Time travel

[albino_polo]

The faster you travel from A - B the time to get their will decrease. So if you keep increasing the speed the time it takes will technically, eventually reach 0 of any measurement of time.

If this is the case, if you continue to increase the speed will time go beyond 0 and be reversed time?

Does my time travel theory have any logic?

p.s. If time machines do exist in the future could we be recieving things being sent back to now?

[ll_billym]

Speed = Distance / Time

You cannot divide anything by zero, therefore time can never be zero.

[albino_polo]

Fair enough. Really thought I was on to something with that theory.

[ll_billym]

Essentially if something is going from A to B then it must take some time, no matter how short an amount of time, to get there.

[CT]

Indeed. But the universe has a natural speed limit, which is the speed of light.

[Toureman]

People thought they would die if they went too fast when steam trains were invented not that long ago!

People now think nothing can travel faster than light!

Another 100 years from now people will think those stupid people thought nothing could go faster than 186,000 feet per second!

[kempie]

186,000 feet per second = 126,818.182 mph

Does this mean that Escape Velocity of the Earth (25,000 mph) is a fifth of the speed of light?

...or has Toureman erred by a factor of 5280?

[mibn2cweus]

The brick wall which your �theory� must overcome is that as we approach C, (the velocity of light), time dilates.

If we were able to approach C, then by our clock we could travel distances previously measured in light years, in days, hours, minutes, seconds. The velocity of light would still measure C, (and our clock would continue ticking at the same rate for us), but distance would shrink in proportion to the dilation of time.

Those observing our journey from its point of origin would age the years required for light to travel this distance (time is relative to the observers reference frame) and they would observe our velocity never exceeded C as even in theory it can not.

Approaching C requires �exponentially� more and more energy, the closer to C we get, curving towards infinity.

[boobesque]

dam right mibn2cweus. the energy required to reach higher speeds would slow an object down which would require more energy etc. to reach the speed of light would require infinite energy eg., infinite mass which in a finite universe is not going to happen. unless e doesnt equal mc^2

[albino_polo]

Excellent answers. Cheers