Can someone actually stop time?

According to the Einstein theory of relativity, if you want to stop time you have to travel at least equal to the speed of light and that is not happening without infinite mass and energy.

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Can you actually stop time?

In zero seconds, light travels zero meters. If time were stopped zero seconds would be passing, and thus the speed of light would be zero. In order for you to stop time, you would have to be traveling infinitely fast.

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What would happen if you could stop time?

If you stopped time, all light and sound would stop, too. In some interpretations, this would leave Strine instantly deaf and blind in his frozen scene. In a video for Play Noggin about the time-stopping video game Superhot, Julian Huguet comes to a similar conclusion, although he thinks it would take a little longer.

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What if time stopped suddenly for 5 seconds?

Nothing can occur without time... After those seconds, the energy of every object will be conserved, the light would also freeze (distance=velocity*time , it doesn't matter what is the speed of light - when no time passes, no distance is traveled), the gravitational field wouldn't change at all, and etc...

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Would light stop if you stopped time?

What we want to say here is if time stopped, time would be zero and the speed of light would be zero. For time to be stopped, one needs to travel at nearly infinite speeds. And that is surely not possible because according to Einstein's theory of relativity, nothing can be faster than the speed of light.

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What If You Could Stop Time?

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Would you age if you stopped time?

Although time helps us relate how old a body is we do not need it to make a body old. If you could move outside of time then yes you would age because your body would still get older. Your body ages on its own. We only use time to mark the age of someone in a standard that everyone could relate to.

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Can time be slowed down?

Unfortunately, there is no way to slow down time, however, there are some tips and tricks that could help you slow down the perception of time. Being more mindful and present will help you take in your surroundings and form more memories, in turn making it seems that time is slowing down.

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Why can't time go back?

Over time, the universe mixed together and became less ordered, like what happens when you stir the coffee. Going back in time is unmixing; it can't be done. The universe can't be 'unmixed'. What this means, ultimately, is that time only exists because the Big Bang created a universe that started out ordered.

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At what speed does time stop?

This case is sometimes called special relativistic time dilation. The faster the relative velocity, the greater the time dilation between one another, with time slowing to a stop as one approaches the speed of light (299,792,458 m/s).

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Why can't time be stopped?

Still, no matter what, you can't stop time, because it's not possible to travel at 100% the speed of light. You'll always move a tiny fraction below that ultimate speed limit, and so you'll always experience at least some progression of time.

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Could you move if time stopped?

In order for things to move there would need to be a change in location with respect to time. In other words: Without a change in time (when time is stopped) you cannot have that, or you would need an infinite velocity which is impossible for other reasons. This means there can be no movement of anything whatsoever.

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Would gravity stop if time stopped?

If time paused or stopped, there would be no events. Gravity is the way particles with mass/energy mutually influence one another, altering their paths through space-time. If time stopped, nothing would change, gravity would be moot.

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Why is freezing time a good superpower?

This superpower will rescue you from almost any jam. Freezing time makes a space to step back and recalibrate and savor, not squander. It's not only handy in times of distress - you can also use these very same steps to freeze moments of joy!

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Can you actually go back in time?

There are known to be solutions to the equations of general relativity that describe spacetimes which contain closed timelike curves, such as Gödel spacetime, but the physical plausibility of these solutions is uncertain. Many in the scientific community believe that backward time travel is highly unlikely.

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Does time have to exist?

Among physicists, there is no real doubt that time does really, truly exist. It's a measurable, observable phenomenon. Physicists are just divided a bit on what causes this existence, and what it means to say that it exists.

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Is it possible to go through time?

According to NASA, time travel is possible, just not in the way you might expect. Albert Einstein's theory of relativity says time and motion are relative to each other, and nothing can go faster than the speed of light, which is 186,000 miles per second. Time travel happens through what's called “time dilation.”

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Is time dilation proven?

The time-dilation effect predicted by special relativity has been accurately confirmed by observations of the increased lifetime of unstable elementary particles traveling at nearly the speed of light.

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Why is time going so fast?

Some say it's related to how long we have lived – a 5-year-old feels a year is long because it makes up 20% of their life. Others point to changes in the brain. A 2019 research paper suggests our ability to process visual information slows with age; we perceive fewer mental images, and time feels like it's speeding up.

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Would you age if you travelled speed light?

Re: How would you age at the speed of light

The simple answer is, anything moving through space at c, equal to the speed of light in a vacuum, experiences zero time flow. If you were to travel at the speed of light, you would experience no time.

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Has someone made a time machine?

We can't use a time machine to travel hundreds of years into the past or future. That kind of time travel only happens in books and movies. But the math of time travel does affect the things we use every day.

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Why would you go back in time if you Travelled faster than light?

Cosmic rays, for example, travel exceedingly close to the speed of light, and their internal clocks are slowed millions of times. Relativity theory predicts that if a particle could exceed the speed of light, the time warp would become negative, and the particle could then travel backwards in time.

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How can I make my life go slower?

The 10 Essential Rules for Slowing Down and Enjoying Life More
  1. Do less. It's hard to slow down when you are trying to do a million things. ...
  2. Be present. ...
  3. Disconnect. ...
  4. Focus on people. ...
  5. Appreciate nature. ...
  6. Eat slower. ...
  7. Drive slower. ...
  8. Find pleasure in anything.

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What drug slows time?

Pregabalin (Lyrica) slows down time perception, even clocks apear to tick slower as well.

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