- last post: 01.01.0001 12:00 AM PDT
Not to be a jerk or anything, but I have taken relativity, and believe me, time exists in deep space. Even in your scenario with the spaceship flying at the speed of light, time still exists inside and outside the spaceship. While it is true that time APEARS to stop outside the spaceship from the reference frame of a person in the ship, the inverse is also true (people looking into the ship see time as frozen inside it, and time is going by at its normal rate in their reference frame). Also, in response to that statement about time not flowing even though the gears of a stopwatch were moving, a "clock" is the only way that time can be measured. A "clock" can be anything from an actual clock with gears to an atom that decays at a particular rate. If you were trying to explain that while you see time passing at a normal rate, an observer in a different inertial reference may not, then yes, that is true. However, as there is no prefered reference frame, time is neither stopped or moving at a normal rate, it is both when seen from different reference frames, and this is all we can know. Anyway, i'm not sure how you used this to prove anything about the forerunner (whom i know nothing about, sorry), but the sloppy physics caught my attention.