2011-01-22, 01:29 AM
ShiKage Wrote:Well, technically it is, depending on how far into the future you go.
You ARE traveling through time.
unless you really want to argue what the phrase 'time travel' means at a base level you should find a word that looks a lot less like 'technically' and a lot more like 'trolololololol'.
Time Travel =/= existing normally under the current conditions of the physical universe relevant to you. Passing through time faster due to your relative speed doesn't actually get you further foward in time relative to anyone/thing else.
Example: Travel super fast around the circumference of a circle once for 4 minutes your time, it's been 3 minutes relative to your arrival depature point. How long were you gone? 3 minutes. To the future indeed.
EDIT:
What wikipedia has to say about time dilation: (What some people ITT think general realtivity allows one to achieve as a means of time travel)
Relative velocity time dilation
When two observers are in relative uniform motion and far away from any gravitational mass, the point of view of each will be that the other's (moving) clock is ticking at a slower rate than the local clock. The faster the relative velocity, the greater the magnitude of time dilation. This case is sometimes called special relativistic time dilation. It is often interpreted as time "slowing down" for the other (moving) clock. But that is only true from the physical point of view of the local observer, and of others at relative rest (i.e. in the local observer's frame of reference). The point of view of the other observer will be that again the local clock (this time the other clock) is correct and it is the distant moving one that is slow. From a local perspective, time registered by clocks that are at rest with respect to the local frame of reference (and far from any gravitational mass) always appears to pass at the same rate.[1]