I know people like to say if you get to the speed of light then time slows down... But why? I don't get it. I can only picture light and time as two completely different things that don't rely on each other. To me, the speed of light is like the speed of sound and just because you go faster than sound when say, a gun goes off, doesn't mean the bullet never left. Just because you go faster than light wouldn't mean that something never happened, it just appears like it did.... I just... Don't get it. Explanations please? Scientific words and equations are welcomed, as long as you go into detail. The more the merrier.
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"But why?"
Science cannot answer "why" questions. These solar muons seem to live longer to us, because we see them moving:
hyperphysics.phy-astr.gsu.edu/hbas...
... on the flip side, they mus "see" our atmosphere contracted to a few tens of kilometers thick, or else they would not be able to traverse it in time.
"I can only picture light and time as two completely different things that don't rely on each other."
OK, sorry to hear that. Light and time define space... can you picture that?
physics.nist.gov/cuu/Units/
"To me, the speed of light is like the speed of sound and just because you go faster than sound when say, a gun goes off, doesn't mean the bullet never left. Just because you go faster than light wouldn't mean that something never happened, it just appears like it did."
First, matter can never travel at c. So "time stopping" cannot ever occur.
Second, the moving object is in contact with every instant, things happen in series ("causality"), regardless of how many seconds one says passes between events. Those are just numbers.