FA_Q2
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From your perspective. Your problem is that you seem to think that distance and time are experienced in the same manner for the body that is 'at rest' and the body that is in motion. That is false. Time and distance are RELATIVE (hence the name of the theory) and experienced differently. You could have simply declared that Einstein was wrong and you know better than he does - its not MY theory it s Einstein's.this is is the problem with theoretical versus practical science......dude, neither time or distance ever change.......you will never get from point A to point B by not moving.....if your theory convinces you that you will, chuck your fucked up theory.........light travels at the speed of light all day long......yet the distance from the earth to the sun is not, nor has it ever been, zero.......You would think incorrectly then. There is plenty of science that has been done on this subject and many experiments.you have science that supports the claim that you can travel at the speed of light but go no where and no time passes?......I don't think so......And I am supported by the actual science.lol dude....you said "You do not experience time (or travel for that matter) when moving at the speed of light".......apparently you think that when you travel at the speed of light you don't actually move....that would explain why you're not getting anywhere.......I did answer your questions. I am not anxious to prove anything. I was hoping to have a good conversation on physics though - it is a subject I quite enjoy. Unfortunately, few people do.
I am sorry that you do not want to address the very basis of relativity but you cannot have a conversation on near-light speeds without it.
First, I have stated MANY TIMES that travel at the speed of light is literally impossible under our current understanding of physics. You are the one that demands this must be framed in actual light speed and not relativistic speeds. I do have science that backs time dilation (and the fact that at light speed time does not exist) though and DECADES of research has shown this theory is correct time and time again.
A link has ALREADY been provided. A link that describe the concept of time dilation that you apparently didn't feel the need to examine. Here is the equation for time dilation for a body in constant motion:
v - your relative velocity. Simply look at the equation - what do you think occurs as the relative velocity squared approaches c squared? That denominator gets closer to 0 and time dilation gets close to infinite. AT the speed of light, time ceases to exist in any real sense. You are STILL ignoring the reality of distance dilating as well. Distances get SHORTER in almost the same manner that time itself dilates. As you get closer to the speed of light - the distance in the direction of travel gets closer to ZERO. As I stated before, that is the reason that, at the speed of light, you wouldn't actually be traveling from your perspective. Distances would be literally zero.
Length contraction - Wikipedia the free encyclopedia
Do you understand that time and length dilates or are you stating Einstein was incorrect? This is not even the strange stuff - simultaneous events being non-simultaneous in a different frame of reference is far more foreign to understand than these concepts. The universe is a LOT stranger than we might think in our extremely narrow set of experiences.
Finally, this is NOT theoretical science. It has been tested multiple times over the decades and yielded the exact result that the theory predicted. Usually these involve the use of atomic clocks or muon lifetimes. Just because you do not acknowledge the reality does not mean it does not exist. These experiments prove that time is different based on motion and gravitational pull (which has the same exact effect of motion on time).