Top 3 Most Abstract Things to Explain

dcs937 · February 12, 2011, 3:47am

patrickcondon:

dcs937:

Rika-chan:

patrickcondon:

yoyomatt2:

patrickcondon:

I like this thread. I’ll contribute only one becasue I’m tired and don’t want to explain three…

Time Travel: Okay kids, lets travel three seconds back in time. Not that big of a deal, right? Wrong. In your journey through time, you have remained still in your reference frame. Meanwhile, during those three seconds, the Earth has been rotating under your feet. You’re not where you were “three” seconds ago. But wait, there’s more! The Earth rotates on it’s axis, while rotating around the sun, while the sun rotates inside our galaxy, while our galaxy mingles in our galactic neighborhood which is careening through space! We aren’t even considering the infentismal wobble casued by our moon! Go back three seconds in time and you’ll most likely end up suffocating in space thousands of miles away from earth. It’s not a tough topic to describe why it WOULDN’T work, but it is hard to think about how we could make it work. And that’s why it WON’T work.

but if you travelled into the future you would end up in space, and try not to suffocate while the earth tries to catch up to you by rotating around the sun. besides, getting past the atmosphere is almost impossible unless you move fast enough, but the impact from that speed would instantly kill you. time travell is just impossibe and thats all i need to know

There would be no impact with the atmosphere becasue essentially you are not moving. You are basically falling out of existence in one point in time and appearing (in our case) three seconds into the future. Lets say we are stanging in front of a brick wall, and when we reappear three seconds later we are behind it. We won’t actually impact the wall becasue 1) we technically didn’t have any velocity, and 2) we technically didn’t exist in the three seconds it took for the brick wall to pass by our location. Making sense?

Also, really the only way we could mess with the ray called “time” we would have to isolate ourselves from all other dimensions. The four dimensions in question are X, Y, Z, and T. There are considered to be more dimensions but I’m only going to focus on the ones humans can percieve. The universe is expanding in all 3 directional dimensions (XYZ) and is “traveling” on a ray called ‘T’, starting at the origin (0,0) and continuing forever towards (0,∞). We would need to isolate ourselves from the movement of XYZ in our universe by traveling through space in the exact opposite direction the universe is expanding. This would make us essentially standing still in terms of existance, but compared to the universe we would be moving. Only once we are isolated in the other three dimensions can we really begin to mess with T, becasue TECHNICALLY we would wind up in the same place, even though the universe has moved. Now keep in mind, in order to isolate ourselves, we have been rocketing away from Earth at an incredible velocity. It only really makes sense to travel into the past becasue we would pop up closer to the Earth (which presumably is where we want to go…). We wouldn’t want to travel to a point in time where the Earth is where we are when we blip, becasue that would be VERY bad (and very hot, not to mention very dead), but we could travel to anytime in the past when we would wind up between where we blipped and where the Earth is, and prehaps a little bit farther if we don’t mind traveling a bit to get back to Earth.

All in all, very very very annoying.

ahem not to be rude, as I love this kinda stuff, but, Shut up pat!!! lol. I agree with your sig… either way, awesome. You are deep pat.

These are all theories. I’ve also never heard that the universe expands in 1 direction. It would be constantly expanding in all directions. Also these are all in no way necessary to explain because any matter traveling anywhere close to the speed of light would be destroyed.

I DID say the universe expands in all directions, it does so in the first 3 dimensions XYZ. The last perceivable dimension, time, travels along a ray. Time can only go one direction last I checked.

T= curve

patrickcondon · February 12, 2011, 1:34pm

Uninterrupted Time = ray

That link is for our passage of time in our location, being Earth. Try reading the article instead of just looking at the pretty picture.

dcs937 · February 12, 2011, 6:03pm

You have contradicted yourself so many times… And no need to ginger snap at me :-X

patrickcondon · February 12, 2011, 8:36pm

Example?

dcs937 · February 13, 2011, 4:53am

only if you apologize for ginger snapping. plus I already gave one example you ignored.

Rika-chan · February 13, 2011, 5:23am

sigh its gonna be a flamefest…

patrickcondon · February 13, 2011, 3:45pm

I’m just gonna sit and let this cool.

sits

Oh, and I just realized we are having miscommunication and understanding difficulties in a thread about things that are hard to explain, which is totally hilarious.

oh, and I’m not apologizing 'cause I did nothing wrong.

dcs937 · February 13, 2011, 9:00pm

pretty ironic

Buddy_Jim · February 14, 2011, 7:30pm

Now just try and explain that. ;D

patrickcondon · February 14, 2011, 8:47pm

I love this thread.

Another thing that’s really hard to explain is the process of thought. Try putting THAT into words.

scarecrow1298 · February 18, 2011, 1:57am

snowflake formation (if I think on this too much my head hurts)
drum brakes (I can never retain how they’re dissasembled)
why the shoe fits

Rika-chan · February 21, 2011, 5:02am

BUMP! I love this thread

Rika-chan · February 21, 2011, 9:37pm

bumpzorz ftw

themaddoughnut · February 22, 2011, 12:43pm

1.blaarrrghhh!!!
2.shdsjshhhhhhh!!!
3.huhuhbuhuhu

YoyoGeezer · February 22, 2011, 5:08pm

fady:

Kristiawan:

koenigseggfire:

Islamic violence (religion of peace?)

Umm, I’m a moslem, and i think you should learn more.
no offense

anyway, for me
love
afterlife
joy

QFT
Am A Muslim Too and one of the easiest way o tell u that Islam IS Really The Religion Of Peace Is Samad He Is a Muslim and U Dont See Him Blow Up Him Self In His Yoyo Vids

Any who
Uhhmm
1.Why Do Teachers Care If We Did R Homeworks or Not ?!
2.People That Don’t Get It !
3.Why Do Some People HAVE to Be Mean ?!

djbcide:

How egypt turned off the internet

The Government Commanded All Internet Supplying Companies To Turn It Off

P.S.
I Am Egyptian And I Live In Egypt ;D

“BTW: Time Travel - perfectly real and easily explainable. Go at or near the speed of light for any period of time and you are time-traveling (forward) relative to your starting frame. Only works one way though.”

What Is The One Way ?

You can only move one way through time. Forward. There is nothing in physics I am aware of that forbids travel backwards - just no known mechanism described by physics that would allow travel backwards in time.

Buddy_Jim · February 24, 2011, 1:58pm

Ooh what about a number with billions of digits, but is also less than 4. It’s even mentioned in the Bible.

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