Time Travel: It’s POSSIBLE!
hehe unfortunatly we all time travel constantly [img]images/smiles/icon_smile.gif[/img] Bad joke. Ill use the layman’est terms I can and not get into quantum.
The normal passage of time as we see it is 1 second = 1 second
That’s not constant however. It’s just normal for humans on Earth perception. Time/Space is one piece, this is the most basic and most difficult concept for most people to understand. We only use the word “Time/Space” because it is a best fit, there are many other terms but its best for now. As you move through Space Time the constant 1 second = 1 second falters. At the maximum speed of light in vacuum you can reach up to and never exceed 300,000 klicks per second. At this point; time stands still.
The speed of light is never constant however. In fact we’ve ever observed anything to reach the maximum speed of light, its like Absolute-Zero 0K in that regard. Light has mass, and is affected by gravity therefore can never truly hit L since there is never a true vaccum unaffected by gravity wells.
Ok what does this have to do with Time-Travel?
It’s our first experience with it. Believe it or not when you travel on a Plane from Australia to America, set your watch against a national timepiece. Then when you arrive look if you see a difference. You’ll find you lose an extremely miniscule amount of time. But in effect you have just traveled back in time, or rather slowed the process of time around you albeit fractions of a second.
One reason we cannot understand time travel is that we have no real formula or theorum that explains gravity. Strings, Superstrings, Bubbles, they are all just theory at present.
Finally there’s the problem with how spacetime is affected by un-natural fatigue. In order to actually travel backwards in time significantly you would be required to move the mass of the entire universe, time-space is one piece much like a solid cloth, you can manipulate it but not seperate it. Anything else isnt really time travel but dimensional travel in which you slip from one dimension to an alternate one in a previous state of space time. This deals with Quantum physics. but until there’s a “Theory of Everything” to link the other physics its not worth looking into, as it is we can only build simple binary quantum applications at present. The math is mind boggling and its considered akin to SETI by collegues, and garners very little funding.
Ill look around at work tommarrow to see if I can find some material about the Berkley Project in which a time machine was theorized. Unfortunatly it takes the mass of about 10 neutron stars in a very confined space [img]images/smiles/icon_smile.gif[/img]