ATDTDA (5.1) - The Etienne-Louis Malus

[mikebailey at speakeasy.net]

Lawrence Bryan wrote
> 
> On Apr 5, 2007, at 6:56 AM, David Morris wrote:
> 
> >OK, so if one could travel AT the speed of light (the fastest speed
> >possible), then experience, memory, consciousness would cease to be
> >because time itself would stop, right?
> 
> 
> > So here's a question that may or may not have meaning (I'm a complete
> > novice with this stuff): Is it possible to REDUCE the speed one is
> > traveling through this universal space? And if that were possible, I
> > guess relative time (I guess relative to the expansion of space from
> > the origin of the Big Bang?) would speed up? So if we knew the
> > location of the origin of the Big Bang and started flying there at a
> > speed close to that of light, our relative time would speed up?
> 
> No, no, and no.
> 

does the fact that a person has slowed down light and stopped it in a lab affect one of those "nos"?  I'm guessing "no"...