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Yes and no. Everything is relative, including time. Time in one location is not moving at the same rate as at another location. We will call the rate of time's advance on earth the base time, t0. As you speed up, the amount of time you experience, t, is represented by the equation t = y*t0, where y (actually the Greek letter gamma, which looks like a y but sounds like a g) is the Lorentz factor, y = 1/SQRT(1 - (v/C)2) where v is velocity and C is the speed of light in a vacuum, 2.997*108 m/s. As you get faster, the Lorentz factor increases, and the amount of time you experience becomes longer and longer compared to the amount of time on earth. When you reach the speed of light, time on earth virtually stops, and you continue moving through time. This begs the question, if you go faster (forcing the Lorentz factor into imaginary numbers), do you go back in time? Maybe, but such speeds would destroy matter on the atomic level, so it would be difficult to find out.

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