Einstein gave us a much more radical picture. According to Einstein, time was more like a river, which meandered around stars and galaxies, speeding up and slowing down as it passed around massive bodies. One second on the earth was NOT one second on Mars. Clocks scattered throughout the universe beat to their own drummer. However, before Einstein died, he was faced with an embarrassing problem. Einstein's neighbor at Princeton, Kurt Gödel, perhaps the greatest mathematical logician of the past 500 years, found a new solution to Einstein's own equations which allowed for time travel! The "river of time" now had whirlpools in which time could wrap itself into a circle. Gödel's solution was quite ingenious: It postulated a universe filled with time that flowed like a rotating fluid. Anyone walking along the direction of rotation would find oneself back at the starting point, but backwards in time! In his memoirs, Einstein wrote that he was disturbed that his equations contained solutions that allowed for time travel. But he finally concluded that the universe does not rotate, it expands (as in the Big Bang theory) and hence Gödel's solution could be thrown out for "physical reasons." (Apparently, if the Big Bang was rotating, then time travel would be possible throughout the universe!) Then in 1963, Roy Kerr, a New Zealand mathematician, found a solution of Einstein's equations for a rotating black hole, which had bizarre properties. The black hole would not collapse to a point (as previously thought) but into a spinning ring (of neutrons). The ring would be circulating so rapidly that centrifugal force would keep the ring from collapsing under gravity. The ring, in turn, acts like Alice's Looking Glass. Anyone walking through the ring would not die, but could pass through the ring into an alternate universe. Since then, hundreds of other "wormhole" solutions have been found to Einstein's equations. These wormholes connect not only two regions of space (hence the name) but also two regions of time as well. In principle, they can be used as time machines. Recently, attempts to add the quantum theory to gravity (and hence create a "theory of everything") have given us some insight into the paradox problem. In the quantum theory, we can have multiple states of any object. For example, an electron can exist simultaneously in different orbits (a fact which is responsible for giving us the laws of chemistry). Similarly, Schrödinger's famous cat can exist simultaneously in two possible states: dead and alive. So by going back in time and altering the past, we merely create a parallel universe. So we are changing someone ELSE's past by saving, for example, Abraham Lincoln from being assassinated at the Ford Theater, but our Lincoln is still dead. In this way, the river of time forks into two separate rivers.
haha but ooh.. what now.. Interestingly enough, Stephen Hawking once opposed the idea of time travel. He even claimed he had "empirical" evidence against it. If time travel existed, he said, then we would have been visited by tourists from the future. Yet we see no tourists from the future. Ergo: time travel is not possible.
Holy shit... I was just reading an article on time travel this morning after googling "paranormal"... then I started reading about old houses and Captain Tony's Saloon in Key West. It used to be the first coroner's office... there's a tree inside that 30 people were hung on and the coroner's daughter is buried under the bar. I don't really like to get into the whole theory of relativity and traveling faster than "C" (light speed)... it's kind of pointless as far as I see it as time slows down, reverses, and you go into negativity once you're able to reach that point. Gravity and acceleration being one and the same... etc. Though, I am quite interested in vortexes.
It has been proven that time travel into the future is possible. As you approach the speed of light, time slows down. Nothing seems to change, but it does. If you had a twin and if you were to, say, take a 50 light year journey at very close to the speed of light, you would come back to earth being a little less than 50 years younger than your twin. While you would have aged just barely. It goes something like that...
You have the factor in the possibility of multiple divisions of concepts and theories. The problem is that the speed of light is believed to be the highest speed at which something can travel, so it is unlikely that we will be able to travel into the past.... An object nears the speed of light, its relativistic mass increases until it becomes infinite at the speed of light. Accelerating infinate mass any faster than that has been deemed impossible... on top of that, there's countless other theories to factor in.
aaha.. this has nothing to do with the paranormal really, but i get deja vu several times almost every day. i dunno.. i was just thinking about it. it really scares the shit out of me, haha. and then i end up crying if i think somethings specific is going to happen, and it does. i think it has something to do with my dreams or something, but i cant remember most of my dreams maybe im just nuts
What fun. Everytime there is a choice, there is no choice, cause every available path is taken simultaenously spinning off infinite alternate realities... But change is constant, so it's infinite choices for infinite amounts of time making infinite realities... Even thoughts, dreams, etc. make alternate realities.. Everything is real as is nothing. It's infinite. Nice and simple.
