Questioning Time Travel.
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Well, for one, we're always traveling to the future.
You say this as if it is a real term that you know the meaning of...
More succinctly- how would you "travel" to "the past?"
The coffee analogy:
You have a coffee cup. In it, is coffee (believe it or not). So you add powdered creamer to the coffee. The particulates float on the surface of the coffee.
The Coffee surface is Space.
The floating particulates is Time.
Together, they are spacetime.
Take that little plastic straw and dip it into the coffee and move it in a stirring motion. The particulates will be dragged by the stirrer moving through it.
The stirrer is Mass moving through spacetime.
As mass moves through spacetime, it creates the effect that we perceive as time. Rather than "time" being like a flowing river, linear and of independent motion, time is simply one property of the fabric of space.
This is why mass will effect how time is perceived or speed will effect how time is perceived.
Traveling, does indeed, move you through time.
Accepting (as an axiom) the analogy as accurate- consider how a person could time travel- move to a specific time. The short answer is, that can't happen. There is no "timeplace" to go to. Merely the passage of ourselves through it.
Never heard of nor saw a movie called "pi."
The Earth is not in the middle of our Galaxy, It is pretty distantly placed on the outer edge of one bar spiral arm.
Thanks, but I'm still utterly baffled as to how some movie relates and how he took what I said and turned it into, "Earth is in the middle of the galaxy." I can't make heads or tails of it.
"Monkeys fling poo when angry."
"Ah, so you're saying Dr pepper tastes great, got it."
ETA: Looking at the link, I was reminded of Dr Arroway (Contact) finding pi hidden in the fundamentals of the Universe. Damnit, now I waxed all goofy, too!
No... by all means, tell it. Because if I google it, it will tell me the opposite of what you're saying. So, it makes more sense to have you explain than to have me make assumptions about what you meant to say.
It was your coffee analogy. There's a scene in the movie where cream is added to a cup of coffee and a point is made about the mathematics of the shapes of the resulting swirls.
I don't know how he gets the earth is at the center of the galaxy either. I suspect he went to a planetarium and misunderstood the show.
That sounds like a discussion about fluid mechanics... Guess I need to work on my analogies...
Ok, I'm not trying to be difficult... But what does there being other galaxies have to do with Earths placement in this one?
http://www.sciforums.com/showthread.php?112853-Big-Bang-Theory-is-WRONG-33-Top-Scientists-Object
I refer to this tread. It's the explanation.
I refer to this tread. It's the explanation.
:facepalm:
Better translators.
The spacetime continuum is a term used in Star Trek. In the Star Trek universe time travel is possible and the grandfathor paradox is resolved by an event A leads to event B that leads to C that in turn can lead to A again, so that their own causality can be changed by an extra event B that somehow corrects the "impossibility" of A leading to C.