What's worse is time is relative. If you're travelling at a different speed than something else, you're experiencing time at a different rate than it. Just wait till we can travel sufficiently near the speed of light to actually feel its effects, then come complain to me.

What's worse is time is relative. If you're travelling at a different speed than something else, you're experiencing time at a different rate than it. Just wait till we can travel sufficiently near the speed of light to actually feel its effects, then come complain to me.

That already happens in the matter of millionths of seconds to GPS satellites, and in the same time scale for astronauts. If someone should be complaining, it should be someone like Neil Armstrong, or Buzz Aldrin.

What's worse is time is relative. If you're travelling at a different speed than something else, you're experiencing time at a different rate than it. Just wait till we can travel sufficiently near the speed of light to actually feel its effects, then come complain to me.

Exactly!

And even then you'd never be able to travel back, UNLESS you happened to stumble across a black hole which is actually an opening to an interdimensional wormhole. Then you'd be able to enter it perpendicular to the event horizon and get to a point where gravity isn't infinite, but simply very, very large!

But then you'd have to cross your fingers that it ends up in another time in your universe, instead of an alternate extra-dimensional ones where the laws of physics do not apply!

What's worse is time is relative. If you're travelling at a different speed than something else, you're experiencing time at a different rate than it. Just wait till we can travel sufficiently near the speed of light to actually feel its effects, then come complain to me.

Exactly!

 

And even then you'd never be able to travel back, UNLESS you happened to stumble across a black hole which is actually an opening to an interdimensional wormhole. Then you'd be able to enter it perpendicular to the event horizon and get to a point where gravity isn't infinite, but simply very, very large!

 

But then you'd have to cross your fingers that it ends up in another time in your universe, instead of an alternate extra-dimensional ones where the laws of physics do not apply!

:wacko: :wacko:

What's worse is time is relative. If you're travelling at a different speed than something else, you're experiencing time at a different rate than it. Just wait till we can travel sufficiently near the speed of light to actually feel its effects, then come complain to me.

Exactly!

 

And even then you'd never be able to travel back, UNLESS you happened to stumble across a black hole which is actually an opening to an interdimensional wormhole. Then you'd be able to enter it perpendicular to the event horizon and get to a point where gravity isn't infinite, but simply very, very large!

 

But then you'd have to cross your fingers that it ends up in another time in your universe, instead of an alternate extra-dimensional ones where the laws of physics do not apply!

 

:wacko: :wacko:

But wait! That's not all!

As one approaches the speed of light, length contracts for an outside viewer - even the longest vehicles would be shrunken down to a flat plane. One's mass would become nearly infinite should you get close to the speed of light.

There is no way to travel faster than the speed of light partially because you would literally become two-dimensional beings, the third being shrunk down. The people traveling near the speed of light would not notice these effects and would instead see the world around them being squashed.

Traveling at the speed of light, your mass becomes infinite, and therefore there's no way to give it thrust.

Furthermore, even if you went close to the speed of light, you would never be able to see a slow light beam. Light always travels at the same rate no matter the reference frame, so no matter if you're standing still or going close to the speed of light, the speed of light will always be measured the same!

Argh, wibbly wobbly timey wimey. >_<

What's worse is time is relative. If you're travelling at a different speed than something else, you're experiencing time at a different rate than it. Just wait till we can travel sufficiently near the speed of light to actually feel its effects, then come complain to me.

Exactly!

 

And even then you'd never be able to travel back, UNLESS you happened to stumble across a black hole which is actually an opening to an interdimensional wormhole. Then you'd be able to enter it perpendicular to the event horizon and get to a point where gravity isn't infinite, but simply very, very large!

 

But then you'd have to cross your fingers that it ends up in another time in your universe, instead of an alternate extra-dimensional ones where the laws of physics do not apply!

 

:wacko: :wacko:

But wait! That's not all!

 

As one approaches the speed of light, length contracts for an outside viewer - even the longest vehicles would be shrunken down to a flat plane. One's mass would become nearly infinite should you get close to the speed of light.

 

There is no way to travel faster than the speed of light partially because you would literally become two-dimensional beings, the third being shrunk down. The people traveling near the speed of light would not notice these effects and would instead see the world around them being squashed.

 

Traveling at the speed of light, your mass becomes infinite, and therefore there's no way to give it thrust.

 

Furthermore, even if you went close to the speed of light, you would never be able to see a slow light beam. Light always travels at the same rate no matter the reference frame, so no matter if you're standing still or going close to the speed of light, the speed of light will always be measured the same!

...You have no idea how much I want to contribute to this explanation.

What's worse is time is relative. If you're travelling at a different speed than something else, you're experiencing time at a different rate than it. Just wait till we can travel sufficiently near the speed of light to actually feel its effects, then come complain to me.

Exactly!

 

And even then you'd never be able to travel back, UNLESS you happened to stumble across a black hole which is actually an opening to an interdimensional wormhole. Then you'd be able to enter it perpendicular to the event horizon and get to a point where gravity isn't infinite, but simply very, very large!

 

But then you'd have to cross your fingers that it ends up in another time in your universe, instead of an alternate extra-dimensional ones where the laws of physics do not apply!

 

:wacko: :wacko:

But wait! That's not all!

 

As one approaches the speed of light, length contracts for an outside viewer - even the longest vehicles would be shrunken down to a flat plane. One's mass would become nearly infinite should you get close to the speed of light.

 

There is no way to travel faster than the speed of light partially because you would literally become two-dimensional beings, the third being shrunk down. The people traveling near the speed of light would not notice these effects and would instead see the world around them being squashed.

 

Traveling at the speed of light, your mass becomes infinite, and therefore there's no way to give it thrust.

 

Furthermore, even if you went close to the speed of light, you would never be able to see a slow light beam. Light always travels at the same rate no matter the reference frame, so no matter if you're standing still or going close to the speed of light, the speed of light will always be measured the same!

 

...You have no idea how much I want to contribute to this explanation.

Please do so.