Victor Grippi – The Atomic Writer

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Let’s examine some of the scientific theories involved in the examination of time travel. Remember, a theory is based on current observations and usually includes a mathematical model that describes the claims of the theory.

A new theory has emerged that claims to answer many questions that string theory falls short in. It is called MDT, or Moving Dimensions Theory.

According to Dr. Ranger McCoy, “Moving Dimensions Theory is in complete agreement with all
experimental tests and phenomena associated with special and general relativity. MDT is in complete agreement with all physical phenomena as predicted by quantum mechanics and demonstrated in extensive experiments. The genius and novelty of MDT is that it presents a common physical model which shows that phenomena from both relativity and quantum mechanics derive from the same fundamental physical reality.”

Let’s breakdown what we know so far:

RELATIVITY:

1) length contraction
2) time dilation
3) the equivalence of mass and energy
4) the constant velocity of light
5) the independence of the speed of light from the velocity of the source

QUANTUMN MECHANICS
1) action at a distance (quantum entanglement)
2) wave-particle duality
3) interference phenomena
4) EPR paradox

THERMODYNAMICS
1) Time’s arrow
2) Entropy

STRING THEORY’S MANY DIMENSIONS / KALUZA/KLEIN THEORY
1) a fourth expanding dimension can be interpreted as many dimensions, each time it expands

THE UNITY OF THE DUALITIES
1) wave/particle duality
2) time/space duality
3) energy/mass duality
4) E/B duality

GENERAL RELATIVITY
1) Gravitational redshift
2) Gravity waves
3) Gravitation attraction

THE SPACE-TIME BACKGROUND
1) quantum foam
2) the smearing of space and time at small distances
3) Hawking’s imaginary time

PARADOXES
1) MDT explains away Gödel’s Block Universe
2) MDT unfreezes time
3) Resolves Zeno’s Paradox

The Atomic Writer’s summary:
What I want you to get from this is that there are theories that do not rule out time travel. Travel in the forward direction is generally agreed without debate. However, travel back in time poses several problems that include a well known set of paradoxes. String theory, or MDT theory are attempts at rationalizing observations based on the advancing state of technology. As we peer deeper and deeper into the unknown, we sometimes have to throw out theories based on newly found data. New theories and mathematical models emerge to replace the old ones.

Einstein’s theory of relativity has stood the test of time for over a hundred years. Special relativity described the observable universe in a model called the space time continuum, replacing Newtonian theories that presented time as a linear entity stretching to infinity in both directions. Later, Einstein refined special relativity to include gravity, and this is called general relativity. Gravity is now described as warping or bending space/time and matter simply falls towards the mass that is creating the warp. A common analogy is placing a bowling ball on a mattress, the surface of the mattress depresses where the bowling ball sits. If you then take a baseball and roll it by the bowling ball, without touching it, you will see the baseball change course as if pulled towards the bowling ball. This is the core root of general relativity.

Einstein also discovered that time is based on how it is observed. To a person traveling at or close to the speed of light, time appears to move forward normally. To a stationary observer, however, time passes much much slower when compared to the person travelling at the speed of light. So if the traveler travelled for one year at the speed of light, the stationary observer would experience many years. Make sense?

Until next time…

Victor Grippi
The Atomic Writer