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I'm very new to this site and most assuredly and not a physicist (or a scientist) , but I have a question I'm hoping y'all can help me with.
If I were traveling at or near the speed of light for a set distance- say Andromeda and back, time will slow down for me relative to the static observer. For that observer, it would have taken me much longer to reach Andromeda and back- so either (to them) I wasn't traveling at or near the speed of light or (to them) Andromeda is much farther than postulated by the observer.
In other words, it takes me longer to get there and back (as observed) then it did for me to get there and back (as I observed it), so is there a formula that describes the relationship of speed to time? It seems it cannot be one-to-one as time cannot stop completely at the speed of light (or photons would arrive instantaneously from any point in the universe (in the photons frame of reference).
I apologize if this is terribly elementary and poorly stated, but it's really been bugging me.
If I were traveling at or near the speed of light for a set distance- say Andromeda and back, time will slow down for me relative to the static observer. For that observer, it would have taken me much longer to reach Andromeda and back- so either (to them) I wasn't traveling at or near the speed of light or (to them) Andromeda is much farther than postulated by the observer.
In other words, it takes me longer to get there and back (as observed) then it did for me to get there and back (as I observed it), so is there a formula that describes the relationship of speed to time? It seems it cannot be one-to-one as time cannot stop completely at the speed of light (or photons would arrive instantaneously from any point in the universe (in the photons frame of reference).
I apologize if this is terribly elementary and poorly stated, but it's really been bugging me.