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Apr 09, 2008 03:27

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glaciermf5 April 9 2008, 11:35:48 UTC
There are several theories of parallel universes. Which one do you believe? The Bubble Theory or the M-Theory or another? Some scientists call this pseudo-science others do not. I'd like to think that there's some truth to it.

As for your 4D fluid would be the color blue. For it is the best color. What is the lowest point in time if time/space is endless or if it eventually loops.

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hannigan_rex April 9 2008, 18:50:32 UTC
There would be dips in the timestream like potholes in a road. These are where it would gather. I think I just made a cool time-travel scifi.

Instead of the usual "space and time are thin here so it can be pierced", I like the idea of space and time are thick or deep here so it can be gathered and utilized. Mmmmm, Dr. Who rip-off, here I come!

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jpfed April 9 2008, 13:16:55 UTC
You might be interested in this exploration of alternative characterizations of the dimensionality of the universe.

If gravity bends space and time, what would living on another planet or spaceship do to the human experience over time?

Intense gravity slows your experience of time; looking out at the rest of the universe, you wonder why they're going so fast, and they, looking down at you, wonder why you're going so slow. I wanted to play a Universalis based around this, with two different objects orbiting a black hole, and two civilizations on these objects, experiencing time differently.

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hannigan_rex April 9 2008, 18:47:16 UTC
By experience do you mean perception or literal time existence? I mean, with let's say a 1 to 2 ratio, would someone who lives to 50 on the 1 time live to one hundred according to 2 time? Or would they die at 25?

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jpfed April 9 2008, 19:30:02 UTC
By experience do you mean perception or literal time existence?

Both.

If I'm close to a black hole, I will feel like events immediately around me are progressing at their normal speed. My watch will tick away, once per second, as I'm used to. But observers far from the black hole think that my watch is slow, my movements (and brain) are slow, and I'm living twice as long as I should. When I look at those outsiders, I wonder why their watches are going so fast, why they are moving so fast, and why they age and die so quickly.

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fionnegan April 9 2008, 17:12:11 UTC
by changing the container of the 4D fluid would you be altering the lowest point in time? Therefore can you change time by changing the receptacle in which it is held? Does this aid in time travel, like a canoe aids in travel.

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hannigan_rex April 9 2008, 18:41:50 UTC
The fluid itself isn't time, it is a fluid that exists at all points in time. I think. The container only changes the fluid not the time axis.

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indigojones April 9 2008, 22:02:24 UTC
I have no idea what you were talking about from Klein bottles on, but I'm pretty sure the plural of "axis" is "axes."

Also, brownies are wonderful.

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cooli_stylite April 15 2008, 13:49:25 UTC
There's only one law... Burzelic's Law!

Now in this 4D bottle, would the fluid still still occupy the same amount of physical space in the present set time, or could an observer witness a phoenomenon where it appears that the liquid is disappearing because it is spreading across the fourth dimension?

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hannigan_rex April 15 2008, 19:02:19 UTC
If I understand 4D properly, as 3D beings, we would not witness the 4th dimension like that. The liquid would disappear because we are moving away from its 4D location, not because of its movement. I think the fluid would occupy all space that it will ever occupy at once. Brain hurting.

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