Time Travel....Just Another Sci-Fi Cliché?
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Something that's always interested me is the concept of time travel - & how Einstein's theory of relativity basically makes it a reality, as opposed to what many people would naturally think. Well, the theory of relativity isn't really a theory anymore, it's been proven - which would by association would aslo make time travel a reality..Think I'm just jive talkin?....Step into my office, I'm about to drop some knowledge on ya....
So you THOUGHT Back To The Future, was nothing more than a good Spielberg flick? EZZZZZZZZZZZZT(sound of a game show buzzer indicating that you, are wrong). I'm sure I'm not the only ezabeler that's aware of this, but, scientists have known for a while that time travel, at least into the future, is not only possible, but IT'S ALREADY BEEN DONE. Basically, the faster one object moves in relation to another, the slower time goes for it. This is because space, and time, are linked - the faster you move through one, the faster you move through the other. So time would be slower in the sence that, I, moving at the speed of light, because of my speed, have just skipped 20 years into the future...You, moving a lot slower, still have to wait 20 years to get where I currently am. The thing is, I SHOULD be 20 years older, but I'm not, I'm 20 years in the future, without having aged.(Kinda like Cher..It seems plastic surgery is a form of time travel)..Hence, time moved slower for me in relation to you...Sound crazy?....Look @ this....http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/einstein/hotsciencetwin/test.html
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That..I don't even know what to say about that because I'm not sure if I can fully comprehend it without my head hurting.
I saw a show on this last night on the learning channel, and there's one man who's maybe 1/2 second behind the rest of us because he was on a space station for 2 years.
Interesting Side note...This sort of "time travel" is a part of the Ender Series.
is the 1/2 sec even noticeable for him?
yeah.. it's really weird tho. since he's a half second in the past, he can't drive a car, cause he's always delayed. you can't talk to him normally, cause it's like talking to somebody over a satellite link. also, if he starts running, he turns invisible because he starts slipping even further into the past. and his hair grows slower.
ian stop lying it doesn't suit you
Can we just admit that his "lies" were dripping with sarcasm? It's kinda humorous.
i give him points for trying to be funny. ian - +1.5 for you!
why are you guys taking his side?? jk
Ian you totally had me until "also, if he starts running, he turns invisible because he starts slipping even further into the past."
he doesn't stay a 1/2 second in the past, he would just experience a half second less of aging then everybody else....& it's not a 1/2 second it's a lot less, but it still illustrates the principal though
yea, time travel has always been possible. i saw something about a while ago on pbs. but time trravel is only really interesting if you can go to the past!
in fact everybody has their own personal time or clock. the simple act or driving in a car or going up in an elevator changes your time from that of other peoples.
yeah, by an EXTREMELY minute & probably immeasurable amount..but..yeah...like, if two people, were born @ the SAME exact time, to the trillionths of a second, and you waited 10 years & gauged their age, to us, they'd both be 10, but, in terms of quantum physics & such, their age would differ because of their differing rates of movement through life
ok so it changes "time" in a sense, but it's not like you can go see things far future b/c if you are moving faster than everyone else, nobody has done anything yet for you to be able to see.
i thought this was gonna say it's possible to travel both to the future and to the past. i understand time travel into the future, i kinda learned that stuff in physics, pretty interesting.
thats the most basic sense of time travel ever. thats childs play. i invented something much better . but i can't share.
Well... This isn't quite true. First of all, no scientific theory is ever truly "proven". It can amass sufficient evidence that it is considered as fact by the scientific world, but it is never "proven". Also, Einstein's theory of relativity is a little more complicated than you're making it. What it actually says is that time must be treated as another dimension like the three we know, and that it is meaningless to say that it is the same time at two different points in the universe. In fact it's meaningless to talk about the passage of time at all in Einstein's theory.
so, what i'm about to say isn't at all argumentative, I'm simply explaining myself.....the word "proven" just suggests that what's being talked about, through observation of events, has been found to be a reality - NASA deliberately offesets the clocks in their satilites to make up for the lag the clocks will have due to their high speeds..If they DIDN'T do this, the clocks would lag behind, and lose sync w/the the relatively stationary clocks back on earth...this, along w/many other things, proves that time is slower for an object in relation to another if it is moving faster than it...&, about eintstein's theory stating that it's meaningless to discuss time, I was simply using what he & others have found, to support a train of thought that I was on, regardless of whether he thinks time is important or not...ok I'm done
Oh, I knew what you meant. I was just being perverse. I just wanted to point out that the theory of relativity is a lot crazier than even you made it sound.
well of course, the stuff I mentioned here was, at the very most the tip of an ice burg - but I wanted to keep the peoples interest!..lol, pulling a steven hawking & writing a novel might have made ian weary as to whether he should even approve the story or not
im a bit confused by all this, but very interested, i say we should have a class on this... soo cool!
yes, we WILL have a class on this subject, every tuesday & thrusday night @ 7:30!..I'm starting a time travelers club in my basement!!!...ezabel's funding it, and it's efforts to ulitmately build a time machine out of household products!...if we mix just the right amount of Lemon Joy, granolla, bathroom air freshner and bleach, we MIGHT just be able to tap into the quantum fabric of space-time...or cause a chemical reaction that'd create fumes we would all end up dying from inhalling...but hey!!.it's all in the name of science!!..people die all the time, it's no biggie
hmmm you've picked some odd times to hold your classes
shhh!!!!!!!.....
Yes! I can make both of those classes weekly.
Albert Einstein was a genius....but why did his hair look like such a wreck?
Tigi hadn't invented Bed Head products yet.
Einstein was a pioneer of the bed head look.
i find it interesting... sexy almost............ i said almost
HAHAHAHAHA! That's stellar! However, I am a bit skeeved that Al is wearing a shirt that shows his belly.
Wow..he has a nice body.
the other girl in the picture(lisa holloway) has an sn on here but like NEVER comes on....&yeah, haha, she does have a nice body...buns'a steal
yea Lisa's computer is stupid and she can't get on eZabel haha i'm still in love with her tho...
hey, unless you want to start eating through a tube, I would lay off those kind of comments.
haha, you're her brother or something right?...I was waiting for somebody to say something
I just talked to lisa, about this very matter....and she said, that I was aloud to talk about her butt.....so everything's fine
Maybe so. But its not ok with me. So I will have to proceed with the Stone Cold whipping of YOUR butt. Ding Ding! Oh yea. I am her brother or "something".
hey, have some respect. talking about someones sisters butt puts them in an awkward situation. and chances are bally could savagely whip your behind. imagine if someone said Dan's sister had a nice butt or something. Dan'd call down evil upon them!
i would never do that. i would kill them on the spot.
and since you brought it up, valentine....naaaaaah i'm not that mean
are you saying that Alyssa has a not nice butt? thats not very nice...
I dont know ,do we have PICS+DIVX of said "butt" ?
yo ty i'm gonna hurt you
HAHAHA!
irrelavant. i've never met her. s'just an example. i have a girlfriend. i have a girlfriend. i have a girlfriend.
hahaah bryan, all i have to say is that i'm in love with you...
umm..I dunno, according to this picture, it seems you're in love with Steinie - Buns - as you call him..
Steinie Buns??? i don't get it....
Steinie - derivitive of Einstien...Buns...thrown in as a term of endearment
The story I've heard, which may just be a legend, is that he was deathly afraid of scissors and the only way he would cut his hair was to burn the ends.
because, he was just so confident, he just didn't care. albert was a LAAAADIES MAN!
It was in 1997, or 1998, I remember there being an article of scientists claiming they did a time travel experiment that worked. Put your initial reactions aside, because, strangely enough, it didn't sound too far off.
d'you remember any names?..I wanna look that up, sounds interesting....oh, & hey, have you, or anybody, every heard anything about the Philidelphia Experiment?..I remember hearing something about how some government experiment on a battle ship went wrong and somehow they screwed w/space time, and people like de-materialized and would suddenly appear back - accept sometimes they'd reappear in spots that already had solid matter taking up the space - so they'd like be stuck in a wall or something...sounds weird, but, I definately remember reading something about it in a credible source
I've heard about the Philadelphia experiment, (in fact there are a couple of movies based on it), but there's no evidence that it ever took place. There's no reason to even believe that what some people believe happened is even physically possible.
no, i never really knew if it was something w/adequate evidence surounding it or just an urban legend or
It's one of those things that conspiracy theorists love to talk about, but I don't think anyone else actually believes anything even remotely similar to what they claim happened actually happened.
Oh no..I believe it..I was there.
Wow. I guess time travel really does work since it was supposed to have happened in 1943.
Or perhaps I just lie about my age.
No and no. I'll try to look them both up.
wait, didn't you just explain the theory of relativity?
in part, why?.........
interesting thought: Time travel into the future is known to be possible, but time travel into the past is a lot sketchier, and most likely impossible....say some genius figures out how to do it,& for some reason wanted to go back and try to kill his grandfather, one might think that in doing so, he'd cancel out his own existance, right?...NOPE...Something would get in his way to stop him, because of what is called The Grandfather Paradox - if he killed his grandfather, the time traveler would of never been born, and so would of never been able to build the time machine in the first place, and he would of never been able to go back into the past to begin with - crazy stuff
you're way off dude, didn't you ever see BTTF2? the universe would explode.
hahaha...yeah, I gota stop using reputable sources(that stephen hawking book The Universe In A Nutshell is awesome!) & just start resorting to speilbergian philosophy....