Reality is formed by people believing in that reality. What is real? Without the agreement of another, nothing.
You examine atoms and find that they are mostly empty space. The neutrons and protons are made up of quarks. All we know about quarks and other subatomic particles are their quantum numbers. So then, in essence, we've boiled down all physical matter down to numbers. And what is space? It's a type of geometry.10thYrSr said:
Reality is formed by people believing in that reality. What is real? Without the agreement of another, nothing.
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We've been discussing time travel in the Q anon thread
Tomdoss92 said:
Talk to this guy, he's done it.... but only once.
Relativistic speeds are not linearly additive.swc93 said:
Flying through space ain't like dusting crops.
If you are on a vessel traveling at the speed of light and you walk from the back to the front; you are traveling faster than the speed of light but not really.
that's all I got.
Kind of.TexAgs91 said:
You can measure an entangled particle and if the other entangled particle is measured, it will instantly have the same state as the first measured particle. That isn't useful communication.
If you force the state of an entangled particle thinking that you could also force the state of the other particle, that won't work. Forcing the state breaks the entanglement.
You might be interested in some of Roger Penrose's works. (Or may have already read them.)TexAgs91 said:
While we're on the topic, I'd like to throw this out there.
The flow of time is an illusion.
There's been some silly FB debates on whether time exists. It does. But the flow of time is an illusion. Can you ask "how many seconds per second does time flow?". No. That doesn't make sense. We are all 4D static space-time structures. Light exists in spacetime as 4D light cones. Whatever light intersects your 4D eyes at a particular instance is what you see at that instance in time.
The reason that we can't remember the future is like what Philip J Fry says: you must obey the laws of thermodynamics. The chemistry required to encode memories only works in one direction in time because entropy always increases. So at each point in time, you can only remember the past. And every point along the time axis of your 4D self is simultaneously (in 4-space) conscious of only one instance in time.
It's like a video file. Every frame exists at once, and each frame only shows one instance in time.
And yes, this also means that everything is predetermined and free will is out the window.
spanky said:
Isn't that only applicable if you are thinking about time travel in the sense of moving your physical body in human form? Isn't the more realistic approach to move information/code to a display/host?
It's the premise of both the short story "Story of Your Life" by Ted Chiang and the movie "Arrival", based on the same story. (Although not by using drugs.) Both are excellent.CrottyKid said:
This is some interesting and crazy sounding stuff!
Could we learn to "remember" the future? Could we take drugs that would open the ability to remember the future? This sounds like a movie script.
what about cropdusting in space?eric76 said:swc93 said:
Flying through space ain't like dusting crops.
If you are on a vessel traveling at the speed of light and you walk from the back to the front; you are traveling faster than the speed of light but not really.
that's all I got.
TexAgs91 said:But in their domains, the two theories are extremely successful. They aren't making bad predictions like the ultraviolet catastropheRedstone said:
The idea would be that time is a creation by a Being outside of time, and that a spirit is not of time but can enter it. "Travel," therefore, by a disembodied spirit is intention (assuming allowance by the Being).
Second, regarding interstellar travel
Is it possible alien intelligence can generate a gravitational field, and then use that field to distort space / time? By "bringing" destination to source, bypassing linear understanding?
I don't know. But our understanding of physics underwent a radical overhaul about a century ago, didn't it?