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Originally Posted by MageB420666
According to the theory of relativity, the closer an object comes to travelling at the speed of light, the slower it moves through time, until at the speed of light time stops. So wouldn't light have an infinite velocity? velocity is distance\time and if time equals zero the velocity becomes infinite.
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You are mixing different definitions of time. Light travels a finite distance in finite time. distance/time is therefore well-defined, and will in fact always be the same for any (non-accelerating) observer looking at a beam of light (i.e. the speed of light is universal).
Time dilation refers to the fact that time intervals are measured differently by different people. So you were trying to mix measurements from two different frames of reference. If you stay consistently in one frame, then there are no problems. It is also worth noting that no particular frame is more special than the others. Somebody in a spaceship moving at 0.99c relative to the earth will not feel like he is moving slowly or particularly heavy or anything else. Instead, he'd think that everything on earth looked really strange. But everyone on earth would think the opposite is true
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