Tuesday, April 17, 2012

Eliminating Time from the Space-Time Contiuum

While observing the skies and pondering the mechanics of gravity I believe I answered a question, at least in my own mind, as to how things something like Anti-Gravity or traveling to the stars could work. I realized that things that we observe happen over time and if you could remove time from the equation however everything would appear to happen instantaneously. Two observations I made from the lounge chair in my backyard were how gravity held me to the chair and how long an airplane overhead took to cross the sky. If I was able to step outside the space-time continuum gravity would have no effect. I could push up from my chair, go right to the moon or go right to my computer chair upstairs. You see, while outside this continuum you mitigate all of the bearing factors. For example, anything that happens "over time" such being held down by gravity, or the plane traveling. While outside the continuum the plane would effectively be at it's destination instantaneously because there is no travel time. I'm no scientist but to me this makes sense and it answers a question as to how a ship could travel vast distances in space without affecting the timeline it lives in. Einstein would have you believe that time slows down as you approach the speed of light. It never stops completely and it never stops for everyone else. This causes a major problem using light speed of FTL travel in general. Everyone else ages at an incredible rate, so much that the travelers wouldn't be part of a society because they can't carry on meaningful relationships with those they left behind or those they go to visit. Stepping outside the time continuum allows the travelers to go and comeback instantly, or to travel back and forth at least instantly. In fact it would take no time at all to travel anywhere in the universe and the only time lost would be the actual time spend once the continuum is re-entered. Accomplishing this task is beyond the scope of my mind but I can relate it to our state consciousness. For me, when I spend sleeping at night is not perceivable. To me it seems like I've skipped that time between when I go to bed and when I awake. To me that's a reasonable example of what it would be like. It's possible that this could only happen through states of consciousness and it makes me think of the term "bending space and time with your mind" which is a concept that I don't fully understand. Sorry I haven't fully thought out this article just wanted to get the thoughts down on paper.