Hidden's Time Machine (605 hits)
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Submitted by crisko (View user info) at 2003-08-06 00:11:31 EDT
Uhhh, NO.
I see time as this:
We travel through 'space-time', everyone understands the space part, but you should realise that we travel exactly at the same way through time.
So we travel to a combination of space and time, with time as a fourth dimension. This four dimensions together is 'space-time'.
Let's say we travel through this 'space-time' with a kind of speed, this speed is what we normally think of when we talk about time, because we don't know another speed.
conclusion part 1:
when we say speed of light = c
we can say our speed through space-time = 'our' time (time as most people see it; relative)
part two
concluding to part one:
We never can travel in time the way most people see it; in one moment from 2001 to 2050 or to 1970 (when Jim Morrison was still living and you could see one of his performances).
But we can slow down our speed through our space-time.
When we can come in the vicinity of a black hole, time slows down. That's concluded by our lovely scientist Einstein in his theory of relativity. Probably there must be something like this to accelerate our speed (in fact time goes faster when you're in outer space then when you're on earth, but there is just a very small difference).
So we can change the speed. But can we turn around our direction of traveling? No, I can't think of a way to do that.
conclusion part 2:
Can we 'travel' through 'space-time' ??? no
Can we change our change our 'speed' through 'space-time'??? yes
side note on hiddens schematic:
And the whole speed of light thing..again, it goes against current theroies that support time travel. You stated what..99.x% the speed of light?? You would have to travel FASTER than the speed of light (ie stop and see yourself coming).
In closing:
I couldn't get my time machine to work...so its still sitting in my closet. Maybe it needs more RAM.
I need to stop posting when I am drunk. woohoo!!! Why the hell did I post this. I am the last person in the world to comment on such a complex topic.
I need a beer..this deep thought is making my buzz wear off.
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Submitted by Slovin (user info) at 2003-08-06 10:38:27 EDT (#)
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Kant's solution to Zeno's paradox. He's getting universal acclaim, despite the fact that he's not a scientist.
"Space and time do not belong to things as they are in themselves, but rather to our way of looking at things. They are forms of our perception. It is our minds which impose space and time upon objects, and not objects which impose space and time upon our minds. Further, Kant drew from these contradictions the conclusion that to comprehend the infinite is beyond the capacity of human reason. He attempted to show that, wherever we try to think the infinite, whether the infinitely large or the infinitely small, we fall into irreconcilable contradictions."
Basically, this is the guy who asserted that time doesn't really exist, and objects have no fixed point in space or time at any point. Further, because motion requires fixed movement at a fixed time, that if there is no fixed existence that there can also be no fixed time.
Time machines are impossible because time doesn't exist. It isn't a fourth dimension, and the whole "space-time continuum" thing is being debunked as we speak.
Submitted by A_Weasel_named_FUBAR (user info) at 2003-08-06 09:13:50 EDT (#)
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A lot of Einsteins Relativity theorom is wrong though cos of the (Berg? was it, i cant remember) Quantum Physics experiments done in Holland where they proved that two quantum Particles could communicate faster than the speed of light.
Good God I love Science.
Submitted by Titinita (user info) at 2003-08-06 07:38:28 EDT (#)
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Well if it isn't the leader of the weiner patrol, boning up on his nerd
lessons!
-- Homer Simpson
Boy-Scoutz n the Hood
Submitted by hidden101 (user info) at 2003-08-06 07:14:58 EDT (#)
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the particle beam that travels at 99.995% the speed of light is just a part of the mechanism. the object doing the time traveling won't be going that fast.
duh!
+1 for the effort, but no one knows more about time travel than me! in fact, you should all be thanking me. i grew up in the ruins after Skynet became self aware and set off the nuke. but after traveling back in time to stop Cyberdyne Systems from developing Skynet, i ended up here, with a normal life, in a regular future, along with the rest of you.
Submitted by Insanethemind (user info) at 2003-08-06 05:05:13 EDT (#)
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This fucker is trying to pass of my math homework as his own.
Plagarizer! (sp?)
Interesting (+1)
Submitted by Otter (user info) at 2003-08-06 03:53:09 EDT (#)
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I felt like engaging myself in a time paradox.
I went back in time and shot myself dead.
Here's one for you to think about. Not the typical kill your own grandfather paradox but, say you take an album, something very popular, like, Pearl Jam's 'Ten.' I chose this album simply because of it's popularity and time frame it was released. I'll explain why Pearl Jam in just a moment.
You know how popular the album was, how much money Eddie Vedder and the Pearls made form that album. You have a musical ability to sing just like Eddie Vedder. You have musical talent to play the instruments like Pearl Jam. So, you go back in time, one year prior to the release of 'Ten.' You record the entire album ver batum and release it. Now since you are from the future, you are somewhat of an unknown and Pearl Jam has never heard of you. Now this part is under the assumtion that Pearl Jam had writen the songs and were in the process of recording them about a year prior to Ten's release. Anyway, you make your own version of Ten and release it.
One of a few things are going to happen here...
1. Your Ten sells as well as Pearl Jam's did (in what is the past to you) and you make all the same money they did.
2. Pearl Jam sues you, accusing you of stealing their music somehow, but they can't prove it.
3. Since you released Ten a year before all the Grunge/Seattle bands were popular, it bombs because people aren't ready for this new type of music.
4. Pearl Jam relaesed their Ten, a nation of music listeners is very confused.
Now here's the paradox.
1. If you are the one who releases Ten, how can you come from the futer to steal it away from Pearl Jam since it was you who made 'Even Flow' popular?
2. Since you had never met, and you took pecautions to make sure you had never been around, Pearl Jam, they really have no case to prove you stole their music. It could be considered coincedence if it was a riff or two but a whole album. Now Pearl Jam is forced to write a whole different album, therefor not gaining the popularity of Ten and your future self has nothing to steal.
3. Now you've givien the world grunge and the world puked on it. Your version of Ten sells for crap and you don't make the millions you'd hoped to have, once again Pearl Jam is forced to write a different album, but relieved that they didn't release their version of Ten after seeing how you tanked with it.
4. Roll with it baby, reap the rewards and listen to the stupid teenagers who claim you saved their lives by writing "Alive."
Now I just got to thinkin about my first line:
If I went back in time and shot myself dead, I'd just dissappear right? Did I just commit suicide or murder? but since I shot myself in the past, I couldn't get to the point in time when I killed myself, therefore I couldn't travel back in time and kill me. Which then means I'd get to the point where I traveled back intime and killed me. But then If I killed me, I'd never get to the point in the future where I went back in time and killed me. Which in turn means that I can now get to the point in time where I go back in time and kill me. And if I kill me, I'll never get to the point in time where I go back in time to kill me, which means I'll get to the point in time where I go back in time and kill me, but if I go back in time to kill me, I'll never get to the point in time where I go back in time to kill me. Which means that I will get to the point in time where I go back in time and kill me, but that means I'll never get to the point where I go back in time and kill me.......
Submitted by RetardedCrow (user info) at 2003-08-06 01:39:44 EDT (#)
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I have two time machines. One I made in kindergarden out of construction paper, elbow macaroni and a drawing of me and a clock. The second, well, I don't want to bring up that failure, since the one made out of macaroni didn't destroy a parallel universe and kill my cat...
I need a cat...
Submitted by Hairsphincter (user info) at 2003-08-06 00:55:16 EDT (#)
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So, Ubersite ain't so flash with non-standard text, I gather?
Submitted by Hairsphincter (user info) at 2003-08-06 00:54:34 EDT (#)
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Notional Eqation for Hair's understanding of physics ...
Let Hair be (H)
understanding be (u)
Physics be (Ph)
HuPh = (⅝(0.0))/(√0.000⁄∞)∑∕0
≠0
≡0
≤0
≥0
≈0
Therefore, it is clear that Hair has no comprehension in this area.
That is all.
Submitted by Cymensen (user info) at 2003-08-06 00:48:19 EDT (#)
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Maybe it needs more RAM.
You ought to slow down a ketchup bomb.
Submitted by MickGinny (user info) at 2003-08-06 00:21:55 EDT (#)
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Submitted by MickGinny (user info) at 2003-08-06 00:21:27 EDT (#)
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That's weird. It's like something out of that twilighty show about
that zone.
-- Homer Simpson
Treehouse of Horror