Oliver
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Post by Oliver on Sept 22, 2008 20:34:39 GMT -5
My brain has exploded.
But in Event Horizon (the movie) Dr. Wierr explains that they're not actually jumping time, they're jumping space. It's like taking a sheet of paper and putting A. and B. on seperate ends, then folding it so the points meet. That's space warp, not time warp. The speed of light is still existant, nothing has stopped.
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icemitten
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Post by icemitten on Sept 23, 2008 3:12:55 GMT -5
Hmm interesting idea. Thing is, if you're folding space (like the paper), .. ..shouldn't it be noticeable? I mean, if YOU fold paper, I can see that. But if you fold space for a wormhole, nobody can see that. Awkward, no?
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Oliver
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Post by Oliver on Sept 25, 2008 8:55:50 GMT -5
Well, technically you're not folding it. You're just cutting out the space between the two points (but that would be even more awkward - cutting a hole in space! ) My guess would be it's more like a teleporter. It zaps you into a trillion tiny particles and wizzes you across space in an instant. But then, you're not folding the space, you're still moving across it, just very fast and in a trillion pieces. Gah! Damnnit this to hell! It's far too confunding.
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lordveovis
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Post by lordveovis on Feb 20, 2009 17:48:52 GMT -5
From the book "The Physics of Star Trek" one of the ways to time travel was to theoretically pull a wormhole around in a loop for several years or more and then go in; you would return to when you first built the time machine. One end would be anchored in the past and one in the future; but it couldn't be used to travel farther back than when you first started. The paradox would kick in if you destroyed your ship or device pulling the wormhole around in space.
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