It’s not Science-Fiction, it’s pure science — and there’s even an equation that goes with it, which is pretty simple, yet, profound because it could take you a lifetime thinking about the repercussions of such an equation:
Your Passage Through Space
+
Your Passage Through Time =
The Speed of Light in a Vacuum.
And that word Vacuum, doesn’t complicate the equation — it just means when light moves through space unhindered by anything such as mass or the debris of space.
Anyway, if you think about the above equation, it means whatever speed you are proceeding through space — including your common-garden snail 🐌, even at his pace, the hands on his watch — if he possessed a two-handed watch or clock — would still slow down more and more the faster he proceeded, including one millimeter per hour, and less; but if his journey was all through space, and none through time, then he would be going at the speed of light, and his journey would be instantaneous since he would no longer experience time anymore — just as photons of light do not experience time, and their journey, therefore, is always instantaneous!
On the other hand, if that snail 🐌 was stationary, then, we can say that all his journey is now through time and none through space, until he starts to move — the second he moves, to compensate for that movement through space, his time begins to slow, because those two combined amounts of time and space must always equal the speed of light; they must always be in a state of equilibrium to the speed of light, so that’s why the faster you move through space, the slower your time moves.
Imagine if you went on a journey to the nearest star to Earth – apart from the Sun – which is Proxima Centauri that is located at 4.246 lightyears away. Now if we could travel at 99.9999999% the speed of light, if we wanted to know how much time it would take to reach Proxima Centauri for our loved-ones waiting for us if going at 99.9999999% the speed of light:
Well, we know that if we travelled at 100% the speed of light, it would take 4.246 light years to reach Proxima Centauri for our loved-ones waiting; but since it’s impossible to travel at the speed of light unless we went quantum, then we need to input into our calculator:
4.246 ÷ 0.9999999 = 4.2460004246 light years when going at 99.9999999% the speed of light.
So, our loved-ones would have to wait 4 years and two or three months for us to reach Proxima Centauri. But how long would it take you in your starship? Well, we need to find out how much our time slowed down; and to get that figure, I inputted into my computer to get the time-dilation figure:
So, if I went at 99.9999999 % the speed of light, then my time would slow to 0.004472135891759257 % of its Earthly time, thus, how many days would it take me on my starship to reach Proxima Centauri of 41,343,000,000,000 kilometers?”
“I have to multiply 0.004472135891759257 x 4.246 = 0.01898868899 Which in Earth Days is: 0.01898868899 x 365.25 = 6.9356186536, so, between 6 and 7 days to reach Proxima Centauri 39,900,000,000,000 meters away.”
And the equation for the calculation we have just done is BY: Multipling the Earth Time “t” by the relativity factor “f” to get to the starship’s time. So it would take me in the Earth time 4.2460000042459995 years multiply by how long in my starship which is 0.004472135891759257 i.e. 4.2460000042459995 years × 0.004472135891759257 years = 0.0189886852 of a year.
So going at the speed of light, your loved-ones on Earth would have to wait 4.2460000042459995 light years, but for me in my starship, it would take just 0.018988689015398498 of a year; so, since there are 365.25 days in a year which works out at 0.0189886852 × 365.25 = 4.2460000042459995 years.
Multiply by 0.00018988689015398498 years = 0.0189886852 of a year. “Therefore, to calculate how many days that is in my starship, I multiplied the 0.0189886852 by 365.25 Thus, 0.0189886852 x 365.25 = 6.9356172693 = the number of days to reach Proxima Centauri star, so it would take me between 6 and 7 days to reach Proxima Centauri going at 99.9999999 % the speed of light. Or exactly, 6.93 days.”
But look how much time it would have taken my loved-ones on Earth to wait for my journey to finish? My journey out to the Proxima Centauri took me 7 days but they had to wait 4 years and 4 months, so a round-trip would be at least 8 ½ years, but for me around two weeks; of course, in real life, as a almost-faster-than-light pilot, I would have to take in consideration and build the technology to both accelerate to 99.9999999 and decelerate from 99.9999999 % the speed of light.”
So, this is what this book explains through story, and shows you how it means the age-gap between you and your loved-ones widens the faster you travel through space! I hope this explanation is useful. Please let me know if it has, through your comments etc — or even better, please download this book so you can enjoy it more.
This is all part of the Laws of Special Relativity, namely Time-dilation. Of which my latest Sci-Fi Romance is all about: here is my Blurb:
Please Let me share my Blurb on my New Sci-Fi Romance Book: In Pursuit of Precious.
Quantumvator 1. Whiz’s Amazing Adventure in his Space-Time Elevator.
My latest book is a story about a teenage scientist called Dean Whizz who his friends call him Whiz because he spends more time in his lab than at school. And there’s a reason for that: there’s a young lady who Whiz is attracted to – or rather fixated by; her name is Precious; yet, alas, after making his move, Whiz’s advances were repelled, and the reason Precious gave is because she felt his age was too old – she is two years younger than Whiz since she is the youngest in College – British College – while Whiz is one of the oldest in the top year.
So, Whiz turns to science to try and bridge the gap between him and Precious – namely one of the Laws of Special Relativity which says you can slow down your time through your speed – Time-dilation. Whiz knows the Law of Time-dilation enough to know that he needs to go, at least, 86% the speed of light, in order to slow down his time enough that Precious’ time back Earth would be proceeding at twice his speed; so that when he returned to Earth, that age-gap Precious gives as the reason for not reciprocating his “OVERTURES” would just evaporate – well, that is his plan.
This book will take you on a journey through space-time at 99.9999999% the speed of light where you are travelling through so much space, your time passes slowly because those two amounts of time plus space must always equal the speed of light. “Whiz” is trying to extract “quantum super-powers” because he is convinced that by shooting his laser-beams into atoms he can harness quantum-super-powers to fuel his new invention, “Quantumvator” which is a new elevator that doesn’t just go up and down but in any direction, and he hopes can launch him through space-time at speeds competing with the speed of light!
This book introduces you to Dean Whizz, alias, “Whiz” whose passion is quantum-physics because he believes that by shooting his laser-guns into atoms, namely into their subatomic electrons and its nucleus inside diamonds he can extract their “quantum-superpowers” – such as proceeding at speeds competing with the speed of light which he needs to build his new brand of elevator that doesn’t just go up or down but in every direction you want it to! Whiz’s passion is finding ways to extract quantum-powers from atoms which he calls “quantum super-powers”. He is convinced that by shooting his laser-beams into atoms he can harness quantum-superpowers to fuel his new space-time elevator.
If you would like to know what it’s like to proceed at speeds competing with the speed of light, even to go at 99.9999999% the speed of light, then you will enjoy this book!
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