Well you are made of matter, and matter can’t travel the speed of light. But for your question, that doesn’t really matter. Even traveling near the speed of light, you will age one year. Your time always feels normal to you, whatever speed. It will be longer from the perspective of someone else who is not traveling that fast
Humans have mass, so they can’t travel at the speed of light, you get a divide by zero in the equations, and it doesn’t work.
You can get arbitrarily close to the speed of light, for example, at 0.999c, you will to an observer appear to be passing through time 22x slower as compared to a stationary observer. At 0.9999c, it is 70x and so on.
From the perspective of the human (let’s assume massless to allow for speed of light travel), it would occur instantly and no aging at all. This would be true of ANY distance. To the outside observer, one year would elapse per light year.
I love the fact that so many replies seem to think that you do not understand that a human cannot travel at the speed of light and are asking a hypothetical question. 1 light year is how far light travels in one year so if you travelled for one year, you would age one year, The people you know who are not travelling at the speed of light however would age much faster relative to you.
Aside from the fact that that’s not possible: nothing. Traveling at the speed of light, time stops. If you left earth and traveled to some distant planet at C, it would feel instantaneous to you
If I understand it correctly, from your perspective the distance change to zero (distances shrinks the closer you get to lightspeed) and no time passes for you since the distance is 0. for a stationary observer looking at you a year would pass, they would age one year. You traveling at light speed would age 0
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Not at all. The journey would be instantaneous for them, and they’d be exactly as old as they were at the start of the journey.
A human cannot travel at the speed of light. It is impossible to answer the question because the premise is impossible.
Well you are made of matter, and matter can’t travel the speed of light. But for your question, that doesn’t really matter. Even traveling near the speed of light, you will age one year. Your time always feels normal to you, whatever speed. It will be longer from the perspective of someone else who is not traveling that fast
Humans have mass, so they can’t travel at the speed of light, you get a divide by zero in the equations, and it doesn’t work.
You can get arbitrarily close to the speed of light, for example, at 0.999c, you will to an observer appear to be passing through time 22x slower as compared to a stationary observer. At 0.9999c, it is 70x and so on.
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It would require an infinite amount of energy for a human to travel at the speed of light, but if they did no time would pass for them.
From the perspective of the human (let’s assume massless to allow for speed of light travel), it would occur instantly and no aging at all. This would be true of ANY distance. To the outside observer, one year would elapse per light year.
In this thought experiment the travel time would be instantaneous.
Massless blah blah blah.
One year. Time is relative to the observer.
To make this question simple, “How long would it take to go a mile at one mile an hour?”
The answer to both is One, year or hour.
I love the fact that so many replies seem to think that you do not understand that a human cannot travel at the speed of light and are asking a hypothetical question. 1 light year is how far light travels in one year so if you travelled for one year, you would age one year, The people you know who are not travelling at the speed of light however would age much faster relative to you.
Aside from the fact that that’s not possible: nothing. Traveling at the speed of light, time stops. If you left earth and traveled to some distant planet at C, it would feel instantaneous to you
Real question is, a year in whose time, ours or theirs?
It is weas possible (which it isn’t) the human wouldn’t age at all.
If I understand it correctly, from your perspective the distance change to zero (distances shrinks the closer you get to lightspeed) and no time passes for you since the distance is 0. for a stationary observer looking at you a year would pass, they would age one year. You traveling at light speed would age 0