Originally posted by: lordjedi
Time doesn't move faster sean. The faster you go, the more time appears to slow down. This has actually been scientifically proven. Clocks were put onboard jet aircraft after they were synchronized with ground stations. The planes flew at high rates of speed and at the end of the experiment, the clocks on the planes were millionths of a second behind. That's not much, but it proved the validity of Einsteins theory.
Originally posted by: sean wookie
I think if aliens have ever been here they would be traveling at something similar to warp drive or you know if you are moving at the speed of light time will move faster around you 50 years to you can seem to be hundredsof thousands to the out side universe.
I think if aliens have ever been here they would be traveling at something similar to warp drive or you know if you are moving at the speed of light time will move faster around you 50 years to you can seem to be hundredsof thousands to the out side universe.
Time doesn't move faster sean. The faster you go, the more time appears to slow down. This has actually been scientifically proven. Clocks were put onboard jet aircraft after they were synchronized with ground stations. The planes flew at high rates of speed and at the end of the experiment, the clocks on the planes were millionths of a second behind. That's not much, but it proved the validity of Einsteins theory.
It's a bit more complicated than that actually. Based upon what I guess Sean was referring to, he's actually right to a degree (though science is pretty sure that we cannot reach the speed of light).
According to the theory of Special Relativity, anytime you observe something moving, its time must be moving slower in comparison to your own position's time. So, if we were to say that you left the earth in a rocket ship and came close to the speed of light (in comparison to the earth), you'd then see time on earth as if it were moving slower (and people on the earth would observe the same about you). However, a single moving position does not completely describe the way its entire frame of reference will intersect an observer's frame of reference. To make a long story short (the long story being Lorentz contraction) you're actually moving into parts of the moving position's entire frame that are farther in the future than it is. In our example this means that if you were to decelerate back to a speed that is seemingly at rest with the earth's position, you'd observe the outside universe as having aged far faster than you. (Your clocks will have moved more slowly in comparison to the outside world.) So, as Sean said, if you were moving at the right speed and you accelerate and decelerate at the right moments, 50 years (to you) could be hundreds of thousands of years to some other frame of reference.