Re: Parallel Universes, extra dimensions, & related UFO's, disappearances etc
Dear group;
Time alteration IS a workabel concept. Granted, at this point it's JUST a concept, however it is a POSSIBILITY. The concept of using laser lighting in order to introduce a vortex into empty space is very enticing, yet can it be done? The two hurdles would be the lasers themselves and the speeds in which they would need to *travel*.
The problem is not getting them to *spin* around as multiple lasers could be utilized, then switched on and off at ever increasing pulses in order to create the *swirl* needed in a vacuum. The big problem now is finding a set of lasers which are strong enough to significantly introduce the vortex.
The concept is clean, however. Time is not being *changed* per se, as it still exists, only now it will be travelling through the cylinder of space in a circular pattern, thus making it travel slower as it goes from one end of the cylinder to the other, as opposed to the conventional means of time travelling in a straight line.
One very interesting observation would be to observe how space will be affected, because space and time are interwoven and one cannot alter the framework of one portion without altering the other in a like fashion. If space can be *twsisted* into a tight coil, or a corkscrew figure, then it's POSSIBLE to be able to travel through the center of the resulting vortex.
In either scenario, space would be *compressed* and the time necessary to tranverse this space would be increased, and THEN long distance space travel would become a workable concept. In order to conceptualize the scenario, we need to first understand that space and time will both be altered the same. As time becomes altered inside the cylinder, so does space as well.
Now, instead of time passing straight through the cylinder from one end to the other, it needs to travel along the boundaries of the cylinder, thus slowing down it's rate of travel. Space will also be twisted in a like manner. To visualize this better, we need a space traveller of some sort.
Our *space traveller* for the scenario will be an ant and our *space* will be a 10 foot long strand of thin copper wire and the *time* will be the time our little space traveller needs to travel from one end of the wire to the other.
Travelling straight down the stretched out strand, let's say that it takes our traveller 10 hours to travel the distance of space. That's 1 foot per hour. Now, we take this same strand of wire and coil it around a stick which has a diameter of 1 inch and it's length is 1 foot. Then we send our space traveller on his journey once more. Now, instead of travelling round and round the coiled wire, our little space traveller now travels in a straight direction from one end to the other. He completes the journey in one hour, which is the same rate of speed that he travelled at the first time. Then, when he arrives at his goal, we stretch the wire out once more and our space traveller has effectively travelled 10 feet in one hour. Cool, huh?
The only foreseeable problem with the scenario is that once an object enters a vortex, the incredible pull of gravity naturally forces any and all objects in the center of the vortex to assume the gravitational pull of the vortex, and the vortex will then impart it's gravitational spin. This means that all objects will be spinning round and round at incredible velocities. That'd make for some VERY dizzy space travellers.
One *work around* to the problem would be to travel along the outer boundaries of the vortex, where the gravitational effect would be much less and thus more manageable, however the thrust of the vehicle would need to be sufficent in order to overcome the gravitational pull of the vortex itself. If the thrust were not sufficent, then the vehicle would tend to travel along the vortex in a corkscrew manner, thus nullifying the effects of shortening space/time and also making our space travellers puke.
Your friend;
LAMAR
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