i was reading about the theory of tenseless time, and basically it says that time extends in all directions, but we simply lack the ability to see into the future, even thought it is already there. as the future is constantly coming into view, it creates the illusion that time is "passing", and events are happening right that moment or something like that... i duno i thought it was interesting. the weirdest thing about it is that everything in the future has already happened, it just seems like its happening at the moment that you experience it. could someone please explain this to me?
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yeah. events in the future HAVE already happenned (in the future), but we have just not yet been able to observe them yet.
However, another way of thinking of it is that at every point in time, the timeline diverges into however many ways that the next event can take place (or into as many different timelines as there are possible events).
The future has not yet happend, and will never happen. You are just talking about parallel existences. The theory of parallele existence was created to cover up the dasterdly mistake of having three timelines constantly occuring, which are past, present and future.
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past present and future are different points (or directions) in the same timeline (like backwards and forwards on the same timeline), whereas each timeline is constantly diverging, and we are only on ONE of those possible timelines, as there is is a different one for each possibility that might or might not occur.
Well, actually, Einstein theorized that time travel IS possible. The only problem is that in order to do it, you must exceed the speed of light. And when you do that, all matter transforms to energy.
Which is kind of a bummer.
You know, E=mc^2, where E equals the energy, m is the mass that disappears, and c^2 is the square of the speed of light.
I don't think they nuke it. That would cause too much radiation. They just move anyone who works out something into a mental asylum, by getting a government order from a future government.
If you killed your grandfather, there would be two realities, one where he was dead, one where he was alive. You'd be in the dead one, where he was always dead. It wouldn't have any affect on the alive one, except that you'd no longer be in there. That's how the theory goes, anyway.
Ah, but he didnt mean that NOTHING can travel faster than the speed o flight. He just meant that nothing can accellerate towards the speed of light. Therefore, things which are (and always have been) faster than the speed of light cannot decellerate to reach the speed of light.
Unfortunately only Quantum effects do that. My theory on how people are going to exceed light speed is that a gravity beam will be fired, bending the space in on itself, shortening the distance and time. Gravity, and negating gravity, are more useful than antigravity as far as I can see.
If we created a wormhole to a part of the galaxy 50'000 light years away that could see earth, then we could sent a MASSIVE telescope there which could look back at the light coming from earth, and see what was happenning on earth 50'000 years ago. Similar methods thousands of years in the future could be used by historians to solve all crimes and mysteries of the past.
The problem is that you need two worms hole that are formed together or come together in connection. This even is nearly impossible. Besides, light cannot even escape a black hole, how would radio frequencies, or microwaves be able to escape it to be transmitted back to our recievers? If black holes can swallow up galaxies, i highly doubt that anything in the form of matter would survive being sucked into oblivion.
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