Thread: time travel by going faster than the earths rotation?

if i were to travel faster than the earth's rotation, (1052 mph) would i travel through time. like super man. lets just say i would go around the north pole so i don't have to go as fast.

You would travel forward in time very slightly. Im talking half a second max.

This was shown on one of the apollo missions that went around the moon. It had an atomic clock onboard and another one on the ground. They were both calibrated before flight and it was found that the clock onboard the space shuttle was slightly infront of the one on the ground.

The way of travelling through time which i have heard could be the most succesful is creating a wormhole (were talking horizon physics here) and travelling 5 light years away. When you look at the earth what you see will be 5 years ago.

Hope this helps

its possible! but if u want to travel in time more then 2 minutes you need 50x more speed

Well no you couldn't time travel by it.

does that mean on the very point of the axis of the north and south pole, if you stand there you are stuck in time?

ya its possible if ur able to travel an year around the earth with the spped of light u may reach one year back. but it is practically not possible because if u do that ur mass would be breaking the fabric of the space whose catastrophic nature is unkown to us.

Basically... time dilation in jet cockpits, going a couple hundred mph below your stated speed is enough to put the clocks in the cockpit back by so little time that if you spent your entire life at this speed, there would be a 1 second difference between Earth clocks and yours.

Time dilation doesn't really start to make its presence known and grow exponentially until you pass the 0.5c mark. You really don't even notice it until it gets above 0.3c.

What's with the minus 1's? Have you ever seen a graph of a function of time dilation? It hardly moves off the origin til you get to 0.3c.

Even if you could travel AT light speed, which is not possible so far as we know, you would still only stand still in time, not travel back.

No.

There is a "time dilation" phenomenon that takes into account the prescense of gravity and one that takes into account travelling at fast speeds, but you would not "go into the past" by traveling west (relative to the earth's surface), or "into the future" by traveling east (relative to earth surface).