Yet another time travel discussion

[Rota]

We all know that time travel forward can be achieved with simple speed. You can travel the speed of light for mere moments, and travel days into the future. The simple laws of relativity tell us this, and have been proven out. Travelers that spend many, many hours in jets flying hundreds of miles per hour will find their watches are just barely ahead of the clocks in the time zone they left from. They have travelled forward in time, even if it is by a miniscule amount.

In various movies and TV shows and comics, there are beings who possess super speed. The effect to show this speed is to freeze frame the world around them, to show the person getting tons of tasks done in the blink of an eye. They zoom around the area and do all sorts of stuff, while everyone is frozen in place.

If they are traveling super fast, then shouldn't the world around them move exponentially faster as they move forward through time? The world around them should not look like someone hit the pause button. It should look like someone hit the fast forward button.

Maybe their power is not super speed, but something that would effectively pause the world around them. What power could freeze time relative to the person? Super slow? Would moving infinitesimally slow make the world around you pause, according to relativity? Like a power that put your body in a state of nearly "stasis" but with the power to move.

Is there a threshold? Would moving faster make the world around you seem to slow down to a point, but after a threshold speed, the time travel forward would become obvious and things would speed up.


Anyway... I saw a movie where a hero did a bunch of stuff in a fraction of a second because of his super speed. It got me to thinking, and that train of thought lead me to uncover this little paradox. Super speed would not actually allow you to get things done faster, since going fast would speed up the world around you, relatively.

[Mismaah]

I think moving very fast is something like time travel
btw I didn't get half of that o.o

[The Luda]

I think moving very fast is something like time travel
btw I didn't get half of that o.o

Oh lolz Mis.


Btw I thought that when you would move faster, time would go slower relatively. So By enhancing speed you wouldn't be traveling in time but slowing down the world around you? Maybe it it is more about the distance than about the actual time.

[The Luda]

if you hold your breath long enough time will stand still

Show me?

[Mismaah]

Maybe it it is more about the distance than about the actual time.

You cant go to distance places without having time or speed imo

[Bree Fletcher]

I think it all boils down to narrative conventions, actually. If you go faster, time does not slow down, even relative to you. You're just going really fast, period. Maybe something biologically can happen so EVERYTHING seems to slow down, including yourself from this high speed to a "normal" one. But relatively, there's no time frame change until you hit the point where yes, a noticeable relativity effect comes into play, and you go slightly slower relative to the "outside world."

[Skirata]

I think moving very fast is something like time travel

That is time travel.



ON a unrelated note (it may be related as I have yet to read OP), I was watching a video where an astrophysicist said that if you are caught between two colliding black holes you can theoretically go back in time. I'm unsure if this is possible as I have yet to actually participate in such an experiment...

[Bree Fletcher]

I'm unsure if this is possible as I have yet to actually participate in such an experiment...

Clearly you must. For science.

[Skirata]

Clearly you must. For science.

I fear that while I may be able to travel backwards through time I may be killed as well.

[Bree Fletcher]

I fear that while I may be able to travel backwards through time I may be killed as well.

It's a sacrifice I'm willing to make.