Imponderables, deep thoughts, and other strange questions...

[Looonatic]

Originally posted by Python14
Heres one that messes with the superstring theory.

Lets say CPhillip trades his Vespa for a time machine. He get's his time machine at 10 AM on a saturday morning. At 11, he decides to actually use it. His plan goes as follows. At 12, he will set his time machine to 11:30 AM( half an hour before). He will then throw a tennis ball into it, sending it back in time to 11:30. Well, at 11:30, wouldn't ya know it, a tennis ball comes hurtling out of the time machine and hits Phil in the head knocking him a little loose for a little while. In his lack of clearity, he decides not to throw a tennis ball into the time machine. Therefore, THERE ARE TWO TENNIS BALLS! How? Matter cannot be created. Where did it come from? We have freewill apparently.

I'm thinking 5th or 6th or 7th dimension here.

Quantum Foam. There are an infinite number of alternate realities corresponding with electron positioning. Time travel is not quite true time travel, but actually, interdimensional travel, as the Quantum Foam is penetrated, thus allowing us to experience time travel. As there are an infinite number of realities, one of those realities is assured to pierce the quantum foam connecting to ours thus creating the 11:30 tennis ball. The natural assumption, of course is that this is the tennis ball that CPhillip threw into the machine. Actually, it is a different but identical tennis ball from beyond the Quantum Foam. CPhillip's tennis ball is elsewhere. His decision not to throw it in is irrelevant as there are a limitless number of alternate realities, and one of them will not miss their tennis ball. *nod*

[FooTemps]

Originally posted by Python14
Heres one that messes with the superstring theory.

Lets say CPhillip trades his Vespa for a time machine. He get's his time machine at 10 AM on a saturday morning. At 11, he decides to actually use it. His plan goes as follows. At 12, he will set his time machine to 11:30 AM( half an hour before). He will then throw a tennis ball into it, sending it back in time to 11:30. Well, at 11:30, wouldn't ya know it, a tennis ball comes hurtling out of the time machine and hits Phil in the head knocking him a little loose for a little while. In his lack of clearity, he decides not to throw a tennis ball into the time machine. Therefore, THERE ARE TWO TENNIS BALLS! How? Matter cannot be created. Where did it come from? We have freewill apparently.

I'm thinking 5th or 6th or 7th dimension here.

Problem with that theory, phil would get knocked by the ball before he decided to throw a tennis ball he found into the time machine. What if he used that very same tennis ball to throw into the time machine? That would mean no matter was created. It was just transferred.

[Python14]

Yea, Loon, that's what has been my belief for the most part all along.


BTW, Foo, I'm saying he never throws anything. From another tennis ball appears.....where is still all theories and ideas.

[jdev]

thought this would have been asked by now..

why do you park in a driveway, but drive on a parkway?

[Willystyle21]

uh

OK loon,I was never taught anything about quantum physics,(just regular physics) or well anything dealing with the fourth deminsion. However is your explanation a real one used by say carl sagan? Reason I ask is because I came up with that very same idea for time travel when I was ten. Follow along witht this and tell me if I am wrong anywhere. It's not really time just different planes of exisistence that would have to be traveled through to go "into" another time. Also had the idea being that since enery can neither be created nor destroyed ( insuing a cataclismic universal meltdown I would think if it did). All one would really need to do to journey into another "time", or parallel deminsion, would be to pick wherever you wanted to go. Then swap an exact equal amount of enery for yourself and whatever you were to take along with you. Simple in theory anyway. But due to the extremely BIG chance of failure and the whole meltdown part would you really want to try it?

[Looonatic]

The nature of parallelism becomes measurable when you begin to experiment with particle theory. Fun stuff.

One of the most original extrapolations of some of things that could be possible if particle theory could actually be exploited can be found in the book, 'Timeline' by Michael Crichton. Good book.

[ZAust]

Originally posted by Python14
Heres one that messes with the superstring theory.

Lets say CPhillip trades his Vespa for a time machine. He get's his time machine at 10 AM on a saturday morning. At 11, he decides to actually use it. His plan goes as follows. At 12, he will set his time machine to 11:30 AM( half an hour before). He will then throw a tennis ball into it, sending it back in time to 11:30. Well, at 11:30, wouldn't ya know it, a tennis ball comes hurtling out of the time machine and hits Phil in the head knocking him a little loose for a little while. In his lack of clearity, he decides not to throw a tennis ball into the time machine. Therefore, THERE ARE TWO TENNIS BALLS! How? Matter cannot be created. Where did it come from? We have freewill apparently.

I'm thinking 5th or 6th or 7th dimension here.

its impossible. tennis balls cant drive deloreans .

[CaptaiN_JacK]

hmmm

i think the whole i idea of time travel is bogus because god never created it in the first 7 days. so there. thats settled. (j/k if anyone thought i was serious)


this i something i thought about a week or so ago when i was laying on my lawn looking up at the stars: where does it all end? does it go on forever and never stop? does it keep growing infinitly outward? where is the light at the end of the tunnel?

just thinking about it gave me goosebumps (and a headache from thinking too hard :P)

u guys might like the book: "9 crazy ideas in science" its titled something like that, i cant remember for sure tho. its crazy, it talks about how there are 2 suns in our solar system (or something of that sort, i didnt read it a friend did)

[FooTemps]

if the universe is expanding... is it possible to travel past the edge, or does the universe expand as fast as you can move, or do you slow as you hit the edge of the universe, or do you go into some dead zone between universes?

[Looonatic]

Originally posted by FooTemps
if the universe is expanding... is it possible to travel past the edge, or does the universe expand as fast as you can move, or do you slow as you hit the edge of the universe, or do you go into some dead zone between universes?

You experience lag until the servers can catch up with you. Hehehe.

Actually, by definition, the universe consists of all matter, and the intervening space between matter. So if you were to somehow travel faster than the current universal expansion, the universe, which by definition includes you, will expand ~with~ you. So to answer your question, the universe will expand as fast as you can travel because you are part of the universe.

[FooTemps]

Originally posted by Looonatic


You experience lag until the servers can catch up with you. Hehehe.

Actually, by definition, the universe consists of all matter, and the intervening space between matter. So if you were to somehow travel faster than the current universal expansion, the universe, which by definition includes you, will expand ~with~ you. So to answer your question, the universe will expand as fast as you can travel because you are part of the universe.

whoaaa!!! enlightenment! hahaha

[FreakBaller12]

wouldn't you just keep getting more tennis balls
think of it
he throws it back in time there's one and when he gets to the point again where there is a tennis ball wouldn't that know be two and he would again throw a tennis ball back into the past or would he keep getting hit with more and more tennis balls?

[magman007]

Originally posted by toyotaboy12
http://www.automags.org/forums/showt...92#post1004592

ym orignal thread on I.E.
what exactly does I.E. stand for?
i've never been able to figure it out

Dude, carniflex told you, I.E. =Id est from latin, baisically meaning, in example

[Jack & Coke]

The abbreviation e.g. is for the Latin exempli gratia, "for example."

I.e., Latin id est, means "that is."

They're not interchangeable.

Both abbreviations should be followed by a comma.

from: http://www.epinions.com/user-review-...39207196-prod2

[pbguy888]

Originally posted by Brak
i came up with this one all by myself:

if reading is knowledge, and knowledge is power, but power leads to corruption, why do people read?

If practice makes perfect , and nobodys perfect , then why practice?