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Posted: 02-08-2001 00:53 Post subject: Time travel

HEY,
IS ANYONE INTERESTED IN TIME TRAVEL? DO ANY OF YOU GUYS HAVE ANY THEORIES? I WOULD LIKE TO CHIT CHAT WITH ANYONE THAT HAS ANYTHING INTERESTING THEY HAVE TO SAY ABOUT TIME TRAVEL. REPLY OR E-MAIL ME. ZERO

Posted: 02-08-2001 23:10 Post subject:

What do you want to know.....I'll tell you yesterday.

Posted: 03-08-2001 00:02 Post subject:

There's an up side and a down side.

On the up side, we're all travelling in time. Smile

On the down side, we're all going at the same rate - one second per second. Very Happy

Posted: 03-08-2001 21:08 Post subject: Time is relative

Dearest DerekH.....

....Time is relative. That is to say, a second to your good self, may seem to be ten seconds to me ( unless time is being measured of course, stop watch or what not !!! )

If you watched me sleeping for an hour, I may wake up thinking I've only slept for ten minutes. Again, unless the time span of my nap is being measured, time is relative to the person experiencing it.

This subject is one that you could seriously fall out with people about.....and one which I obviously know very little, so I'll go now.

Moggadon

Posted: 04-08-2001 00:57 Post subject:

Didn't someone do an experiment with an atomic clock or summat once? They set two for exactly the same time, sent one zooming around in a ridiculously fast aircraft, brought it back down, and the clock was a fraction of a nanosecond different to the other one.

Not sure what that proves, but it I distinctly remember it from off of the telly once.

Posted: 04-08-2001 01:40 Post subject:

Apparently, clocks in satellites have to be reset to the correct time on a regular basis because of relativistic effects. (To remain 'geostationary', they obviously have to travel quite fast!)

Posted: 04-08-2001 13:51 Post subject:

uh, time travel... okay....
We exist in a 4D world, right...
Up/down, left/right, foward/back, and time.
The first three, spatial dimensions exist at right angles to each other.... and time exists at right angles to these...(i don't get that either) so technically if you could put them under sufficent pressure you could displace the dimension and then the time would move into the axis vacated by the others... and time travel could be obtained by moving in a particular direction....
Besides, as someone said, we all travel in time, we just move at a fixed rate in one direction only.....
Besides, if you went messing around in time, there is really nothing that you could do to contaminate the past with your own presence, because you would alreadly have been there... so it would have already happened... or something like that...
This message just goes to prove that you shouldn't talk about things that you don't understand...

Posted: 04-08-2001 13:53 Post subject:

And, if you go faster than the speed of light, then apparently you go back in time...
I know the laws of science say that you can't go faster then light, but the laws were there to be broken.

Posted: 04-08-2001 13:56 Post subject:

Ugh... my brain hurts!

Just a thought... is there any instances of people in the past who have claimed to be time travellers? Count St Germaine springs to mind as someone who could be one... anyone else?

Posted: 04-08-2001 13:57 Post subject:

One time travel theory is that if we reduce the speed of a beam of light using various methods and then fire two or three more at it from various directions... and then get them spinning around a bit, it will turn one spacial dimension into time instead. Just walk along the gaps between light beams and you can go back/ foward in time. Got that one from Young Scientist a few months ago (shorten a bit though).

XCOM:)

Posted: 04-08-2001 16:47 Post subject:

Don't the sub-atomic particles known as tachyons travel faster than light, and backwards in time?

Posted: 04-08-2001 21:37 Post subject: PAST TRAVELLERS

Posted: 05-08-2001 15:54 Post subject: Time- not a constant

Haven't 'they' found that time is not a constant, and that the speed it travels is sometimes faster or slightly slower than we thought ?????

I know that they can and have managed to slow time to a walking pace, by passing a beam of light through an incredibly dense lense. The beam of light, when it it was traveling through the lense, was then so slow, the experimentors managed to walk to the other side of the tube in which it was held, before it emerged at the other end.......

Mind boggling.......

Moggadon

Posted: 05-08-2001 16:15 Post subject: The speed of time?

Isn't it something like: gravity effects time and the faster you travel the less your gravity becomes and therefore time for you slows down in comparison to time for everthing else around, or something?

Somebody should look it up somewhere.

-Justin.

Posted: 05-08-2001 16:19 Post subject: Mass aswell

I think that, aswell as Gravity and speed ( velocity ) you also have to take into account the mass of the body that you are monitoring............

Moggadon