If you could travel faster than the speed of light, could you see yourself being born?

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Grandfather Paradox" You could travel faster than light if you could turn yourself (and your starship) into a tachyon. However, special relativity indicates that if you did this, you could travel back in time and violate causality - the idea that causes must precede their effects. You could wind up in the "Grandfather Paradox": What if you go back in time and kill your grandfather before your father is born?

But if you're never born, how could you go back and kill your grandfather? Sources: http://66.102.9.104/search? Q=cache:tppgScmL-fkJ:imagine.gsfc.nasa.gov/docs/ask_astro/answers/970612b.html+FASTER+LIGHT+SEE+YOURSELF+BORN&hl=nl&ct=clnk&cd=5&gl=be .

You could not travel back in time to be there, but you could catch up to the light that was emitted at your birth If you had a powerful enough telescope (which doesn't exist yet), and you were born in an open field where the light could escape into space, you could conceivably collect that light and view your own birth. Most people are born in a hospital room with few if any windows, so that might be a problem (beyond the telescope and FTL speed problems). I hope this helps..

Depends on who you ask Theoretically, nothing can travel faster than light. As you approach light speed your mass becomes infinite according to Einstein's theories, and this requires an infinite amount of energy to accelerate that mass. The conventional physics wisdom is that as you approach light speed, time slows down for you, so that if you had a twin back on Earth, he would age much faster than you would.

But you are not actually going backward in time. You are still going forward in time, but at a slower rate relative to the rest of the universe. Now there are all sorts of new theories for ways around this, ways to travel backward in time... And there are all sorts of ways to rationalize the paradoxes.

One is that you could go back and see yourself being born, but by doing so you are creating a new timeline for yourself, where "two" of you now exist, and the one being born is not the one that will become "you" any more... The more you try to think about these things, the more logically confusing they become. It's like a Mobius strip. It appears to have two sides, yet it only has one.

Or its like the coastline paradox. Say you tried to measure the coastline of England from an airplane. You'd get a certain length.

Now if you were on the ground and measuring it with a surveyor's tool, you'd get a longer length, and if you were measuring it with a tape measure, you'd get a longer length, and if you were measuring it with a ruler, you'd get a longer length (because you are accounting for all the little features more and more accurately). So England's coastline, if you continue the analogy, is actually infinite in length. Take a ball and hold it one foot off of a table, now drop it.

How long does it take to reach the surface of the table? Are you sure? Now divide the distance it falls in half, then divide the distance it falls in half again, and in half again... If you keep doing this, you will have an infinite number of sub-distances that it has to fall before reaching the table surface?

How can a ball fall an inifinite distance in a discreet amount of time? It cannot. In effect, the ball never reaches the surface of the table, it is in a perpetual state of "falling" toward it.

This is the problem I'm trying to illustrate with looking at physics problems like time travel from a macro (human) point of view. They contain logical inconsistencies that are not resolvable. If you believe in the Many Worlds Theory that some scientists promote (that there are an infinite number of universes in parallel dimensions) then in more than one of thoe Terrterr, you have ALREADY traveled back in time to witness the birth of yourself as a baby.In some of those universes, you are a crazed psychotic serial killer, in some you are Caeser, in some you are President of the United States, in some you are a woman, in some you are a great scientist that invents time travel technology... All possibilities are real.

You just have to find the right universe where they exist.

Yes and no yes, if you could travel out faster than light, you could position yourself far enough away so when you looked back at earth, you'd be getting the light from before you were born. Glitches though-- as far as is known, you can't travel that fast. And even if you could you'd have a hard time building a telescope good enough to make out anything at that distance..

I doubt it. You could see things before everyone else does, so it would be like seeing the future. But you couldn't see things in the past, they already happened..

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I thought nothing was but I got to wondering after reading some of this . ..

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Can I record my cass. At a faster speed on to a cd for clogging?

Travelling faster than the speed of light, could we possibly look back (view) history as we catch/pass reflected light.

I cant really gove you an answer,but what I can give you is a way to a solution, that is you have to find the anglde that you relate to or peaks your interest. A good paper is one that people get drawn into because it reaches them ln some way.As for me WW11 to me, I think of the holocaust and the effect it had on the survivors, their families and those who stood by and did nothing until it was too late.