Is it possible to stop time?

Answer 1

Time can't be stopped but changing the relativity of time to a physical entity has been done with particle accelerators. Massive speed will slow down atomic activity.

The thing about time is even if it did stop nobody would know about it and nothing would change because of it.

{Why people use this as their forum for for proving they're dumb is beyond me: of course it's possible to stop time. You just need the gravity of a large singularity to accomplish it.]

OK champ, go get a large singularity then and prove this overly simplistic gibberish as fact. Clearly you don't understand the inherent fallacy of claiming time to be stopped. Nobody with any sense about them explains stopping time in such simplistic terms. The concept you refer to is at best, speculative opinion, it cannot be accepted as fact. This event would involve the entire universe, or "a large singularity" having no movement, not even molecular activity. This condition would reflect the state of the universe immediately proceeding a "big bang", there is no reason to assume time stops during this event.

And don't name call on wiki, it's unbecoming of someone attempting to create the persona of intelligence.

Simpler Answer*** Time has been created by humanity to understand time forget hours and minutes. Now imagine for time to go forward there must be movement, for there to be movement their must be energy, energy is very abundant in our universe but it is NOT infinite. Once the universe has no energy everything will be absolute zero with zero movement. Hence, time has stopped. However this doesn't last long, gravity only requires two objects that can be attracted to each other so their will be movement. Now chunks of rock will build up large massive stones, if to extremely large stones collide together they will cause friction. Friction is energy and will be radiated across the universe. Inertia will also play a large part in radiating energy across the universe. The process of coming from complete zero to energy abundance is around 1 to 1000 trillion years of waiting so not so long!

If space and time are moving, they had to come from somewhere, so there had to be a zero point when they came into existence. How could time always have been? That doesn't make any sense. Not that the universe, or multi-verse makes any sense either, but how about particles (or ships) that could travel faster than the speed of light? Wouldn't they travel back in time, but before doing so reach a point where time stopped? Like in a car rolling forward, if you put it in reverse, before it goes backward, if even only for a second, between the two motions of travel the car will stop. If a spaceship is accelerating and time is slowing down before it will go backward in time, time would have to stop.

+++blatent problem with not-so-simple answer.

Energy CAN NOT be created NOR destroyed. Hence even --IF-- it was finite in existence(there is no reason to assume it) it's existence is infinate. Newton's Law's kid, better study the basics if your going to attempt to get into physics of the unknown. We use to term infinite not only in it's theoritecal sense but also when there is no known value, so at this point in time energy, as well as matter, exists in infinite amount. It may be proven otherwise sometime but at this point it is incorrect to state it is not infinite. Don't assume speculation otherwise is anything new, it isn't, science works on observable facts not wild speculation.

You may also wish to considers Einsteins Theory of Relaivity where E=mcc. If mass is infinite and energy is a product of mass times the speed of light, squared, then HOW could energy be less than mass. You do know infinity is still infinity, no matter how great a number is DIVIDED into it. You think you know more than Einstein or any physicist since? You suggest concepts and then fudge their logic to fit your opinion, to be a scientist you need to conform your ideas to the facts, not the facts to your idea as you have done here.

It is also a fundimental flaw to refer to time stopping during a sequence of events. If an event happens after time supposidly stopped, then time couldn't have stopped. Time can exist in a vacuum without matter nor energy. In human terms, time cannot be stopped nor is it possible to suggest time stopping without making a logical error, as you have done here. Even though this subject is purely speculative and there is no right answer, your theory defies basic logic in more than a few ways. Also the question is "is it possible to.." not "will time ever stop" big difference.

Your further speculation on speed vs. time is reiterating what I already said in my first answer, before you called me stupid for saying that. But you go on to assume that time would stop with speed. If a spaceship travels fast enough to slow time, this is only relivient to the spaceship, time will be the same everywhere else so nothing has changed. No one has ever suggested it is possible to stop time or to go back in time in this manner. The theory only suggests time is relative in speed to speed, nothing more.

This is turning into a forum, but I don't think anyone should say time can't be stopped. There was a time when science said nothing could travel faster than the speed of sound. Now we can travel at what 20 times the speed of sound? The space shuttle travels at around 17,500 miles per hour. So I think in some distant future stopping time, even if only locally, may be possible. And if science never figures that one out, not that I know why they would even want to, God may yet prove to be real. If that's the case, he would be able to stop time.

P.S. When you die, doesn't time for your energy stop?

Answer 2

As of current scientific understanding, it is not possible to stop or manipulate time. Time is a fundamental aspect of the spacetime continuum and is a constant in our universe. While there are theoretical concepts like time dilation from special relativity, stopping time remains firmly in the realm of Science Fiction.