I am in Over My HEAD

Dew_k_Mosi

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My God, I thought I was decently intelligent but reading these threads gives me a headache. You guys are way smarter than I will ever be. Any time travel primers this little girl should be reading or anything you think will help dumb this all down for me? /ttiforum/images/graemlins/frown.gif
 
The only thing I would advise is not to let others overbearing opinions make you feel insignificant with your thoughts.
It is much easier to judge than to contribute, and the usage of fear when putting another down is a very self depreciating thing in itself.

~ The only limits in life are those that we put on ourselves ~ Suggestion from others in many ways increase these limits more than we realize at times.
 
Welcome to the forum...I guess I should say...again. /ttiforum/images/graemlins/smile.gif
I saw you had 8 posts. When I went to look up your other posts they were all from 2004.
 
>>>>My God, I thought I was decently intelligent but reading these threads gives me a headache. You guys are way smarter than I will ever be. Any time travel primers this little girl should be reading or anything you think will help dumb this all down for me?<<<<<

Dumbing this all down, is not all that easy. You see there is the clock. It ticks at a certain rate due to us being on this Planet Earth. If perhaps on another planet, that rate may change, since it is due to the rotation of the planet and we call it the 24 hour day.

Now, that is the measurement of time, as it clicks off.

Now, there are also other theories that scientists work on. Besides space travel, there is time. Due to the nature of time, no one really thinks they know what it is. The age of the Universe is just another measurement of time, just as getting to another star in the galaxy, or another galaxy in the Universe is another measurement of time.

But now because of quantum theory, they speculate that there may be parallel universes. If there are, then they might be all different, and then again, they might just be somewhat very similiar.

If the theory is that the parallel universes are mainly quite similiar, then traveling to a parallel universe may be easier than traveling in space. This is all called SpaceTime. You can only travel so fast in the Universe, and that is at the Speed of Light.

But if you can bend SpaceTime ( have enough mass which is what this Planet is in the Universe and everything else like you even) then it may be possible to travel across SpaceTime and take less time.

Let's say that a star is something like 1500 lightyears away from us, that is the distance that light (being the fastest thing in the Universe at 300,000 km/sec that it travels at that speed always) took to get here from that star --- 1500 years of our time. If a way to travel in time is found then it may take only several months to get to that star than it does right now with light at the speed of light (which we really can not reach or travel that fast) which is 1500 years.

Either take the slow boat to China persay that takes several months to get there, or travel faster if possible someday, and take a few minutes to get there. Same way with the stars.

But, there is also the possibility that there are parallel universes, and if that is the case, and part of time travel like any of it is discussed then perhaps it is easier to get to a parallel universe than it is to actually travel in SpaceTime to a nearby star.

That may seem strange to state, but that just may be the case and the way that it happens to be.

If that is so, then using part of that knowledge may make space travel easier some day and take a lot less time. It may seem very strange as I stated, but that is just the way the Universe (or parallel Universes called all the Multiverse) may be found out to be.

The Space of the SpaceTime is different than what they use to think, and it is not really empty as thought about before. The entire Solar System may be a kind of Electric System that slows down Space Travel the further out from the Sun you try and go. After getting so far out into Space, yes, you may bypass or get by that Electric-Magnetic Field that may be around the entire Solar System or any Star System in the Galaxy.

It is all studied and it is all speculated about, and it is a continuation of the knowledge of finding out, the Universe we live in.

That is about the easiest I can state it. There are people who work on Space Travel, and there is science that works with the very small or what makes up the Universe and us even. That is called right now -- Quantum Theory. But Quantum Theory is somewhat strange and weird. A particle (what we call an electron or proton or neutron or even smaller particles like a quark) may effect some other like particle a great distance away. Actually about any particle is just a snapshot of that instance in time, and what we call a particle is actually a wave, or waveform. The picture you take at the instance of time is just a picture that makes it seem as if it was a particle when it really is a waveform moving through time.

Getting to the very small is the quantum theory, and with that theory, then traveling to parallel universes (if they exist) is another form of time travelling.

Either way it is still referred to -- as all time travelling.
1) Cutting down the distance to travel a great distance in Space of the SpaceTime.
2) Using Quantum Theory to travel to a paralle universe, and travel that way.

The theories are still being worked on, to find out the Universe, and find out more about how we are actually made -- in the very small -- as physicists do with Quantum Theory.
The other way of traveling in Space is thought that it will take a Spaceship as currently thought of as of now -- or in this point of time that we are in continuing on towards the future.

If one can travel by Quantum Theory then traveling back in Time or into the Past may be also possible via the parallel Universes that may exist. Traveling into the Future can be done also by this method, or with a very fast Spaceship.

This is what the scientists work on in the field of physics and in the field of Space travel of the SpaceTime that makes up the Universe or even all the parallel Universes that all may exist.

That is what time travelling is about then.
 
Excellent post.

I would like to take the opposite argument and say there is only one universe and any changes in it will rewrite time- the grandfather paradox. You game?
 
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Welcome to the forum...I guess I should say...again.
I saw you had 8 posts. When I went to look up your other posts they were all from 2004.

Yeah, I got scared and left /ttiforum/images/graemlins/frown.gif I can't even remember what I posted to be honest, but I doubt they were anything of significance.
 
Dew,

Any time travel primers this little girl should be reading or anything you think will help dumb this all down for me?

There are "lots" of books that you can read that deal with the subject as pop-sci/non-math. I'll give you three that you can find on Amazon, Borders, etc.:

"Relativity: The Special and the General Theory", Einstein, Albert, PhD

It's a paperback. Einstein gives a very good overview of the subject of both of his theories. It's geared for the high school level reader. Very easy reading.

"Faster Than Light", Herbert, Nick, PhD

Dr. Herbert lists just about every known theoretical possibility for time travel, does a great job explaining each concept and gives the pros and cons as to their applicability in the "real" world as we currently understand it. Also geared for the high school level reader.

"A Brief History of Time", Hawking, Stephen, PhD

The classic paperback written in pop-sci terms for the high school level reader. It deals with general realtivity lightly and delves into the mystery of black holes and how spacetime is affected by the gravitational field surrounding the hole. Easy reading.

There are many other books that deal with the subject in terms of the calculus behind the special and general relativity. They're still pop-sci but are written for the college level reader.

When you're ready you might want to take a step up and try:

"Six Not-So-Easy-Pieces", Feynman, Richard, PhD

It's also in paperback. This book takes six chapters out of his three volume four semester undergrad physics course at CalTech (in the 1960's). Some basic algebra and differential calculus but it really doesn't get in the way of the text because he was also a very good writer. The chapters in the book that deal with special relativity are what you would be looking for.

A bigger step up:

"The Special Theory of Relativity", Bohm, David, PhD

Another paperback that deals with special relativity in terms of the math (basic differential calculus) - lot's of math, in fact. He has a very interesting chapter at the end of the book that deals with physics and perception in terms of early childhood development. Great chapter.
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It's a good thing that some PhD's decided to write pop-sci books on the subject for the non-scientist. Time travel is not an easy subject because it flies in the face of our intuition of how the "world" works. The world that we can see, touch, hear, etc. appears to work as described by Newton. But when we encounter extreme gravitation or extreme velocity we discover that our intuition is wrong.
 
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