Time
Trip is a thrilling journey deep into the strangeness of
cutting-edge physics - a place where beautiful, baffling
ideas are sometimes indistinguishable from the utterly
crazy.
On this journey, we meet a time-traveling pizza, a
brilliant mathematician in a ski mask and even God. The
journey ends with a strange and dark conclusion - one which
calls into question our very existence.
Ever since Einstein showed it was theoretically possible,
the quest to travel through time has drawn eccentric
amateurs and brilliant scientists in almost equal numbers.
The amateurs include Aage Nost, who demonstrates his time
machine in front of the cameras. The professionals include
the likes of Professor Frank Tipler of Tulane University.
His time machine sounds good - but it would weigh half the
mass of the galaxy.
Has
time travel always been with us, an integral part of who and
what we are, yet always just out of reach - because we are
only children wanting to play with matches?
Why Einstein
Was Wrong!
By Jim Moore, Director
The Phoenix Foundation
Albert Einstein's simple formula "E=mc2" was the
basis of all atomic energy. The formula itself is one of the
most simple - and stunning - of all scientific history. Energy
= mass x (the speed of light x the speed of light).
It is not my intention to argue with this formula. It has
been proven.
But Einstein also said that it was impossible to travel
faster than the speed of light. However, we now know that, in
line with many of Einstein's other observations (like time
being a variable) the speed of light itself is a variable,
it's relative to the medium through which it passes.
Light
travels fastest through a vacuum (186,282397 miles per
second). It travels slower in water, just like sound does.
Once light emerges from the water and re-enters a vacuum, for
example, it speeds back up to its original speed.
Light traveling through a medium other than a vacuum
travels below c as a
result of the time lag between the polarization
response of the medium and the incident light. However,
certain materials have an exceptionally high group index
and a correspondingly low group
velocity. In 1999,
a team of scientists led by Lene
Hau were able to slow the speed of a light pulse to about
17 metres per second;[5]
in 2001,
they were able to momentarily stop a beam.[6]
In 2003,
Mikhail
Lukin, with scientists at Harvard
University and the Lebedev
Institute in Moscow,
succeeded in completely halting light by directing it into a
bec (bose-Einstein condensate) of the element rubidium,
the atoms of which, in Lukin's words, behaved "like tiny
mirrors" due to an interference pattern in two
"control" beams.[7]
Kurt
Gödel was perhaps Einstein's closest friend. Later, building
on Einstein's work, he came up with his own theories of time
travel - and they set science on its head.
Gödel is best known for his two incompleteness
theorems, published in 1931 when he was 25 years of age, and
only one year after finishing his doctorate at the University
of Vienna. The more famous incompleteness theorem states that
for any self-consistent recursiveaxiomatic
system powerful enough to describe the arithmetic of the natural
numbers (Peano
arithmetic), there are true propositions about the naturals
that cannot be proved from the axioms. To prove this theorem,
Gödel developed a technique now known as Gödel
numbering, which codes formal expressions as natural numbers.
Light speed, therefore, does not necessarily have
to be considered as a constant. Nor is it linear.
A line showing the speed of light on
a scale model of Earth and the Moon
What this implies has profound effects on all of
time travel theories. It is commonly believed that if you travel
into the future, you cannot return to the past.
But what if ... ?
One has to look for a moment at the ancient
Egyptian pyramids and the mysterious phenomenon of what we call
"pyramid energy." The pyramids we see are but half the
equation. It is believed by many - and there is strong supporting
evidence - that a pyramid constructed in precisely the right
manner (as the Cheops pyramid) somehow generates a powerful
energy that can sharpen razor blades, preserve meat ... and
mummies placed in the King's Chamber.
Yet, imagine a parallel pyramid underground, with
the two together forming a kind of diamond-shaped double pyramid
- one whose crown faces upward, the other with the crown facing
downward.
That constitutes the whole, and increases the
energy tremendously. Don't be surprised if we someday find
"upside-down pyramids" underneath the great Giza
pyramid or others.
Remember that our construction of science is
based only upon what we know now. Quantum physics came
along and wiped out our beliefs about physics before then.
I propose the theory that time can indeed bend in
upon itself once the vacuum speed of light is exceeded, much like
a Mobium strip. If I were a time traveler, at the speed of light,
time would stand still - theoretically. But if I were to go faster
than light, then I would enter something we could only
imagine as a black hole or a worm hole and would begin to slow
down - but perhaps within a different universe, a parallel
universe? (Click wormhole picture to
enlarge it).
It is far beyond me to be able to prove
this, but I leave the intriguing possibilities for others who
will come after me.
Time
Trip 2 of 3 (15:10)
Science claims the
universe is not rotating, but why not? Everything else
is rotating throughout the universe itself. The moon rotates
around the earth, the earth around the sun, the sun around the
Milky Way, the Milky Way around a larger galaxy cluster and so
on.
Also, going the other direction, molecular atoms rotate
around one another, atomic electrons rotate around the nucleus
and even within the nucleus, subatomic particles rotate around
the core.
Perhaps the amateur time travel "inventor" in
this video is deluding himself ... and again perhaps not. One
must be skeptical of individual claims that cannot be
replicated.
The modern work of Professor
Frank Tipler of Tulane University shows it mathematically
possible, even likely, that time travel could be accomplished
by rapid rotation around a fast-spinning tube or column. He
speaks in this veido of going in one end and coming out the
other and "curving back" to the point of entry - but
arriving before you left - in effect, backwards time travel.
Note,
interestingly, how similar the rotating columnar energy form
is to the spinning DNA molecule. I think it entirely likely
that the possibility of time travel is built into our very
DNA. I believe the resemblance is more than just graphic.
Expanding this
outward into the cosmic architecture, we can see that the
earth itself comes close to meeting this description - through
the north-south magnetic poles and the magnetic field lines
that connect them. But instead of a "tube" it is a
"doughnut" - like a doughnut magnet. (Click
on the photo to enlarge it).
The last part of the brief series examines the
"virtual world" and the possibility of "virtual
time travel" with the dark hint that we may no longer
know whether we are real or whether we are a simulation.
Welcome to the Matrix. Which do you want - the red pill or
the blue?
Time
Trip 3 of 3 (15:09)
Meet
a Time Traveler?
This
man claimed he traveled through time and into the future and
met himself as an old codger. It may seem like a Cock &
Bull story however he does have some interesting evidence.
We
scoff and laugh, mocking them as weirdoes, wackos, just nuts
... or liars. But many of history's greatest scientific
discoveries have happened by accident. Isaac Newton
"discovered" the laws of gravity by accident.
Penicillin and LSD were "discovered" by accident.
The list goes on and on.
Some
of our greatest discoveries have been stumbled upon by those
who weren't supposed to be "educated enough" for
such things. They "didn't have the scientific
background" and yet time proved them right.
Perhaps
these things happen because the time was right for this
knowledge, this experience - whatever we wish to call it - to
be provided to the human race ... and the name and degrees (or
lack of them) possessed by the discover was of little
importance. What was important was the discovery
itself.
An
Arab man meets an ancestor form the past to understand that to
know your past is to know your future
The
concept of time travel has as many spiritual implications as
scientific ones. Perhaps the Creator, if you believe such a
thing exists (I do), will only let us see the light when we
are ready.
Time
travel also has economic implications that could serve as
motivation to those in high places to prevent, or at least
delay, our discoveries.
For
example, what would time travel do to the global stock market?
It would no longer be a risky gamble ... but then, only the
wealthy would have access and, if our current socio-political
structure remains the same, the rest of us would continue to
play the role of pawns.
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