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    What are the implications of time travel in popular culture?

    From reading into a great deal of what this alledged time traveller had to say, I got the gist he just about covered all the bases, as well as being pretty vague on details at the same time. This is an old trick spawned by the earliest 'so-called' spiritual mediums. Anyone with a slice of...
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    What are the implications of time travel in popular culture?

    Since time is relative ... it remains relative to we human beings. Time is a construct of the human psyche. The universe itself keeps no time. The transition of energy signals via Static Photon Vibration Theory across regions of 'flat' space-time (that account for 99% of the universe) is...
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    Graduate 1905 Special Relativity theory Time dilation

    Thanks for your replies; I'll try and figure it out! On a similar vein, I wonder if you could clarify a few points... Do clocks (or whatever we choose to measure time with) slow down increasingly with greater acceleration? If so, is this only in areas of curved space or do the same...
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    Graduate 1905 Special Relativity theory Time dilation

    Well I've just been reading Greene's Elegant Universe and am having a hard time getting my head around this time dilation between George and Gracie. It just doesn't seem to make sense to (uneducated) me. Surely an observer's independent observations of clocks traveling at near to light speed...
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    Graduate Why Can't Massive Objects Travel at the Speed of Light While Massless Ones Can?

    Consider ... Photons do not move. They are stationary bits sewn into the fabric of spacetime. Electromagnetic signals are transmitted from photon to photon in waveform. The massless photon does not travel at the speed of light - it is the transferred energy wave that moves at c...
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    Undergrad What is Light? Is it a EM wave or a stream of photons?

    How about this: Photons are omnipresent - They exist everywhere. We live in a Universe that is actually a photon ocean. Information (in the form of energy such as EM etc.) is transmitted from one photon to the next in waveform. A beam of light is not a constant stream of photons - It...
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    High School What Shapes Can We Visualize in the Fourth Dimension?

    It's certainly interesting to note that we can accurately state the mass of something we cannot accurately locate. Uncertainty states we cannot accurately predict the location of the electron at any given moment ... so how can we so accurately state it's mass? My mind's still groggy from New...
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    High School What Shapes Can We Visualize in the Fourth Dimension?

    Firstly, Happy New Year! Secondly (and I don't have time to get into any lengthy discussion right now), electrons do not have mass. Your idea that the electron's mass pulls the atom and creates gravity doesn't tally if you accept that electrons have no mass. Also, electrons (unless...
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    What are the implications of time travel in popular culture?

    Interesting. There is also the amazingly obvious point of why on Earth any time traveller would expose himself so publicly. Any half moron would try to avoid being discovered - not go out of his way to broadcast his existence! I'm afraid old John was yet another false prophet - fitting...
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    High School What Shapes Can We Visualize in the Fourth Dimension?

    Interesting concepts. Are they yours alone, or gleaned from the minds of others? There's something about your assesment of the generator of gravity that doesn't really sit well with me. Your description of matter 'falling' toward a denser mass describes the general view of gravity - but...
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    High School What Shapes Can We Visualize in the Fourth Dimension?

    Did it? I never knew that. So, your estimation of this finding is that space must be more densely packed (with?) the farther away from massive objects. Is there an upper and lower limit to the label 'massive'? Do you summize that the relationship between the amount space is packed is directly...
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    High School What Shapes Can We Visualize in the Fourth Dimension?

    I agree absolutely. If I recall the Nova (BBC's 'Horizon' in the UK) program correctly, I think the commentator even asked the question 'will we ever be able to see superstrings?' Since the only way we see things is by photons coming from an object and interacting with our retinas, it...
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    High School What Shapes Can We Visualize in the Fourth Dimension?

    I'm going to give this some serious rumination and return with a complimentary rejoinder.
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    What are the implications of time travel in popular culture?

    ... mmm. My references were strictly restricted to the macro-universe side of the time travel fence. Time is relative - so in a sense everyone and everything is time-travelling in it's own subjectivity. I didn't literally mean that because I (or we) had not personally witnessed a time...
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    What are the implications of time travel in popular culture?

    Thinking about Titor ... In my unlearned opinion, Time Travel is impossible and will always be (confined?) in the realms of Science-Fiction and flights of imaginary fancy. TT is like the Fermi Paradox concerning the existence (or not) of ETs. If Men from the future can travel backwards in...