One cannot numb the pain by traveling back in time, it seems...
Turns out that a lot of stuff in Back to the Future Parts 1-3 was wrong.
posted by B.O.R.T. at 11:05 PM
Sunday, June 19, 2005
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I could numb the pain... possibly after I numb the pain from attempting to understand the mathematical formalities of that atricle. One section ends with ".... thus... [math]." I think what happened there was what typically happens: one ends up with a pile of different variable, operators, and things, then they say, "... thus, it must be true." I will just stick with the Back to the Future contradictions for simplicity.
Yeah, these guys were basically using some math frippery to augment their conclusion, which they perhaps reached prior to creating said math.
That said -- their premise, contained in the conclusion, is highly readable and interesting.
The only other interesting thing in their paper is the drawings of "time waves," related to their conclusions.
"... fuzzier time travel may still be possible." That is, when the angle phi is small. What this means for me is that there still may be a chance. There's no talk here of impossibility of time travel hardware, just the impossibility of the concept. It was even said that if one could in fact go back in time, they could not change anything. Well, I would rebutt that claim by saying that if I go back in time, how will I be stopped from making changes? Among other things, I plan to not drop that transformer part behind the stairs leading to the driveway. Sorry.
you did that on PURPOSE! i now know. but all is forgiven.
yes, their point is that once an event is set in motion, the time trajectory has been set. it all made sense to me a few nights ago... but now... not as much.
It illustrated the definition of physcis (quote Don Reeder, physics chair here and generally long-winded old guy)- "Looking at very simple things in a complicated way." That's what's going on here. Later we will hold a seminar to go over the math at a location to be determined by a mathematical formula I am currently developing.
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