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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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