when you travel very fast...
Timothy Sutter
your clocks are going real slow,
and as you s l o w down,
your clocks begin to speed up,
but you, as enclosed observer,
don't notice the time speeding up,
and for you, a second 'then'
[at light velocity{which may be faster
than what we measure here on earth now}]
seems indistinguishable from a second 'now'
[at terrestrial velocity]
and yet, the second -then- is much much
different from the second -now-
there's a consequence to this...
Timothy Sutter
> your clocks are going real slow,
> and as you s l o w down,
> your clocks begin to speed up,
> but you, as enclosed observer,
> don't notice the time speeding up,
so, when you're travelling very fast,
your little heart is beating somewhere
in the one beat per second range,
and as you slow down, your heart is still
beating in the one beat per second range
according to you and your little stop watch,
and as you come closer to a dead stop, your
heart is still beating at roughly one
beat per second
according to you and your
own personal stop watch,
but, as it turns out,
there was someone else on the slow earth
timing your heart beats as well,
and at first, when -you- were going very fast,
for them [on earth], your heart was beating
at nearly one beat per thousand years,
and when you got to earth,
your heart was beating at roughly one beat per second,
all according to [their] stop watch.
you never noticed it,
but [they] did.
so, you seem to be really really -old- to the generations
of people who were on the earth monitoring your heart beat
but you only saw a day or two tick off
of your own personal stop watch.
Timothy Sutter
so, when i was a photon
and i was screaming across the newly developing
spacial patterns at speeds far in excess of
300000 kilometers per second,
i managed to get to the newly formulating earth
in several days according to my reckoning of time,
and when i became a man, and i turned myself
to ascertain how long i had been in transit,
it -looked- as if i had been travelling
for several billions of years.
Timothy Sutter
see, it's sort of like, space itself
was s t r e t c h i n g out with my progression
and so, it appeared as if, i was travelling at speeds
which would be calculated as in -excess- of the speed of light,
perhaps even a full order of magnitude faster, like 10 or
maybe even 50 times the speed of light, as reckoned from
the slow moving earth in the fully stretched out spacial domain.
and as i slowed down, and came to light
on my blue little habitat...
... it -looked- like i had been on
a very long journey.