MiddlePath: “…And during that time that you are slowed down, everything else in the universe is happening and moving at the usual speed. So in essence, 5 minutes of your “slowed down” time can be 10 minutes in the rest of the world, since time for you is slower.”
Sorry my friend, but you made an error. Just the opposite! When one travels the speed of light for 5 minutes HE RETURNS A FEW SECONDS EARLIER then everyone elses 5 MINUTES. His 5 minutes was everyone elses 4 minutes! That’s what the experiment, that Sam2 and Mod80 referred to, proved. In 1971 2 atomic clocks were put on a passanger plane that traveled around the world, and another one kept at the naval base. when they returned the clocks on the plane showed a SLOWER READ THAN THE ONE KEPT ON EARTH.
The significance of this theory tells us that if one were to travel at the SPEED OF LIGHT, i.e. the fastest known speed, one would actually return without LOSING ANY TIME ON EARTH! So when Middlepath mentioned that this new discovery had impact on “time travel” he is correct!! Because if things that travel at the speed of light, lose NO TIME on earth, what if you travel FASTER THAN LIGHT…..well, according to this theory, one WOULD GO BACK IN TIME!! Albert Einstein, when asked about that, said “NOTHING physical goes faster that the speed of light. So no going back in time……”
But with this new discovery…..
ROLL OVER EINSTEIN….-that was for you Goq!!