User:Dessydes/Space, Time, and Spacetime

The title is pretty self-explanatory, right? Well mostly. This is for the most part about time. It contains stuff from a book, stuff I came across from other media, and some of my own thoughts. For some of these reasons, not everything here is suitable for Wikipedia. However, I intend to clearly label whatever comes from my head, as well as any paraphrasings (which I've not yet done, just so you know), and I'm also not going to contribute to any articles on this subject. This is mainly for other users who interested in the subject, those who wish to get a birds-eye third person perspective, and also for me to collect and put down my thoughts on the subject. Dessydes 23:53, 12 August 2006 (UTC)

Miscellaneous

• Time Traveler Convention
• Time reversal invariance

Teleportation and Time Travel

Teleportation is the movement of an object through three dimensional space from one point to another without traversing the space inbetween. Time travel is the movement of an object through the fourth dimension (time) in an abnormal manner, i.e. backward in time, or at an accelerated rate forward in time. Some theories allow for both simultaneously.

Methods of Teleportation

• The Casimir effect - This is a sort of "gateway" theory similar to the Stargate.
• Entanglement - This is similar to the "transporter" of Star Trek.
• Worm holes - So named, because the best way to describe in laymen's terms is to think of a worm on an apple. This method has been proposed to travel both time and space. The best example of this is in Sliders.

Temporal phenomena in fiction (for lack of a better title)

Movies

• Click
• Groundhog Day - An example of eternal recurrence.

Time Travel in Fighting Games

Here's three games whose plots revolve around time travel:

• Eternal Champions
• Time Killers
• World Heroes

Physicists and their time machines

• Kip Thorne, Igor Novikov, and Sergey Krasnikov all vouch for wormholes as a viable means of travelling through time.
• J. Richard Gott has a theory involving the heavy gravity of two cosmic strings passing near each other to create a gap in space-time.
• Frank Tipler has a theory that a vast (near infinite) rotating cylinder, if travelled through, could serve as a tunnel through time.
• Ronald L. Mallett has a similar frame dragging theory that involves rotating light to create a tunnel through time. Proffessor Mallett is currently building a working model to test his theory.

Bibliography

• Title: Introducing: Time Author: Craig Callender ISBN 1-84046-592-1

External Links

• Time on the Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy
• Time travel and modern physics in the Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy
• Time travel website.