Time Dilation: Clark Kent's Scenario

[j3enator]

I understand for the most part how Time Dilation works. I understand that time slows down that for the individual traveling at the speed of light and that the rest of the world moves on.

So my question is illustrated by the following scenario:

I have an individual, let's say, Clark Kent who is Superman who cannot die from light speed, who can travel at the speed of light. So he decides to run really fast, approaching the speed of light. Clark's observation of the world seems to be in a stand still as he goes super fast. As he moves incredibly fast, he notices had can dodge bullets, because he is moving so fast, he sees the bullet coming. In fact, he is moving so fast that everything seems to almost stand still. So he decides that with so much time on his hand, realizing that time is almost at a stand still he has all the time in the world as he is traveling super fast, decides to do some chores. TO HIM, it feels like an eternity doing the chores because time is still the same for him, he runs to pick up the hay and fixes the tractor, cleans the house, cooks dinner all within 2 minutes of the real world. BUT those 2 minutes were so long to Clark Kent, because he did so much. FOR HIM, it took about 2 hours.

Doesn't this mean he has been aging faster. So ultimately light speed causes you to age faster, and time doesn't slow for you?

 

[Mentz114]

Before you can understand anything in relativity you need to realize that there is no absolute velocity, so statements like 'travelling at the speed of light' are meaningless. At any moment, you yourself may be judged to be moving by a passing spaceship, although you know you are not 'moving'. All uniform motion is relative, and observers who are in uniform motion wth respect to each other see relativistic effects.

Doesn't this mean he has been aging faster. So ultimately light speed causes you to age faster, and time doesn't slow for you?

The term 'Lightspeed ' isn't meaningful in this context.

Look up the 'twin paradox' if you want to know about differential aging, and 'time dilation' for the observation of other people's clocks.

 

[Ich]

Clark's observation of the world seems to be in a stand still as he goes super fast.

No.
Clark will see things ahead of him happening enormously fast, and things behind him enormously slow. That's called Doppler effect.
Then, there is not a single "time of the world". Even if all around the world (or the universe) all clocks are carefully synchronized and showing world time, Clark will not see the clocks synchronized. (Relativity of simultaneity)
What he'll observe (after correcting for the Doppler effect) is that the "wolrd time" goes actually faster, if he measures it at his position. That means, if he watches each of all those world time clock exactly as he's whizzing by it, he will conclude that world time goes faster than his time.
If he picks a single world time clock anywhere and watches it for a period, he will (after correcting for the Doppler effect) see it going slow.

The first scenario (Clarke watching world time where he is) shows him time dilated as seen by the world.
The second scenario (Clarke watching a single world time clock where it is) shows the world time dilated as seen by him.