Is it possible to stop time ?

Question

If time is continuously moving and people are continuously getting older, can time be stopped to stop people getting older. Could people still live without getting older or is it time which effects this? and exactly what is time?

Answer 1

What does this have to do with Earth Science?!?!!?

Answer 2

You are not the first person to ask this question. This has been asked from age old times. Thats life all of us want the time to be stopped so that we would remain as what we are but unfortunately no so. Time cannot be stopped for whatever reason it might be and keeps on running and if it is not so the world would never exist. Anyway be positive the Human Growth Hormone (HGA as it is called ) is being advertised by so many in the net will now or later will become a reality and if you are lucky enough then you can live for ever hale & healthy.

Answer 3

Don't forget that time is only a perception - and time/clocks were invented/developed by people so they could tell the passing of time for certain events and so on. You certainly can't stop it other than dying as others have said already but for some animals it HAS been done by using cryogenics - freezing in liquid helium or liquid nitrogen and then thawing them out slowly but although people in some countries (America mostly I believe) think it can be done for humans too and pay a LOT of $$$ to be put to sleep and woken up when a cure has been found for their illness or disease, there are no guarantees and whether or not this technique will ever be perfected, I've no idea.

Answer 4

Time is relative. There have been experiments to show that when you travel at great speeds time slows down.



One example was two clocks were synchronised and then one was put on an aeroplan and flown to somewhere like south america, afterwards when the brought the clocks back together one clock wa a second (or few seconds) out.



I think Einstein said that time stops if you travel at the speed of light. But with time being relevant, the time you experience could be different to time under other conditions, but to yourself time will still tick on.



Time is as infitnite as space itself. There wasn't a beginning and there won't be an end. whatever happens, even if the universe implodes or explodes time of some essence will still go on.

Answer 5

This should really be classified under physics or philosophy, I think, but I would say that time is most easily understood as one of the dimensions of our world, analogous to but different in nature from the three spatial dimensions. We can no more stop time than we can make the world two-dimensional instead of three-dimensional. However, we can, sometimes, stop events and processes from happening. Getting older is generally regarded as not so much a matter of time passing as of biological aging processes, and we can affect those. Nevertheless, it seems that each living species has its own inbuilt limitations, individuals of some species run their course from birth to death in hours or days, while others manage centuries or even millenia.

Answer 6

Only Einstein could. His theory of special relativity included time dilation which resulted in the twin paradox. The twin paradox, sometimes called the "clock paradox", stems from Paul Langevin's 1911 thought experiment in special relativity: one of two twin brothers undertakes a long space journey with a high-speed rocket at almost the speed of light, while the other twin remains on Earth. When the traveler returns to Earth, he is younger than the twin who stayed put.



Or, as first stated by Albert Einstein (1911):

If we placed a living organism in a box ... one could arrange that the organism, after any arbitrary lengthy flight, could be returned to its original spot in a scarcely altered condition, while corresponding organisms which had remained in their original positions had already long since given way to new generations. For the moving organism the lengthy time of the journey was a mere instant, provided the motion took place with approximately the speed of light.

Answer 7

Light travels faster in dense material (I think this has been demonstrated in the lab) as the universe expands it becomes less and less dense. Some physicits say that light begins to travel more slowly in less dense media. Extrapolating this to when the universe has expanded so much that, in theory, it is infinitely dispersed, light stops or slows right down. When light stops, time stops. When time stops or almost stops, then events with tiny probabilities happen quite often, even the birth of a new universe.

Answer 8

Physical time is a velocity. It is that of the value of "c". The "present" moves into the "past" at this rate. Everything in our universe moves at this same rate. There is a physics trilogy that describes this. E = mc2, m = E/c2, and c2 = E/m. Notice that the basis of the first two is that of "c2". Energy and mass are variables but that of c2 (time) is not. Then there is the c2 = E/m. Notice that the c2 value here is still the same. The energy and mass relationships may change, but that of c2 does not. It becomes greater or less in intensity, yet remains the same. c2 = E/m describes the formation of a field of physical time, or that of a gravitational field - they are the same.



There is an experiment demonstrating this value. It is found at http://360.yahoo.com/noddarc it is entitled "Gravitational Experiments".

Answer 9

What a great question! This gets the old Gray cells working. Do we pass through time, or does time pass through us? Quantum physics is the best area to study on this subject, but the answer to your question is no, you can not stop time. As one gets older, time seems to go more quickly, hence you may say, "is it Thursday already" Time is something we can never explain, all we can do is make the best of it.

Answer 10

Yes, I think it is possible.



Time is relative.

It is possible to stop time (and its degenerative effect) by one person for himself or herself.



How to do it ? Truly, this yahoo Q!A is neither sufficient nor the right place to discuss this at length.



But it is my belief it is possible.

I already look much younger than I really am.



In Matericalistic science (contemporary Science) Time is a quantity that can be used to measure rate of displacements of masses in Space(s ?).



In spiritual science - Time is the phenomenon that causes degeneration, delays etc. Hence in spiritual science, time can be stopped or almost stopped to produce its degenerative effect for a human being.

Answer 11

no, time cannot be stopped at all . . but the theory of relativity makes it seem as though time can be stopped, but only relative to an observer. this is how:



if you were able to travel at the speed of light and i was watching you from a stationary position somewhere: to me you will not be aging at all. it would appear to me as though for you, time was frozen . . . .but the interesting thing is, you will experience time as normal, therefore will age as normal in whatever vehicle you may be travelling in!!!



if you were then to come back and say hello to me, i may have aged several years than before you set off and to me, you would look exactly the same as when you first left.



time is the 4th dimension outside of which there is no life. . . you canot escape it or manipulate it!!!!!



hope that helps. . ..

Answer 12

if there was any way to stop electrons from spinning around its nucleus then time could be stopped. But the truth is we need to die in order for life to exsist. What goes around comes around, in the picture life is perpetual (goes on forever). We are ever evolving beings. What we commonly call death is the fulobian tube to an alternate life.

Answer 13

You wouldn't be able to stop time as it's nothing physical.



You could slow down the aging process by eating well, avoiding alcohol and tabacco, exercising to your full potential and staying out the sun..... but then where's the fun in that?? Enjoy it while you have it.

Answer 14

Hmmm....thats a huge thought for my brain.



But i guess if ya built a time machine you might be able to stop stop it has happened before.



There was this guy in the 1800 that built a machine that he claims stoped time for him!



Myth Or Beleive

Answer 15

Einstein theory is if you go faster than the speed of light, you would be traveling back into the past or time. So if you went the speed of light, in essence you would stop time. Something to ponder...

Answer 16

no it is not possible to stop the time.

but it is possible that we can go back to see ur past.

for this we just find some techniqes by which we can travel with the speed of light.thats it.

then u grow older but u can see u younger every time.

so buddy it is not possible to stop our age.one day we have to grow old and last dead.ok

Answer 17

i think Einstein said that the only way ( theoretically ) to stop time is if we could move at the speed of sight or light. think of this.. if you look at a clock and move away from it at the speed of sight/light, the time wouldn't change would it? i don't know exactly what time IS, but you'll figure that out someday...

Answer 18

Yes

Answer 19

Yes. Go to the centre of a black hole.

Oops! On second thought, don't.



As although time stops there, you will also be crushed into a unity. Ouch!!!

Answer 20

Nope

Answer 21

Time is a human invention.

Try dividing one second by half = half second, by half = 1/4, by half = 1/8 by half = 1/16, by half = 1/32, by half = 1/64 of a second. You'll realize there is no end. See, in fact, time does not exist.

Answer 22

No, it isn't possible

But try listening to David Gray, Travis or James Blunt and time will really drag

Answer 23

You wojuld need a flux capacitor.



Seriously, though, I think there are ways that truly enlightened people can cease being subject to time.

Answer 24

no..its is not possible to stop time and only God can stop it and in the past during the time of prophet Mohammed pbuh it happend and Mohammed phuh went and travelled to space,went further by passing 7 skies layers and then came down and when prophet mohammed pbuh came to sleep his bed was still warn and his door handle was still moving as if just one second went pass by...I think its in god's hand..for further information see life of Prophet MOhammed pbuh

Answer 25

Yes, don`t wind up the clock, no you can`t stop time, just enjoy every minute of your life and don`t worry, time is the day you are born till you die

Answer 26

Time is a necessary illusion for our third density existence. Past, present, and future is happening simultaneously on densities four through seven.

Answer 27

When you find out tell me so I can stop time too!

Answer 28

its easy to stop time,just take the battery out of your watch

Answer 29

time is a device to measure the birth and decay of events

Answer 30

Pull the crown out of your watch.

Answer 31

Of course it is. Have you ever tried installing Windows XP?

Answer 32

time is the result of motion

motion of clock hands,planets, stars, galaxies, etc

you have to stop them if you want to do that

Answer 33

time is a manmade account of productivity..do you think caveman had time accountability only to get back before dark..in this world of ours time seems to rule...

Answer 34

It is possible to stop time, but we just haven't figured it out yet.

Answer 35

Oh my god! Your head must constantly be buzzing! What random thoughts you have!

Answer 36

yes take the battery out of your watch

Answer 37

no you cant stop time,the world eould have to stop turning to stop time and we would all fall off.i wish it would slow down though.

Answer 38

time runs. this is why life is so wonderful. why do you want to change this?





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Answer 39

no , my clock stopped and I still had a birthday

Answer 40

time is a cration of man so yes!

Answer 41

No! but you can slow it down, so einstein says

Answer 42

nooo, you cant stop the time, time is always running, just enjoy it, spend it with your loved ones, friends and for GOD, and you will realize your time will never wasted..... bye

Answer 43

Time is like death, you cant stop it.

Answer 44

time cannot be stoped as it dosent exist... you can only stop your watch.. which aint gonna do jack

Answer 45

Stop Watching SCI-FI !!!! me I cant stop

Answer 46

sure...take the battery out of your watch

Answer 47

E = MC2

Answer 48

there is no time - time is created by man.

Answer 49

only by dying.

Answer 50

no

Answer 51

No.

Answer 52

icthink no.

Answer 53

.....this is a question for God