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Originally posted by Gazrok
reply to post by ZeskoWhirligan
You're playing semantic games.
Originally posted by Gazrok
As for interstellar travel...we already have a few probes doing so, so of course this is a reality.
Originally posted by corsair00
reply to post by thepixelpusher
Supposedly, according to Corso Jr., the craft came from the year 2032 and that the military and company have to re-create the craft "again" to send back... "again" - or "all is lost". Because it created a looped and altered time-line, if we do not evolve to the point in the future where it supposedly came from, the time-line will jump to the other time-lines that are extremely negative. For example, a time-line where Nazi Germany won the war - or the Russians...
A mind-frack, indeed...
Originally posted by corsair00
If we reach a state of complexity that is a singularity - we will be able to travel in time. Even if the time is re-created in vast computer programs like the Holodeck in Star Trek The Next Generation.
Originally posted by ZeskoWhirligan
Originally posted by Gazrok
Also, time travel is even more far fetched than interstellar travel, when you think about it. At least with the latter, there is sound theory behind it. For the first though, nothing but conjecture and bad movies.
On the contrary, there is BETTER evidence for Time Travel than there is for ANY interstellar travel theory.
We have NO technology or Science that can can undeniably deliver us between star systems. All of that is pure, fantasy-laden speculation. All interstellar travel theory is dependent on technologies and power sources that DON'T EVEN EXIST yet, and that WON'T exist for many decades or centuries — therefore, all interstellar travel theory is science fiction, which does NOT constitute "sound theory."
Time travel, on the other hand, has been PROVEN with hard data to back it up — as far back as the 1960s.
One of the most fascinating products of early space travel was the PROOF that Einstein's Theory of Special Relativity was a FACT — this was discovered when the chronometers aboard the spacecraft were compared to synchronized chronometers at Mission Control.
The space-borne chronometers, which had been traveling in orbit at over 17,000 mph for several days, RAN MORE SLOWLY than the chronometers back on Earth. The astronauts returned to Earth slightly younger than their colleagues on the ground.
Einstein predicted this. It's called Time Dilation, and it's a demonstrable FACT, not a theory.
The faster you travel through Space, the slower you travel in Time. So, according to Einstein, a crew of astronauts traveling near Light Speed for four years, say, would return home to find the Earth about a century older.
Those astronauts would have traveled a century into the future, while they only aged about 4 years — just so, astronauts today return to Earth measurably younger than they should be.
Time Dilation was thus PROVEN to be a fact with the advent of manned space flight.
We have NO similar factual evidence regarding theoretical warp drives or interstellar propulsion.
Originally posted by ZeskoWhirligan
Originally posted by brice
reply to post by ZeskoWhirligan
That was an excellent explanation! I never thought about it in such terms. Eloquent, did you author that or was that how it was explained to you? Star for you by the way, Thank you.
Going to friend you also.
peace,
brice
I've been writing this stuff for decades. I first wrote the CD analogy on Time and Space about fifteen years ago, and I've re-written it on numerous websites since then, with diverse receptions.
Originally posted by ElOmen
I'm sorry but time machines can't exist due to the fact that time is an idea made by man and therefore time is irrelevant
Originally posted by MainLineThis
Corso's son is no different than your average "youtube superstar". I don't expect the majority around here to even understand that statement, and for that I am sorry. The reason this subject is a laughable joke is because the majority of folks passionate enough to post in threads like this are "useless idiots". And Corso's son depends on fools like you.