The Time Machine Einstein Made

   Einstein thought of building a time machine during his theory of Special Relativity. He grew up in a very religious family, and he was interested in religion as a possible career. 

You could say that time changed his way. Young Albert imagined what it would be like riding on a beam of light. He enjoyed his time and imagination alone, so his fellow students thought of him as an outcast. 

He was fascinated by the speed of light and if there was a way to change time. When he got interested in science, he struggled to believe in the church or science. 

In university, he felt like a loner and had difficulty following the lectures given by his professors. 

He preferred to skip class and study on his own time. I wonder if he was borderline autistic?

Starting A Time Machine

Einstein saved time by not going to class and used his time to study and learn more than what his professors were teaching. After graduating from university, he was outcast as a renegade, and no one offered him a job. 

His father finally got him a job in a patent office, where he learned how to submit ideas for publication. Einstein could finish his tasks in the patent office quickly, and he used this free time to imagine what time was like for a beam of light. 

He was able to imagine that time was not absolute, but time was relative to each observer. 

Albert started to build a time machine thinking about riding a beam of light.

We know the result of his imaginings and his Special Relativity, but what about his time machine? 

Albert stated that the speed of light was invariant to every observer and that the laws of science work the same way everywhere in the universe. 

Einstein said the speed of light is the ultimate speed limit in the universe and that light is massless and invariant in every frame of reference. 

His ideas stated that nothing could travel at the speed of light because it would take an infinite amount of energy to move an object having a mass to the speed of light. 

He also said an object would experience time and length shortening, also known as time dilation. 

Einstein’s Time Machine

Albert was fascinated by time, and he started to work on his idea of a time machine. Secretly he imagined a spaceship chasing a light beam. 

Einstein knew that traveling at the speed of light would change the time for the rider compared to someone on Earth. 

He planned to get a rocket ship to travel near light speed for one year and then return to Earth in the future. Namely, he would arrive ten years into the future upon his return and find out if he won the Nobel prize in physics. 

This idea could work because time slows down for a person who is moving almost at the speed of light. But what is time?

He didn’t get the chance to build his rocket ship because of World War 2, but rocket fuel and engineering were real problems. 

His idea is still alive in science media and science fiction, where people talk about it several times a week. 

Time Travel Logistics

Maybe Einstein didn't understand what time meant? Let’s look at the time dilation theory of travel into the future. 

Theoretically, his plan works on paper, but there are many problems, first, the rocket fuel problem. To get up to the speed of light requires an infinite amount of fuel. 

Next, the acceleration force will cause the spaceship's mass to increase the faster the ship moves. The increase of mass causes time to slow down by the effects of gravity. 

That means that the enormous energy needed to accelerate the ship is converted into mass by the equivalent mass-energy theory of E=mc2. 

The increasing mass will slow down the energy of motion and a clock's time. But it will also slow down the molecular frequency of matter. 

The truth is that it takes too much energy to power the ship, and if it were possible, the increase in mass and changes in frequency would be disastrous. 

A person wouldn’t survive the forces of gravity and the slowing of molecular biological processes. 

Einstein’s Time Dilation

Are you curious about time dilation and the idea of time travel to the future? It seems that time isn’t as real as we think. 

Time is a measurement of motion, and motion exists in the frequency of atoms and the speed of light. If time dilation happens, does motion change or slow down? 

The frequency of matter changes due to the gravitational force matter experiences, and the time on a clock shows this change. 

The speed of light doesn’t change. Therefore, only the time on a clock changes because the clock’s mechanism slows down.

We have measured this time dilation with the clocks on the GPS satellites. The motion or frequency of a cesium-133 atom slows down, showing that time slowed down. 

The effect of acceleration and the smaller force of gravity in space alters the atomic clock’s ticking. But it’s only in the measurement of a clock that slows, and it doesn’t make the satellite any younger. On the contrary, the stress on the satellite is greater, making it older. 

Get Younger Using Time Dilation

Could you use time dilation to get younger? These questions are currently popular among people interested in time and time travel. 

Many scientists think that time travel into the future can make you younger by using time dilation.

Getting Younger is a Dream --The fountain of youth has been a dream of many a poor boy or girl.

Many science fiction fans now want to use real science to time travel and get younger by using Einstein’s time dilation method.

Einstein’s gravitational time dilation has been proved numerous times in experiments, and the GPS satellites must account for time dilation every day to keep track of Earth time. 

Time dilation is real, but it doesn’t make you younger! Why not?

The Motion of Time

Time has two separate parts that we have combined into one idea. One is the time on a clock, and the other is the movement or duration of motion.

We can see a pendulum clock swinging left and right, and we think that time is moving. We can watch the second hand on a clock moving, and we believe that time is moving. 

When we see motion and movement, we translate that to mean time is ticking away, and it is, but here’s the thing, time doesn’t move. It’s the motion that moves. 

The pendulum moves, and the second-hand moves, and we equate that to mean time is moving. But time is a number on the clock, and a number doesn't move a clock. 

Time is the measurement of the motion of Earth. Each day has 86,400 seconds.

The measuring clock can move faster or slow down, but the universe's motion keeps moving at a constant speed. However, if all motion stops, the universe ends. 

Gravity Controls Time

The measure of a clock’s ticking depends on the force of gravity in the environment. 

Gravity and acceleration are the two forces that will change a clock’s movement. 

We have a perfect example of time dilation with GPS satellites. 

The lack of gravity in space allows the satellite’s clock to tick 45 microseconds faster per day than the reference clock on Earth.

The satellite has a  force of acceleration that makes the clock tick 7 microseconds slower per day, so the total time dilation is 38 microseconds per day faster than Earth time. 

The satellite time is faster than on Earth because Earth time has time dilation already due to Earth’s gravity. 

The Aging Experience 

Can we get younger using the science of time dilation? 

It’s impossible to time travel because time doesn’t exist. Time is a measurement of motion based on the motion of earth using the units called seconds. 

Time has two parts: the moment seen on a clock and the duration or rate of change of an event or object. Timekeeping is an invention to keep track of daily events or by using a calendar to keep track of our history.

When you travel in your car from point A to point B, the time it takes is the measurement of your motion. Time didn’t have anything to do with the car’s motion. It was the power of the engine that moved your car. 

If your clock stopped and you couldn’t keep track of the time, you still kept driving to the destination. So, you see that time travel is impossible because you need a power source to move. 

Time is merely the measure of how fast or how long your trip took. Time has nothing to do with motion, although nothing can move without motion. 

Let's Blame Einstein

Maybe, most people just can’t understand time, but don’t feel bad. It’s not your fault. It’s the media and current science that think time has physical properties. 

Most of the blame falls on Einstein and his time dilation ideas. I know that time dilation is real, but time itself isn’t real. 

We use the time on a clock to keep track of the day’s events and to plan future events. Time is a measurement of motion, but the clock's display is not motion. Time is only a number on a clock. 

Moving at the speed of light doesn’t make you younger. In reality, it’s the opposite. Speed can kill. Speed comes with a force of acceleration which is gravity, and it can kill you. 

The force of gravity changes not only a clock's time, but it changes the frequency of all matter in the spaceship and your body.

Accelerating to the speed of light puts gravitational stress on your heart and other body functions, slowing down your lifetime. You will die from the force of gravity. 

If you measure your heartbeat and it’s 60 beats per minute. That’s a measurement of 60 beats. A measurement is not a force that will keep your heart beating. 

Time is a number or measurement of motion, but it's not the power of motion.

Time doesn’t make you older. Time is only a measurement of age. You get older because of the physical and emotional stress you experience. 

The fountain of youth depends on how much stress you experience.  Time dilation can’t make you live longer, but you can add life to your years by avoiding stress.

I conclude that time doesn’t make you younger, and using a rocket ship to travel to the future doesn’t work. It would surely kill you. 

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