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Posted by Astroman on May 27, 192003 at 13:12:21:
In Reply to: my question without the typos posted by mike on May 23, 192003 at 21:23:30:
Hello, Mike.
Sorry it took so long to respond. I've been away and I don't check this older forum a often anyway.
Your question is not uncommon, and combines several interesting effects of general relativity.
Time is relative, depending on your "reference frame". That is, whether you are traveling near the speed of light, c, or you are at rest. For both the traveller and the person on Earth, let's say "at rest", time appears to flow normally. But it's the difference between the two that makes it interesting. As the rest frame watches the traveller, the traveller appears to "freeze" in time the closer they get to c. This effect is the same as when a traveller encounters a black hole. When they "cross" the event horizon of the BH, a person at rest sees the traveller hover above the event horizon forever. Thus giving the _illusion_ that time has stopped. Time has not stopped, although the traveller is no longer with us, the rest frame sees him as if time had stopped.
I hope this helps. If not, I'm sure there are many books on general relativity in you school library that will do a good of describing the effects of speed approaching c.
I own and operate a small observatory in SW AZ where I educate the public and do variable star research, including Gamma Ray Burst optical transient searches.
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