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Originally posted by cliche
OK. Simple explanation here
The light from the sun takes 8 minutes to reach here, for us. For the light, it takes no time at all...
Time is relative, (sadly?) - there's no fixed clock ticking in the universe. If you were to travel at the speed of light, and travel one light minute in distance (about 1/8 of the way to the sun), it would seem to you to have taken no time at all. However, to those of us who watched you, it would seem to have taken a whole minute.
Hope that helps and is a little snappier than what's above
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Unfortunately, it's not accurate. Time would pass for you, but it would pass at a slower rate than for those of us at more pedestrian speeds.
This isn't a big revelation here - hell it's been in pop culture for years. The original version of Planet of the Apes touches on this theory.
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I should add that while time would pass slowly for you relative to those of us on earth, to you time would pass normally. If you made a 1 year round trip from and to the earth at light speed, you would think a year had passed. By the time you got back, MANY years would have passed on earth. You'd essentially have travelled forward in time.