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Hooooomsar · Posted: Sun Mar 04, 2007 7:41 am Post subject:

He was pretty clear. IT'D BE LIKE COFFEE

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dodger · Gender: Joined: 06 May 2006 Posts: 2136 Status: User

Time is not a "dimension", it's just been labelled that way by physicists as a way of understanding natural events.

Time is the name that we give to the constant change in our surroundings. It's a concept that humans use to make sense of their surroundings. The original, basic unit of time is the "day", the time it takes our planet to rotate 360 degreees through light and shadow. Our calendar is based upon the observable movements of the cosmos. The atomic clock calculates time based upon the atomic emissions of certain elements. My point is that our conception of time is grounded in our present physical realities.

Basically, the past and the future do not exist. There is only the present: a three-dimensional place of constantly shifting atoms. The past and future do not exist as places you can go to. All possibility of travelling through time, according to Einstein, involves faster-than-light travel... something Einstein himself proved impossible (with the exception of "wormholes" in space-time, an idea which is, at best, fanciful science fiction).

Now I'm all worked up. Time travel is a pet peeve of mine, and discussing it seriously irritates me. I cannot believe how such brilliant minds can fall into the "what if" trap and fail to see the forest for the trees.

Its_The_Sneak!!! · Posted: Sun Mar 04, 2007 8:07 am Post subject:

I believe time IS a dimension.
the same way I believe Flatland should really be a flipbook.
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Hooooomsar · Posted: Sun Mar 04, 2007 8:08 am Post subject:

It should be a popup
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Mushroom Pie · Posted: Sun Mar 04, 2007 8:19 am Post subject:

If time travel was possible, we would already know about it.
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Hooooomsar · Posted: Sun Mar 04, 2007 8:21 am Post subject:

OR WOULD WE?
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Rocky Sullivan · Posted: Sun Mar 04, 2007 8:24 am Post subject:

time travel is gay... IF YOU GO BACK IN TIME TO ROME
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Chazaq · Chazaq Joined: 29 Mar 2006 Posts: 382 Status: User

once i punhced a guy so hard we went back 2 last weak i think thats time traveling

Mushroom Pie · Posted: Mon Mar 05, 2007 4:22 am Post subject:

Metal Matt · Gender: Joined: 25 Mar 2006 Posts: 374 Status: User

Just saw this on Yahoo news, so I figured I'd throw it here for further debate. Add in a sprinkle of this as well with a dash of Einstein quotage

(Now he has departed from this strange world a little ahead of me. That means nothing. People like us, who believe in physics, know that the distinction between past, present, and future is only a stubbornly persistent illusion.)

and let the banter begin. Smile

Nightboomfer · Posted: Tue Aug 21, 2007 5:18 pm Post subject:

You know, this was on my home page immediately after listening to the rocky horror soundtrack. Specifically :

"Let's do the time warp again!"
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Der · Posted: Tue Aug 21, 2007 6:39 pm Post subject:

dodger · Gender: Joined: 06 May 2006 Posts: 2136 Status: User

I like how physicists will get so wrapped up in "if we assume this sort of imaginary matter, then time travel would be possible if..." and seem to forget such matter does not and cannot exist, and therefore time travel is impossible.

And if Matt means what I think he means, then I'm with him. The past isn't a place that exists that you can go to. The future doesn't exist because it has not happened yet. There is only the present moment, in which matter and energy are constantly flying around.

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Der · Posted: Wed Aug 22, 2007 10:25 pm Post subject: