Time Travelling

[purezero]

'TIME-TRAVELER' BUSTED FOR INSIDER TRADING (http://tv.yahoo.com/news/wwn/20030319/104808600007.html)

I think that it's funny if it's fake, but I think it's scary if it's real. I don't know... the whole space time continuum stuff seems so crazy. Like the whole Grandfather Paradox... or whatever... :blink:

[bigwong235]

ahhahahaha. this was an april fool's joke that got a little out of hand.

[ism]

The source is the Weekly World News, and if you're familiar with it, you'd know that it's nearly intentionally preposterous. Sort of like The Onion for the National Inquirer.

If it were real though, it would be funny to ask him if he would be found guilty of insider trading or not.

[Everglaze]

I think you should watch the movie 'Donnie Darko'.

[angelwiththesword]

it's actually theorized that if you were able to jump from one side of a black hole to the other (eg: jumping from one end of the event horizon to the other) you can theoetically (because of speeds exceeding the speed of light) travel backward in time. uncontrollable, that is, unless there is a way developed to measure the amount of time jumped based on the size of the black hole, or the distances between point A and B depending on the diameter of the event horizon.

neat stuff, neh?

[VV o n g B a]

Originally posted by angelwiththesword@Apr 22 2003, 09:56 AM
it's actually theorized that if you were able to jump from one side of a black hole to the other (eg: jumping from one end of the event horizon to the other) you can theoetically (because of speeds exceeding the speed of light) travel backward in time. uncontrollable, that is, unless there is a way developed to measure the amount of time jumped based on the size of the black hole, or the distances between point A and B depending on the diameter of the event horizon.

neat stuff, neh?
another other way to do it (not involving surviving a blackhole crossing) is by circling (at nearly the speed of light) two parallel objects called superstrings that are travelling in the opposite direction. we don't know that this stuff exists, but theoretically they are extremely dense objects moving at nearly the speed of light and are infinite in length.

[angelwiththesword]

superstrings are just another way of saying nuclear force, which einstien theorized their existance of.

eg: an atom of helium has a proton and a neutron with one electron circling. the weak nuclear force holding the electron in it's shell is called a string.

but if you really think about it, any movement travelling at the speed of light give or take a few hundred thousand miles per second will create a time dialation

with the black hole hop, the gravity well from the black hole assists in the acceleration to the speed of light, and all you need is a force strong enough to accelerate you enough to overshoot the hole itself.

these are all theory's of course, in ideal systems.

[purezero]

Originally posted by bigwong235@Apr 22 2003, 12:46 AM
ahhahahaha. this was an april fool's joke that got a little out of hand.
Aww. But still. It would be interesting if it were real.

Wow. I'm learning. =)

[DonDaBomb2]

I don't know if time travel is possible, but you always have to ask the question: if it were possible, why hasn't anyone travelled back to our time yet?

[teaz0r]

somewhere in time has one of the best love themes. i like playing that. also, dr. quinn was hot in that movie and superman was still young and healthy.

[Fireblade]

Originally posted by DonDaBomb2@Apr 22 2003, 09:09 AM
I don't know if time travel is possible, but you always have to ask the question: if it were possible, why hasn't anyone travelled back to our time yet?
Because we're all really plugged into the matrix, in which this society we live in was our last Golden Age.


The Matrix Has You. :D

[SunWuKong]

Originally posted by DonDaBomb2@Apr 22 2003, 01:09 PM
I don't know if time travel is possible, but you always have to ask the question: if it were possible, why hasn't anyone travelled back to our time yet?
how do you know someone already hasn't?

[angelwiththesword]

i am posting this in the future...even though the timestamp on this is the present...hrm....in that case, i am posting this from the past.

bwaha! behold my mighty time travelling skillz

[FlareZz]

Originally posted by DonDaBomb2@Apr 22 2003, 09:09 AM
I don't know if time travel is possible, but you always have to ask the question: if it were possible, why hasn't anyone travelled back to our time yet?
cuz if you traveled back in time, you'd just create another instance of reality which split off from our own time, it wouldn't change our reality at all.

and even if thats wrong, and there wasn't an infinite spliting of each possibility of reality into a whole new reality, then you wouldn't know anyways cuz to you it will always been the way its always been. you wouldn't be able to perceive a change because you won't remember how it was before it was changed.

DERRRR....

[FlareZz]

ok what i said above didn't exactly have to do with what don was asking... i am confused now

[SunWuKong]

Originally posted by FlareZz@Apr 23 2003, 07:04 PM
cuz if you traveled back in time, you'd just create another instance of reality which split off from our own time, it wouldn't change our reality at all.

and even if thats wrong, and there wasn't an infinite spliting of each possibility of reality into a whole new reality, then you wouldn't know anyways cuz to you it will always been the way its always been. you wouldn't be able to perceive a change because you won't remember how it was before it was changed.

DERRRR....
either reality splits, or that there is only one constant reality and even though someone travels back in time, it will not change reality, or even that the shape of reality as we know it depends on this person travelling back in time.

[FlareZz]

the reason i lean away from the one constant reality idea is that there are too many paradoxes attatched to it.

[SunWuKong]

Originally posted by FlareZz@Apr 24 2003, 03:11 AM
the reason i lean away from the one constant reality idea is that there are too many paradoxes attatched to it.
but the whole theory is that paradoxes would be logically impossible.