Does Light grant’s Experience Time?

Relativity tells us that time moves more slowly for objects moving at high speed. As such, if you were to take a lap from the earth to the sun and back at the speed of light with a stopwatch, you would perceive that journey as instantaneous and your stopwatch would read 0 minutes and 0 seconds. But from my perspective, the journey would take you 16 minutes, and when you returned, my stopwatch would read 16 minutes.

• C is the speed of light in a vacuum, and it is the fastest speed that anything can travel through spacetime.
• So, faster than light travel is a problem because it can lead to causal inconsistencies.
• Really as I said, there is nothing in Einstein’s theory that forbids it.
• The nearest star is 4 x 1017 meters away, and the current estimated size for the entire universe is greater than that by ten orders of magnitude or so .
• You might think that by expending more and more energy, you can make yourself move faster… and while this is true, it’s only true up to a point.
• They have identified quasars which are physically connected to galaxies as if being produced by the galaxies.

“The imaginary result for the rest-mass of Tachyons offends only the traditional way of thinking and not observable physics.” As I said, the reason you have this paradox is that the arrow of time is inconsistent. Rather than a Time dimension existing, the time variable seems to represent information about other information, and the information might be (e.g.) “position number has changed”.

Going Faster Than Light Could Send You “back In Time”

So either relativity is wrong or maybe some particles can travel faster than light, but if you try it, you won’t remember your departure when you arrive at your destination. “For example the 2nd law of thermodynamics will be violated in some reference frames by objects moving faster than light.” Are there any inertial frames in which the two are always aligned even for spacelike separated events? One would speculate that there is one such preferred frame but it isn’t obvious to me. Sergei, it is an elementary fact that FTL even in special relativity implies time travel.

Testing The Theory

World’s fully with people who will tell you that a non-globally hyperbolic space is a good thing, not a bad. I just don’t get the ” grant’s entropy determines the Arrow of Time” principle . To me, it seems that the arrow of time determines entropy, that is, entropy is statistically likely to increase in the order that events happen. In summary, there is no reason in principle why faster than light travel or faster than light communication is impossible. So, faster than light travel is a problem because it can lead to causal inconsistencies. At least that’s what most physicists will tell you or maybe have already told you.

Random Question

Light and gravitational waves can travel at the speed of light because they aren’t “things”. Just because you can see it, though, doesn’t mean you can reach it. Any object presently beyond 18 billion light-years from us will still emit light, and that light will travel through the Universe, but the fabric of space will simply expand too relentlessly for it to ever reach us. With each moment that passes, every unbound object moves farther and farther away, and previously reachable objects transition across that mark to become forever unreachable. Nothing moves faster than light in an expanding Universe, and that’s both a blessing and a curse. Unless we figure out how to overcome this, all but the closest galaxies may forever be beyond our reach.

But Van Flandern shows that there are sound reasons for believing that the “speed of gravity” is not infinite. By carefully studying the observable data, Van Flandern now concludes that the speed of gravity is greater than or equal to the present speed of light by a factor of 2 x 1010. Similarly, light from the stars arrives at an angle which can be as much as 20 arc seconds because the earth is moving with respect to the stars. It is by carefully measuring these aberration angles, and knowing the relative velocities involved, that Bradley made excellent and trustworthy measurements of the velocity of light 250 years ago.

If something were to go faster than the speed of light then it makes sense for time to go backwards. This would technically not be possible because if time was to go backwards then the speed of light would return to its “fastest” state hence making it not possible to go faster….Is this true fact? Now, let’s imagine that some event occurs away from Earth, oriented in such a way that the light from the event hits us before it reaches Proxima Centauri.

If You Traveled Faster Than Light, Would You Travel Back In Time, And Would Gravity Repel You Instead Of Attract You?

Here on Earth, we define the Hubble volume by measuring something called the Hubble parameter , a value that relates the apparent recession speed of distant objects to their redshift. It was first calculated in 1929, when Edwin Hubble discovered that faraway galaxies appeared to be moving away from us at a rate that was proportional to the redshift of their light. If Lorentz symmetry can cease to be a fundamental symmetry at the Planck scale or at some other fundamental scale, it is conceivable that particles with a critical speed different from the speed of light be the ultimate constituents of matter. Imagine two fast-moving particles approaching each other from opposite sides of a particle accelerator of the collider type. The closing speed would be the rate at which the distance between the two particles is decreasing. From the point of view of an observer standing at rest relative to the accelerator, this rate will be slightly less than twice the speed of light.

The faster-than-light ship is moving so fast that it can outrun any light that it emits. This creates a kind of ‘sonic boom’ made of light, which produces some interesting effects. As the warp-capable ship overtakes the slower one, and after the two ships pass each other, the light the faster ship emits is still traveling to the slower one.

Jwst Has Imaged The Most Distant Known Single Star No, It’s Not That One

Could present technology make something travel faster than the speed of light? The fastest speed ever achieved by an artificial object. NASA landed it in 2018 to investigate the sun’s outer corona. Like everything else in physics, our Universe strives to exist in the lowest possible energy state possible.