Lumi's Batshit Insane Thread
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jayrebb
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There was an experiment with speed of light that basically proved you cannot time travel I remember. I forget the specifics. All I know is one of them remarked in his closing comments "Its as if God designed this thing to specifically not be able to do that". They were creeped out by the lack of expected result and the hard stop they hit. It was eerie to them at the time. I'm sure physicists have adjusted their theories and its not so creepy any more, but back then it was.
Wish I could remember the name of it or had a link off hand.
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Lumi
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I mean to me it seems obvious that time travel isn't possible, seems pretty common sense. It's not like a body of water or land or air that physically exist and can be traveled through and upon. Time is a man made system, not a tangible object.
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moonarchia
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Barron coming back in time to help his dad is all the proof we'll ever need.
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pharmakos
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Ukerric
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There was a very good PBS video in which they explain that we shouldn't talk about the speed of light, but the speed of causality. That is, the speed at which a cause somewhere can have an effect elsewhere. Most of physics is impossible is there is no maximum speed of causality.
Most of the "but why does relativity looks weird" becomes more easily understandable if you think in terms of causality rather than light.
The consequence of having a speed of causality is, of course, that you can't have time travel, because you need not only a negative speed of causality, BUT also an infinite speed of causality...
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Caliane
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While time travel probably isn't possible, it's not because it's a "man made system" that can't be travelled through, which is just nonsensical.
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Ukerric
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Not to mention grammar (sometimes, the fact that I'm not a native speaker comes around and bites my ass)
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Caliane
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probably this one.
I was looking for a vid I had seen on the speed of light gating, gravity wells, relativity. etc. couldnt find it. but this looks like the one you were talking about.
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Lumi
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Ya I meant to say a man made concept, not system. Also, time travel definitely isn't possible, not probably.
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Adebisi
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Cybsled
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Ahh...idiocy and money. Even people thousands of years ago knew you avoided regular, untreated water in nature when possible unless they had verified the source was safe.
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Skanda
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That would be Raw + Probiotic. The best of both worlds merged into a super health water. You'll be able to charge $8-10 per liter for that shit.
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