Friday, August 28, 2009
Relativity
(Boring post alert)
I recently read the book about Einstein, and i finally, truthfully cleared all doubts on why if, yes and i repeat if, you could travel at the speed of light. You could actually stop time, (giving you could travel faster than light itself, you could time travel into the future).
Okay, I'll kinda break it down for you guys (If you already know this, just shut up and quit bragging). For example, you are on a train which is traveling at the speed (I am giving an example, don't go "THERE IS NO SUCH SPEEDY ASS TRAIN TARD") Okay i think i am being too negative thinking you guys would actually do those stuff which i bracketed. ANYWAY, If you are traveling at the speed of light and look back. You would notice that the light behind you which haven't reflected off your eyes is chasing after you, or a blank space behind you when you look back, followed by a beam of light behind it. As long as you travel as fast as the light the light behind would not catch up. Or if you were to travel faster than light. You would catch up with the light in front of you (The future). Correct me if i am wrong, I hate to say that i am not Einstein himself.
Okay so that's not quite it... Gah, in the end, i actually haven't quite grasp hold of perfect understanding. One more doubt is that... Is time referred to as light? (Or is light) What really is time? I mean time is just the making up of a marker humans to represent the present events and past, because time is not actually there physically like fire. But isn't light just light? Why would light not reflecting off your eyes mean that time itself was slowing down. We obtain current vision by allowing light to reflect of our eye. If the light doesn't bounce reflect of our eyes if we are traveling as fast, wouldn't it just mean that... We would just have no vision? Darkness?
Well, I am not quite sure... I haven't read this information of the Einstein book. But I propose my own thesis (If i am correct, means that its Einstein's thesis because he invented it way back, but i think i would be dead wrong). Hell, it would be interesting to imagine a little...
Here it goes....
We only maintain existence, when we are able to be physically felt or seen. That's quite the meaning of existence itself. Like currently, when you close your eyes you are unable to see (You still can see light going through i know, try taking a bag then). Problem is, light still reflects of your body for your surrounding to notice or realise your existence (meaning duh, you exist). But... If you were to travel at the speed of light. Light is unable to reflect or bounce off your body, which technically means, you cease to exist.
(A bit of a Eureka so I'll propose and try to make sense in what i think should be the case) So lets say you look back on the train and after that shade of darkness, there is a beam of light which is unable to reach you. That beam of light is rather a time-line, which people in that beam of light, is unable to see because you cease to exist in that current point of the light (Time). Which means, in that beam of light or time. Life still goes on as it is, but without you because like i said, light isn't reflecting off you meaning that your current existence is removed from that current beam of light.
But i still can't quite make these foolproof, or even fully understand it myself. I still don't get why light itself would make you time-travel or slow down time, i mean the beam and train thing kinda makes sense... So in a nutshell if light doesn't reach you you're not existing or slowing down time. So if you trapped yourself in a full 100 inch steel room, would that mean you're out of existence itself? What would actually happen inside (other than you suffocating). Sometimes the more you understand and thought you got hold of everything, you realise that from your point of understand, you discover more doubts and complex "why's".
Though that's what i cooked out of my squishy mind, I doubt i am close to coming up with real stuff which make sense. I hope there is someone out there which can actually clarify it to me, its really been bothering me lately.
I could pretty much go on and on asking more question and pointing out my views, but its boring to most people, sigh. Why can't school teach something this interesting, curses...
-Andre Out-
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