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Old 09-23-2011, 08:09 AM  
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Originally Posted by moeloubani View Post

If I'm traveling towards sound, that sound is going to reach me going faster than it normally would be at rest. But if I'm travelling towards light, the light is reaching me at the same speed as it would if I were at rest.
incorrect. any time two objects head towards each other, they are closing the space between them faster than if only one of them is in motion, whether it be a light particle or a car.

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So if I wanted to jump in a spaceship and travel towards a planet at faster than the speed of light, I'm going to arrive at the planet and see things that happened before I even left, since I'm travelling at faster than the speed of light.
again, incorrect. you will merely see things that you hadn't yet SEEN on earth, not things that hadn't happened yet. you can not see a thing before it happened.

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Time travel happens more going the other way, future travel, where the closer to the speed of light you go the more time changes and five minutes for you might be hundreds of years for someone at rest relative to you.
regardless of how fast you go, you will age at the same rate. this is the fallacy of the time travel theory.
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