Neo Phyte wrote in message ...
If Time slows down as we approach the speed of light,
what happens as we slow to absolute zero motion?


That depends on who's watching what. As we as "stationary" observers
watch the spaceship get way closer to the speed of light, it seems to
be moving slower and slower. If the ship ever really got pretty close
to c, it would shrink to nothing and time would end for it. The
astronaut would see everything as normal except that he would see the
universe as having slowed and contracted in length. The reason for
the time dilations is because time is a property of matter and it
passes inversely proportional to an object's state of motion in space.
Thus, the faster we go, the slower our personal time rate.

Conversely, the slower we go, the faster time passes for us. As we
slowed from the speed of Earth to a substantially lower speed, we
would age more rapidly than on Earth and we would soon die and our
corpses would begin to rot and eventually disappear as our lifetime
ended. Some may argue that we would get larger or longer as we slow
down more and more, but lately the consensus seems to be that the
increase in mass would be negligible or not occur at all.

Regards,
TomGee