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Re: Lightspeed constant...

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From: Erstatt med medarbeiderens FULLE...
Date: Tue, 11 Feb 1997 00:00
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Derek Steele wrote:
> 
> Scott D. Spangler wrote:
> >
> > 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.
> 
> Yup!

Didn't Einstein prove that it's possible (in theory)?
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From: Erstatt med medarbeiderens FULLE navn <INIT...@ngi.no>
Subject: Re: Lightspeed constant...
Date: 1997/02/11
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