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Originally Posted by Blacklight
The wierd thing about the speed of light is that it's always the same speed nomatter how fast you're going and how you measure it.
Consider this... if you're in a space ship.... and you're racing a photon of light.... it's not like you're racing a car where as you speed up.. the car you're chasing seems to slow down as your speed increases. In the case of the photon... it will seem to increase speed WITH you in the exact same ammount that you accelerated. Now if you come to a standstill suddenly... the photon will also fly past you still seeming the exact same speed that it was when you were racing it.
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No matter how much it blows my mind I still love this stuff.
I've been told before that time and speed are two sides of the same coin, i.e. If you're moving at the speed of light you do not experience the passage of time at all, whereas if you were completely stopped relative to the universe (how would you do that?) everything ever would seem to happen instantaneously.
I'm sure I got some of that wrong, but if anyone knows anything about it I'd appreciate the input.
Also, what is the ratio of speed to time distortion? Is it directly proportional as you approach the speed of light, or is it more of a j-curve?