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Time Travel


[circa 1991]

Question:  Is the concept of traveling at or beyond the speed of light 
related to travel through time?  If so, how?
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Theoretically, if you could travel at the speed of light, you 
would experience no passage of time!  This is because of the time-dilation 
effect of Einstein`s Special Theory of Relativity that states that at 
velocities approaching the speed of light, c, your perception of time is 
proportional to the square root of ( 1 - v^2 / c^2 ) which goes to zero.

John Hawley
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