(hehe, get it?)
Imagine if there was a 3rd observer, who saw everything exactly as it happened, who want effected by tricks caused by the speed of light..what would he see as you zipped off in your ship?
-arcon
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Mon Jul 28, 2003 1:39 pm
@Whasp: but surely its still just APPEARS like your moving slower than the rest of the world.
Imagine if there was a 3rd observer, who saw everything exactly as it happened, who want effected by tricks caused by the speed of light..what would he see as you zipped off in your ship?
-arcon
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Imagine if there was a 3rd observer, who saw everything exactly as it happened, who want effected by tricks caused by the speed of light..what would he see as you zipped off in your ship?
-arcon
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Mon Jul 28, 2003 8:33 pm
You have obviously discussed the possibility of time travel and here's what I know about that subject (probably much or all of which has been said earlier, I'm just too lazy to ready through those looong posts).
The only in theory possible way of time travel is going fast. Very close to the speed of light (someone said this by saying "Go around our solar system in 99.3% of light speed and when you come back to Earth things have changed by centuries or millennia" ). This goes only one way, forward in time, since light speed can in theory not be exceeded.
If you then go at light speed time would stand still; fly for 1000 years and you'll not become older, though everybody else will (and die, of course).
This is highly theoretical:
Let's now presume light speed is exceeded. What would happen? Since time stands still at light speed, wouldn't you go backwards in time if you go faster?
And to go back to the original question "If you kill your grandfather, what would happen?".
In theory the same second (or 1/1000000000 of a second) that he dies, you should cease to exist. Of course, if your father is already born this shouldn't happen (except for maybe due to psychological changes that occur when you, or rather your father loses his father). How this would happen I don't really understand but in my ways of thinking this should happen. I presume then that time is linear and doesn't change if someone that is now dead is killed before he really dies.
If this is true, it rises another thing; can you really change time? If someone tomorrow decides to go back in time (how that now would happen) and he suceedes, shouldn't you today already live through the possible consequences of his actions? But then, how can you do if he hasn't already changed time?
And lastly: If it is so that you today live through the "altered" world, doesn't this mean that the future is currently taking place in a parallell time in another "universe"?
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Edited by - #Team-Pr0Jectil on 28-07-2003 21:36:14
The only in theory possible way of time travel is going fast. Very close to the speed of light (someone said this by saying "Go around our solar system in 99.3% of light speed and when you come back to Earth things have changed by centuries or millennia" ). This goes only one way, forward in time, since light speed can in theory not be exceeded.
If you then go at light speed time would stand still; fly for 1000 years and you'll not become older, though everybody else will (and die, of course).
This is highly theoretical:
Let's now presume light speed is exceeded. What would happen? Since time stands still at light speed, wouldn't you go backwards in time if you go faster?
And to go back to the original question "If you kill your grandfather, what would happen?".
In theory the same second (or 1/1000000000 of a second) that he dies, you should cease to exist. Of course, if your father is already born this shouldn't happen (except for maybe due to psychological changes that occur when you, or rather your father loses his father). How this would happen I don't really understand but in my ways of thinking this should happen. I presume then that time is linear and doesn't change if someone that is now dead is killed before he really dies.
If this is true, it rises another thing; can you really change time? If someone tomorrow decides to go back in time (how that now would happen) and he suceedes, shouldn't you today already live through the possible consequences of his actions? But then, how can you do if he hasn't already changed time?
And lastly: If it is so that you today live through the "altered" world, doesn't this mean that the future is currently taking place in a parallell time in another "universe"?
[EditDamn typos![/Edit
Edited by - #Team-Pr0Jectil on 28-07-2003 21:36:14
Tue Jul 29, 2003 2:55 am
NOOOOOOOOOO!
look, the SOL is bollocks. in my opinion about a bizillion people are gonna get a good slap in the face when SOL travel is invented and people ARENT traveling foreward thru time, and even on the OFFCHANCE that I am WRONG then isnt SOL travel just a tarted up stasis chamber?
your basing EVERYTHING on appearances. boooooooo!
anyway, if SOL travel puts u in stasis, going FASTER wouldnt do anything.
think of it as the cooling of water:
water starts off at room temperature, it just mulls about, splashing on people and having a good old giggle, then it starts to get cold.
Colder and colder the water gets, getting more and more solid as it goes. Eventually, the water gets to freezing point and WHABAM, the water is solid.
now, the cold keeps coming, decreasing in temperature at a gradual rate, the water stays solid, it DOESN get bored and revert back to water again.
y'see?
as for your theories, theyve been WELL covered
-arcon
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look, the SOL is bollocks. in my opinion about a bizillion people are gonna get a good slap in the face when SOL travel is invented and people ARENT traveling foreward thru time, and even on the OFFCHANCE that I am WRONG then isnt SOL travel just a tarted up stasis chamber?
your basing EVERYTHING on appearances. boooooooo!
anyway, if SOL travel puts u in stasis, going FASTER wouldnt do anything.
think of it as the cooling of water:
water starts off at room temperature, it just mulls about, splashing on people and having a good old giggle, then it starts to get cold.
Colder and colder the water gets, getting more and more solid as it goes. Eventually, the water gets to freezing point and WHABAM, the water is solid.
now, the cold keeps coming, decreasing in temperature at a gradual rate, the water stays solid, it DOESN get bored and revert back to water again.
y'see?
as for your theories, theyve been WELL covered
-arcon
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