this post was submitted on 16 Apr 2025
957 points (95.8% liked)

Science Memes

14291 readers
2672 users here now

Welcome to c/science_memes @ Mander.xyz!

A place for majestic STEMLORD peacocking, as well as memes about the realities of working in a lab.

Rules

  1. Don't throw mud. Behave like an intellectual and remember the human.
  2. Keep it rooted (on topic).
  3. No spam.
  4. Infographics welcome, get schooled.

This is a science community. We use the Dawkins definition of meme.

Research Committee

Other Mander Communities

Science and Research

Biology and Life Sciences

Physical Sciences

Humanities and Social Sciences

Practical and Applied Sciences

Memes

Miscellaneous

founded 2 years ago
MODERATORS
[email protected]
[email protected]
[email protected]
[email protected]
957
God is a dick. (mander.xyz)
submitted 6 days ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
186 comments fedilink hide all child comments
 
you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments
[–] [email protected] 19 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago) (15 children)

Hear me out. It doesn't even matter that it's 96 billion light-years away if you're traveling at light speed. Because if you can travel at light speed, time would be frozen for you relative to earth time.

So if you're in a spaceship traveling at light speed to your destination, it would feel like you gotten there in an instant.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago) (9 children)

~~In an instant from the point of view of the people on Earth, but from your point of view time still moves forward.~~

Edit: guess I was mistaken!

[–] [email protected] 3 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago) (4 children)

Time is frozen at light speed. You arrive at your destination instantaneously, not even experiencing a tick of Planck time. To an outside observer it takes you time. From the perspective of a photon from the sun, there is no time or distance passing between its genesis in the sun and it landing on your face. From an observer on earth it took 8 minutes and millions of miles.

[–] jerkface 4 points 5 days ago

Well, you arrive at A destination instantaneously. Important distinction. Though you might not all arrive at the same destination. And since no time passes for you and your computer... how exactly do you decelerate again? If you are going the speed of light, then you ARE light. You have ceased to exist as a Lemmitor. There is no coming back.

load more comments (3 replies)
load more comments (7 replies)
load more comments (12 replies)