@neiltyson @dallasgambit But it would have to live from the beginning to the end of time in an instant. It couldn't be conscious, could it?
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@neiltyson@dallasgambit Living at light speed- / My hair would never get gray? / My mind is now blown..../#haiku#science#speedoflight - 1 more reply
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@neiltyson@dallasgambit@CuriousMindBlog Not necessarily, but it would be incapable of experiencing anything since, for it, no time passes! -
@keith_wilson so it would be alive but unable to function? -
@CuriousMindBlog It’s doubtful whether anything that couldn’t undergo or experience change could ever be considered ‘alive’.
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@neiltyson: .@dallasgambit: Since time stops at the speed of light...”is linear life then moot? Past, Present, & Future 2gether?Thanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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@neiltyson@dallasgambit It would appear so only to those viewing, however your body would still age and you will still die eventually.Thanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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@neiltyson: Since time stops at the speed of light, if something can live at that speed, would it live forever? // Yes.” @GamoydaThanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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@neiltyson Wouldn't it perceive the life of the universe as a single instant though?Thanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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@neiltyson it would live forever as we see it. But how would the thing itself experience it?#speedoflightThanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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@neiltyson I'm a physics student and I thought that if you travel the speed of light time just passes slower. You age slower.@dallasgambitThanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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@neiltyson But would it be alive if time stopped? My head.Thanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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@neiltyson Does that mean that its body wouldn't be suspectible to decay and what not? Surely that's not something affected by time per se? -
@SamStrife@neiltyson I was just trying to phrase that same question. -
@fr0y0@SamStrife Read about the Twin Paradox. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Twin_paradox … -
@rolyatkcinmai@fr0y0 That's kind of crazy and I can't quite wrap my feeble mind around it. -
@SamStrife@fr0y0 That's because you've been trained to think of time as a linear constant. That's the fun of physics. It's so not. -
@rolyatkcinmai@SamStrife@fr0y0 of course you guys would talk about the Twin Paradox before I wake up. Damn you Pacific time!
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