" We will do this the old fashioned Navy way, first one to die, LOSES! "
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NOTHING can go faster than the speed of light, if you could had a train that could travel so fast it could lap Earth 11 times every second, the train would approach 99.9% of the speed of light and not go any faster.
Now, if there was someone was inside the train at the back, if that person go up and started sprinting towards the front, his forward force would combine with that of the train, taking his speed up to a minimum of 100% of the speed of light, right?
Wrong, time itself would slow down on the train, the running man would be unaware, as inside the train time is running slower than time outside, but still running at the same pace as him, the faster the train goes the slower time on board gets to prevent anything from breaking the speed of light, but as time passes slower, as does our ageing process, if a Human lived for 50 years on that train at full speed, and when he died they stopped the train, he would have died about 100 years after he was born, even though he only lived 50 years.
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Matter pulls on time, time passes faster in a desert than it would in a city, the effect is so small it's almost impossible to notice, the larger the body of matter, the slower time passes, even something as large as a planet would have very little effect, however...
At the centre of our galaxy lies a " Super Massive Black Hole "
that our entire galaxy orbits, at something ridculas like 500,000 times the size of our own sun and a diamiter of millions of miles, if you could fly in its orbit as close as possible without getting sucked in, its mass would drag aroud 50% of time, for every year on the ship orbiting it, 2 years would pass on earth.
If you don't belive any of this, don't take it up with me, take it up with the person who first said it...
... Prof' Stephan Hawking.
[Edited on 11.09.2010 6:28 AM PST]