if we were traveling faster through space relative to a stationary point would our experience of time change?

like if we were traveling closer to the speed of light would we experience more or less?
not about time... about experience. would we get more done in a minute or a day.

no except in relation to the S point...doppler shift etc

In the spaceship, time would slow down.

yes, the time will move backward.

If we traveling closer to the speed of light nothing will change. The changes start when you enter the speed of light. Time becomes irrelevant and matter starts to expand. Anything outside of the object that is moving faster than the speed of light will go faster. Meaning time will go faster. So if you were to come back to earth, it would be hundreds maybe even thousands of years later. It's very ironic how this happens but I actually can't explain how time is distorted, I just know the effects of how it happened. You can maybe Google this subject to find more information.

Time would slow down as you approach the speed of light because particles traveling at the speed of light decay faster. Thats not much of an answer I know but its a fairly hard concept to explain, it has alot to do with relativity equations, something you should atleast research online if you want to even begin to grasp the conecpts

No, our experience certainly wouldn't change.

This is a fundemental part of relativity. What you would observe is the "stationary point" experience slower time. You would see your own watch would tick at exactly the same rate.

The idea is that there cannot possibly exist a "stationary point"- there is no such fundemental frame against which we can measure our "true" velocity. All constant velocity frames are equivalent. (the galilean principle)

Lots of misunderstandings of time dilation in the replies above.

If you were on a rocket traveling close to the speed of light everything in your frame of reference would seem like normal.

to you it would still seem that it took an hour to eat dinner and your clock would show it took 1 hour.

to an observer on a stationary point it would seem that it took you 8 hours to eat dinner (for example) and his clock would have moved forward 8 hours.

This is all part of Einstein's theory of relativity. In all actuality we are moving at a great deal of speed currently. The earth is spinning around once in a 24 hour period; it is moving around the sun once in year, and the galaxy is moving in the universe. All added up a great deal of miles per hour. Can you tell? No. To you when you throw a hard ball it travels at 80 mph, to someone outside of your frame of reference it may be going 3000 mph (for example). It's all relative to your frame of reference!

your sense of time within a spaceship does not change Time seems to pass at the same rate. Things get heavier as they speed up and you need infinite energy to accelerate somethng to the speed of light Speed of light cannot be exceeded except in star trek and by tachyons if they exist.

If a point is really stationary relative to th rest of the universe, does time pass infinitely fast there?

yes, ever see star trek? *duh*

just kidding. i think we'd experience the same, but i would be only what we surrounded ourselves with - how could it be different unles how we perceived changed somehow? time is relative. its in our heads, so if we traveled the speed of light we'd only notice our surroundings changing, etc. [i dont think we would decay any faster though]