The visible universe is made up of 4D particles, of whom we can only perceive a small, 3D cross-section. As with a 2D cross-section of a 3D object, the cross-section is only a small part of the whole, and likewise, the 3D cross-sections of the 4D particles that make up the universe are much smaller than the actual size of the 4D particles themselves. This is what Dark Matter is. Dark Matter is nothing more than the rest of the 4D particle that we cannot perceive. We can observe gravity, because it is a 1D effect, causing two particles, in the absence of other factors, such as inertia, to move toward each other in a perfectly straight line.
Time is a 5D fluid that is gathered by the gravity thrown off by the 4D particles, but has no gravity of it's own. The 4D particles are suspended within the 5D sea of Time-Fluid, and interact with each other, creating complex patterns, not entirely dissimilar to that of dust on the surface of a pond. These patterns make up everything that we perceive as matter and the universe in our 3D existence. As the amount of 4D particles increase, so does the amount of gravity they throw off, causing the 5D Time-Fluid to become more dense, and causing the pattern of particles suspended within it to move more slowly, much like the slowing of dirt suspended in cooling molasses. We perceive this as the slowing of time in environments of increased gravity.
This means that time travel is completely impossible, because time is merely the 5D fluid that the 4D particles that make up our universe are suspended in. Patterns continually shift within the Time-Fluid and are then gone. The Past no longer exists in any way, and likewise, the future does not exist. Time travel is impossible because time, as we perceive it, is merely the speed of shifting patterns within the 5D Time-Fluid.
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We don't know what dark matter is. All we know is that it's some substance which only interacts with normal matter through gravitational interaction. On top of that it definitely occupies 3D locations that don't correspond to the locations of visible matter. It's not "the rest" of anything.
We can observe gravity, because it is a 1D effect, causing two particles, in the absence of other factors, such as inertia
Both inertia and gravity are due to mass, you can't have gravity without inertia. It also doesn't make sense to talk about dynamic systems without inertia. Not in this universe.
What really interests me is what triggered the creation of all this nonsense. I mean, who needs to spend years studying physics when you can read Flatland, a poor explanation of General Relativity, and string theory and then jumble it all together into one big made-up pile of crap?
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(dark matter) definitely occupies 3D locations that don't correspond to the locations of visible matter.
This is the only actual point that you or anyone else out of the three forums I posted this on has brought up.
Thank you.
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What really interests me is what triggered the creation of all this nonsense. I mean, who needs to spend years studying physics when you can read Flatland, a poor explanation of General Relativity, and string theory and then jumble it all together into one big made-up pile of crap?
It has to do with having an imagination and enjoying speculation, and also to do with not having a tree shoved up my ass and prancing around like a giant know it all douchebag.
You might wanna get that looked at.
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You're actually quite a few dimensions off. It's thought that the universe contains 11 spatial dimensions. Time is another matter and should not be really thought of as a dimension. It also appears to be intrinsically conflated with at least the 3 spatial dimensions we know and love. In short: Time does some cool and strange things and actually works to simplify and smooth things over.
It is worth noting that Dark Matter (like Dark Energy) is actually just a discrepancy between our calculations and reality. A lot of theoretical physics is discovered through mathematics in this fashion. We know that something must be there to create this force, but we don't know exactly what it is. The maths can actually give us a good idea as to where to look for it and what it might be like, though.
This is why we're 'searching' for the Higgs Boson. We're not really searching for it because we know it's there. Math has lead us right to it. We merely want to observe it so we can confirm its existence.
It has to do with having an imagination and enjoying speculation
I just can't understand the need to do this when things that are actually true about the universe are interesting in themselves. Reality needs no embellishment. It's also not really speculation when it's demonstrably false.
We're not really searching for it because we know it's there.
That's the thing, we don't know that it's there. It's predicted by theory and if it doesn't actually exist, then we're going to have to adjust the theory. There are a number of alternative theories ready to take the place of the Higgs boson should it turn out to not exist.
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also to do with not having a tree shoved up my ass and prancing around like a giant know it all douchebag.
You might wanna get that looked at.
Look at the irony everyone!
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Actually, time travel is plausible, but i would be incredibly hard to do. This is because you cant get a rotating cylinder that spreads across the universe now? Although there may be methods we don't know about (as of yet.)
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We're not really searching for it because we know it's there.
That's the thing, we don't know that it's there. It's predicted by theory and if it doesn't actually exist, then we're going to have to adjust the theory. There are a number of alternative theories ready to take the place of the Higgs boson should it turn out to not exist.
Except you just know that if they don't find it, then everyone will say "looks like we'll need an even BIGGER collider, then!"
We're not really searching for it because we know it's there.
That's the thing, we don't know that it's there. It's predicted by theory and if it doesn't actually exist, then we're going to have to adjust the theory. There are a number of alternative theories ready to take the place of the Higgs boson should it turn out to not exist.
Except you just know that if they don't find it, then everyone will say "looks like we'll need an even BIGGER collider, then!"
It cant possibly be any bigger!
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One day, there will be someone who looks at my signature and wonders "who gives a damn?"
We're not really searching for it because we know it's there.
That's the thing, we don't know that it's there. It's predicted by theory and if it doesn't actually exist, then we're going to have to adjust the theory. There are a number of alternative theories ready to take the place of the Higgs boson should it turn out to not exist.
Except you just know that if they don't find it, then everyone will say "looks like we'll need an even BIGGER collider, then!"
The LHC is expected to operate at the 7 TeV range and the upper bound on the mass of the Higgs is somewhere around 200 GeV. This upper bound only applies if the standard model is actually correct, however. But still, if we can't pop it out from observations at the LHC a bigger collider isn't likely going to find it.
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I tried to read that with one breath, and had to stop in the last sentence. I disappoint myself. D=
Anyway, what do you mean that the universe is made of 4D particles? I thought there were 3 spatial dimensions in our universe, with time acting as the fourth dimension?
I need to get myself updated on the latest quantum doohickey theories, apparently.
Time travel is, if at all, only possible forward. If time travel would be possible backwards, it'd only cause paradoxes that render the time travel session non-existant.
it'd only cause paradoxes that render the time travel session non-existant.
That's assuming that you would actually have the freedom or capacity to change what you know has already occurred. Because, almost by definition, a paradox cannot occur then if reverse time travel were possible, your own choices and decisions would be limited to exactly those that would not result in a paradox. From your point of view it wouldn't be as if some physical force is preventing you from doing what you want, it would simply be that choices that would result in a paradox would never (and could never) occur to you.
Or backwards time travel isn't possible. It's definitely one of those two (yay, tautology).
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it'd only cause paradoxes that render the time travel session non-existant.
That's assuming that you would actually have the freedom or capacity to change what you know has already occurred. Because, almost by definition, a paradox cannot occur then if reverse time travel were possible, your own choices and decisions would be limited to exactly those that would not result in a paradox. From your point of view it wouldn't be as if some physical force is preventing you from doing what you want, it would simply be that choices that would result in a paradox would never (and could never) occur to you.
Or backwards time travel isn't possible. It's definitely one of those two (yay, tautology).
Multiple timelines are also good at removing most paradoxes.
The visible universe is made up of 4D particles, of whom we can only perceive a small, 3D cross-section. As with a 2D cross-section of a 3D object, the cross-section is only a small part of the whole, and likewise, the 3D cross-sections of the 4D particles that make up the universe are much smaller than the actual size of the 4D particles themselves. This is what Dark Matter is. Dark Matter is nothing more than the rest of the 4D particle that we cannot perceive. We can observe gravity, because it is a 1D effect, causing two particles, in the absence of other factors, such as inertia, to move toward each other in a perfectly straight line.
Time is a 5D fluid that is gathered by the gravity thrown off by the 4D particles, but has no gravity of it's own. The 4D particles are suspended within the 5D sea of Time-Fluid, and interact with each other, creating complex patterns, not entirely dissimilar to that of dust on the surface of a pond. These patterns make up everything that we perceive as matter and the universe in our 3D existence. As the amount of 4D particles increase, so does the amount of gravity they throw off, causing the 5D Time-Fluid to become more dense, and causing the pattern of particles suspended within it to move more slowly, much like the slowing of dirt suspended in cooling molasses. We perceive this as the slowing of time in environments of increased gravity.
This means that time travel is completely impossible, because time is merely the 5D fluid that the 4D particles that make up our universe are suspended in. Patterns continually shift within the Time-Fluid and are then gone. The Past no longer exists in any way, and likewise, the future does not exist. Time travel is impossible because time, as we perceive it, is merely the speed of shifting patterns within the 5D Time-Fluid.
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I am serious about this, it makes sense, from a non-linear, no-subjective point of view.
No it isn't.
We don't know what dark matter is. All we know is that it's some substance which only interacts with normal matter through gravitational interaction. On top of that it definitely occupies 3D locations that don't correspond to the locations of visible matter. It's not "the rest" of anything.
Both inertia and gravity are due to mass, you can't have gravity without inertia. It also doesn't make sense to talk about dynamic systems without inertia. Not in this universe.
What really interests me is what triggered the creation of all this nonsense. I mean, who needs to spend years studying physics when you can read Flatland, a poor explanation of General Relativity, and string theory and then jumble it all together into one big made-up pile of crap?
This is the only actual point that you or anyone else out of the three forums I posted this on has brought up.
Thank you.
It has to do with having an imagination and enjoying speculation, and also to do with not having a tree shoved up my ass and prancing around like a giant know it all douchebag.
You might wanna get that looked at.
It heals all of your goddamn hearts! - kittensamurai
It is worth noting that Dark Matter (like Dark Energy) is actually just a discrepancy between our calculations and reality. A lot of theoretical physics is discovered through mathematics in this fashion. We know that something must be there to create this force, but we don't know exactly what it is. The maths can actually give us a good idea as to where to look for it and what it might be like, though.
This is why we're 'searching' for the Higgs Boson. We're not really searching for it because we know it's there. Math has lead us right to it. We merely want to observe it so we can confirm its existence.
I just can't understand the need to do this when things that are actually true about the universe are interesting in themselves. Reality needs no embellishment. It's also not really speculation when it's demonstrably false.
That's the thing, we don't know that it's there. It's predicted by theory and if it doesn't actually exist, then we're going to have to adjust the theory. There are a number of alternative theories ready to take the place of the Higgs boson should it turn out to not exist.
Look at the irony everyone!
On topic:
Actually, time travel is plausible, but i would be incredibly hard to do. This is because you cant get a rotating cylinder that spreads across the universe now? Although there may be methods we don't know about (as of yet.)
Except you just know that if they don't find it, then everyone will say "looks like we'll need an even BIGGER collider, then!"
It cant possibly be any bigger!
The LHC is expected to operate at the 7 TeV range and the upper bound on the mass of the Higgs is somewhere around 200 GeV. This upper bound only applies if the standard model is actually correct, however. But still, if we can't pop it out from observations at the LHC a bigger collider isn't likely going to find it.
Anyway, what do you mean that the universe is made of 4D particles? I thought there were 3 spatial dimensions in our universe, with time acting as the fourth dimension?
I need to get myself updated on the latest quantum doohickey theories, apparently.
You heard that, green and red.
That's a good idea. Then you'll be able to see for yourself that the first post is just nonsense.
Perhaps, since you're the all-knowing-of-everything entity here, you could just give me a quick rundown yourself?
You heard that, green and red.
There's nothing I could say that you couldn't get from 5 minutes on Wikipedia.
That's assuming that you would actually have the freedom or capacity to change what you know has already occurred. Because, almost by definition, a paradox cannot occur then if reverse time travel were possible, your own choices and decisions would be limited to exactly those that would not result in a paradox. From your point of view it wouldn't be as if some physical force is preventing you from doing what you want, it would simply be that choices that would result in a paradox would never (and could never) occur to you.
Or backwards time travel isn't possible. It's definitely one of those two (yay, tautology).
Multiple timelines are also good at removing most paradoxes.