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I am very much in love with physics. Was going to major in it but the math was too much right now. I love math but I suck at it.
I very much understand and have no problem with relative time. but thats the problem its RELATIVE TIME.
IE when Time Dilation occurs at speed it ONLY occurs for the one moving at speed so it ONLY affects the one moving at speed. you have to affect TWO points of reference universally in order to have any kind of paradox that is time related IE you have to have TIME TRAVEL and TIME TRAVEL is movement in FIXED TIME not Movement in Relative time. Hence why time travel is impossible. their IS NO fixed time.
I know this. No problem there.
?? No problem understood. Faster you go slower time progresses getting really interesting as you approach C. still makes NO argument for paradoxes.
Incorrect. the end result is NOT the same. That is where you are confused. NO time moved backwards. you simple have two measures of tiem moving at different speeds.
If I am in a car going 10mph and you are going 5mph ahead of me I will pass you.
Sure if all sensor data was hidden you could be fooled into thinking YOU were stationary and the 5mph was moving backwards. but this is a relative illusion. NOT fact. You can bypass this 2 ways.
you can compare both to a third observer OR you can measure the progression of time for each traveler and compare. using this determing speed.
Please explain how this is a paradox. NO paradox exists. both are the same relative age. one just progressed through time more slowly than the other because of dilation. NO paradox occurs. only our flawed understanding of time ASSUMES some paradox must have occured.
Again observerd and reality are different in this instance because of "Light" and "Dilation" effects.
In reality I fall in and get torn to shreds from gravity shear. Unless the gravity well is large enough to have a gently gravitational shear. then we are not so sure what will happen. Probably torn apart or crushed anyway. or irradiated. Who knows.
Only Postualted. IE Guessed at.
Exactly. until we correct our flawed understanding of dimensions and progression upon them (don't ask me there are much smarter people than me dwelling on that one :-) our equations will give us odd answers.
Personally I think time will simply start to progress again going faster and faster. but again only RELATIVE TIME. the time of surrounding objects is UNAFFECTED. this is the part people do not seem to be able to grasp.
EVEN IF I DO start going backwards in time (we need to work out exactly what that means) only MY OWN RELATIVE TIME will start to move backwards.
Now you create another problem. if backwards time does not mean moving along a fixed timeline IE from 2003 to 1903 etc.. what DOES time moving backwards MEAN. and what does it mean when restricted to a RELATIVE perspective.
I have many problems with time travel but in THIS discussion it is not time travel that I have a problem with. it is the assumption that FTL equals time travel that I have a problem with. nothing more.
My primary problem with time travel is that well we exist. and we would not if time travel occured. it is not possible to travel in time and NOT cause a paradox.
people think time cares about significant events. it does not. the death of kennedy is no different than the evaporation of a water molecule to time.
so if you go back in time the MOMENY you materialize you have just done one of two things.
1 not time traveled at all IE Interdimensionally Traveled and it appears incorrectly to the traveler as time travel OR 2 you appear and instantly a paradox is formed.you see you are not occupying a space and time that was NOT so occupied before. that means something as simple as the air moving along the earth must now move differently since YOU are not in the way.
the time you "came from" now no longer exists. Think of this way. when you go back. FEEZE "everything" at that moment. (and I mean EVerything absolutely all that is in theuniverse and without)
now marks its location. THAT is your time line origin.
that point can not NEVER exist again. you just DESTROYED it simply by existing at a previous moment in time no matter how small.
but if your time line does not exist neither do you and you can not travel which means you did not but now that you did not your time line exists and you can travel. Errr instant paradox.
Doubtful since we have and can make antimatter (albiet VERY slowly and expensively)
Chris Taylor