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The secret to time travel revealed

  • 24-11-2015 03:35PM
    #1
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 374 ✭✭


    I've been hiding out away from humans for a little while and I think I have a formula for time travel that I wanted to share.

    Basically, time is a made up thingy all numbers and stuff right? And time is made based on the earths movements for day and night. right?

    The earth spins, but at what speed? In other words if you walked along with the speed of earth at exactly the same pace then time would stand still?

    But how can it stand still if days go by, in other words if you traveled at the same pace of time across earth days would still go by even though your travelling to the time dictated by earth.


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 2,400 ✭✭✭me_irl


    Th' f*ck you smokin' bud?


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 53,267 ✭✭✭✭GavRedKing


    I wish to subscribe to your newsletter......


  • Moderators, Arts Moderators Posts: 17,231 Mod ✭✭✭✭Das Kitty


    Joshua5 wrote: »
    I've been hiding out away from humans for a little while and I think I have a formula for time travel that I wanted to share.

    Basically, time is a made up thingy all numbers and stuff right? And time is made based on the earths movements for day and night. right?

    The earth spins, but at what speed? In other words if you walked along with the speed of earth at exactly the same pace then time would stand still?

    But how can it stand still if days go by, in other words if you traveled at the same pace of time across earth days would still go by even though your travelling to the time dictated by earth.

    Ah. Superman


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 28,400 ✭✭✭✭Turtyturd


    GavRedKing wrote: »
    I wish to subscribe to your newsletter......

    If you pull the key board away from his hands at the same speed his fingers move to hit the keys his newsletter doesn't exist.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 374 ✭✭Joshua5


    Turtyturd wrote: »
    If you pull the key board away from his hands at the same speed his fingers move to hit the keys his newsletter doesn't exist.

    actually only if I'm walking at the pace of the earth in the right direction of time. For that matter what is the right direction.... Like If I walked from now until I die will I stay the same age?


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  • Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 295 ✭✭mattaiuseire


    Joshua5 wrote: »
    I've been hiding out away from humans for a little while and I think I have a formula for time travel that I wanted to share.

    Basically, time is a made up thingy all numbers and stuff right? And time is made based on the earths movements for day and night. right?

    The earth spins, but at what speed? In other words if you walked along with the speed of earth at exactly the same pace then time would stand still?

    But how can it stand still if days go by, in other words if you traveled at the same pace of time across earth days would still go by even though your travelling to the time dictated by earth.

    So what's this formula?

    Thingy² >= numbers and stuff / 24 x 365?


  • Moderators, Regional Midwest Moderators Posts: 11,251 Mod ✭✭✭✭MarkR


    Joshua5 wrote: »
    actually only if I'm walking at the pace of the earth in the right direction of time. For that matter what is the right direction.... Like If I walked from now until I die will I stay the same age?

    Put down the pipe, and have a look at this.



  • Closed Accounts Posts: 3,478 ✭✭✭eeguy


    Joshua5 wrote: »
    I've been hiding out away from humans for a little while and I think I have a formula for time travel that I wanted to share.

    There are so many "No" and "Facepalm" memes on the internet, Grumpy Cat, Captain Picard etc etc.

    If AH let me post picture, I would post them all for that comment.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 33,778 ✭✭✭✭Princess Consuela Bananahammock


    Das Kitty wrote: »

    One of the biggest plot holes in cinematic history!

    The planet spinning in the opposite direction will not reverse time. Nor will what the OP suggests as he'll notice when he walks/swims across the International Date Line.

    Everything I don't like is either woke or fascist - possibly both - pick one.



  • Closed Accounts Posts: 2,611 ✭✭✭Valetta


    Joshua5 wrote: »
    I've been hiding out away from humans for a little while and I think I have a formula for time travel that I wanted to share.

    Basically, time is a made up thingy all numbers and stuff right? And time is made based on the earths movements for day and night. right?

    The earth spins, but at what speed? In other words if you walked along with the speed of earth at exactly the same pace then time would stand still?

    But how can it stand still if days go by, in other words if you traveled at the same pace of time across earth days would still go by even though your travelling to the time dictated by earth.

    There's your problem.


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 374 ✭✭Joshua5


    Valetta wrote: »
    There's your problem.

    Some humans aren't worth my time.... If I could walk the reverse pace to turn back time and never meet them I would


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,129 ✭✭✭eviltimeban


    Put a watch on a train, and watch time travel.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 3,950 ✭✭✭Mesrine65


    me_irl wrote: »
    Th' f*ck you smokin' bud?
    FYP :D


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,034 ✭✭✭mad muffin


    Predestination


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,063 ✭✭✭Greenmachine


    Get this man a scholarship to the space academy his brains are to good for this earth.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,362 ✭✭✭ChippingSodbury




  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 374 ✭✭Joshua5


    Get this man a scholarship to the space academy his brains are to good for this earth.

    I also have a theory that humans are the planets for germs and bacteria.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 4,436 ✭✭✭c_man


    You got it messed up OP. The earth is spinning, therefore to counter-act that you need to spin yourself but in the opposite direction of the planet. You don't need to do it too fast, a gradual spin of one revolution per day (but with your body roughly centered and standing) ought to do the trick.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 22,438 ✭✭✭✭endacl


    Sleep = time machine to bacon.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 34,809 ✭✭✭✭smash


    Way ahead of you OP. I'm actually typing this reply from tomorrow, in your time.


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 374 ✭✭Joshua5


    smash wrote: »
    Way ahead of you OP. I'm actually typing this reply from tomorrow, in your time.

    but if I start walking the pace of the earth revolving I won't get it because time will stand still


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 43,037 ✭✭✭✭SEPT 23 1989


    If you could jump high enough OP you would technically land back in the past as the earth keeps spinning forward into the future


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 4,436 ✭✭✭c_man


    OP why were you hiding out from humans?


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 374 ✭✭Joshua5


    If you could jump high enough OP you would technically land back in the past as the earth keeps spinning forward into the future

    actually I did consider this in my theory and I'm still undecided. Like although it would me a milli milli second once you move anywhere time changes right. In other words someone at the end of the road is in a different time than you. Because the earth is subdivided into time zones and you can further filter it down if you wish...


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 374 ✭✭Joshua5


    c_man wrote: »
    OP why were you hiding out from humans?

    Because I recently lost my faith in humanity...


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 43,037 ✭✭✭✭SEPT 23 1989


    c_man wrote: »
    OP why were you hiding out from humans?

    He is afraid of his formula being stolen


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 34,809 ✭✭✭✭smash


    Joshua5 wrote: »
    but if I start walking the pace of the earth revolving I won't get it because time will stand still
    You can't walk at that pace. You need a rocket pack like I have.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,321 ✭✭✭circadian


    Was hoping for a Titor-esque thread.

    Got a terrible re-hash of one of the worst movie plots ever.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 374 ✭✭Joshua5


    He is afraid of his formula being stolen

    My time travel can make you forget this ever happened.....


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 20,695 ✭✭✭✭kneemos


    Joshua5 wrote: »
    actually I did consider this in my theory and I'm still undecided. Like although it would me a milli milli second once you move anywhere time changes right. In other words someone at the end of the road is in a different time than you. Because the earth is subdivided into time zones and you can further filter it down if you wish...


    The end of your road gets darker earlier.
    I suggest selling lightbulbs.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 4,436 ✭✭✭c_man


    Joshua5 wrote: »
    Because I recently lost my faith in humanity...

    Nonsense. Think about it man, humans are the only species in the universe to master time travel.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 374 ✭✭Joshua5


    c_man wrote: »
    Nonsense. Think about it man, humans are the only species in the universe to master time travel.

    Or to invent a theory of time when time actually never exists...


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 9,622 ✭✭✭Ruu


    Shut up and take my money!


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,321 ✭✭✭circadian


    Joshua5 wrote: »

    Basically, time is a made up thingy all numbers and stuff right?

    Your understanding of quantum mechanics must have Hawking bricking it.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,091 ✭✭✭Antar Bolaeisk


    You'd only get one day, after that time would carry on as normal.

    The easier thing for you to do would be to stand on one of the poles and experience all of time at once (By your logic of course, which bears no correlation to reality).


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 19,306 ✭✭✭✭Drumpot


    One of the biggest plot holes in cinematic history!

    The planet spinning in the opposite direction will not reverse time. Nor will what the OP suggests as he'll notice when he walks/swims across the International Date Line.

    This is a movie about a superhuman alien being flying around in space without a spacesuit making the earth spin a different direction. .

    Do you honestly think the plothole is that it wouldn't really work in real life? :D


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 374 ✭✭Joshua5


    You'd only get one day, after that time would carry on as normal.

    you see thats the thing that makes time fake... if you kept up with the pace it shouldn't change but if you let the pace pass you by then it does...


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 3 Arseland


    One of the biggest plot holes in cinematic history!

    That's what I used to think as well. What's really happening is that the reversal of the Earth's rotation is supposed to be what Superman would see as he went back through time as he flew faster than light.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 19,306 ✭✭✭✭Drumpot


    Arseland wrote: »
    That's what I used to think as well. What's really happening is that the reversal of the Earth's rotation is supposed to be what Superman would see as he went back through time as he flew faster than light.

    Not to be all nerdy, but as far as I understand, within the laws of physics time travel is possible but not necessarily in the way we understand it. Black holes and ridiculously fast speeds are connected.

    I remember seeing a documentary trying to explain it. It was something on the lines that if you had a train track all around the earth. If a train could travel at the fastest possible speed, time would slow down for those on the train. So for example, the people on the train, going around the world at ridiculous speeds for 10 years, might only age by 5 years.

    When the train stops it feels like its been only 5 years to those getting off the train, but for everybody else its actually been 10 years. So you might be 5 years younger then people your same age when you started the journey!


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 3 Arseland


    Yeah, time slows down the closer you get to the speed of light, about 670 million miles per hour. If you could somehow get past the light barrier and go faster than light you *might* travel backwards through time. Maybe. Although it would take an infinte amount of energy to accelarate up to those speeds.


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 374 ✭✭Joshua5


    Arseland wrote: »
    Yeah, time slows down the closer you get to the speed of light, about 670 million miles per hour. If you could somehow get past the light barrier and go faster than light you *might* travel backwards through time. Maybe. Although it would take an infinte amount of energy to accelarate up to those speeds.

    You might travel back in time? But time is just numbers. You will age... you won't stay the same. But time is just numbers....


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 2,611 ✭✭✭Valetta


    Joshua5 wrote: »
    You might travel back in time? But time is just numbers. You will age... you won't stay the same. But time is just numbers....

    If there were no numbers , there would still be time, and hurling matches.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,022 ✭✭✭jamesbere


    Valetta wrote: »
    If there were no numbers , there would still be time, and hurling matches.

    Hurling is the key, if you puck a ball fast enough around the world you'll send the earth spinning backwards and thus travelling back in time. Someone get davey Fitz


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 5,191 ✭✭✭Eugene Norman


    Drumpot wrote: »
    Not to be all nerdy, but as far as I understand, within the laws of physics time travel is possible but not necessarily in the way we understand it. Black holes and ridiculously fast speeds are connected.

    I remember seeing a documentary trying to explain it. It was something on the lines that if you had a train track all around the earth. If a train could travel at the fastest possible speed, time would slow down for those on the train. So for example, the people on the train, going around the world at ridiculous speeds for 10 years, might only age by 5 years.

    When the train stops it feels like its been only 5 years to those getting off the train, but for everybody else its actually been 10 years. So you might be 5 years younger then people your same age when you started the journey!

    That's standard special theory of relativity.

    In fact GPS satellites have to compensate for that (and the general theory where gravity also affects time).


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,166 ✭✭✭Fr_Dougal


    Joshua5 wrote: »
    I've been hiding out away from humans for a little while and I think I have a formula for time travel that I wanted to share.

    Basically, time is a made up thingy all numbers and stuff right? And time is made based on the earths movements for day and night. right?

    The earth spins, but at what speed? In other words if you walked along with the speed of earth at exactly the same pace then time would stand still?

    But how can it stand still if days go by, in other words if you traveled at the same pace of time across earth days would still go by even though your travelling to the time dictated by earth.

    Ever thought about entering the Young Scientist competition?


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 24,465 ✭✭✭✭darkpagandeath


    Space and time are moving the earth is moving the solar system is moving our galaxy is moving. If you did actually time travel you would end up in space or in an object but defiantly not on the earth in 200 years.


  • Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 12,877 Mod ✭✭✭✭riffmongous


    Joshua5 wrote: »
    You might travel back in time? But time is just numbers. You will age... you won't stay the same. But time is just numbers....
    Here you go OP, this might interest you regarding the aging

    https://teachers.web.cern.ch/teachers/archiv/hst2000/teaching/expt/muoncalc/lifecalc.htm


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 16,096 ✭✭✭✭the groutch


    We already know the secret to time travel
    the flux capacitor


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 2,681 ✭✭✭Fleawuss


    Join IS. It's the 7th century folks!


  • Moderators, Education Moderators Posts: 26,403 Mod ✭✭✭✭Peregrine


    Joshua5 wrote: »
    Basically, time is a made up thingy all numbers and stuff right? And time is made based on the earths movements for day and night. right?
    Joshua5 wrote: »
    Or to invent a theory of time when time actually never exists...
    Joshua5 wrote: »
    You might travel back in time? But time is just numbers. You will age... you won't stay the same. But time is just numbers....

    No.

    Your homework is to read about special relativity.

    I want a two page essay about it on my desk tomorrow morning with special emphasis on time dilation and Lorentz transformations.


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