When train moves at speed of light the time becomes slow. why it happens?

In summary, Special Relativity says that if an object is moving quickly, time slows down for everyone inside the object.
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if train moves at speed of light the passenger will do any work with very less speed as time becomes slow. why this happens?
 
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joyever said:
if train moves at speed of light the passenger will do any work with very less speed as time becomes slow. why this happens?

Material objects cannot move at the speed of light. It would take an infinite amount of energy to accelerate a material object to the speed of light "c". So your question is meaningless.

You can click on the boxes at this Hyperphysics page to learn more about Special Relativity:

http://hyperphysics.phy-astr.gsu.edu/hbase/relativ/conrel.html

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[ Answering original question: "when train moves at speed of light the time becomes slow. why it happens?" ]

Imagine a closed tube held by a train passenger. The inside of each end of the tube is a perfect mirror. As the passenger holds the tube vertically, imagine a photon of light inside the tube bounces back and forth between the mirrors. Meanwhile, the train is accelerating closer and closer to the speed of light.

To the passenger, the photon always bounces up and down in a straight line. But to a stationary observer, the photon actually follows a longer zig-zag path through space (if the stationary observer ignores the tube and the train and everything else inside the train). Because light must travel at 186,282 miles per second, no faster and no slower, it takes longer for the photon to bounce from one end of the tube to the other.

But because the passenger is moving along with the tube and the train, everything in his body and brain and everything on the train is also forced to follow their own somewhat-longer paths--including every subatomic particle. They are slowed down in respect to whatever path they were supposed to follow, within what we would call the train's "frame of reference".

So time is forced to slow down on the train. But nothing has changed for the passenger because everything is slowed down, including him: He still sees the photon in the tube move at 186,232 miles per second. From our stationary frame of reference, however, his second of time is longer than a second of time for the stationary universe.

It naturally follows that if the train is moving at the speed of light, the photon's zig-zag path flattens out to a straight line. It can't move at all inside the tube. If it could, it would be traveling a longer path in the same amount of time, exceeding its speed limit, which it can never do under any circumstance. So at the speed of light, time stops in the train.
 
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1. What is the theory behind time slowing down when a train moves at the speed of light?

The theory behind this concept is known as time dilation, which is a fundamental principle of Einstein's theory of relativity. It states that time is relative and can be affected by factors such as speed and gravity.

2. How does the speed of light play a role in time dilation?

The speed of light is considered to be the maximum speed that anything can travel in the universe. As an object approaches the speed of light, its mass increases and time slows down for that object from an outside observer's perspective. This is due to the fact that the energy required to propel an object at the speed of light becomes infinite.

3. Does time slow down for the object moving at the speed of light or for an outside observer?

Time dilation occurs from the perspective of an outside observer. To the observer, it appears that time is slowing down for the object moving at the speed of light. However, to the object itself, time continues to pass normally.

4. Does this phenomenon only apply to trains or can it occur with any object moving at the speed of light?

The theory of time dilation applies to any object moving at incredibly high speeds, not just trains. However, it is not possible for any object with mass to reach the speed of light, as this would require infinite energy.

5. Is this concept purely theoretical or has it been proven through experiments?

While the concept of time dilation was initially proposed by Einstein in his theory of relativity, it has been proven through various experiments and observations. For example, atomic clocks that have been flown on high-speed jets have been found to tick slower than those on the ground, confirming the effects of time dilation.

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