Posted on 11/04/2005 10:00:43 AM PST by Red Badger
The corridor of time does exist, but such a tour is trillion times riskier than a cruise in a basin with holes about the Pacific
A student from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology decided to organize a party and invited guests from the future, those who travel in time, to it. Guests may come in casual wear but must necessarily present evidences proving that they are not impostors. These may be medicines to cure AIDS or cancer, cold synthesis reactor or a thermonuclear reactor and things like this. Black hole
Modern science cannot give a definition of time. What is more, it cannot also prove that traveling in time is impossible. Anyone who goes for such a tour would inevitably grow older during the cruise according to the universal law of entropy growth. This is not a joke that meeting a grandchild of yours is quite possible according to the modern physics canons.
How can a human build a time machine? The recent sensational discoveries in the black holes sphere offers majority of opportunities for this purpose. Many of the discoveries have already won Nobel Prizes. Black holes are the vanguard of science, but it is not correct to believe that the existence of black holes is proved once and for all. Physics laws are symmetrical: if there is a black hole in which everything may drop but nothing can burst out from it, there must necessarily be a white hole into which nothing can fall but everything gets out of it. In other words, if one jumps into a black hole in one place he may jump out of a white hole in some other place. Does it sound crazy? According to Einstein's theory of relativity, there are solutions of this type. They are very instable, and a corridor from a black to a white hole may get closed because of slightest perturbations. This corridor does exist, but such a tour is trillion times riskier than a cruise in a basin with holes about the Pacific. Any physical body may be crushed in the center of a black hole.
The Director of Sternberg Astronomy Institute, the Russian Academy of Sciences, Anatoly Cherepaschuk, does not think the issue of traveling in time is too fantastic. On his way to the center of a black hole an astronaut will see his future and another universe disposed to our universe in the future. The astronaut would have to move quicker than the light speed to get into this universe some other way, which is impossible. Unfortunately, the astronaut will not be able to get back and tell what he saw in the future. He will not even go down in historical chronicles; outside spectators will always treat him as standing not further than the black hole verge.
Recently, some encouraging theories were developed to prove that some objects having no horizon of events exist in the powerful gravitational field; this allows traveling there and back in a time machine. American Kip Thorne and a member of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Igor Novikov, working in the west are connected with calculation of such objects. These objects are called mole burrows or space-time tunnels. Mole furrows are built of exotic vacuum-like material with negative pressure. In the tunnels, time goes back with respect to the outside space. Astronomers of the world dream of finding these mole furrows in the universe with the help of telescopes.
Many fiction authors described traveling into the past where people found the present-day world changed after the voyage because of their doings in the past. But physics theories state that these actions cannot be fulfilled with the help of a time machine: not only the past has an effect upon the future, but the future also influences the past. The cause-effect relations are very stable, and all events happen in such a way that they cannot be changed.
We live in a time second - one-second that keeps "moving" forward. ( In fact, time is a solid, so it doesn't "move") Millions of time travelers could go back in time and keep missing our "second". ( Just kidding, but you asked!)
"no one would want to go back to the late 1970's."
I would want to go back to the night of Bill Clinton's conception.
I would bring loud noise makers and a crate of rabid skunks.
Standing outside of the home I would scream "Please don't do it, save our nation, please"
God is not bound by time, therefore, things really are all happening at once. Ultimately, we will not be bound by time either, but I think it is highly unlikely that some machine will be desigened for time travel.
I did already, and I think it's rather entertaining, to say the least.
You can only go backwards in time to the moment the time machine was created. For obvious reasons.
Didn't old Albert say that if you could travel fast enough energy would turn into mass? Wouldn't motion cease to exist?
Just wondering.
someones got to invent it first...as soon as we do,
all the future folks will start visiting us.....
they can't do it until we do it! Get it????
This is real easy...
My guess, is that what is gonna change is the understanding
of physics will progress so that most of the suppositions we
have now will be proven to be impossible, and only a few
will be provable, and/or doable. (just a guess, however!)
So no flames from the past, present or future please.
If they can’t cure the common cold, they certainly can’t invent a way to time travel.
For years I have cursed the Chinese for their rotten package directions English translations.
Now I find out they've been outsourcing to the Ruskies all along.
Students of American history routinely travel back to the late 70's to see one of the worst US Presidents of all time.
chuckle chuckle
mc
The (Indy) film "Primer" is awesome. Totally geeky but believable tale about some guys that invent a time machine in their garage and how it messes up their lives.
You can get it from Netflix, if you use that service. Can't remember where I first heard of it, but we've watched it twice and DH has passed it on to all of his nerdy engineering friends who do seem to be spending an awful lot of time in our garage these days. Hmmmm...
"An engineer builds a machine (quite by accident) that can transport the user back in time. But his discovery comes with an ominous caveat, because at the heart of this puzzling device, nothing is as it seems on the surface. The narrative inventively blends a patchwork story line with overlapping streams of dialogue that help build tension and suspense in this Sundance Film Festival Grand Jury Prize winner. David Sullivan and Shane Carruth star."
See tag line...
Beat me to it...
Should say has not rather than cannot. However since time is an illusion, the definition, when it comes, will not be particularly useful.
Maybe modern science can't give a good definition of time, but someone gave a brief history of it.....
Time is relative. And I have absolutely NO TIME for my relatives........
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