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Originally posted by RothchildRancor
reply to post by Nevertheless
All of that is just a personalized definition on what time is.
It is the 4th dimension.
I call absolute BS also as any physicist would absolutely disagree.
I highly doubt you personally know any physicists.
I'm done arguing with a nobody,
I am gonna go back to reading my books as they are ten times worth my time
as opposed to someone lazily trying to debunk a cornerstone of reality.
Start quoting facts if you ever wanna truly debate something.
In principle I agree with most of what you said, speaking as someone who majored in physics. My advice would be to be a little more clear by making statements in the context of what has been proven in experiment. There are always speculative theories which haven't been proven that may permit exceptions to what you said, namely:
Originally posted by Nevertheless
Why would "any physicist" disagree?
First sentence is fine. Second statement, I would say that nobody has ever demonstrated that backward time travel is possible on a macro scale. On a quantum scale there's the delayed choice quantum eraser experiment which has some interesting results like apparent retro-causality.
Originally posted by Nevertheless
"Traveling into the future" which is possible, only means that the rate of change is slower locally relative to whatever it is you want to over-live.
And that's why you can't travel backwards, because there is no such thing.
Now that doesn't suggest a person can time travel backward, but there are still some theoretical ideas about that:
This delayed choice quantum eraser experiment raises questions about time, time sequences, and thereby brings our usual ideas of time and causal sequence into question.
There are also more speculative theories I'm aware of. I'm not sure our models are complete enough to make absolute statements about backward time travel, but I think saying that nobody has ever demonstrated that backward time travel is possible on a macro scale would be accurate.
Is there any way of going backward in time? Once again, Einstein may have provided the answer. His 1915 theory of general relativity showed that space and time are curved, and that the curvature can be large in the neighborhood of very massive objects. If an object is dense enough, the curvature can become nearly infinite, perhaps opening a tunnel that connects distant regions of space-time as though they were next door. Physicists call this tunnel a wormhole, in an analogy to the shortcut a worm eats from one side of a curved apple to the other.
In 1988, Kip Thorne, a physicist at Caltech, and several colleagues suggested that you could use such a wormhole to travel into the past. Here's how you do it: move one mouth of the wormhole through space at nearly the speed of light while leaving the other one fixed. Then jump in through the moving end. Like a moving astronaut, this end ages less, so it connects back to an earlier time on the fixed end. When you pop out through the fixed end an instant later, you'll find that you've emerged in your own past.
The problem with wormholes is that the openings are microscopic and tend to snap shut a fraction of a second after they're created. The only way to keep them open, as far as we know, is with matter that has negative density. In layman's terms, that's stuff that weighs less than nothing. This may sound impossible, but the Dutch physicist Hendrik Casimir theorized in 1948 that holding two plates of electrically conducting material very close together in a vacuum actually does create a region of negative density that exerts an inward pressure on the plates.
Originally posted by Urantia1111
Originally posted by alfa1
Originally posted by extraterrestrialentity
What do you think ATS?
Well, the video is over an hour long, so maybe you could briefly answer a question.
Does he at any point move from the "telling stories" state, to a state where he says something that can be independently verified?
what exactly about area 51 do you think could be independently verified, and what source would one use? aside from google earth photos, where would "independent verification" of a completely classified installation come from. another whistleblower?
Lazar provided a W-2 form but there are some problems with it as discussed here:
Originally posted by VinnyCaravella
I've worked for the government in the past and could easily verify that with old pay-stubs, screen shots of my bank account, my union card, income tax, scan of my ID badge, pension contributions and so on. Albeit I didn't work at a super secret army base with aliens but he must have been paid.
Originally posted by Arbitrageur
In principle I agree with most of what you said, speaking as someone who majored in physics. My advice would be to be a little more clear by making statements in the context of what has been proven in experiment. There are always speculative theories which haven't been proven that may permit exceptions to what you said, namely:
Originally posted by Nevertheless
Why would "any physicist" disagree?
First sentence is fine. Second statement, I would say that nobody has ever demonstrated that backward time travel is possible on a macro scale. On a quantum scale there's the delayed choice quantum eraser experiment which has some interesting results like apparent retro-causality.
Originally posted by Nevertheless
"Traveling into the future" which is possible, only means that the rate of change is slower locally relative to whatever it is you want to over-live.
And that's why you can't travel backwards, because there is no such thing.
Now that doesn't suggest a person can time travel backward, but there are still some theoretical ideas about that:
This delayed choice quantum eraser experiment raises questions about time, time sequences, and thereby brings our usual ideas of time and causal sequence into question.
Will We Travel Back (Or Forward) In Time?
There are also more speculative theories I'm aware of. I'm not sure our models are complete enough to make absolute statements about backward time travel, but I think saying that nobody has ever demonstrated that backward time travel is possible on a macro scale would be accurate.
Is there any way of going backward in time? Once again, Einstein may have provided the answer. His 1915 theory of general relativity showed that space and time are curved, and that the curvature can be large in the neighborhood of very massive objects. If an object is dense enough, the curvature can become nearly infinite, perhaps opening a tunnel that connects distant regions of space-time as though they were next door. Physicists call this tunnel a wormhole, in an analogy to the shortcut a worm eats from one side of a curved apple to the other.
In 1988, Kip Thorne, a physicist at Caltech, and several colleagues suggested that you could use such a wormhole to travel into the past. Here's how you do it: move one mouth of the wormhole through space at nearly the speed of light while leaving the other one fixed. Then jump in through the moving end. Like a moving astronaut, this end ages less, so it connects back to an earlier time on the fixed end. When you pop out through the fixed end an instant later, you'll find that you've emerged in your own past.
The problem with wormholes is that the openings are microscopic and tend to snap shut a fraction of a second after they're created. The only way to keep them open, as far as we know, is with matter that has negative density. In layman's terms, that's stuff that weighs less than nothing. This may sound impossible, but the Dutch physicist Hendrik Casimir theorized in 1948 that holding two plates of electrically conducting material very close together in a vacuum actually does create a region of negative density that exerts an inward pressure on the plates.
Originally posted by Arbitrageur
Lazar provided a W-2 form but there are some problems with it as discussed here:
Originally posted by VinnyCaravella
I've worked for the government in the past and could easily verify that with old pay-stubs, screen shots of my bank account, my union card, income tax, scan of my ID badge, pension contributions and so on. Albeit I didn't work at a super secret army base with aliens but he must have been paid.
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Originally posted by Arbitrageur
First sentence is fine. Second statement, I would say that nobody has ever demonstrated that backward time travel is possible on a macro scale. On a quantum scale there's the delayed choice quantum eraser experiment which has some interesting results like apparent retro-causality.
Originally posted by Nevertheless
"Traveling into the future" which is possible, only means that the rate of change is slower locally relative to whatever it is you want to over-live.
And that's why you can't travel backwards, because there is no such thing.
Some have interpreted this result to mean that the delayed choice to observe or not observe the path of the idler photon will change the outcome of an event in the past. However, an interference pattern may only be observed after the idlers have been detected (i.e., at D1 or D2).
Will We Travel Back (Or Forward) In Time?
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In 1988, Kip Thorne, a physicist at Caltech, and several colleagues suggested that you could use such a wormhole to travel into the past. Here's how you do it: move one mouth of the wormhole through space at nearly the speed of light while leaving the other one fixed. Then jump in through the moving end. Like a moving astronaut, this end ages less, so it connects back to an earlier time on the fixed end. When you pop out through the fixed end an instant later, you'll find that you've emerged in your own past.
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Even if we ignore wormholes being theoretical, impossible to create and impossible to use (for humans) due to the requirements, and the problem of moving such, not to mention in near the speed of light, it'd STILL be a jump in space, not time. What would you gain in going through all that trouble instead of just moving near the speed of light yourself?
Originally posted by RothchildRancor
Here we go, actual science. Not just babble randomly misquoting famed physicists.
You my friend bring to the table all I was trying to say but have too busy a work schedule to fully]
describe.
I suggest that Nevertheless quits trying to debunk aimlessly and give it a watch also.
Let the real physicists speak instead.