, and if you could approach it, it would stop altogether, correct? Does this mean that if you could travel faster than light, you would move backwards in time. I'm just curious what would happen, no real reason that I'm asking except a conversation I had with a friend.

Simply, you couldn't ever go faster than the speed of light since once you reached the speed of light you would be stuck in time. Once time stops so do you and you obviously can't move through space.

Well, you're right but for the wrong reasons.

It has nothing to do with time stopping for you (though it would). If that was the only barrier, then why couldn't you just be on a vehicle going 1mph under the speed of light and throw a 90mph fastball forward?

What actually stops you from exceeding the speed of light is a sort of implied barrier. It's like our speedometers don't go any higher than that. Theoretically, if you were to do something like what I just suggested with the baseball, the ball would effectively teleport.

The ball wouldn't teleport, it would disappear. It would be stuck in time and would therefore no longer exist in the future, so basically what you would see is this:

1. You throw ball.
2. Ball disappears.
3. You continue traveling at your speed.

Let's say that you throw the ball at 5:00PM EST on the dot on June 1, 2010, at 5:01 you would not see it because it would still be at 5:00, stuck.

Completely false.

Time, relative to the ball, would freeze. It would not disappear.

Time is all relative. Those outside such extreme speeds observing the things experiencing time dilation still see them. The objects do not cease to exist.

Well it wouldn't disappear at 5:00, but you would no longer see it because it would still be at 5:00, therefore to you it would no longer exist.

funny how you brought this up... just recently i was explaining this to my friend's sister. i beleive its true because as we see stars as they were billions of years ago

im going to tap that shit when he isnt looking lol

Bob is right, K_A. You're dead to me.

According to the documentaries on the Science Channel, the only way an object would disappear is if it traveled faster than light, since it would go back in time.

Bob is right, K_A. You're dead to me. According to the documentaries on the Science Channel, the only way an object would disappear is if it traveled faster than light, since it would go back in time.

Nuh-ahh! If you had a flux-capacitor and went at 88 MPH it would disappear too!