Tag: light

Light moves at the speed of light relative to an observer.   No matter how far the light has traveled and no matter how fast the object is moving, you see every ray of light coming into your eye at the speed of light.

I have learned from Physics and studying the Twin Paradox that time can slow down for one twin due to his traveling a great percentage of the speed of light.  I learned that if you could travel exactly the speed of light, you could be anywhere in the universe instantly, because you would not age.  However this is impossible to accomplish unless the mass of you plus the spacecraft equals zero.  Perhaps the observer in us has no mass and we travel through the universe with a space ship which is our body.

From this imaginary viewpoint looking at this observer, yourself or the twin traveling exactly the speed of light, he is motionless, has no thoughts and can not even push a button.  From our imaginary viewpoint (it’s imaginary because if there were another observer outside the spacecraft watching the twin be motionless, then we would be traveling at the same speed and therefore not be able to observe it, age, think or push a button)  the speed of light relative to that observer is still the speed of light.

What if the universe was already built?  What if the universe was a 3 dimensional fractal.  What if light only moves at the speed of light beCAUSE of time.  What if each ray of light that was going to go into your eye was motionless, waiting for you to get there for all of eternity and YOU zipped by it just in time because You are traveling at the speed of light?

Another idea I have is that if you imagine the twin at least being able to think, age and push a button, then he could be traveling 99.99999 or whatever percentage speed relative to the Earth (or whatever planet or star we mean when talking about the Twin Paradox).  An important point is that his speed must be relative to something else.  The fact that we can imagine ourselves watching this twin does not count.  Now to my idea, is that the light coming into his eyes, his body and spaceship make him.  Every moment of time he is created with a new copy of himself.

I say that all the light coming from every star you see at night that has been traveling towards you for thousands or billions of years is going to make you for an instant when the time is right.

If we were to imagine an imaginary viewpoint where we could see every pixel of light motionless and plotted on a 3 dimensional graph of x (length), y (height) and z (depth), and also see the “Path” that the observer is traveling, you would see the observer connected to each point of his past and his future.  You would see his whole life and see that he is still connected to his mother and everyone and everything.