Time travel....as easy as driving down the road.

This is one of the problems with sourcing an argument by using pop-sci culture. Michio Kaku is not one of the founders, co-founders or anything else founding-wise of String Theory.
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http://physics.about.com/od/michiokaku/p/michiokakubio.htm

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String Field Theory Work:

In the realm of physics research, Michio Kaku is best known as the co-founder of string field theory, which is a specific branch of the more general string theory which relies heavily on mathematically framing the theory in terms of fields. Kaku's work was instrumental in showing that the field theory is consistent with known fields, such as Einstein's field equations from general relativity.
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Exactly what I said. Sourcing from pop-sci articles is fraught with misinformation. As I said, when string theory was introcuced Kaku was still an undregrad. It was over 20 years later when Kaku published his first paper on string theory. Compare to Leonard Susskind. He's published over 25 major papers on the subject between 1968 and 2009.
 
As I said, when string theory was introcuced Kaku was still an undregrad. It was over 20 years later when Kaku published his first paper on string theory. Compare to Leonard Susskind. He's published over 25 major papers on the subject between 1968 and 2009.
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Michio Kaku is a well respected physicist but that is not really the topic of discussion. The topic is the link between the mind and time shifting. There is evidence that time does indeed slow down for the mind during traumatic events. Granny's lift cars off of the grandkids and scared boxers knock out the champ with lightning speed for a devastating upset.
 
Michio Kaku is a well respected physicist but that is not really the topic of discussion.
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I didn't introduce his name into the topic. As I recall, that was you.

There is evidence that time does indeed slow down for the mind during traumatic events.
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There's also very clear, convincing and verifiable evidence that it is common to suffer short-term memory loss, faulty transfer of short-term memory to long-term memory (false recollection) and PTSD from such events.
 
Michio Kaku is a well respected physicist but that is not really the topic of discussion.
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I didn't introduce his name into the topic. As I recall, that was you.
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I quoted from an article that I first saw as a television program that showed a scientific experiment where people actually could read a speeding clock while falling, but they could not read it at rest. Something to do with adrenalin speeding up the brain's synaptic processing. Mental time dilation.

There's also very clear, convincing and verifiable evidence that it is common to suffer short-term memory loss, faulty transfer of short-term memory to long-term memory (false recollection) and PTSD from such events.
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That is true in many cases but not all.
 
I quoted from an article
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Which is all you ever seem to do.....rather than directly answer any posts. Any time an issue is raised, your immediate response is to spam a bunch of 'quotes'.

This is typical behaviour of someone who really doesn't have a clue about a topic. The inability to debate on par with others is obscured with relentless attempts to appear wise by cutting and pasting whatever can be dug up on the net....even if it has no direct response value to what has been said by others.

It's really little more than a subtle form of spam. The person resonsible being incapable of proper rational DEBATE with others.
 
There is evidence that time does indeed slow down for the mind during traumatic events.
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See, now there is an area where I can agree with you. Our perception of the passage of time changes as a function of the situations we find ourselves in. I would not say that is time slowing down. It could very well be nothing more than the processing bandwidth of the human mind becoming saturated. In very much the same way, when a real-time control system has too much processing to do within its alloted cycle time, looking at the data of how the system reacts looks very much like time is slowing down... from the perspective of that system.

So while I agree this is a phenomenon experienced by the mind, I see no evidence that this impacts cosmic and/or thermodynamic time outside the mind. I am very interested in how the mind perceives time, but I alos avoid trying to mix the perceptions of the human mind with conclusions about extant physics. That can muddy the waters.

RMT
 
The experience I had in 1998 on the San Bernardino Freeway near downtown L.A. (which was 10 to 15 seconds before a crash that wrecked the car I was in), was analogous to that of a little switch in my brain being flipped and events of the external world slowing down.

Now there's a relative thing involved, here. If my perception of time speeds up (my personal second becomes shorter), the external second--which is the rest of the world--becomes longer, and hence the events of the world seem to slow down.

But, along with this, the sense of anxiety disappears. I felt totally objective with no sense of emotion.A dispassionate, external, observer who could some how stretch out the external sequence (subjectively)to make the available time as long as necessary.Rather than being paralyzed by fear, as the common expression goes, the exact opposite was true,I felt no fear or inhibition whatever.You must realize that I knew full well I was in the midst of a potentially fatal accident, but I was completely detached. There is a curious analogy to having one's wind knocked out in a fall--for a few seconds you don't know if you will ever be able to take another breath, but somehow it doesn't matter,and even seems mildly ironic(!)

I think I can convey this better by taking a chance with technical inaccuracy: Let's say my brain was temporarily running at a faster processing speed.

As Rainman noted, this phenomenon has no effect on actual external time, and I don't believe you can physically move faster.

Lynn Dickey, former GB quarterback in referring to his own experiences with this phenomenon, and making reference to Reggie Jackson --a famous slugger of October--said the pitched balls "must have looked like basketballs coming at him."
 
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To be honest, I have had a time-slip expereince into an alternate universe but I will not talk about it here. This forum is full of trolls and people who think they are doing good by insulting other people who have had these types of experiences.

I thought I could work out a theory of time travel and multiverse travel by talking with others who have had similar experiences.

That is not possible here, not with the troll brigade on board.
 
That is true in many cases but not all.
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Exactly.

The phenomenon of racing thoughts and preceptions is real but there is no evidence that there is a failure of simultaniety of local observers' "clocks and rods" ala special relativity.

Neurotransmitters are squirted into the synapses at an accelerated rate and volume for a very short period of time. Neutotransmitterase activates the reuptake mechanism. There is an absolute refractory period wherein the neurons cannot fire again that is slightly foreshortened by the adrenalin shot such that one can think "faster" - at the cost of perception and mapping the STM over to LTM. The synapse is quickly super saturated because the neurotransmitterase cannot keep up and the neurons shut down until the gap can be swept clean. The "time dilation" shuts down and the person is exhausted, somewhat dazed and has cloudy incomplete recollections of the events. People who witness such events, but who were not directly involved at the same deep emotional level generally have very different recollections of what occured. Their recollections include both major and minor details that the "victim" can't recall at all. They weren't mapped over to LTM.

This isn't relativistic time dilation. It is neurophysiology, neuropharmacology and biochemistry.
 
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