Everyone here is familiar with one-dimensional, linear-based time travel. Most of you are so ingrained in that concept, along with all its seeming paradoxes, and arguments about physics; that you spend your time theorizing about time machines that would work within that asymmetrical, crippled view of time and never stop to consider that quite possibly the temporal mechanics associated with that concept could be fundamentally WRONG. ... but I'm sure the science fiction writers who write such books are making a FORTUNE off of you! Time travel physics caught up with you a LONG time ago, so stop looking for your answers in science fiction books and take a look at what REAL physicists are doing (and saying)!
Temporal mechanics is the study of the nature of time (and ultimately time travel). Contrary to what you may have read in your science fiction books it NOT a specific science or a branch of physics, but instead a branch of PHILOSOPHY. The study of temporal mechanics is something that is open to people from a variety of fields including not only physics, but mathematics, computer science and even includes consciousness studies. As lead scientist, Anthony Pittuco of "The Association of The Study of Time in Physics and Cosmology", (SASTPC) so eloquently put it "Who will rescue time from the physicists?" Over 100 years after General Relativity and 80 years after Quantum Mechanics, we still don't have Unification! Why???? Could it be that our notions of time are WRONG?
Machine based time travel may work with one-dimensional, linear time, but the human mind does NOT! Finite State Automata, which is based on non-linear math, is often used in connection to projects dealing with Artificial Intelligence; and neural networks which are used to model the human brain are also based on non-linear math.
Consciousness Studies have to do with the study of human consciousness in relationship to time and space, and most of the research is lead by a group of QUANTUM physicists, along with a couple pf medical doctors. The group of physicists includes: Dean Radin, Amit Goswami, Fred Alan Wolf, and John Hagelin (technically high energy physics) along with a few others. The prominent medical doctors working in this field include. Stuart Hameroff and Robert Lanza; who is best known for his book on "Biocentrism". For those familiar with it, you quickly think: "Who needs a time machine, when the human mind actually CREATES time and space?"
Most of the work that psions have been experimenting with, regards to time travel is connected to Scalar (Tesla based) physics, and while OK, it may not be the OPTIMAL way to do things, considering the outside practical limit for scalar based psionic time travel, (excluding the "Gibbs" device) appears to be about 2 weeks. Non-linear time travel may sound "wild and crazy", but ultimately could offer many more possibilities for PEOPLE to time travel, once you understand how it works. (I don't think it's possible for machines to do this because they are limited by Heisenberg, while strongly I suspect human consciousness is NOT). It's based on QUANTUM physics. I'll also be introducing some resources regarding current research into multi-dimensional time - YES, by REAL scientists! (which people are free to follow up on)
To illustrate, I offer up this fictional tale (along with a detailed explanation from Steve) in terms you can relate to:
You are very glad to have among your friends "Joe Linear" and "Steve Non-Linear" who each have built time machines in their garage and are both inviting you to try them out! Each machine comes equipped with a "stasis field" to keep you from interacting with the target time, and an invisibility field, to keep the machine from being seen. Each machine also comes equipped with a transparent screen so you can view what is happening and both Joe and Steve promise you a "safe trip home". (you will not "disembark")
The first week you go on over to Joe's... In Joe's machine are the controls you are accustomed to, including a chronometer, which tells you which year you are currently passing through. You both get in and Joe sets the target date to: August 2, 1971. As the machine begins its journey back through time, you see Joe's garage slowly pass through the years. First you see Joe's garage as it was last year, then the year before... and so forth..Finally, you see Joe's Garage as it was on August 2, 1971 and the chronometer says August 2, 1971. You look for a couple of minutes, then Joe reverses the controls and brings you back to the present. You thank Joe and go back home.
The next week Steve invites you to HIS garage to try out HIS machine.
"Aw come on Steve", you complain "If you've seen one time machine, you've seen them ALL, besides, I'm too exhausted from all the time traveling I did LAST week!"
Steve, (former computer science major, quantum fanatic, and returning student in philosophy; doing his dissertation on "non-linear time"), replies: "You've NEVER seen anything like this before! I promise you a VERY exciting and exotic trip!"
Reluctantly, you agree. Steve's machine looks very similar to Joe's from the outside with a few minor differences; the most notable one being a display that says "0%" in the place where the chronometer was in Joe's machine.
You both get in and again Steve sets the target date to August 2, 1971. As the machine starts up, a strange thing begins to happen.... Different parts of Steve's Garage actually start TRANSFORMING into their target date counterparts. The transformations start appearing randomly in different parts of the garage. Things that weren't there in 1971 disappear, and things that WERE, start appearing. As all of that is going on you notice that the percentage meter is slowly rising. Each time you look, the garage looks more and more like it did "back then". You see the percentage meter read 99.99% (bar). The date August 2, 1971 flashes 3 times, and you hear a small bell that sounds like a microwave timer go "ding". You've "arrived". You look for a couple of minutes, then Steve reverses the controls and brings you back to the present.
When you get back, you're not sure whether to describe your experience as "Mr. Toad's wild ride" or an acid trip! Extremely confused, you ask Steve "What IS that thing? What happened???? How does it WORK????!!!!"
Steve begins to explain: "The machine is based on principles of quantum physics and multi-dimensional time. Multi-dimensional time was first postulated by philosopher Gavin Wince. Unfortunately, although he was apparently right, he was quite a dissagreable fellow so no one paid him or his ideas any attention. Fortunately though, now a group of Russian physicists have followed up with his concepts of 3 dimensional time using mathematics developed by Roger Penrose. They are now actively conducting EXPERIMENTS that seem to indicate the existence of multi-dimensional time. There is SPACE-TIME SYMMETRY GRASSHOPPER!
The second part of that is the quantum portion. What you are seeing is the following: Each point in this multi-dimensional time is being "mapped" to a specific alternate reality, ie a different result for the collapse of the wave function (which is quite possibly reversible). You might say that you are looking at different "branches of time" that exist in these higher dimensions of time. These "branches" of time can be separated by as little as "one instant of Planck time". The % probability is the probability that the reality you are looking at matches the reality of the target time and space. You can view the machine as doing a series of "sideways micro jumps" in time using these higher dimensions of time. It's constantly adjusting itself (like a computer program). All these "other realities" already exist in the "quantum soup". All you have to do is access them. I think they are "hiding" in these dimensions of time that we are just now starting to become aware of. That's what I'm researching. The concepts of the mystics, such as: All moments in time exist simultaneously or that "Everything exists in the "NOW"" are the basic philosophical principles behind non-linear time, and tie in very nicely with quantum physics. So much so, that apparently folks like Brian Greene are talking about them. What you've just seen is the way a human mind most likely WORKS, so you've experienced time travel the way a human mind would and could do it for stretches of time outside of say.. two weeks. I don't understand it completely (which is the reason I'm working on the supporting theory), but what I DO know is that it WORKS, as I've watched my friends having these types of experiences, although on a very reduced scale and writing about them. Sometimes experience precedes theory.
Steve offers you a chair and a glass of water, while you recover from the shock and strangeness of it all. Afterwards you thank Steve and return home.
Temporal mechanics is the study of the nature of time (and ultimately time travel). Contrary to what you may have read in your science fiction books it NOT a specific science or a branch of physics, but instead a branch of PHILOSOPHY. The study of temporal mechanics is something that is open to people from a variety of fields including not only physics, but mathematics, computer science and even includes consciousness studies. As lead scientist, Anthony Pittuco of "The Association of The Study of Time in Physics and Cosmology", (SASTPC) so eloquently put it "Who will rescue time from the physicists?" Over 100 years after General Relativity and 80 years after Quantum Mechanics, we still don't have Unification! Why???? Could it be that our notions of time are WRONG?
Machine based time travel may work with one-dimensional, linear time, but the human mind does NOT! Finite State Automata, which is based on non-linear math, is often used in connection to projects dealing with Artificial Intelligence; and neural networks which are used to model the human brain are also based on non-linear math.
Consciousness Studies have to do with the study of human consciousness in relationship to time and space, and most of the research is lead by a group of QUANTUM physicists, along with a couple pf medical doctors. The group of physicists includes: Dean Radin, Amit Goswami, Fred Alan Wolf, and John Hagelin (technically high energy physics) along with a few others. The prominent medical doctors working in this field include. Stuart Hameroff and Robert Lanza; who is best known for his book on "Biocentrism". For those familiar with it, you quickly think: "Who needs a time machine, when the human mind actually CREATES time and space?"
Most of the work that psions have been experimenting with, regards to time travel is connected to Scalar (Tesla based) physics, and while OK, it may not be the OPTIMAL way to do things, considering the outside practical limit for scalar based psionic time travel, (excluding the "Gibbs" device) appears to be about 2 weeks. Non-linear time travel may sound "wild and crazy", but ultimately could offer many more possibilities for PEOPLE to time travel, once you understand how it works. (I don't think it's possible for machines to do this because they are limited by Heisenberg, while strongly I suspect human consciousness is NOT). It's based on QUANTUM physics. I'll also be introducing some resources regarding current research into multi-dimensional time - YES, by REAL scientists! (which people are free to follow up on)
To illustrate, I offer up this fictional tale (along with a detailed explanation from Steve) in terms you can relate to:
You are very glad to have among your friends "Joe Linear" and "Steve Non-Linear" who each have built time machines in their garage and are both inviting you to try them out! Each machine comes equipped with a "stasis field" to keep you from interacting with the target time, and an invisibility field, to keep the machine from being seen. Each machine also comes equipped with a transparent screen so you can view what is happening and both Joe and Steve promise you a "safe trip home". (you will not "disembark")
The first week you go on over to Joe's... In Joe's machine are the controls you are accustomed to, including a chronometer, which tells you which year you are currently passing through. You both get in and Joe sets the target date to: August 2, 1971. As the machine begins its journey back through time, you see Joe's garage slowly pass through the years. First you see Joe's garage as it was last year, then the year before... and so forth..Finally, you see Joe's Garage as it was on August 2, 1971 and the chronometer says August 2, 1971. You look for a couple of minutes, then Joe reverses the controls and brings you back to the present. You thank Joe and go back home.
The next week Steve invites you to HIS garage to try out HIS machine.
"Aw come on Steve", you complain "If you've seen one time machine, you've seen them ALL, besides, I'm too exhausted from all the time traveling I did LAST week!"
Steve, (former computer science major, quantum fanatic, and returning student in philosophy; doing his dissertation on "non-linear time"), replies: "You've NEVER seen anything like this before! I promise you a VERY exciting and exotic trip!"
Reluctantly, you agree. Steve's machine looks very similar to Joe's from the outside with a few minor differences; the most notable one being a display that says "0%" in the place where the chronometer was in Joe's machine.
You both get in and again Steve sets the target date to August 2, 1971. As the machine starts up, a strange thing begins to happen.... Different parts of Steve's Garage actually start TRANSFORMING into their target date counterparts. The transformations start appearing randomly in different parts of the garage. Things that weren't there in 1971 disappear, and things that WERE, start appearing. As all of that is going on you notice that the percentage meter is slowly rising. Each time you look, the garage looks more and more like it did "back then". You see the percentage meter read 99.99% (bar). The date August 2, 1971 flashes 3 times, and you hear a small bell that sounds like a microwave timer go "ding". You've "arrived". You look for a couple of minutes, then Steve reverses the controls and brings you back to the present.
When you get back, you're not sure whether to describe your experience as "Mr. Toad's wild ride" or an acid trip! Extremely confused, you ask Steve "What IS that thing? What happened???? How does it WORK????!!!!"
Steve begins to explain: "The machine is based on principles of quantum physics and multi-dimensional time. Multi-dimensional time was first postulated by philosopher Gavin Wince. Unfortunately, although he was apparently right, he was quite a dissagreable fellow so no one paid him or his ideas any attention. Fortunately though, now a group of Russian physicists have followed up with his concepts of 3 dimensional time using mathematics developed by Roger Penrose. They are now actively conducting EXPERIMENTS that seem to indicate the existence of multi-dimensional time. There is SPACE-TIME SYMMETRY GRASSHOPPER!
The second part of that is the quantum portion. What you are seeing is the following: Each point in this multi-dimensional time is being "mapped" to a specific alternate reality, ie a different result for the collapse of the wave function (which is quite possibly reversible). You might say that you are looking at different "branches of time" that exist in these higher dimensions of time. These "branches" of time can be separated by as little as "one instant of Planck time". The % probability is the probability that the reality you are looking at matches the reality of the target time and space. You can view the machine as doing a series of "sideways micro jumps" in time using these higher dimensions of time. It's constantly adjusting itself (like a computer program). All these "other realities" already exist in the "quantum soup". All you have to do is access them. I think they are "hiding" in these dimensions of time that we are just now starting to become aware of. That's what I'm researching. The concepts of the mystics, such as: All moments in time exist simultaneously or that "Everything exists in the "NOW"" are the basic philosophical principles behind non-linear time, and tie in very nicely with quantum physics. So much so, that apparently folks like Brian Greene are talking about them. What you've just seen is the way a human mind most likely WORKS, so you've experienced time travel the way a human mind would and could do it for stretches of time outside of say.. two weeks. I don't understand it completely (which is the reason I'm working on the supporting theory), but what I DO know is that it WORKS, as I've watched my friends having these types of experiences, although on a very reduced scale and writing about them. Sometimes experience precedes theory.
Steve offers you a chair and a glass of water, while you recover from the shock and strangeness of it all. Afterwards you thank Steve and return home.
