mini version of "instant space-time travel"

rodsroom

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mini version of \"instant space-time travel\"

Since readers at this site prefer short amounts of text, I'll write a brief summary of my previous posting "The optical force and instant space-time travel" then give a link where a more complete explanation can be freely downloaded.

This is my vision of exploring the whole universe. What if you had a plausible method (based on today's science and technology) of going anywhere you wanted in the entire universe? Wouldn't that be a radical breakthrough in exploration? I'll first summarise the steps leading up to (and beyond) exploration of all space then write a detailed essay showing how those paragraphs are consistent with the plausible nature of the universe and are therefore not science fiction ( I won't bore you with that essay here - but if you wish to read it, a complete version can be freely downloaded at

http://www.free-ebooks.net/ebook/Humans-and-their-Universes

Summary

In July 2009, electrical engineer Hong Tang and his team at Yale University in the USA demonstrated that, on silicon chip- and transistor- scales, light can attract and repel itself like electric charges/magnets (this is the “optical force”, a phenomenon that theorists first predicted in 2005 {I find this "time delay" rather confusing since James Clerk Maxwell showed that light is an electromagnetic disturbance approx. 140 years ago}). In the event of the universe having an underlying electronic foundation, it would be composed of "silicon chip- and transistor- scales” and the Optical Force would not be restricted to microscopic scales but could operate universally. Tang proposes that the optical force could be exploited in telecommunications. For example, switches based on the optical force could be used to speed up the routing of light signals in fiber-optic cables, and optical oscillators could improve cell phone signal processing.

If all forms of EM (electromagnetic) radiation can attract/repel, radio waves will also cause communication revolution e.g. with the Internet and mobile (cell) phones. I anticipate that there may be no more overexposure to ultraviolet or X-rays.

In agreement with the wave-particle duality of quantum mechanics, EM waves have particle-like properties (more noticeable at high frequencies) so cosmic rays (actually particles) are sometimes listed on the EM spectrum beyond its highest frequency of gamma rays.

If cosmic rays are made to repel, astronauts going to Mars or another star or galaxy would be safe from potentially deadly radiation.

And if all particles in the body can be made to attract or repel as necessary, doctors will have new ways of restoring patients to health.

From 1929 til his death in 1955, Einstein worked on his Unified Field Theory with the aim of uniting electromagnetism and gravitation. Future achievement of this means warps of space (gravity, according to General Relativity) between spaceships/stars could be attracted together, thereby eliminating distance.

Since Relativity says space and time can never exist separately, warps in space are actually warps in space-time. Eliminating distances in space also means “distances” between both future and past times are eliminated - and time travel becomes reality.

The universe’s underlying electronic foundation (which makes our cosmos into a partially-complete unification, similar to 2 objects which appear billions of years or billions of light-years apart on a huge computer screen actually being unified by the strings of ones and zeros making up the computer code which is all in one small place) would make our cosmos into a complete unification if it enabled not only elimination of all distances in space and time, but also elimination of distance between (and including) the different sides of objects and particles. This last point requires the universe to not merely be a vast collection of the countless photons, electrons and other quantum particles within it; but to be a unified whole that has “particles” and “waves” built into its union of digital 1’s and 0’s (or its union of qubits – quantum binary digits). The feedback of the past and future universes into the unified cosmos's electronic foundation would ensure that both past and future could not be altered. (I'm disagreeing with Einstein's view of mass and space-time, but I think he would welcome the chance to consider a different interpretation.)

Elimination of matter and/or eliminating the distance between a patient and recovery from any adverse medical condition – even death (see http://www.free-ebooks.net/ebook/Humans-and-their-Universes) - would also be a valuable way of restoring health or, if the distance between recovery and a patient is reduced to zero before illness or accident occurs (we might call this “eVaccination” – electronic vaccination), prevention of any adverse medical condition.

These paragraphs imply the possibility of humans time-travelling to the distant past and using electronics to create this particular subuniverse's computer-generated Big Bang (but just to sit on the fence dividing atheism and religion, there's still room for God because God would be a pantheistic union of the megauniverse's material and mental parts, forming a union with humans in a cosmic unification).
 
Re: mini version of \"instant space-time travel\"

That was brief? /ttiforum/images/graemlins/confused.gif

The problem here is that you've taken an idea which applies in a very special set of circumstances and tried to apply it to everything. Even if photons attract each other on silicon (certainly through an indirect effect), you cannot generalize this to photons in a vacuum, etc. You're free to perform experiments to try to verify your idea, though. /ttiforum/images/graemlins/smile.gif
 
Re: mini version of \"instant space-time travel\"

rodsroom,

If cosmic rays are made to repel, astronauts going to Mars or another star or galaxy would be safe from potentially deadly radiation.

It sounds plausible, at least the part about traveling to Mars. We can shield the crew if we're going next door. But another galaxy?

The Andromeda Galaxy is about 2.5 to 2.8 million LY away. Traveling at just short of the velocity of light will take, well, ~2.6 million years, at least from the Earthbound perspective. It could be cut to several hundred years (or less) on the craft according to special relativity if we travel very close to the speed of light.

But shielding the craft from anything that it encounters along the way - dust, photons, electrons, protons, etc. - is problematic. The mass-energy of those objects will be expanded by approx. the same factor as onboard time is reduced WRT the Earth. The closer the craft approaches light velocity the closer it approaches a blue wall - the blue shift of spacetime itself. Spacetime is filled with virtual particles that don't have any effect on us as we travel about at velocities much, much less than light velocity. But they become very pronounced, real and contain equal parts of matter and anti-matter when traveling near the speed of light. This is a quantum effect that we rarely encounder outside a particle accelerator.

Because spacetime becomes more dense as you approach the speed of light, intergalactic space could no longer be considered to be a vacuum. The speed of light in a vacuum is 300,000 km/sec. The local limit is based on the density and composition of the medium. So you'd have a local speed of light based on the Refraction Index of the medium. You would probably exceed the local speed of light...and encounter Cherenkov Radiation in addition to other "normal" forms of radiation. (When you see the bluegreen glow in reactor vessel cooling water that's Cherenkov Radiation. High energy particles emitted by the fission process are exceeding the speed of light in water.)

Considering the onboard energy requirements to continue to accelerate when near the speed of light, which tend to infinity and that the onboard energy requirements for shielding also tend to infinity, shielding will be a "small" problem.
 
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