Einstein also talked about relativity of time. This is the part of his theory that tortures my non mathematical brain. It' s basically the idea that if you move fast enough, you can time travel into the future.
I' m thinking about what Agent Ghost said about time.
I think it could be possible if you think like this:
When you travel at such speed the changes in the worldy matters are much slower while the surrounding matter is changing at normal speed. So when you feel a second has gone the time for us might' ve been 10 minutes. It' s like time traveling without being time travel.
I think time moves slower in space as well. They send some clocks up in space and when they came back they weren' t showing the right time.
You can actually live longer if you travel in space, but since the relative time for your mind will be the same you can not benefit from it.
To me time is change. We measure time by changes, like in clocks, and those changes happen because of turns and twists in molekules. Let' s say that everything that' s changing would suddenly stop changing. Particles stop moving, lights stop, everything just stops. Then time can' t be measured and time will have stopped. The more something changes, the faster time goes. That' s why it feels like the time passes really fast if you' re having fun, because lots of things are changing which gives you something to measure. If you' re just sitting at a table staring at the wall then you will have no changes to observe and time passes slow. Time is relative.
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