isn't the time such an amazing thing... its perpetual and yet we place a measurement on it... it passes so quickly and yet theres still so much left to it and time although seems set.. it is actually 'changeable' as Einstein showed the world on the concept of relativity and hence given the technology (which may exist in a godzillion years) is it possible to temporarily slow time down or speed it up =) how? a simple example... say 'l' is the speed of light the fastest anything can reach (accept it as a fact), if you travel in a spaceship at close to the speed of light, say 'l - 10' m/s and then... you fire something away at '20' m/s then the relative speed of this projectile to a bystander not on the ship is 'l + 10' m/s aka faster than the speed of light... Einstein came to the conclusion that because the speed of light is the limit... the object must be slowed down to the speed of light... time will speed up for the world outside of the spaceship so that the object travels a 'l' m/s and light will travel at 'l - x' m/s where x indicated the change in speed due to the increased time =) however, since the speed of the projectile relative to the moving ship is 20 m/s and hence time doesn't speed up for you, so when you have experienced 30 seconds, the world around you speeds up and experiences say 40 seconds. now, change that projectile to a touch shining light... the torch light will travel at almost '2l' m/s and according to Einstein, this means that time must speed up by almost half.. this is the limits of such time manipulation in theory anyway...so depending on the perspective, time speeds up (if you not on the ship) or technically slows down on the ship cos your minute on the ship could potentially be a minute and a half everywhere else =) nice and simple but only in theory =(
anyway before I get sidetracked again...i was only prompted to write due to my multiple coincidences of checking the time at precise minutes of strange numbers... xD and I don't sit waiting for these times... its almost always a confidence when I look at a clock and the time is 11:11, 12:34, 23:45 =.= strangely abnormal =(
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