A noob's explanation to time travel..

Mr. blogger.com is the most considerate guy I have ever met.

I mean, who will keep a dead rat in his house for years? No one!

But look at him....!

He has allowed my blog site to be hanging in there.., alive..., even after 8 years of total, complete, absolute inactivity .. 

Thank you, buddy!

I promise, I won't be this lazy again!!  (btw, u r not monitoring unusual activities in blog sites, right? Don't do that!)

Anyways...

Let me admit this.

I have issues with content creation. 

And to keep my word that I have given to blogger, today I will copy paste something...., from somewhere..., written by someone... uhmm, No...! That's illegal...,written by me...,  sometime..., something..., somewhere.... 

So, somewhere....., it was midnight. Someone was not feeling sleepy. His mind was wandering. Wondering who that someone is? Come'on, its my blog. I am the hero of this space and its MY mind that was wandering!! My mind was so alert that time yet it was working on nothing. And that's a terrific feeling....It was so awfully terrific that I really wished an apple to fall on my head. But apples were expensive and we never even played with them. We only ate them. We either sliced them into four or we....we....We...???!

Where were we?! Yeah, midnight. 

And all I could do was to make sure that the clock ticks were happening exactly once in every second. 

In that awfully terrific moment, I could find out the following.

1. In a quiet room, one's heart beat is always louder than the clock ticks.

2. There is always only one heart beat between two clock ticks.

3. Between those two ticks, the point at which the heart beat occurs moves back and forth, like a pendulum.

4. In a random event of two heart beats happening within the time slot of two clock ticks, the probability of 4 or 5 beats happening very soon in an adjacent slot is like almost certain. (that aches!)

I continued..., and after counting the heart beats to some 299792+ numbers, it started feeling like once in every hour. 

No apples yet.   

And then it fell on my head. 

No, not an apple. They were still expensive.They just don't fall on your head.., naturally, normally, for nothing. My wife is still sleeping!

Facts apart.., what fell on my head was a FaceBook post!

A post about time travel. 

A post in which this guy was wondering about how it is possible to travel in time.

I decided to provide a layman explanation to him about how travelling backward in time happens as a side effect of travelling faster than light. 

I commented on his post, my solid argument. Argument that was simple, beautiful and truly impressive..., from a truly layman's perspective. It was so impressive, I even gave a standing ovation to myself!

And I slept peacefully later that night.

So, Today I am planning to copy paste my time travel theory here, so that you can read it, understand it and sleep peacefully the rest of your life... ;)

Presenting Proudly.., 

A Noob's explanation to Time Travel...

(Disclaimer: IQ300+ information, Read it only when you are sleepy.)

Consider two points in space, A and B separated by a distance S.

The distance S is a constant, as long as A and B are two fixed points.

And the distance, S = velocity, v x time, t

S = v x t.

Now, if velocity v = c, the speed of light, 

S = c x t', and t' is the minimum needed value of time to travel from A to B.

Now let's assume, you are travelling faster than c, say c'.

Theoretically this is not possible as c, the velocity of light is the max limit of velocity any particle with some mass can attain.

So....., the only possible way we can achieve a velocity c' is by bending space so that S become S', which is less than S.

Difficult to imagine bending of space? Well, Space is often treated like an elastic sheet, which can be stretched or compressed. For simplicity, lets consider a white paper, with two dots A and B marked on it, the distance between them being S. Now, bending space is like bending this paper, and now you have a shorter distance S' between A and B. 

But to travel along this shorter route, you have to jump out of the "paper", or you have to leave the physical reality of your world and  into a virtual reality....,uhmm...., somewhere out there.. This is the so called parallel universe. The rules in the parallel universe is totally different than what we are experiencing here in our physical realm. 

OK. Let's leave that for now. 

Our question is time travel, right?! 

Let's focus on that....

Now, imagine S is 0, i.e, point A and B are the same. 

Coinciding, if you really want to have some technical jargon . 

Then, S = c x t, becomes,

0 = c x t, which means t = 0. Whatever u experience in your life at this moment, is...is, at time t= 0..

So, t = 0, is your "Now"

Now.........

What if velocity becomes c'?

0 = c' x t. 

Which means, 

0 = c' x 0?????

NO!

That's an easy approach. That's 10th grade math. We don't need it here. We need PG math!

In PG, we will introduce a "negative time" to balance the equation.

0 = c' x ( t + -t).

0 = c't + (- c't).

So......, now........., there are two of you! One in the normal time, you in your physical reality, in your "present now" and another one, a virtual you in your "past now"! 

Things are getting interesting here..

There are two cases.

1. When t = 0.

At t = 0, your "present now" and "past now" are the same. You are moving along with the time. There is only one you. No time travel!

2. When t ! =0.

Now, this is possible only when S != 0.

So, how can we do this by being at the same place? 

Take a circle trip in your time machine!!

If you can manage this, You will split into two and one of you will move into the past and the other will move into the future...By controlling S, you can decide, the year where you want to be.

Assuming you did just that,

Your virtual self will meet your real self in the past and he can help him write exams better by leaking the question papers, tell you new and interesting ways of screwing up your already screwed life....

Or, your virtual self can move into the future, see how screwed up you are in the future...,come back to the present and then think about new and interesting ways of screwing up your life once again..., and so on.

Well, endless possibilities...

The same is true, even when S !=0 and A and B are different points. At B, one will be in the past and one will be in the future.

Now, the guy who moved into the past will become the real guy as he is there first. If we had adjusted S in such a way so that t is only a couple of days, then well.....

Another endless possibilities.... ;)

So, that's it. 

You just learned how time travel is possible!!! 

Do you "now" want to travel back in time and undo the 5 mins that got wasted?? Let me know...!

Let me also know whatever logical issues you can find in this post so that I can kill you before you even started reading this post in the firs place! :-/)

Finally, I am counting on Mr.Blogger.com here, hoping that he will keep this post till eternity. And your comments.

Signed,

Sreeram R Warrier (Ok, I admit. I drank too much that day) ;-)