I'm afraid I've been neglecting my buddies from Brainden lately.. And by lately I mean for the past six months or so.
So what's up? And let's move on.
I can't remember why, since this is something that happened a while ago, but I started thinking about time travel, and whether or not it could really happen.
Now, don't hit me on the hands with a ruler if I'm not accurate, or completely wrong, but one of Einstien's theories, I believe, states that time slows down at speeds approaching that of the speed of light. Which is why astronauts might feel like they were on the moon longer than we felt like they were. (Or was it the other way around?) And when a vessel hits the speed of light, time stops completely.
Well, let's say we were to get something past the speed of light?
Okay, disclaimer here, we're all talking in theory, I want to talk about the possibility if this happened, not the possibility of a vessel reaching the speed of light.
So anyways, if you were to get this "Flying DeLorean" past the speed of light, what would happen? I feel like the equation would keep going in the same direction, and you would travel back in time.
Of course, I doubt this will ever happen for a simple reason, we haven't come across any time travelling tourists from the future, have we? (I was very pleased with myself to read that Stephen Hawking used that same reasoning to deduce that time travelling won't ever happen.)
As usual, my logic is most likely flawed to all hell.
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I'm afraid I've been neglecting my buddies from Brainden lately.. And by lately I mean for the past six months or so.
So what's up? And let's move on.
I can't remember why, since this is something that happened a while ago, but I started thinking about time travel, and whether or not it could really happen.
Now, don't hit me on the hands with a ruler if I'm not accurate, or completely wrong, but one of Einstien's theories, I believe, states that time slows down at speeds approaching that of the speed of light. Which is why astronauts might feel like they were on the moon longer than we felt like they were. (Or was it the other way around?) And when a vessel hits the speed of light, time stops completely.
Well, let's say we were to get something past the speed of light?
Okay, disclaimer here, we're all talking in theory, I want to talk about the possibility if this happened, not the possibility of a vessel reaching the speed of light.
So anyways, if you were to get this "Flying DeLorean" past the speed of light, what would happen? I feel like the equation would keep going in the same direction, and you would travel back in time.
Of course, I doubt this will ever happen for a simple reason, we haven't come across any time travelling tourists from the future, have we? (I was very pleased with myself to read that Stephen Hawking used that same reasoning to deduce that time travelling won't ever happen.)
As usual, my logic is most likely flawed to all hell.
So, let's see what you think
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