Simultaneity of events
BartSimpson @ Wed Jun 09, 2010 4:20 pm
Putting this analogy a little closer to home...
Last week I was in Victoria. Mrs. Bart and I mailed some post cards to her family in Sacramento and then on Sunday we drove home. The post cards are not here yet. When they do arrive it will mean two things:
1. The Canadian and US postal services are for sh*t.
2. We got home faster than the post cards did.
In no circumstance have we travelled back in time simply because we got here faster than our messages did.
Likewise, if you can somehow cross 26 lightyears in less than 26 years you're just going really damn fast is all, you're not travelling back in time.
PublicAnimalNo9 @ Wed Jun 09, 2010 4:28 pm
Proculation Proculation:
I'm asking this because I've watched the 2nd episode of "Into the Universe" (time travel) by Stephen Hawkins. He says you can travel in time but only to the future, not the past.
That's why I suppose you can't go back into a wormhole to the space-time you departed.
That's why I suppose you can't go back into a wormhole to the space-time you departed.
What he specifially stated was you can't travel in time via wormhole. His example of travelling forward in time needed a 6 year full rocket burn to approach 99.9% of light speed.
Think about it. If you can't go back in time via wormhole, you can't go forward in time either because of the same feedback effect.
BluesBud @ Wed Jun 09, 2010 7:21 pm
The whole question is theoretical. SO the true existence of any wormhole mentioned traveling in any direction in the original query is just believable so as to get one thinking about the problem.
ShepherdsDog @ Wed Jun 09, 2010 8:28 pm
Fork or spoon needs to be debated first, then we can move onto quantum theory.
PublicAnimalNo9 @ Wed Jun 09, 2010 8:33 pm
ShepherdsDog ShepherdsDog:
Fork or spoon needs to be debated first, then we can move onto quantum theory.
Spork..ok let's move on now
DrCaleb @ Thu Jun 10, 2010 12:03 am
ShepherdsDog ShepherdsDog:
Fork or spoon needs to be debated first, then we can move onto quantum theory.
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