Watching Real Time While Traveling At Speed of Light

Discussion in 'Science and Nature' started by Deleted member 839659, Jul 8, 2015.

  1. If you were to travel at the speed of light while watching a live feed of a location on earth would you see everything on earth moving at an increased speed?


    for argument's sake let's say tht information from camera reaches the monitor immediatelly

     
  2. no, if anything time would appear dilated? but even thats relevant to perspective.


    since your travelling that fast, not actually moving in the timeline any direction, time should still be equal.
     
  3. even tho more time will pass quicker on earth than in your shuttle??
     
  4. How would it? explain?
     
  5. Theoretically, if you were to travel at the speed of light.. you wouldn't age. The faster you travel through space, the less time effects you. That raises the question though, what would that experience be like? Based on my understanding, you would basically "freeze" at light speed. Time would stand still for you while you're traveling.. and unless you believe the mind is something more than the brain, all your brain activity would freeze in place the moment you hit the speed of light, making the trip appear to be instantaneous. So if you could travel 50 light years with the push of a button, you would see a flash and then pretty much be at your destination.. not aging one bit, while 50 years passed on Earth. If you were somehow able to stream a live feed to the spaceship, those 50 years of video feed would flash by in an instant as well. It's a strong possibility that it is impossible to make an object travel at the speed of light, but if you could.. time would stand still for that object. If you were looking at a calendar on the video feed and it displayed today's date, the moment you push the button to light speed travel.. the calendar would instantly show a date 50 years from now.


    Now if there were a way to shield the ship from that effect, it really wouldn't matter cause you could fiddle with it how you want. You could make it that 50 years passes on the ship as well.. therefore allowing them to view the feed in live time. You could make it that 25 years passes on the ship and the 50 years of live feed would be crammed into a 25 year experience.

     
  6. Special relativity


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  7. I remember reading somewhere that both parties would view eachother as moving slower. Who knows

    I think the person watching earth would see it in slow motion

    -yuri
     
  8. What really trippy are the implications of spacetime

    For starters, 2 things affect time. Speed and gravity.

    So I wonder if star systems and planets moving faster than us age slower. Would slow moving smaller planets at the outer edge of the galaxy evolve the fastest?

    Also what is the frame of reference? That's what boggles my mind most of all.

    For the speed of light to be constant for all frames of reference, there would have to be a universal frame of referexe

    -yuri
     
  9. Something I think about a good bit.. more so if we ever colonized another planet. Like if the planet's rotational speed was 10 times that of Earth.. humans who evolved for Earth's conditions would age slower, but more than likely it'd be barely noticeable. I remember reading somewhere that if an astronaut stayed on the ISS for 81 Earth years, their body would only age 80 years.. and people on the ISS are traveling through space 15 to 20 times faster than here on Earth. So really, you're going to need some big differences for a noticable effect. Fun to think about, but in reality seems more science fiction.. and for me, I think that most the universe (or at least localized regions) naturally age similarly as there is a flow of space outside of galaxies as well that effects them somewhat uniformly.
     
  10. that's true. I think I remember reading tthat the time dilation isn't all that significant for practical speeds.

    Like you said, even if it was moving many times the speed of earth, its a tiny fraction of light speed and only a tiny difference in time dilation

    -yuri
     

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