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Termyn8or -> RE: It is impossible to travel through time because time does not exist. (8/22/2006 9:02:06 PM)
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Ahem !
I have had a bad week, thus I hve decided to do this. I hve a bit of a different slant on all this and I will try to present it clearly.
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First of all time is more than simply a human concept. When celestial bodies were cruising around in their orbits before the dawn of mankind, they were taking TIME to do it. Agreed, all our measurements are our concepts, but I would say time is real. We can apply our own unts to the time intervals used by celestial bodies to traverse their path. Indeed we do when we maesure time.
Let me draw an analogy here. This is a pretty smart group and I bet at least a few of you know Ohm's law. Current in amps is what flows when you apply a voltage. With the equation, one volt across one ohm induces one amp of current to flow. This dissppates one watt.
If you apply the same volt to two ohms, only ½ an amp flows. This dissipates one half watt.
Volts are passively measureable, as are amps. Ohm invented ohms as the ratio between the two. In other words, ohms are a physical property of every material, but ohms are totally manmade. Actually so are amps and volts. They are merely our expressions of the phenomena. But it does exist.
Time, like ohms, had to be concieved to be understood. Not that we understand time, but we do understand ohms, otherwise all your electronics would not work. Ohms are possibly described correctly as our quantification of the concept. It is almost impossible to teach a concept verbally without such refernce points, therefore such things are useful. This allows it to be expressed mathematically, also helpful.
I don't think we are ever going to be able to travel time. This is based on what I know and some of what I suppose. It is my opinion. However I am not saying the subject shouldn't be explored. The first person to travel time could surely rule the world.
OK, so for the purpose of discussion let's say time travel is possible. First of all, I totally dismiss the special theory of relativity. This theory suggests that a body traveling has an effect on time to the nearby bodies. To me this is absurd.
Here is what you got, the Doppler effect. Forget the news, put in "doppler effect" in Google if you don't know what it is. We have a red shift in certain stars and a blue shift on others in the spectrograph. This is empirical reasoning. This is the same thing as the train whistle that lowers in pitch as it passes you.
Now this is relative motion, but believe me, in space there is alot more relative motion. We are lucky things are far apart enough.
Now just taking the doppler effect in it's true form, what if you were a ray of light traveling at the same speed and in the same direction as another, I say we would be matter in a different universe.
Now comes the conclusion that since light is emittted omnidirectionally in our universe, it would probably be so in others. Thus, given all the vectors on which light could travel (infinite), if this theory holds true there are an infinite number of universes. This discards the special theory, does not contradict the original theory, in fact in some ways I think the original theory might express this theory.
Somebody ask and I'll get into that, but not right now. I think I'm over the ten paragraph 'limit'.
I'll be baaack.
T
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