Researcher uses math to investigate possibility of time travel

phys.org ^ | April 27, 2017 | Provided by: University of British Columbia

[bobby.223]

Scott: “What happened sir? You only left a minute ago.” Spock: “We were successful.” The Gaurdian: “Time has resumed it’s shape. All is as it was before. Many such journeys are possible. Let me be your gateway.” Uhura: “Captain, the Enterprise is up there, they want to know if we want to beam up?” Kirk: “Let’s get the hell out of here”. (From the best Star Trek ever, the time travel episode, ‘ The City On The edge Of Forever’, first air date, April 1967).

[bobby.223]

Ping to #81. Best TV time travel show!

[fr_freak]

Time travel will never be possible.

Otherwise someone from the future would have traveled back to Germany in the 1930s and killed Hitler.

Yeah, but what happened was that a guy went back and killed Hitler as a kid, but the guy who took his place was even worse, so another guy went back and killed the guy that killed Hitler when that first guy was a child, so Hitler never got killed. But since Hitler never got killed, the second time traveler guy never had any reason to go kill the first time traveler guy, so the first time traveler guy grew up and one day said, "I need to go back in time and kill Hitler."

Anyway, long story short, in about twenty-two years the universe is going to explode.

[fr_freak]

But then there’s quantum entanglement, which seems even weirder.

Quantum entanglement seems to make sense just fine if you think of the universe as existing on more than four dimensions. The two entangled quanta could simply be right next to each other on the 5th or 6th axis. We only see the first three and experience the fourth as time

[fr_freak]

Oh that I were where I would be!
Then would I be where I am not;
But where I am there I must be,
And where I would be I can not.



Katie Cruel? Is that you?

[trebb]

Can’t his future self just come back in time and give him all the research results? That way he won’t have to go through all the work.

Or, his future self can cause a real conundrum by going back an extra 20 years and giving the data to someone else.....

[HLPhat]

Got fiction?

[bobby.223]

What does, “got fiction” mean?

[oldtech]

I remember hearing a talk about the possibility of this & teleportation once & the commentator asked if it actually became possible,would there still be a kid somewhere asking....”are we there yet”?

[HLPhat]

That’s what “time travel” is super genius.

Fictional, government grant funded, Bullshyte.

[Reily]

Hopefully some interesting “math” will fall out of this guy’s work!

String Theory may be a dead end in cosmology but the “math” behind it is finding uses elsewhere, e.g physics of surfaces and other “interfaces”.

[HLPhat]

Time is a derivative function of state change that progresses relative to E within the inertial frame(s) in which it is observed.

State change always goes forward.

Grant-funded mathemaconartists can’t change that self-evident fact.

[Reily]

I’m sorry but the way you stated that makes no sense.

And new mathematical concepts may have use whether they are physically realizable or not.

I am amazed you can judge his work without having read a single paper produced.

Jealous perhaps?

[HLPhat]

It make sense just fine to anyone who understands the difference between special relativity and fictional Bullshyte.

[Reily]

I understand both special & general relativity but am willing to listen to someone tell me something new. I will judge its validity only after that.

[HLPhat]

Then you shouldn’t have any trouble understanding that Time a derivative function of state-change that progresses relative to E within the inertial frames in which it is observed.

And that state change always moves forward.

[Reily]

Not the way you state it!

Do you mean this d(Some State)/dt vs E - energy inside the inertial frames is greater then zero when t- time is greater then zero?

[HLPhat]

Nope I mean what I said. That T is a function of state-change that progresses relative to E.

Meanwhile, in the space-time of the emperor’s new lavender underwear..

“Most of the published paper is about picking holes in it. so, if anything, the paper says time machines are less possible than ever.”

What does this mean?

[Reily]

I’m done talking to you.
You’re purposely being an pass!

[<1/1,000,000th%]

Good post!