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Physics, Astronomy & Cosmology / Time as a method of physical propulsion
« on: 12/12/2007 21:01:27 »
Hi, all...
I just joined this forum, and did not wish to necropost any old threads there may be dealing with time and black holes and what have you, so I chose to start this new topic, on something I have been thinking about for a long time...
Using time as a method of FTL propulsion.
This will take some time, for lack of a better term, so feel free to go make yourself a pot of coffee. Then, just sit back, relax, and consider the postulation of this "paper".
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Time. It has always been. It shall always be.
Our universe has not always been, and will not always be.
This theory uses the Big Bang theory as a foundation of support. That being said... imagine, if you will, a very large and clear bubble. Suddenly, at the very center of that bubble, there is a sudden and bright spark, and then, a massive outward explosion of blackness... the matter that is our own universe. The black matter expands in all directions, like a massive 3D pond ripple. Our universe is now expanding, and billions of years are passing, right before our eyes. we are witnessing the act of raw creation.
As noted above, the universe is expanding away from the center point of all creation, which for this paper, I shall dub the "Great Generator", for it is from this generation point, that all matter has come to be. What is happening as the galaxies are forming, and colliding, and moving away? Yes... that's correct... time is passing. It takes an X amount of years for one galaxy to move from the Great Generator, to a given location.
Now... time, as we all know, is not physical, and therefore, is not bound by any newtonian laws. Additionally, current understanding of modern science explicitly governs that NOTHING can surpass the speed of light. Nothing physical, that is.
So... what must we do then, to solve our problem? That's right... look to the unphysical to solve a physical problem. Remember the mental visual of the galaxies expanding outward? Let's return to that for a moment. Let us say, for argument's sake, that our galaxy, the Milky Way, is the middle galaxy of a group of three, and that those three galaxies are expanding outward from the Great Generator. Okay. It stands to reason that the galaxy AHEAD of us was the first to emerge and move outward from the Great Generator. Thus, or galaxy emerged after it, and the galaxy behind us even later. Okay. Now, let us say that we wish to travel to the galaxy ahead of us.
Well, we cannot, because we cannot travel fatser than light... right? WRONG! WE cannot travel faster than light... but TIME can! And by using time, we can as well. How do we do this? By using math and spatial coordinates to calculate a temporal position for our target galaxy. we are not going to go to the target galaxy... we are going to force the target galaxy to come to us!
What we must do, is calculate the speed at which the galaxy ahead of us is moving, and then use that to determine how long ago that galaxy was occupying the same space in the universe as our own. If we know that, and can figure out a way to realize time travel, we can effectively revert the timeline to the point where WE are now standing inside the galaxy that was ahead of us. Think of it this way...
The universe as a whole is the floor. The galaxies are a long rug on the floor. Our own galaxy is the last end of the rug, and the target galaxy is the front end of the rug. WE are a chair atop that rug, at the end point. The effect of reversing time in this manner basically is akin to pulling that rug very fast, so that the front of the rug is now at the position of the endpoint... WE have not moved one mircon... the universe moved to us! We have "rewound" the universe, to accommodate our will to travel to the galaxy in front of us!
The same effect can be used to travel to the galaxy behind us, only in reverse... we simply "fast-forward" the universe, so that the galaxy behind us has now moved ahead to occupy the same space in the universe as our own did.
Granted, for the moment, this "reversion theory" only works in a straight-line orientation, but I believe it has promise. Granted also, that this speculation assumes that time travel can be possible. But so far, Earth's scientists are trying to get FTL by surpassing newtonian laws, and there is simply no way to do this, in the physical realm... unless you use time as a propelling force in this amnner, because time is not bound by the laws of physics, yet at the same time, has a place in the physical universe, because as time passes, galaxies expand. Thus, I would like to suggest that the scientific minds of Earth begin work on trying to develop time travel, instead of raw FTL, because with the advent of time travel, will come FTL ability.
Anyway, this is just something I thought up when i was bored... I'd like to hear your thoughts, questions, and feedback.
-BolianAdmiral
I just joined this forum, and did not wish to necropost any old threads there may be dealing with time and black holes and what have you, so I chose to start this new topic, on something I have been thinking about for a long time...
Using time as a method of FTL propulsion.
This will take some time, for lack of a better term, so feel free to go make yourself a pot of coffee. Then, just sit back, relax, and consider the postulation of this "paper".
- - - - -
Time. It has always been. It shall always be.
Our universe has not always been, and will not always be.
This theory uses the Big Bang theory as a foundation of support. That being said... imagine, if you will, a very large and clear bubble. Suddenly, at the very center of that bubble, there is a sudden and bright spark, and then, a massive outward explosion of blackness... the matter that is our own universe. The black matter expands in all directions, like a massive 3D pond ripple. Our universe is now expanding, and billions of years are passing, right before our eyes. we are witnessing the act of raw creation.
As noted above, the universe is expanding away from the center point of all creation, which for this paper, I shall dub the "Great Generator", for it is from this generation point, that all matter has come to be. What is happening as the galaxies are forming, and colliding, and moving away? Yes... that's correct... time is passing. It takes an X amount of years for one galaxy to move from the Great Generator, to a given location.
Now... time, as we all know, is not physical, and therefore, is not bound by any newtonian laws. Additionally, current understanding of modern science explicitly governs that NOTHING can surpass the speed of light. Nothing physical, that is.
So... what must we do then, to solve our problem? That's right... look to the unphysical to solve a physical problem. Remember the mental visual of the galaxies expanding outward? Let's return to that for a moment. Let us say, for argument's sake, that our galaxy, the Milky Way, is the middle galaxy of a group of three, and that those three galaxies are expanding outward from the Great Generator. Okay. It stands to reason that the galaxy AHEAD of us was the first to emerge and move outward from the Great Generator. Thus, or galaxy emerged after it, and the galaxy behind us even later. Okay. Now, let us say that we wish to travel to the galaxy ahead of us.
Well, we cannot, because we cannot travel fatser than light... right? WRONG! WE cannot travel faster than light... but TIME can! And by using time, we can as well. How do we do this? By using math and spatial coordinates to calculate a temporal position for our target galaxy. we are not going to go to the target galaxy... we are going to force the target galaxy to come to us!
What we must do, is calculate the speed at which the galaxy ahead of us is moving, and then use that to determine how long ago that galaxy was occupying the same space in the universe as our own. If we know that, and can figure out a way to realize time travel, we can effectively revert the timeline to the point where WE are now standing inside the galaxy that was ahead of us. Think of it this way...
The universe as a whole is the floor. The galaxies are a long rug on the floor. Our own galaxy is the last end of the rug, and the target galaxy is the front end of the rug. WE are a chair atop that rug, at the end point. The effect of reversing time in this manner basically is akin to pulling that rug very fast, so that the front of the rug is now at the position of the endpoint... WE have not moved one mircon... the universe moved to us! We have "rewound" the universe, to accommodate our will to travel to the galaxy in front of us!
The same effect can be used to travel to the galaxy behind us, only in reverse... we simply "fast-forward" the universe, so that the galaxy behind us has now moved ahead to occupy the same space in the universe as our own did.
Granted, for the moment, this "reversion theory" only works in a straight-line orientation, but I believe it has promise. Granted also, that this speculation assumes that time travel can be possible. But so far, Earth's scientists are trying to get FTL by surpassing newtonian laws, and there is simply no way to do this, in the physical realm... unless you use time as a propelling force in this amnner, because time is not bound by the laws of physics, yet at the same time, has a place in the physical universe, because as time passes, galaxies expand. Thus, I would like to suggest that the scientific minds of Earth begin work on trying to develop time travel, instead of raw FTL, because with the advent of time travel, will come FTL ability.
Anyway, this is just something I thought up when i was bored... I'd like to hear your thoughts, questions, and feedback.
-BolianAdmiral