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Originally Posted by Paduan
the faster that you travel, time apparently travels slower from .9 C onwards anyway. So at the speed of light you could be every where yet nowhere. all of your friends not with you will age roughly 100 yrs per your day. not to mention that at 10g (9.8 m/s/s) it would take roughly 5 yrs to get to such a velocity anyway... but remember that the speed of sound was impossible not 50 yrs ago
P.S. do not quote me on the numbers as i am rounding from memory for "shock" value
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Actually, the moment you begin to move, time starts to slow down for you, relative to an observer at rest to you. It's imperceptibly changed at first, but the closer you come to "c", the slower it becomes.
At the speed of light your own time, from your perspective, remains the same, but a stationary clock's time speeds up to the point where, theoretically, all of time outside of your ship passes almost instantaneously. It's the same effect you get when you reach and pass over the vent horizon of a black hole. The opposite effect happens for the stationary observer looking at your clock. At "c", you clock from their perspective, stops. Same when an object approaches and passes over the EH of a BH. From your PoV, it never crosses. That's time dilation for you
