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I remember reading a while ago an article/theory which proposed travelling above a certain speed for a period would essentially move/adjust you time relative to everyone else. (I think it was something like 0.0000.....01s for every year you spend at or above this speed) and your essentially left out of sync (very slightly) with everyone else?

Can anyone recall the name of the idea/priciples? Feel free to discuss this idea too.


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If I remember correctly, if I travelled at half the speed of light and I made a journey lasting a week, an several centuries would've passed; although I would've only aged a week. Everyone else would've aged as normal etc etc (you'd also turn into a funny semi wave on your journey; blue when travelling one way, red the other. It's too late for me to figure which way around. Yawn. ;)

But in theory if you actually made it past the light barrier (you'd be a wave) and time would reverse.
 
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iNPUt said:
What? Crash talk I say :D
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Not really, it makes sense; travel fast - you end up nano seconds out of 'sync'. Spend 1000 years on a commercial aeroplane and your 1/1000th of a second younger than you would be had you remained on earth (if you guesstamate with einstiens formula).

When you consider the relative speeds there; it sort of makes sense.


(if going 99.9999% means times going forward and it's hypothesised going faster means it goes backwards, if this was proved correct, does that mean if you travel exactly at the speed of light time freezes!?!
 
DAnDan said:
You wouldn't turn into a blue or red wave yourself, but to someone observing you, your colour would change due to red-shift. If you are moving away from some observer, you would appear to be more red than you actually are, and if you're moving towards then, you'd appear more blue. It's basically the Doppler effect, but with light, not sound.
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Yes, sorry that's what I meant to express (typing from my iPod here; not too easy to see what I've typed/not typed).

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