I saw this thread and thought of Donnie Darko. (even though its more about universes)
Ok, I was reading up on the Twin Paradox theory. It goes like this "In physics, the twin paradox is a thought experiment in special relativity, in which a twin makes a journey into space in a high-speed rocket and returns home to find he has aged less than his identical twin who stayed on Earth. This result appears puzzling because each twin sees the other twin as traveling, and so, according to a naive application of time dilation, each should paradoxically find the other to have aged more slowly. How the seeming contradiction is resolved, and how the absolute effect (one twin really aging less) can result from a relative motion, can be explained within the standard framework of special relativity. The effect has been verified experimentally using precise measurements of clocks flown in airplanes[1] and satellites.
Starting with Paul Langevin in 1911, there have been numerous explanations of this paradox, many based upon there being no contradiction because there is no symmetry—only one twin has undergone acceleration and deceleration, thus differentiating the two cases. One version of the asymmetry argument made by Max von Laue in 1913 is that the traveling twin uses two inertial frames: one on the way up and the other on the way down. So switching frames is the cause of the difference, not acceleration per se.[2]
Other explanations account for the effects of acceleration. Einstein, Born and Møller invoked gravitational time dilation to explain the aging based upon the effects of acceleration.[3] Both gravitational time dilation and special relativity can be used to explain the Hafele-Keating experiment on time dilation using precise measurements of clocks flown in airplanes."
What do you think about this? It to is also puzzling. If you want to see more of the article: [url]http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Twin_paradox[/url]
I demand equations.
[QUOTE=Phoenix Ashes;24154224]I demand equations.[/QUOTE]
I'm pretty sure there are some equations in the article I linked.
On time travel, I have something to say.I heard this awhile ago, sorry for no sources.
A group of scientists, testing if a future self of an object could interact with its past self, made a test. This test consisted of a small block, a microscopic mirror, and a laser beam. Three tests were done, a first test with the setup, a second test with it, and a control test between the two. They were seeing how much the laser beam would move the mirror on "impact". The results of the first test were recorded, and then a control test using a different set was done. Again, the results were recorded. Finally, the last test with the exact same components and setup was done and recorded. When finished, it seemed that the future self of the mirror test affected both its past self and the control test, by a marginally large amount.
Yeah, that's all I have to share.
I like the idea of a time line which can fork off but then if you go with it you are basically creating matter/energy.
Backwards time travel may not even be physically possible. Einstein said it is possible, but he wasn't always right. Some other nobel-prize winning theoretical physicist whose name I can't remember said that it isn't possible. Time paradoxes won't even matter until we develop time travel, and even then they might not matter.
Nice paste job bro...
Wiki.
Singularity handled a paradox very well [sp] Kill yourself and the game will reset but there will not be a the hand holding a scimitar[/sp]
Personally I don't think it's possible to do time paradoxes. The many worlds theory seems to be the only one that makes sense. You know that your timeline exists, so you go back, and instantly you've changed the past and made it so that timeline can never happen exactly the same, therefore creating or branching off to a new timeline, a new world. Since you know A exists because you're experienced it but now you've made B, there are multiple world, timelines.
I learned from Lost that if you travel back into the 70's and try to detonate a hydrogen bomb at the Swan station that would eventually crash your plane it failed and they are the creators of what they were trying to prevent, The Incident. So..they are the creators of the Swan station and The Incident.
Here's a paradox. Opposite day.
On opposite day you do the opposite of what you normally do.
Which means you don't celebrate holidays.
Which means you don't celebrate opposite day.
Which means you do celebrate holidays.
Which means you celebrate opposite day.
Which means you don't celebrate holidays.
Which means you don't celebrate opposite day.
Which means you do celebrate holidays.
Which means you celebrate opposite day.
Which means you don't celebrate holidays.
Which means you don't celebrate opposite day.
Which means you do celebrate holidays.
Which means you celebrate opposite day.
Which means you don't celebrate holidays.
Which means you don't celebrate opposite day.
Which means you do celebrate holidays.
Which means you celebrate opposite day.
Which means you don't celebrate holidays.
Which means you don't celebrate opposite day.
Which means you do celebrate holidays.
Which means you celebrate opposite day.
...and so on...
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