It's About Time!

Actually its all relative.

Einstein's immortal theory of relativity.

According to this theory, when a person travels at the speed of light time, for them, stops, and similarly as one approaches the speed of light time slows down.

However, I would like to propose what I think would happen as one approaches, and hits, the speed of light.

Here we have man A (you may not be able to see him, but trust me he is there :), and standing next to man A is man C (man B was sick that day). Both men are 20, and both men must die at 75. Man C begins a journey in a straight line (and there isn't anything in the way) at the speed of light. On the outside world (not traveling at speed of light) man A goes about his life for 50 years. Then at 50 years man C stops. According to relativity man C would still be 20 and man A would be 70, and man C can now continue on with his life. However, what I say would happen is that at the end of the 50 "years" both men would be 70. Man A would live a normal life until 75 then die. The same would happen with man C, however, if man C were to look behind him he would first be seeing the light that left with him. Therefore, he would BE 70 when he stopped, but to him he and the world around him would be like it was when he was 20. He would still die at 75 and therefore could only see five years of man A's life before he died. He could move around and act when he got were he was going, but wouldn't be able to SEE himself do it.

My point is that I think this would happen because, time doesn't exist, only spacial change. Therefore, traveling at the speed of light would only affect what we see.

However, I have heard of experiments by NASA in space which has "proven" Einstein's theory. Supposedly after climbing into space the time on the space shuttles computer was slightly slower than that of it's counter part back in Houston. So in the interest of an open mind, I would be willing to concede that it is a possibility that traveling faster, slows the rate of change (A.K.A., in math, time :D).

Finally I also believe to achieve the kind of stopping of time that travel at the speed of light would produce, needs an instantaneous velocity to happen. Therefore, you would need to be everywhere at the same (echem) time. Or in other words be God.

(Whew! NO MORE...I'm in china for crying out loud! But then again that's still just the surface :)