Can time travel be done?

As it just so turns out...

I have a theory. As with all my truly terrible theory's, it is very rough around the edges, but it's not like anyone's gonna actually be stupid enough to try it so whats the harm done in sharing?  (Unless of course you do try it, so in that case WhatTheJunk blog is not responsible for your stupid ass.)



So, for years people have always wanted to go back in time to correct mistakes they have made in the past or meet their future relatives 60 years in the future. (Oh and you can't change anything in the past, but I'll explain later.) It's been one of human kinds desires to be able to jump any where in time for a while now.

Why we can't leap frog through time yet.

It is theorised that to be able to time travel we would have to travel at the speed of light which is 3x10^8 m/s (that's very fast) but travelling at this speed would cause a very painful and permanent case of death. And the reason you would be dead is because of the amount of energy used to propel you at this speed and the energy that would be created by you being propelled at this speed would most likely burn and disintegrate you alive. Sounds like a fun past time. But I have been thinking and I thought a Faraway mesh cage maybe able to solve this small problem of death.

A Faraway cage was invented by a dude called Micheal Faraway in 1836 and it creates a shield and blocks external and non-static fields. I hypothesise you would need a Faraway cage/mesh to conduct the energy that would be produced when travelling at such a high speed. I'm not sure of the in's and out's of this and I know a Faraway cage or mesh would not be able to protect you against the thermal energy that would be created when you do a 'time jump' but its a start nonetheless.

 

But how would we be able to travel at the speed of light?

I have no idea. But these guys came pretty close to doing so...

 

But please don't do this to your sleeping friend.
 

Lets say Hypothetically this was correct. What would happen when we time jump?

Lets say hypothetically you found something that could allow you to travel at the speed of light (and no a giant slingshot will not do) and hypothetically the Faraway mesh enabled you to time travel without being vapourised and conducted the energy. It is theorised  that when travelling at the speed of light, you would see time bend. And when two folds bend, a tremendous amount of energy is required to absorb the jump. As energy is like a bank, when you overdraw you need to pay it back. But because no one that we know of (other than Doctor Who) has travelled to the past, we don't know how to 'pay back' the energy that we have used to travel to the past. So it could kill you, the people around you or take the energy from surrounding electrical equipment when it 'withdraws' its energy back. Who knows? But it all sounds too scary for me and Im quite content in the time that I live now. What about you?

'Once confined to fantasy and science fiction, time travel is now simply an engineering problem.'

-MICHIO KAKU, Wired Magazine, Aug. 2003

 

 

Multi Universe theory

After explaining the theory of the Uncertainty Principle of the Schrodinger cat in the video it brought up one explanation of there being a 'multi universe'. Being interested in pseudoscience I have read up on the possibility of there being different universe's where the cat is alive in one and dead in the other. I don't know whether I believe in this or not alike to everything else but I can explain to you the whole 'different universe thing' and the basis that it has.

To understand this we must first understand what a universe is. So...

What is a universe?

'A Universe is a set of photons that interact together, and which do NOT interact, generally, with photons of other universes which have other characteristics. This might better be said to be the spason of the universe that interact determine the characteristics of the universe, but since they determine the properties of the photons. This then amounts to the same thing.'

I was actually pretty impressed with this definition, courtesy of http://www.nexialinstitute.com/mut.htm


Now if the String theory is correct the universe has 9 spatial dimension's and one temporal dimension that were all wound up, but the Big bang blew them the fuck apart and left the dimensions we know as height,width and depth and the one temporal dimension known as time to be deployed.

Now if we lived in a universe were all of these 9 spatial dimensions were twisted together like they had been, how would we distinguish between illusion and reality?

Time is something only us humans (and well everything else in our universe) experiences only going forward in a linear fashion. (Which is also why we don't remember the future we can only make an educated guess of it at best). But what would happen if one of these spatial dimension were not spatial but temporal? Like time. Would we be able to go back and forward as we please? I think so, but I could always be wrong. Would dissipation like explained in a previous post reverse itself? Would the smoke go back into the chimney?



You see, it's because of this String theory that made people think that there could be another universe where there is another you and me but slightly different. And they would be slightly different based on the choices that we make in our lives. An example would be; You are walking across the street and do not look before crossing the road and suddenly a lorry smashes into you with a speed of 500 m/ph causing you to die a very painful, bloody death. Knock on wood this doesn't happen.( But it could.)
                                                                                 (Video on String Theory if you're interested below)
Now lets do that again. You are walking across the street and you look both ways and allow a lorry to pass you by before crossing the street to meet your sibling for lunch in the cafe across the road as you planned earlier that morning. You both greet each other in the cafe and your sibling announces that they are going to set you up with a blind date. You meet that blind date, fall in love and get married to that individual.

Now in one universe, you died because you CHOSE not to look both ways before crossing the street. In the other you CHOSE to look both ways and lived to meet your future husband/wife (who is incrediably hot if you dont mind me saying) later that day. This is the same concept as Schrondiger's cat; Your either dead or alive but you cant be both in the same universe.

It is through this cat stuff and the spatial dimesions that give the multi-universe theory a sort of basis as to whether it could be true, but there is at the moment no crediable proof, so we are going to have to leave it to science fiction to tell us all about the 'other side'.

Although... I'm pretty sure Sarah Palin is from another universe. She sure as fuck didn't come from here.

What was there before the big bang?

The 'what was there before the Big Bang' Bullshit

Despite what your school teacher said about there being rocks and dust and shit before the big bang, there was nothing before the big bang, your teacher was either an idiot or was high on the gas fumes in the science lab.


Remember in a previous post when I said 'there was no before'. Kinda explains it. You see, time did not exist before the big bang. Time is a result of the expansion of the universe itself and without a Bang or God or whatever it is you believe created the wonderful place in which we inhabit to set off the expansion of the universe there would be no time. And without time there is no 'before'.