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Posted by Kelly Harris on February 25, 1999 at 19:31:35 in 209.12.199.81:
In Reply to: Re: Something that's Mark-related... posted by Chris on February 25, 1999 at 09:54:02:
What gets me is that you guys actually understood all that babble I typed...!!!
: : : The easiest way a time machine could concivably work would be for it to generate a massive gravity well. Anyone who knows can tell you that gravity will warp space. That's Einstein, fellas! A little relativity for ya. Now- the greater the gravity well, the more space is bent. The sun bends space twice as much as the Earth does. Under normal circumstances, distance is a constant and time is a variable (things in motion have slower clocks than things standing still). But when space is bent, time becomes the constant. By being in motion when a time machine is activated, instead of traveling a certain distance, you'd be traveling a certain time... which is why the time machine in OUATM was in motion everytime it time traveled.
: So did the DeLorean in BTTF. It was always in motion when it "Time Jumped". I seemed to have made that mistake with MEGAMAN X: THE WAR OF TIME; when ever X used his Time Slider to "Time Slide", he was standing still when he used it the first few times, then the rest of the tme, he was running. Any idea on how to explain that?
Easy! The planet X is standing on is in motion, so even if he's standing still... he's actually in motion.
: : : How would a machine produce such a massive gravity well, and why don't the occupants become chuncky salsa? Take your average quantum singularity. Very compact, very neat and clean, very gravity intensive. The forced negation of unequal matter will produce such a thing. Get a teeny amount of it going, and vwola! Quantum sungularity... aka... black hole. (Coincidentally- Star Trek TOS called them Black Stars before the phrase Black Hole was even coined) Now, if something falls inward to a big black hole, time slows down for them because since space is nolonger the constant (and time is now the constant) they are now moving through time and not space. Once an object has passed the event horizon (the distance from the center of the hole where everything is pulled in and escape is impossible), it disappears because light from it is no longer able to get to us. So a time machine vannishes because it passes it's own event horizon.
: The evidence of that is in ST:V; the second episode of the series, they ran into a quantum sigularity, and time was warped.
Didn't watch that particular episode... sorry. Yes I am a Trekker, I just haven't seen that episode.
: : : In the warp, speed is the constant, but at the ends, time is the constant. So you travel both distance and time, which is how we get time warps like the ones in OUATM.
: Actually, to reach Warp Speeds, speed, energy, and mass must be a constent. THat's Einstein.
I'm not talking about warp! I'm talking about time travel! Warp travel is Zephram Cochran's field! I'm just a meezly little half oriental with a SouthWest (America, not Asia) accent who's helping you with your new series...
Dammit! I'm an artist, not a professor! (bet ya thought this Trekker was going to say doctor, huh?)
