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Aug25-12, 04:36 AM   #18
 
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Curious about the age of the Universe...


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the universe is probably multi-dimensions, unlike what's been proposed by the big bang?
does anyone really know its age?
We have no idea if there are other dimensions. The only evidence we have is for 1 universe so far, so we definitely can't say that there are "probably" other dimensions. The age of the universe is approximately 13.6 billion years old.

i've been watch some star trek movies, i.e. voyager, and it's very interesting that spaceship could travel faster than light, i.e. warp speed and transwarp speed :)

if in reality is that nothing can travel faster than light, then there should be no way to time travel, unless you go through a dimension?
Time travel isn't really believed to be possible by most professional scientists. And since we haven't observed it happening we can't say when we can do it and when we can't. Furthermore time travel is not allowed to be discussed per PF rules, as it very quickly gets out of hand since there are practically no rules regarding it. (Because it is an unobserved highly speculative subject that pretty much makes no sense)
Aug25-12, 04:48 AM   #19
 
Hi.

There exist solutions for wormholes in general theory of relativity, theoretically only, of course, and those are unstable, at very tiny length scales, evaporate too quickly, require exotic matter and exotic effects, such as Casimir effect, to operate, and are not quite well established theoretically yet. There is a brief introduction to this subject on Wikipedia, of course, aimed at broader audience: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Einstein-Rosen_Bridge. So, there isn't much to say, because of lack of full theoretical support, plus, we are very very far away from observing a wormhole experimentally.

Cheers.
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