Time machine implies existence of God?
Victor Porton
Suppose some kind of time machine exists (it may be e.g. two connected
moving blackholes with wormhole between).
Suppose somebody want to use it to travel in the past when he was a
child and kill himself in the childhood.
If he would do it it would violate basic principles.
So something necessarily would disturb him to do it.
It looks like that the force which would disturb him to do it shall be
very clever. I suspect that this way we would deduce existence of God.
Can we put it in rigorous mathematical formulas, such as requiring
existence in physical reality a function which could solve any math
problem on its input? (We may think about a mathematician borrowing a
theorem from the future, so that there would be no man who proved the
theorem first, or something similar to find such a solving function, I
suspect.)
Also I suspect that something similar may be deduced from existence of
faster-than-light quantum teleportation (because it violated the
principle of causality in the sense of Relativity Theory).
So, can anybody formulate these physical theories in exact formulas
(about a "solving any problems" physical function)?
PD
First of all, it does no good to suppose something that violates known
laws of physics. If an event violates the laws of physics, then it
won't happen, and that's not because something clever stopped it.
Likewise, there is no such thing as a perpetual motion machine,
because that violates some laws of physics. This doesn't mean that
something clever has stepped in to keep a perpetual motion machine
from working.
Victor Porton
I am not a physicist. But I heard that two connected moving blackholes
with wormhole between can act as time machine. I'm not sure whether
this is true, but I suppose it may be true, based on opinion of some
physicists.
Also: AFAIK, quantum teleportation is a known fact. Can we deduce some
problem solving function from quantum teleportation? I just ask, I
don't know.
BURT
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Slow time takes you into the future of the universe (more rapidly.)
Mitch Raemsch
PD
I'm not sure where you've heard this. What is true is that there are
some conjectures about whether wormholes *might* permit this, but it
isn't clear whether the laws of physics permit it. I can assure you,
though, that the conjecture is not of the sort, "We believe that the
laws of physics permit it, but something ELSE is keeping it from
happening."
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> Also: AFAIK, quantum teleportation is a known fact. Can we deduce some
> problem solving function from quantum teleportation? I just ask, I
> don't know.
Quantum teleportation is a poor word used in Popular Science articles
to describe something that physicists call quantum entanglement. This
is no less interesting, and I do suggest you look into it, but what is
already known is that there is no faster-than-light signaling that is
going on in quantum entanglement. Quantum mechanics is completely
compatible with special relativity, and has been shown to be so since
1928, when Paul Dirac specifically made a fully relativistic quantum
explanation for observed behavior.
Victor Porton
What prevents passing faster-than-light signaling through quantum
entanglement? Please explain for a dilettante like me could
understand.
I have the idea (maybe stupid, I'm not a physicist) that quantum
entanglement creates two connected worlds (including even the
researchers which research quantum entanglement) which in a sense
mirror each other with similar (or connected) events (that in the case
if we split a photon into two different places).
PD
No, it's more prosaic than that.
Before quantum mechanics, we had believe that two objects were always
independent entities, such that if a change of state of one object
caused a change of state of the other object, then the only way this
could have happened is if there had been a signal of some kind passed
between them. That signal would be limited by the speed of light.
What quantum mechanics taught us is that it is perfectly possible for
two particles to comprise a *single* quantum state. Thus a change in
state is a change in both particles in the state without a signal
exchanged at all.
Einstein believed what I described two paragraphs ago, but he also
thought up the experimental test that would determine if he was right.
The experiments started to be done shortly after his death, and so he
never found out the evidence that showed him wrong.
Uncle Al
>
> I have the following rough idea:
Shield your bullshit meters or the're gonna blow!
> Suppose some kind of time machine exists (it may be e.g. two connected
> moving blackholes with wormhole between).
A third the way up its logarithmic dial already.
> Suppose somebody want to use it to travel in the past when he was a
> child and kill himself in the childhood.
>
> If he would do it it would violate basic principles.
>
> So something necessarily would disturb him to do it.
>
> It looks like that the force which would disturb him to do it shall be
> very clever. I suspect that this way we would deduce existence of God.
[snip rest of crap]
WHOMP! Gotta get me a digital bullshit meter with signal cutoff.
Hindus have 36 crores of gods - 360 million deities. Which one is in
charge of the tardis?
--
Uncle Al
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