H2O
19th November 2009 - 06:06 PM
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The inverse of 5 m/s is 0.2 s/m and the inverse of 10 m/s is 0.1 s/m. So when traveling at 5 m/s 0.2 seconds pass by during each meter of traveling, whereas, when traveling at 10 m/s only 0.1 seconds pass by during each meter of traveling, which means that less amount of time passes by with an increase in speed.
Now what you are describing there is taking less time to travel the same distance.
.2 s/m is .2 seconds per
1 meter
.1 s/m is .1 second per
1 meter
It has nothing to do with time slowing or speeding up it only has to do with taking more or less time to traverse the same distance because you are going faster or slower. If you traveled for .1 second going 5 m/s you would only travel 1/2 a meter where if you traveled for .2 seconds going 10 m/s you would travel 2 meters.
In order to have less time pass by with an increase in speed you would need to see is the following.
Holding to 5 m/s means it take .2 seconds to travel 1 meter (which it does) then when doubling your speed to 10 m/s it would have to take < .1 second to travel 1 meter (which it doesn't). If the scale is linear i think it would mean it would take .05 seconds to travel 1 meter when traveling 10 m/s. If traveling faster through space meant traveling slower through time.
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The inverse of 5 m/s is 0.2 s/m and the inverse of 10 m/s is 0.1 s/m. So when traveling at 5 m/s 0.2 seconds pass by during each meter of traveling, whereas, when traveling at 10 m/s only 0.1 seconds pass by during each meter of traveling, which means that less amount of time passes by with an increase in speed.
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Now what you are describing there is taking less time to travel the same distance.
.2 s/m is .2 seconds per
1 meter
.1 s/m is .1 second per
1 meter
It has nothing to do with time slowing or speeding up it only has to do with taking more or less time to traverse the same distance because you are going faster or slower. If you traveled for .1 second going 5 m/s you would only travel 1/2 a meter where if you traveled for .2 seconds going 10 m/s you would travel 2 meters.
In order to have less time pass by with an increase in speed you would need to see is the following.
Holding to 5 m/s means it take .2 seconds to travel 1 meter (which it does) then when doubling your speed to 10 m/s it would have to take < .1 second to travel 1 meter (which it doesn't). If the scale is linear i think it would mean it would take .05 seconds to travel 1 meter when traveling 10 m/s. If traveling faster through space meant traveling slower through time.
Also going into the past would require us to go beyond infinite m/s
Which gives another point. Isn't it that if we could reach the speed of light that time would stand still according to time dilation? And that going beyond that would result in a reversal in time? The speed of light is a tiny number compared to the numbers that are between it and infinite.
AAA123
20th November 2009 - 10:23 AM
QUOTE (H2O+Nov 19 2009, 06:06 PM)
Now what you are describing there is taking less time to travel the same distance.
.2 s/m is .2 seconds per
1 meter
.1 s/m is .1 second per
1 meter
It has nothing to do with time slowing or speeding up it only has to do with taking more or less time to traverse the same distance because you are going faster or slower. If you traveled for .1 second going 5 m/s you would only travel 1/2 a meter where if you traveled for .2 seconds going 10 m/s you would travel 2 meters.
In order to have less time pass by with an increase in speed you would need to see is the following.
Holding to 5 m/s means it take .2 seconds to travel 1 meter (which it does) then when doubling your speed to 10 m/s it would have to take < .1 second to travel 1 meter (which it doesn't). If the scale is linear i think it would mean it would take .05 seconds to travel 1 meter when traveling 10 m/s. If traveling faster through space meant traveling slower through time.
Which gives another point. Isn't it that if we could reach the speed of light that time would stand still according to time dilation? And that going beyond that would result in a reversal in time? The speed of light is a tiny number compared to the numbers that are between it and infinite.
I didn't say time speeding up or slowing down. I said the rate of our motion through time wrt distance traversed changes as the rate of our motion through space wrt time changes.
H2O
20th November 2009 - 01:12 PM
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I said the rate of our motion through time wrt distance traversed changes as the rate of our motion through space wrt time changes.
Except that you just said the same thing, two different ways and referred to it as being different.
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| I said the rate of our motion through time wrt distance traversed changes as the rate of our motion through space wrt time changes. |
Except that you just said the same thing, two different ways and referred to it as being different.
I didn't say time speeding up or slowing down.
That is exactly what you were referring to with such a statement as..
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Also going into the past would require us to go beyond infinite m/s through time because at the latter we would be at rest in time which is also nonsense.
There is a difference between taking less time to traverse the same distance and time slowing down. You are simply not seeing this difference and confusing the two.
AAA123
20th November 2009 - 04:19 PM
QUOTE (H2O+Nov 20 2009, 01:12 PM)
Except that you just said the same thing, two different ways and referred to it as being different.
That is exactly what you were referring to with such a statement as..
There is a difference between taking less time to traverse the same distance and time slowing down. You are simply not seeing this difference and confusing the two.
When we take less time to traverse a distance we take more distance to traverse time. This what I mean as slowing down through time.
H2O
20th November 2009 - 06:42 PM
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When we take less time to traverse a distance we take more distance to traverse time. This what I mean as slowing down through time.
So what you mean by slowing down through time has nothing to do with slowing down time. So you really did say the same thing twice and confused it as being different. Also if that is what you meant, why even mention going back through time?
AAA123
20th November 2009 - 06:58 PM
QUOTE (H2O+Nov 20 2009, 06:42 PM)
So what you mean by slowing down through time has nothing to do with slowing down time. So you really did say the same thing twice and confused it as being different. Also if that is what you meant, why even mention going back through time?
I mentione going back in time because when we are at rest in time we would be able to travel anywhere in space instantly. However if we have negative speed through time we would be able to travel anywhere before we travelled there implying time travel into the past as we would find ourselves at our destination before we even moved.
AAA123
22nd November 2009 - 11:05 AM
The possibility of one travelling to his past is similar to that of him reaching his destination before he starts his journey when his destination is not his current position.
H2O
23rd November 2009 - 05:36 PM
Traveling to the past is like going back to the start after you reached the destination. Reaching your destination before you leave the start is like teleportation.
You're still all mixed up and confused.
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