Time Travel - Page 7

jtan

Sweden5891 Posts

November 08 2007 01:56 GMT

#121

On November 08 2007 10:52 haduken wrote:

i don't really have a source just something i remember my lecturer at uni said. Basically it has to do with an astronaut from soviet union going to space and coming back 1 second ahead of earth time.

I don't understand how it happened but if you interpret it like my lecturer then that's evidence that time travel has already occured (1 second into the future). Something to do with laws of relativity maybe...

Ah, ok but that is the twin-paradox, it has nothing to do with time travel really. It's just time passing at different rates at different relative speeds. It doesn't cause any real paradoxes, nothing like going back in time.

skyglow1

New Zealand3962 Posts

November 08 2007 05:03 GMT

#122

On November 08 2007 04:39 CrownRoyal wrote:

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the thing that I don't like about this argument is that this is a completely different situation, you aren't dealing with 1/3's and your answer with this problem will never be a clean .999...

1/2^infinity =\\= .999 ever, unless you round it.

It's not an argument for 1/2^infitnity = 0. I just gave the proof as a side trivia thing cause alot of people don't accept that 0.999....=1. It didn't mean it as related to the whole zeno's paradox thing.

skyglow1

New Zealand3962 Posts

November 08 2007 05:06 GMT

#123

On November 08 2007 05:07 CrownRoyal wrote:

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wouldn't these lumps just turn into the smallest of numbers in our number system and the whole process is back to normal?

What do you mean?

XCetron

5225 Posts

November 08 2007 05:38 GMT

#124

On November 08 2007 10:55 CrownRoyal wrote:
i was probably the weirdest fucking kid in the world

while other kids were destroying their hotwheels and shit I was thinking about this stupid shit probably at like the age of 9 and onwards.

I'm really not a nerd or all that intelligent though, I just have an incredibly open mind or something. If I really was to guess I'd say my IQ is 115-120

you just gave yourself an above average IQ score, by definition, thats intelligent.

sith

United States2474 Posts

November 08 2007 22:35 GMT

#125

On November 08 2007 08:31 urban_attack wrote:
@8players
The problem is we cannot determine everything. It's called the heisenberg uncertainty principle. The act of observation distorts the data so we cannot gather the information we need with 100% accuracy.

True, it's impossible to accurately determine....anything. Therefore the clockwork universe model is bunk, and it's a hard fact to accept. Einstein himself gave the quote "I don't believe that God plays dice" (or something along those lines, too lazy to find the actual quote).

Technically before you measure something it's in a superposition of states. It's a quantum wave function that gives the object a PROBABILITY of being in a certain place, but doesn't rule out the possibility that whatever you're measuring is in, say, the andromeda galaxy. It's unlikely, one in 1^1000 or w/e, but still a possbility. Once you measure said object (by bouncing photons off it or something, which is seeing it), you collapse the wave function of the object and it is observed in 1 single place.

I think thats the way it goes, I've never learned any of this stuff in school so I may have misinterpreted it, i'm sure some smart tl.netter will come along and correct me.

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