4/26 Why when we travel close to speed of light, time starts to slow down and
finally stops at v=c? Why time has anything to do with our cell division
which controls our aging which also stops at v=c?
\_ where's tom? ask ilyas about the stars....
\_ why don't you talk to that guy who always hangs around leconte
putting up posters about his "mono-pole" magnet?
he'll answer all your questions.
\_ time slows down for the other guys.
\_ No, the rest of the world speeds up, you don't slow down.
\_ go away. Really.
\_ obE190
\_ For starter: when you "travel close to c", the speed of light with
respect to you is still c. At the same moment the speed of the same
instance of light w.r.t. another person who is "stationary" is
also c. I vaguely remember that this strange observation is what
\_ time dilation effects everything, including the atoms in your
spawned Special Relativity.
\_ time dilation affects everything, including the atoms in your
\_ The above are all completely wrong. As soon as you learn to format
to less than 83 columns I'll reveal The Truth.
cells.
\_ but how cells in your body know time has stopped, this is weird.
\_ You can't tell that time has "stopped", in your frame of
reference everything will appear normal. An observer in
in an inertial frame of reference (one that is at rest or
moving with constant velocity with respect to you) will
\_ what? no. if that other inertial frame of
reference is moving with constant velocity of 0
with respect to you, time will appear the same
in both reference frames.
\_ There is no way to objectively determine if
a frame is "at rest" or if both frames were
in motion at some time t with velocity v.
Consider the train experiment. The frame of
of the observer viewing the train and of
the train itself are both moving with
constant velocity equal to that of the
earth. Although the observer viewing the
train considers himself at rest, he really
isn't at rest.
\_ obviously, but my point was that observers in
all reference frames do not think that time
has stopped for you.
think that time has "stopped" for you. Both of you are
correct because of the nature of time and space.
\_ hi, you're dumb.
\_ Time has not stopped for the person travelling the speed of light.
An observer with a different frame of reference will measure time
has stopped for the individual travelling the speed of light.
\_ Why are you people trying to explain -- oh, never mind. -geordan
\_ hi, it's called physics 7c and get it over with. |