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Grant Schoep <bi...@vax1.bemidji.msus.edu> wrote in article
<32F959...@vax1.bemidji.msus.edu>...
> Scott D. Spangler wrote:
> > 
> > Mel Matthies <mel.ma...@sasktel.sk.ca> wrote in article
> > <32F5DB...@sk.sympatico.ca>...
> > > There have been some interesting theories on tachyons.  Because they
> > > travel faster than the speed of light, they mathematically travel
> > > forward or backward in time as well.  Anyone who remembers their high
> > > school physics can recall the equations that you use to calculate how
> > > far an object travels given it's speed and acceleration over a given
> > > period of time.  Well, if you were to turn those equations around,
you
> > > can see that time actually doesn't go forward, everthing else (the
> > > universe for lack of a better word) moves either forward or backward
in
> > > relation to time.
> > 
> > The theory of Tachyons come from Einstein's gravitational equations,
which,
> > if arranged properly, show that any particles traveling faster than
light
> > travel backwards through time.  This doesn't mean that the particles
> > actually exist.  One problem with their existence is conservation of
mass
> > and energy and the big bang theory.  Assuming the latter theory to be
> > correct, which says the universe was created from a singularity,
tachyons
> > could not exist because they would increase the net energy of the
universe.
> Um. maybe since Tacyons go backward in time, some where in the future
> the universe ceases to exist, and it converts all matter and light in to
> the energy known as Tacyons, and that travels back in time to the
> begining of the unvibers(Big Bang?) and focuses on the singularity,
> causing its original expolsion in the first place, just like Nature's
> big cycle of everything. Hehe ok this probabaly doesn't make any sense,
> but I just made it up.

Actually, it makes pretty good sense to me.

Perhaps time travel is possible after all.