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Okay folks. How about this. We already know that if you move fast enough time slows down. The question is how fast is fast enough. I suspect that logically any speed will cause a warp in space time. It may be very small. But it should apply to any rate. The different rotation rates of the earth? The 65 mile an hour speed limit? The speed of a casual stroll? Have we all been dealing with slightly different times since day one? Maybe it really is no big deal. Maybe all the paradoxes have already occured. What do you think?
 
RE: It\'s here!

ANY movement slows down the passage of time, even living on earth as it rotates will have this effect. Or more accuratly the faster you move the more suspended energy becomes. Like a fish trying to swim upstream, the harder it swims the less it moves.

And it's not a warp in space time, just suspension of your matter from the bombardment of external energy sources into your being.

I don't see how a paradox would happen from this =P

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RE: It\'s here!

Hi Joe,

Thanks for the note. I am not a physicist (pretty obvious). But a scientist of sorts. I guess I was just wondering if a lot of the problems that seem to be stated in this forum (just found it by the way, so haven't read them all) relating to time travel might have already occured on a very small scale. I mean however you look at it, if time is different for everyone (even on a small scale) and all our "nows" are the same, then at some point some people "thens" weren't the same. I guess here is my question, if you are a nanosecond ahead of someone else, could you still talk to them?
 
Nano!

Yes you can, astronauts blasting off in rockets are already displaced by nearly a nano second, and they still communicate with ground control during lift-off. On a larger scale there would simply be more lag. An example would be when you are watching fireworks you see the flash of the explosion, and hear the boom afterwards. The light would be the action of communicating, and the sound would be the time it reached you.

On a side not it is probably physically impossible to communicate at light speed, but if you could, you would probably have to send the message ahead of the traveler so they could recieve it. That also seems impossible =P
 
RE: Nano!

Joe,

Thanks again for the note. I am trying to deal with this thing on a very small scale. Not necesarily faster than light. I guess I have been wondering if time travel (on a very small scale) has been going on all along. Maybe the larger scale is just an extension of the small scale. I am not offering a rational explanation at this point. Just a what if. What if this whole thing is kind of like Chuck Yeager breaking the so called "sound barrier". At the time the "sound barrier" was a very big deal, turns out it is just a matter of getting the mechanics right.

Write again,

P.S. My wife (3 months pregnant-our first!) thinks this is all a crock. Spoken like an accountant!

P.P.S. At what point do the astronauts get a nano-second off? I mean they start off at 0 velocity (reference point at the ground at Cape Kennedy) and accelerate. Is it kind of a progressive thing?
 
Speed

Actually moving at any speed begins to suspend your matter, even the rotation of earth has a noticable difference in time, because clocks in space tick faster while clocks here tick slower. And if your really crazy you could sprint your whole life and live 100 billionths of a second longer =)

What I think you should understand though is that nothing really is traveling through time, it's just that the faster something moves, the slower it "ages".
 
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