Faster Than Light
 

Out of curiosity, assuming that we can travel faster than light, what would be the effect on your relative time. As you get closer and closer to the speed of light, time slows down, and if you could approach it, it would stop altogether, correct? Does this mean that if you could travel faster than light, you would move backwards in time. I'm just curious what would happen, no real reason that I'm asking except a conversation I had with a friend.

Yes, you would move backwards in time.

I hate theoretical physics discussions though, since 99% of the people arguing think they're experts on the subject after watching a 30 minute documentary on the Science Channel.

Most of then are an hour long.

You'd go back in time, but it doesn't matter since nothing can travel faster than the speed of light.

The correct answer is, "Theoretically, yes."

Considering that I'm Black Jesus, and I made physics, I would say I'm an expert.

I saw it on Science channel last night too..

Aparently we gotta harness the wormholes.. which are fractions of the width of an atom...

... And I hear that can be pretty hard.

I don't assume we would ever be able to approach anything even remotely near the speed of light. Maybe a superior race after we die out.

Just get D3V on the case. That's about how big his penis is.

Someone has sent information faster than light, he sent music information.

I heard about that. It was only centimeters though....and dunno if it was true.

According to a show I saw on The Science Channel last night it's true. And If I remember correctly 50x the speed of light was no prob with his little.... system thing thing thang.

Impossible.

What type of information, and by what means?

If Adrenachrome is talking about the same guy as I think he is, it was a symphony (Beethoven I believe).

I was just thinking. Maybe it's impossible, because mayve you just cant go past light speed. Maybe it would cause you to "go back in time" as to go back to the speed just before light speed... as in, you just oculdnt break light speed. I have no backing for anything i say, I'm just shooting out ideas.

I meant what type of information as in... electricity, vibrations, etc?

The place where I first read about it is here: http://math.ucr.edu/home/baez/physic...Light/FTL.html

It doesn't really say, and I don't understand some of what they're talking about anyway. Whatever I tell you about the experiment would be my interpretation of that site, and a couple of others, so I guess it's best you look yourself, because I would probably garble some stuff up. It's under section 11 if you want to see. Not much on it, so you can see my knowledge of the experiment is quite limited, and probably distorted.

It looked like some sort of green light.. laser thing...
(I know the issue is to make matter move faster than light but htis is a start eh?)

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The likely conclusion is that there is no real FTL communication taking place and that the effect is another manifestation of the Heisenberg uncertainty principle.

Simply, you couldn't ever go faster than the speed of light since once you reached the speed of light you would be stuck in time. Once time stops so do you and you obviously can't move through space.