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Originally Posted by madsenj37
Time can 'slow down' or 'speed up' compared to what we are used depending on how fast we are taveling. If I was to travel for 1 light year and come back to earth, only one year of my life would pass, but people here on earth would experience much more time in that frame.
As far as going backwards, it does not seem logical to me.
As far as going forwards, if it was possible to get near a black hole but not go in, it might be possible to travel into the future in terms of what was the current universe like before you entered and when you came out.
Thats about all I know.
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It is all theory.
You dont travel at the speed of light, to return to earth, just aging one year, while time has gone far far far away at earth when you are back after 1 year...
When you manage to travel at the speed of light, you wont be a mass anymore, isn't it?
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Originally Posted by ChrisJericho
However, I was thinking about it, and how time relates to my own life. For instance, my body is composed of proteins from the fish I ate last "week", from the water I drank which came from the local watershed when it rained a "month" ago. At some point I will die and the carbon will be released from my body and become part of something else such as a tree etc.
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Beautiful Thinking!
If we can view Life as a four-dimensional THING, then Time is its fourth dimension.
One definition for life that I remember is "Life is a change of 3-dimensional world-space over the fourth dimension Time'