Quote from: Sukey on June 26, 2013, 12:06 amQuote from: SelfSovereignty on June 25, 2013, 10:00 pmQuote from: TrashBox on June 25, 2013, 09:42 pmYou are awesome, SS ;)But this was a 2 part question, sir...I didn't have the power to save someone I loved very much the first time around, and I wouldn't have the power this time either... so that's no good. But I could fix all the mistakes I made over a very particular week; I wish I could live that one week again. I would have liked to see where life took me if I hadn't been quite so stupid and so drugged for those days...I think it would have been a good path to walk.Wouldn't that be quantum mechanics and the multiverse theory? But to come back to your earlier explanation of time traveling, wouldn't traveling along the edges of the universe grant an amplified effect of traveling forward in time? And then there are the theorized wormholes, where traveling through them would either pull your forward or back in time (To a specific point, not unlimited time travel) depending on the direction you travel in, along with a huge distance covered as the two planes fold over each other where the wormhole would act as a shortcut.To tedrux: Black holes are not wormholes.No, I was referring to something very specific. Had nothing to do with physics. Just some irrational mistakes I made during an important week. I shouldn't have been so fucked up... drugs aren't always good. Some people seem to forget that -- I certainly did that week.Yeah, I don't know much about what you're referring to... but you're right, I do remember some theories about wormholes that end at specific points in time. I really can't comment on that, I just don't remember anything I've read about them. The problem with worm holes is that they depend on absolute symmetry. By approaching one side of a worm hole, you disrupt that symmetry and the worm hole would collapse (so I read). That doesn't mean it's impossible, but it's certainly a tricky problem.I will say that no, I don't believe traveling at the edge of the universe would increase the time dilation effect. Although that kind of depends on what you're talking about, I mean the rest of the universe isn't in a single inertial reference frame -- everything is moving relative to everything else, soooo... I dunno, maybe it would increase the effect with respect to some reference frames but not others. That would only be because the difference in velocities would be even greater though, I think. I'm not sure. Frankly my brain kind of starts boggling when I try to think of the entire universe while factoring in relativity like that :PTime dilation also happens with extreme gravity. Same phenomenon. So here's a question for you people that I've never been able to come to a satisfactory conclusion about: what happens if you try to pull someone that's right outside a black hole (not past the event horizon) back out with a rope?What would happen? As you approach the black hole, time dilation becomes more and more extreme. The different parts of the rope are going to be experiencing time dilation at different rates. So the part nearest the black hole is going to be moving unbelievably slowly compared to the part way, way out where you've got somebody pulling on it (pretend it's Hercules pulling some unbreakable rope or something, whatever). But the part of the rope way, way out where you're pulling it is going to be moving very quickly in time as you pull it relative to the part the guy close to the black hole is holding on to.... so wtf happens as you pull the thing? I've never been able to figure it out. I suspect my problem is that I'm trying to fit time dilation into some modified intuitive sense of absolute time, and that there really isn't any paradox at all because there is no absolute time... but I've never really been sure.