titanium
20th December 2005 - 04:10 PM
When you come up with new ideas you generally need to give a description rather then just giving a name to your new idea!
I think there is just space time where time is an analogue variable, at the 'speed of light' particles time becomes 0, this is all down to relativity so that to all observes, the speed of light is the same.
If you traveled near the speed of light and some one shone a beam of light past you, you would measure it as the same speed of light due to the fact that time has slowed down so much for you.
If you where going faster then light, light could not catch up mathematical speaking you would say that your personal time would need to be negative for this to happen. In real terms, i think that if it where possible for it to happen, which I'm not convinced that it is your time would travel backwards so that light is actually passing you because you are moving to the point where you and the light would have met, then to the point before you over take the light.
The reason i am not compelled by this reason is that, how can you be going faster then light if your going back on it, i dont think this explains it clearly, I'm going to have to think about this some more, its just that the whole idea does not appeal to reasoning.