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Is there another way to stop time than traveling at light speed? I learned that mass can't go at light speed unless we have infinite energy (which we don't). If there are other ways of stopping time, won't it be so much easier?
Question Date: 2011-07-27
Answer 1:

As an object approaches the speed of light, the rate of the passage of time goes to zero. The same thing happens as you move deeper into a gravitational well - time passes slightly more slowly here on Earth than it does up in the space station, for example. At the center of a black hole, time comes to an end.



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