Travel
Time
James
Wood Suppose
you had a 42-year-old friend come up to you and say, "I'm going to take a
trip to my 21st birthday party, would you like to come along?" Well now,
that will take some thought and my first question would probably be, "Can
you really do that?" My friend may be sure that he can but it would take
a lot of documentation for me to be convinced that it is possible. There
has been a lot of talk on the Web about time travel. Some of it seems to be founded
on the idea of a "space time continuum". I believe that this is an out
growth of Relativity. I went to the Wikipedia Encyclopedia and took this extract
on this topic, "In relativistic contexts, however, time cannot be separated
from the three dimensions of space because it depends on an object's velocity
relative to the speed of light, and also the strength of intense gravitational
fields which can slow the passage of time." I admit, up front, that I do
not have a good working understanding of Special or General Relativity and this
concept appears to find its support in those theories. It is not easy to grasp
the idea that tine will be different at different locations for different people.
Usually I think of time as part of our organic makeup that determines we will
get old gradually and consistently until we expire. The method we use to tell
time is simply related to the Earths period of rotation as it revolves around
the Sun. If this had been slower we would have more hours in our dasys and possibly,
when all of the mathematics was worked out, a different number of minutes to the
hour. There is nothing sacred about our method of telling time. Evey planet has
a different rotation period and a different length of the year.We assume that
our method of determination is good for all and everything everywhere. For our
purpose it is. We only want to calculate the speed at which time passes for us. Suppose
you lived in the vicinity of an intense gravitational field. They say that in
that event time would pass slower for you than 'normal time'. How would you know
that? For you it would be your measure of time and you would not know that there
was any other measure of time that moved faster than your time. Or, suppose that
you lived on a run-away planet that was traveling through space at close to the
speed of light and your 'time' would be slower than our 'normal time'. You would
not know it. The question, for me, is would our bodies know it? Would we actually
live longer in an area of slower time? The
Earth does not travel at the same velocity in its orbit around the Sun so we use
the mean, or average, velocity for determining distances traveled. Johannes Kepler
worked out the Law that a planet in an eliptic orbit will orbit the Sun covering
equal areas in equal time. This means that even though the point farthest from
the Sun will contain a larger area than the area of the orbit closest to the Sun
the speed of the orbiting objects will change. Think that the Earth was 86 million
miles from the Sun on the closest side and 100 million miles on the farthest side.
Kepler is telling us the Earth will move faster covering the side with the longest
radius. The end result is that we can use the average velocity, as if it was a
circle, in our calculations. It also means in real time that Earth's traveling
about 19.24 miles per second during the long leg and about 17.84 miles a second
during the short leg, for an average of about 18.5 mps. I know there is only a
little difference here but there are times when Earths velocity is a litle closer
to the speed of light. Does this mean there is an infantesimle bit slower passage
in the speed at which time travels? Some has been planets, like Pluto, with extreme
orbital difference, would likely show a much more pronounced difference in its
orbital velocities. So, on ths point, in the absence of infinitely fine measuring
devices I can only say that over the years I have felt that some days were longer
than the shorter days were! Now
in the meantime our friend has traveled back to his 21st birthday party and was
surprised to see that no one was at home, there was no home. Why would that be?
There is no point to time travel that fails to recreate the old events we are
looking for. From my standpoint it seems that time travel requires a kind of ribbon
of images to be created as we move through time and then, on demand, we call up
past events so we can join in and re-live them again. If you really are traveling
back in a living time with live action people, then, at my friends birthday party,
he would be both the birthday boy and the uninvited guest. How weird? I do not
believe that any scientist thinks that every day of our past continues to live
on, not like a recording or a movie, but as a live action event. Where is all
the information stored. How do we bring to life things that have gone away. A
Christmas tree all lit up on Christmas day is burned on New Years day. Shall we
step through the days nad return our tree to full bloom? You may suspect I do
not favor such a view. There is so much written on this subject that I have not
read I take the risk of repeating parts of the thoughts of others unknowingly.
What I write is of my own creation and if it seems similar to others it is pure
co-incidence. So,
let's talk about the prospect of real time travel. This requires multiple Dimensions.
Say we live in D2 and everything there is normal for us and we get along just
fine. We know where yesterday and tomorrow are and what is happening in between.
Suppose that in D1, another Dimension, every thing is the same as in D2 but one
day earlier. They know where their days are. They-we live normal lives doing all
the things that we are doing in D2. If we are to try time travel we might go from
D2 to D1 and we will see what we were doing yesterday, a kind of mirror image
one day old. If you lived on D1 you can travel to D2 and see what is happening
tomorrow. This is all logical as long as you believe that there are multiple Dimensions
and that we will some day travel between the Dimensions. There have been a few
contacts reported between humans and aliens wherein the aliens made some communication
with the Earth person. One involved what was described as an alien 'child' playing
with Chinese children a long time ago. The alien is alleged to have told the children
that a new dynasty would take control of the area in the years to come, and later
on it happened. In another instance the alien commented that he would like to
take a rifle back with him but was not permitted to do so. This is a sparse bit
of evidence and not anywhere what would be required so support an argument that
the Earths visitors were time traveling. We will not know as long as the visitors
continue to tell humans meaningless lies. If
there are numerous Dimensions, as some like to think, then the opportunity to
broaden you time travels will be enhanced. My point here is that the time you
wish to travel to must be real and currently in existence, which is possibly only
in the presence of other active Dimensions. I do not expect to have a large following
for my views but that is the way I see it. If the current and past visitors to
Earth are actually time travelers we could start to reason it out by considering
the technology they display and make our own estimate as to how far ahead of us
they must be. How long will it be before we can hope to emulate their machines?
100 years, 150 years, or possibly never? Actually, it could be next week. There
is very likely a simple technological advance that will help us escape our gravitational
lock and permit us to make long strides in space travel and possibly for travel
between dimensions. If we hope to accomplish these goals we must first recognize
that they exits and they are worth our hard work to achieve. I
am well aware that the suggestion that the so-called UFO's are real will be poorly
received by many academics. It is not pleasant to spend your life in the study
of science and then find that our best knowledge may be child's play for other
societies that come to Earth, and go away again, with indifference. The evidence
is so strong for the presence of visitors that I find it hard to understand the
reluctance to accept it by some. The repeated argument that there is no hard evidence,
no parts of a spacecraft and no objects that were left behind by the visitors
is fallacious and open to debate. Burned grass at landing sites and indentations
left by landing gear are real traces that are left behind. The testimony of people
from all walks of life should be more than enough proof and lets not forget that
you can be convicted of murder by less documented evidence and this can happen
even in the absence of a body; no physical body of the alleged victim. |
