China Jon's Syncretic Journal

Ya know what? I am not sure time exists as a separate entity. Change exists. We can see it, measure it. Gravity exists. We can weigh things in different gravities and the weight changes. Energy exists. Matter exists. Relationships exist. Cause and effects exist. Electrical charge exists. Other strange atomic forces exist. We can accumulate, measure, manipulate, convert, weigh or change all these things. We have not been able to do anything to catch a piece of time and examine it. We have been able to catch a piece of lightt and convert it to electricity or slow it down in different environments. We have slowed light down to feet per second, instead of hundreds of thousands of miles per second.

There are theories about time and how it would change at different speeds. But this is really measuring how things change. In a clock, or a crystal, vibrations are transferred by the interactions between the electrical properties of the molecules in the clock. At the speed of light, there can be no interactions between the molecules, so the clock can not show a change in what it is measuring - time. Aging as well is a change in molecular structures. These changes would stop at light speed. But speed itself is defined as a relationship between distance and time. So, time - whatever it is - still existed at the speed of light. Only changes or the rates of change differed from the normal. But this is common in every day life. If you heat water, the molecules move faster. If you freeze water, the molecules slow down. If you put a piece of fruit in a warm room, it will rot in one or two days. If you put it in the refrigerator, it will rot in one or two months. Can you believe that time slowed down for the fungi trying to eat the fruit? Is the fruit younger than ourselves when we take it out of the fridge? Is the fungi? It is smaller and less developed than the fungi eating the fruit in the warm room. Side by side, a person would say that one fungi is younger than the other. Aging is change. What was the speed of time in all this?

So in this physical universe time can not be seen as having a location or existence that exists in different ways at different locations. It is impossible - in this physics - to travel from one location in time to the same location at a different time. What you can change is your location, and your rate of change. There is no way - in this physics - to accelerate an object to speed faster than the speed of light - other than gravity - because we can not transfer more energy to the molecules of the object. Every method we have at our disposal uses the electrical interface between molecules to accelerate the object. We can use gravity to accelerate objects, but we have no way to generate a gravity field that would enable us to continue the acceleration to speeds beyond hundreds of thousands of miles per hour. The speed of light is in the hundreds of thousands of mile per second range. It is far faster that what we can do using a planet's gravity to accelerate a space craft. If we could use the gravity of a black hole to accelerate the craft, then speeds higher than that of light could be reached. The problem is how to use the gravity of the black hole without being trapped by the black hole.

In any case, even though we can theoretically go faster than light using gravity, when we slow down to match velocity with any location we arrive at, we will also match the local time. If we return home, we may have aged less because the molecules of our clocks' and body's molecules were changing at a slower rate than those at home, but for both of us, the same amount of time has passed. We just experienced less change than the clocks and people we left behind. There is no way to reach home before we left.