Wright on 22 June 2013
| Jumpin said: If you were accelerating at any rate towards a destination, the dilation of space time would cause you to reach the destination object before light speed could be reached. For example, if you were traveling from earth to an object 10 light years away, and accelerated so that you could hit it in 10 minutes, relative to you, light still travels at your speed + C, but the universe for you has shrunk in size relative to you due to time dilation. When you speed back to earth in 10 minutes; 20 minutes will have passed for you, but ~19 years, 364 days, 23 hours, and 40 minutes, would have passed for everyone else. Relative to them, you were traveling close to the speed of C for nearly 20 years. Relative to you, the journey was much shorter. |
