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Originally Posted by Raistlin
Not last week, sorry.
If it helps at all, you do manage to get me to raise my right hand next week.  |
Do i? Damn - i must have forgot again.
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Originally Posted by Diamond
Time travel is undoubtedly impossible!
However what is possible is that you can slow down time relative to you, according to Einstein anyway, and the theory of relativity. (I think) 
According to Einstein's theories then anyone who is moving is actually in their own mini time warp - the time relative to them is actually slowed down, but at the speeds with which we are fimiliar the difference is negligible. When it does get noticed is at the speed of light where light slows down to such a level that if you took a ten year trip at the speed of light then returned to Earth, you will find that in Earth time you have been away for hundreds of years.
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Time is relative to the person who is observing it - one theory is the grandfather clock theory in which a person standing next to a huge grandfather clock travels for one second at the speed of light away from the clock at precicely 12:00:00 he then is able to turn and observe the clock at the same time as he stops and it still shows 12:00:00 despite the fact he has been travelling for a second.
Also the closer you get to the speed of light the slower time becomes, this has actually been proven by using two atomic clocks, one on the ground and one on a plane. The one on the ground stays relative to the earths surface whilst the plane flies off for a while, when it returns there is a difference in the times displayed because the plane has been travelling closer to the speed of light than the clock on the ground.