Time Travel...possible?

[Low_Level_Owl]

O.K., I'm not big on what's going on with time travel but today my friend and I began talking and we wondered, how easy is it to time travel?

And here is what we came up with...

It takes the earth 24 hours to travel roughly 40,000 miles around it's equator. Now what would happen if you were able to travel 40,000 miles a second. Would that theoretically be time travel? As it only took you one second what it took the earth to do in 24 hours? Again assuming you're traveling the same direction the earth spins. What if you traveled those 40,000 miles a second in the opposite direction the earth spins? What then?

I've been wondering this all day!!!

[WebHead]

How do you plan to travel 40K miles in one second? Hmmm?

[Low_Level_Owl]

How do you plan to travel 40K miles in one second? Hmmm?

Just theoretical...I know it's not possible to do that...but what if????

Light travels at 186,000 miles per second. So we would only have to travel about 1/4th as fast as light travels. It's possible...I know it is!!

[WebHead]

Could be. But people don't travel that fast without imploding or something.

[Commander Klarg]

It takes the earth 24 hours to travel roughly 40,000 miles around it's equator.

Earth is actually only about 24,000 miles in circumference.

[confus-ed]

Earth is actually only about 24,000 miles in circumference.

He's merely confus-ed the equator is about 40,000 kilometers or 24,000 miles if you fancy

[gazzak]

According to Einstein's theory of special relativity, time slows as an object approaches the speed of light. This leads many scientists to believe that traveling faster than the speed of light could open up the possibility of time travel to the past as well as to the future. The problem is that the speed of light is believed to be the highest speed at which something can travel, so it is unlikely that we will be able to travel into the past. As an object nears the speed of light, its relativistic mass increases until, at the speed of light, it becomes infinite. Accelerating an infinite mass any faster than that is impossible, or at least it seems to be right now.

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[Trout]

According to Einstein's theory of special relativity, time slows as an object approaches the speed of light. This leads many scientists to believe that traveling faster than the speed of light could open up the possibility of time travel to the past as well as to the future. The problem is that the speed of light is believed to be the highest speed at which something can travel, so it is unlikely that we will be able to travel into the past. As an object nears the speed of light, its relativistic mass increases until, at the speed of light, it becomes infinite. Accelerating an infinite mass any faster than that is impossible, or at least it seems to be right now.

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So let me get this straight,
I have a car/airplane or whatever traveling @ 186,000 miles per second,I turn On the headlites,Does anything Come out? hehe

trout

[meatwad]

So let me get this straight,
I have a car/airplane or whatever traveling @ 186,000 miles per second,I turn On the headlites,Does anything Come out? hehe

trout

Actually it does. Because the speed of light is always constant relative to an object, from your point of view inside the car/airplane the light from your headlights still appears to be traveling 186,000 miles per second. How messed up is that.

[+Daemon+]

According to Einstein's theory of special relativity, time slows as an object approaches the speed of light. This leads many scientists to believe that traveling faster than the speed of light could open up the possibility of time travel to the past as well as to the future. The problem is that the speed of light is believed to be the highest speed at which something can travel, so it is unlikely that we will be able to travel into the past. As an object nears the speed of light, its relativistic mass increases until, at the speed of light, it becomes infinite. Accelerating an infinite mass any faster than that is impossible, or at least it seems to be right now.

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there has been reports about stopping light for some secs... think this could help? dunno

if anything networking would be sweet... transfer data at speed of light

[CeeBee]

He's merely confus-ed the equator is about 40,000 kilometers or 24,000 miles if you fancy

About 40,000 km???
I guess you are confus-ed too... The equator is EXACTLY 40,000km since 1meter is defined as 1/40,000,000 of the length of the equator. Damn MKS [Meter Kilogram Second] measuring system!!!

[CeeBee]

Anyway in theory, doing the math, your time would be about 9ms before the one on the original start point... Your final time would not be in the past, but in the future relative to the starting time. Now how do you plan to reach that speed???

[paraflyer]

The whole idea would backfire.....you know that job the boss wanted you to "get done yesterday?" Now you have no excuse

[Low_Level_Owl]

Now how do you plan to reach that speed???

My '72 yellow Ford Maverick...in perfect working condition!

Well, I guess I'll see you guys tomorrow which would be my right now which would mean that I would be a day younger I would of been if I hadn't of traveled through time with my '72 yellow ford maverick...in perfect working condition!

Ah...maybe if i put the pedal to the metal I could rip the fabric of time...or maybe my car would just backfire and blow a puff of nasty black smoke.

[confus-ed]

About 40,000 km???
I guess you are confus-ed too... The equator is EXACTLY 40,000km since 1meter is defined as 1/40,000,000 of the length of the equator. Damn MKS [Meter Kilogram Second] measuring system!!!

Is that so ... so everytime we have an earthquake or eruption on or around the equator we ought to be redoing the standard, as according to you one meter just got a bit bigger or smaller ?

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