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Can You Really Go Back in Time by Breaking the Speed of Light?


The folks behind the Nova science TV series provide a write-up of how the velocity addition formula of Einstein’s special relativity would behave at superluminal velocities —Michael Main
We pictured what the trip would look like to an observer waiting back on Earth and watching the ship’s progress through a powerful super-telescope.
A luminous red hand on a clock appears to tick backward at a rate of minus 1000
                minutes per minute.
  • Nonfiction
  • Definite Time Travel