Introduction-Time Control Using Relativistic Time Dilation

[marvel]

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Hi, I'm a guy from Argentina (18 years old) and I'm studying Electronics Engineering at "Universidad Nacional de Rosario" (just an introduction)..

 

Y'know, some days ago I was at my physics class and teacher said something about time and particles, something like this:

[...]..when you make an electron spin really really fast it seem as time flows slower..[...]

and she gave an example (dunno if really happened) of two brothers, twins, which one of them went out to space and the other one stayed in Earth. Time past and when the one who went out to space came back, he seemed much younger than the other...

 

That perturbed me on the idea of "Time Control"... First I state that I don't know much of physics,chemistry,etc... :

What if we consider Earth in the universe as an electron in an atom, and we apply the same theory? What if we could "make Earth spin really fast" (obviously, in a way people can still live normally) relatively to the universe? Or if we could stop it's movement somehow? Would that be an approach to an idea of Time Control?

 

I'm really interested in learning and maybe dedicate most of my years on this idea-possible theory of Time Control.

Also it could be great if we could gather people from all about the world to do research on this.

 

 

Some of you may think I'm crazy, or just stupid... But one can't learn if you can't be wrong, and also, I always remember Galileo (and many other "smart dudes") and their "crazy" theories...

 

 

Thanks for reading!

 

Maruel.-

[Moontanman]

Hi, I'm a guy from Argentina (18 years old) and I'm studying Electronics Engineering at "Universidad Nacional de Rosario" (just an introduction)..

 

Y'know, some days ago I was at my physics class and teacher said something about time and particles, something like this:

[...]..when you make an electron spin really really fast it seem as time flows slower..[...]

and she gave an example (dunno if really happened) of two brothers, twins, which one of them went out to space and the other one stayed in Earth. Time past and when the one who went out to space came back, he seemed much younger than the other...

 

That perturbed me on the idea of "Time Control"... First I state that I don't know much of physics,chemistry,etc... :

What if we consider Earth in the universe as an electron in an atom, and we apply the same theory? What if we could "make Earth spin really fast" (obviously, in a way people can still live normally) relatively to the universe? Or if we could stop it's movement somehow? Would that be an approach to an idea of Time Control?

 

I'm really interested in learning and maybe dedicate most of my years on this idea-possible theory of Time Control.

Also it could be great if we could gather people from all about the world to do research on this.

 

 

Some of you may think I'm crazy, or just stupid... But one can't learn if you can't be wrong, and also, I always remember Galileo (and many other "smart dudes") and their "crazy" theories...

 

 

Thanks for reading!

 

Maruel.-

 

Glad to have you here Maruel, I am sure you can get plenty of answers here as well as many questions. What I think your teacher was talking about is the effects of traveling close to the speed of light. As you approach the speed of light time slows down for you, other things happen as well but for the this idea lets stick with time, If you had a twin and your twin took a ride on a space craft that could travel very close to the speed of light, when your twin came back he would have aged less than you. If he traveled a long time he would be much younger than you. This has been confirmed by accelerating atomic particles to close to the speed of light, at very high speeds they last much longer than they do at rest.

[marvel]

Yes yes! That was almost exactly what she was talking about..

 

So.. if it's even confirmed and all, what do you think about the crazy things I said about time control/manipulation?? And has someone ever thought about a way of controlling time??

 

And can you explain me (at least very shortly, and in an understandable way for me) why does that happen?? Why is it that time passes slower when you are travelling or accelerating nearly at the speed of light??

 

Looking after your little explanation!! :)

 

Thanks!

 

Maruel.-

[modest]

marvel,

 

I agree with moontanman.

 

This is called time dilation and what your teacher was particularly talking about is called the twin paradox. It was originally predicted by Albert Einstein as part of relativity and it has been experimentally confirmed--it really happens.

 

If there are two people who are each are holding a clock then people used to assume their clocks would always agree. People used to assume that time is universal. Toward the beginning of the 20th it was theorized then proven that time is relative. Both motion and gravity can affect the relative passage of time.

 

If I stayed on earth while you got in a rocket and accelerated to half the speed of light then there would be relative time dilation between us. If I looked through a telescope at your clock I would notice it running slower than my clock. If you looked through a telescope at my clock, you would notice my clock running slower than yours.

 

Something similar happens because of gravity. A clock on the top of a mountain runs a little bit faster than a clock at the bottom of the mountain. Because these effects are relative they are never felt. A person’s clock (the clock they are holding) always appears to run normally.

 

As far as using this to control time... it would be possible for a person to travel quickly into the future, but not the past. As the link above on the twin paradox explains, you could accelerate in a rocket very near the speed of light for some distance then return to earth. Less time would pass for you than passed on earth.

 

This same result could be achieved by orbiting a black hole very near the event horizon. Because of gravitational time dilation you would be in a kind of stasis, frozen in time, while days, months, and years pass for the rest of the universe.

 

While both these options are possible according to all good scientific theory, it should really be stressed how difficult it would be to put them in practice. Accelerating a person to near the speed of light for a roundtrip to the nearest star would require enormous amounts of energy - way too much energy for normal rocket propulsion. Black holes would be equally difficult considering the astronomical distances getting to one.

 

~modest

[marvel]

Thanks a lot! Now I understand how is that time "works" :)

 

But I'm gonna keep thinking and trying to find a way to discover new and crazy things in my mind haha..

 

Thanks again! Have a nice day!

 

Maruel.-