...Time Travel Jessica Xaypangna Mrs. Pecina Bernal NSC 1 November 28, 2012 Jessica Xaypangna Mrs. Pecina Bernal NSC 1 San Joaquin Valley College November 28, 2012 Time travel is the concept of moving between different points in time in a manner similarly to moving between different points in space. Once thought of as science fiction is now theoretically possible. Reading books, depicted in so many movies, lingering in many minds, can time travel really exist? Whether walking through a portal or spaceship speeding faster than the speed of light, if time traveling is indeed possible it will be considered physics, at a higher level and intelligence at which humans would not be capable of fully understanding for at least a few hundred years. Albert Einstein, Michio Kaku, and many other scientists and physicist alike believed in the expanding of the universe as one that curves on itself in three-dimensions. Through the bending of the universe, it is thought to be some loop holes or shortcuts allowing one to cut or travel through time. Black holes or wormholes are considered to have the power or the ability to do this. Speed has an important role in the rate at which and how we experience time. Time passes more slowly the closer you approach the cosmic speed limit which we call the speed of light. For example, the hands of a clock in a speeding train move more slowly than those of a stationary clock. A human passenger wouldn't feel the difference, but at the end...
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...Time Travel Proven Today time travel continues to be a science fiction concept used in movies rather than a fact that many accounts and evidence from nature has proved. This article aims to present three main arguments that attempt to prove that time travelling does in fact exist and does not go against, but is possibly aligned with, physics theories and logic. According to author Marcus Chown (2011) in his article about time travel, the concept itself is actually proven by the basic theories of general relativity. The theory is simple; predicting that the closer one is to the ground, the slower time goes by. This is due to a connection between the stronger gravity and slower time progression. So for instance, if you are in a plane, time should move a bit faster than on the ground, etc. How this is linked to time travel is also simple. It becomes easier to understand how a man-made device, connecting two areas with different time progression, can achieve – at least to a certain extent – time travel. As Chown states, “if you could travel instantaneously from Earth to near the black hole, you could travel from Friday back to Wednesday”. However, nothing is more important to the average person than photographic evidence. Despite the wide room left for subjective debates, many photos have been revealed in the past that show strange out of place people in crowds. However, another piece of photographic evidence comes from the 1968 discovery by famous William J. Meister who collected...
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...Most people don't believe that time travel is real. Yet, the characters in the novel A wrinkle in Time would disagree. The intelligent scientists Mr. and Mrs. Murry played around with the idea of the tesseract (fifth dimension). When Mr. Murry goes missing, his high school daughter Meg Murry is left to rescue him in a different dimension. Murry has trouble socially and academically at school, while her brother Charles Wallace is a guinness just like their parents. From the fifth dimension to space and back to Earth, Murry is left to take on this adventure with her brother Charles, her friend Calvin O’keefe from school, and the three W’s (Mrs. Which, Mrs. Whatsit, and Mrs. Who). When Murry, Charles, and Calvin are in the fifth dimension on...
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...Time Travel Have you ever thought about how vast the universe is and how little we know about it's secrets?About how insignificant the earth,which is infinite times smaller than the universe,is but yet is so essential that we would not be here without it?About what lies beyond this ever expanding universe?One thing we must remember is that everything in the universe obeys the same rules or laws;Be it on earth or anywhere else in space.This helps us put certain limitations which helps us predict the way the universe works.We know for one thing that every single thing in the universe is attracted towards every other thing,however insignificant may be its value.Using these universal laws many hypotheses have been created.Like for example,time travel is now possible(in theory) but only in the froward direction as it is impossible to undo what has already been done.but time travel into the future is now possible though the idea may seem very very far-fetched.It has been proved through physics that if one were to stand in close proximity to an object of very high mass,to an onlooker (very far away and preferably not close to any high mass object) he would have slowed down in time.For example if I were to stand right next to the great pyramid of Giza and my friend were to stand a long distance away and see me through binoculars there would be a slight time lapse.Now lets think big.....what if instead of the pyramid it was a black hole? The mass of a black hole is huge!Time around...
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...Of those time traveling fictions that you’ve read for the years of your life, you may still wonder, is it really possible? Despite most of these fictions contradict to themselves. In this essay I’m going to demonstrate that it is, at least logically and conceptually, possible. However, before introducing our subject, I should remind you that travelling to the past does not mean you could change history. What is time, exactly? “For what is time? Who can easily and briefly explain it? ...If no one asks of me, I know; if I wish to explain to him who asks, I know not.” –St Augustine of Hippo Across the fields of science, religion and philosophy, no unique and non-controversial definition of time has been found, despite the efforts taken by the greatest scholars in human history. J. M. E. McTaggart, a British philosopher and lecturer at Cambridge in late 19th century and early 20th century distinguish two perception of time in his renowned book <The Unreality of Time> (1908). He named them A series and B series of time. A series of time refers to the flow, or passage of time. Time is composed of past, present and future. Time is meaningless without defining the present (which is constantly changing), or now. It is analogous to our spacious notion of here (changes as you walk away) and there. For example, when you were 16 years old, high school was your present and university is the future. As time flows, university became your present and high school is the past. Every part...
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...Looper is a 2012 sci-fi thriller that stars Bruce Willis and Joseph-Gordon Levitt as the main actors. The movie’s plot touches on philosopher David Lewis’s view on time travel. Lewis said he believed that time travel is possible. He discussed that the paradoxes of time travel is not impossible, and there is a possibility of another world where time travel takes place. Lewis then explains how science fiction has been interpreted in television and movies, such as Looper. In the year 2044, Joe played by Levitt works with a group specialized assassins that work for criminals from the year 2074 who send people blindfolded back into time to be killed. Time travel is illegal in the future. However, the present doesn’t yet know that it exists. Sending...
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...Name Tutor Course Title Wormholes and the possibility of travel through space-time Description After a critical analysis of various topics, the topic for this discussion is going to be wormholes and the possibility of travel through space-time. The research looked at understanding what wormhole is, and the findings were that this is a theoretical passage that happens through the specimen. It is possible of creating shortcuts for the long journeys that could take place in the universe. The general theory of general relativity has been used to explain and predict wormholes. Wormholes discovery The Wormholes theory can trace its root up to the year 1935 when a well-known genius and physicist Albert Einstein and Nathan Rosen discussed and used the theory of general relativity. It was used in proposing for the existences of bridges through space-time. It is these bridges or the pathways that were called the Einstein-Rosen bridges or the Wormholes. The main purpose of the two is to connect two different points in space-time thus when looked and explained theoretically they created a shortcut that could reduce the travel time and also the distance. There is something to worry about the wormholes is that they bring with them risks and dangers of sudden collapsing that is associated with high radiation and other hazardous dangers when in contact with exotic matter. Wormholes space-time in the scientific community The need to integrate wormholes into the scientific community...
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...Episodic memory in animals, Are they capable of mental time travel? Sarah-Jane Fahed American University Of Beirut Mental Time Travel in animals Episodic memory is a type of declarative memory, it’s the memory for personal events and is distinguished from semantic memory: memory for facts. What characterizes episodic memory is that it involves mental time travel also termed “Chronesthesia”: it is the capacity to mentally project oneself in the past to remember events that took place and projecting oneself to try and predict the future. It is commonly thought to be specific to humans but some studies have been done to research this specific type of memory and see if it can be attributed to animals. The study of episodic memory in non-humans led to many contradictory results and depends on how it is defined. The main focus of this paper is to study the different researches done on the Chronesthesia component of episodic memory in animals: mental time travel to the past and to the future and show their limitations. Tulving originally defined episodic memory in terms of the kind of information it appears to store: what where and when something happened (the www criterion) and later added the concept of autoneotic awareness to the definition (as cited in Suddendorf & Corballisb, 2007): the sensation that a memory was personally experienced In their book Missing Link in Cognition: Origins of Self-Reflective Consciousness Terrace...
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...“Escaping Current Time, and Exploring Ancient Time Periods” Miranda Kirkley World Culture and the Arts (HUM 205) January 19, 2013 James Slama Ancient History. (2013). The History Channel website. Retrieved 12:51, January 21, 2013, from http://www.history.com/topics/ancient-history We’ve been in the business of reinventing storytelling since 1984. We took history out of the history books, and we brought biography to life. For our viewers, we’ve invented new genres, told untold stories and broken barriers. For our partners, we’ve offered new networks, new audiences, and new ways for brands to talk to customers. Benton, J. R., & DiYanni, R. (2008 2005 1998). Arts and Culture (3rd ed.). Upper Saddle River, New Jersey: Prentice Hall. Offering an exploration of Western and World civilization's cultural heritage, this book is richly illustrated, beautifully designed and engaging. Readers move chronologically through major periods and styles–from prehistoric culture to 20th Century America–to gain insight into the achievements and ideas in painting, sculpture, architecture, literature, philosophy, religion, and music. Sakoulas, T. (2003-2012). Ancient Greece. Retrieved from http://www.ancient-greece.org/history/classical.html Associate Professor of Art at the State University of New York, College at Oneonta where he teaches Sculpture and Computer Art. He studied sculpture in the USA at Florida International University, and did his graduate work at the Maryland Institute...
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...Time Travel Art Historian Time Travel Art Historian * CHAPTER 1 EGYPTIAN CIVILIZATION * CHAPTER 2 EARLY 20TH CENTURY * CHAPTER 3 LATE 20TH CENTURY * CHAPTER 1 EGYPTIAN CIVILIZATION * CHAPTER 2 EARLY 20TH CENTURY * CHAPTER 3 LATE 20TH CENTURY By: Tianna Young Hum/205 February 07th 2016 By: Tianna Young Hum/205 February 07th 2016 The first stop on our excursion will be a fun one amid the Egyptian Fourth Dynasty, basically the period when the Great Pyramid was worked for the pharaoh Cheops (KEE-pos) around 2530 B.C.E., (Benton and DiYanni, 2008). Egypt is occupied and truly moving as of right now as this is the time period where they are building The Great Pyramid for their pharaoh and supreme ruler Cheops. Cheops is the second pharaoh of the fourth line of Egypt and ruled a unified nation alongside his relatives and chairmen. He is additionally the pharaoh the appointed the working of The Great Pyramid, which is one of the seven marvels of the world. Cheops was exceptionally occupied as pharaoh, battling effort in the Sinai, starting building ventures in Memphis, alongside The Great Pyramid. His rule is point by point on the Westcar papyrus, (Bunson, M. 2002). Existence in the wake of death is a major ordeal to the Egyptians and The Great Pyramid will be the tomb from which Cheops ka or soul will climb to the sky and join Re the sun god why should accepted be the father, (Rosalie, D. 2003). To the Egyptians...
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...drove back to his house. George wanted to see his house for the last time. George decided to move away from his family and friends in his home town, Macon, Georgia. He moved because he don’t want of his family got killed because of his military past. While George walked towards the door of his house, he remembered the moments that he and Marie when they bought for their first house and other sweet memories. But now, George went to left the past. After he opened the door, George was shocked after he saw a woman liked Marie stood in front of him. George was braved himself and asked a woman who like her wife. A woman start explained to George, that she was not a human. She was an intelligent operation system hologram. The hologram was created by Marie as a backup storage data for Marie’s memories. George was puzzled and wondered who was a true Marie. The hologram told the history about Marie. Marie was the most genius scientist among the best scientist in the world. For them, the theory about the existing of other dimension and possibility of time travelling were impossible. But Marie said, the word impossible not exist in her life. So, she worked by herself, she created her own time machine and placed at George’s basement of his house. George was surprised that he never realized the time machine was placed at his house. The basement was like messy , a lot of whiteboard wrote with unknown equation. The time machine was placed at the middle edge of the lab. It was like a giant...
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...Investigation Math 29/08/14 Index * Introduction * What is time travel? * Forward time travel * Backward time travel * It is possible or not ? * Conclusión * Bibliography Introduction Physicists take seriously questions about the physical possibility of time travel. This is a matter of consistency of time travel with the laws of nature. This website primarily concentrates on philosophical matters that are even more basic than the issue of physical possibility. There are arguments that seem to show that time travel doesn’t even make sense, that it is illogical, that it is contradictory. Proponents of these arguments think that time travel is impossible no matter what the laws of nature are. When apparently sound reasoning leads to a contradictory conclusion, a paradox is the result. Many paradoxes arise in the consideration of time travel. Time travel Time travel is the concept of moving between different points in time in a manner analogous to moving between different points in space, generally using a theoretical invention known as a "time machine". Time travel is a recognized concept in philosophy and fiction, but has a very limited support in theoretical physics, usually only in conjunction with quantum mechanics or wormholes. Time travel has been a popular topic for science fiction for decades. Franchises ranging from "Doctor Who" to "Star Trek" to "Back to the Future" have seen humans get in a vehicle of some sort and arrive in the...
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...characters, technical choices for scenes, and the overall production that the film shown to give the audience a final product. The number of people who visited the movie theater to watch it does not determine greatness of the film; or the amount of money the movie studio made after the budget was settled. A movie is great if it reached a large percentage of the population and that population determined through criticism and good reviews that the movie is worthy to be seen for a second, third, or fourth time. Another justification of greatness is if the film warrants purchasing the film on Blu-ray disc or a digitally copy to put on your computers hard drive. I will be critiquing the 1985 film Back to the Future starring Michael J. Fox, Christopher Lloyd, Lea Thompson, Crispin Glover, and Thomas F. Wilson. These are the main characters of the film for which the story revolves around. Michal J. Fox plays the main character, Marty McFly, who travels back in time in a Delorean time machine invented by Christopher Lloyd’s character, Dr. Emmett Brown. Lea Thompson plays Lorraine McFly, Marty’s mother, Crispin Glover plays George McFly, Marty’s father. Thomas F. Wilson is the antagonist as Biff Tannen. There are plenty of supporting roles throughout the film but the main characters will be the focus of the critique. Director for Back to the Future is Robert Zemeckis, he role is to translate the screenwriters story so the actors and crew can carry it out. He is the boss in every stage...
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...his body parts turned into different things such as seas, lakes, skies, trees, and mountains. T he belief of these stories actually teach that in order to have life there must be death. Other types of stories are the stories that consist of secretion of body fluids that create birth as in the accretion myths (Leonard & McClure, 2004, p. 34). Reminds us of the movie Gremlins and how they keep making new evil little monsters when they come in contact with water or eat after midnight. As long as these two things do not happen the gremlin stays sweet almost sacred furry animal. A concept is the emergence myths. These myths have people that travel through worlds until they emerge into one. A person could keep traveling until they become perfect and can continue the work of other Gods (Enotes, 2013). A person in this particular time could be a man that is successful in our world today, such as Bill Gates. A person as successful as Bill Gates is an icon and to some Godly for representing such things that are in the future. A modern day creator, Bill Gates was a technological innovation keen business strategy with aggressive gung ho tactics. He and his partner Paul Allen built the world's largest software business, Microsoft. Bill Gates, born on October 28, 1955, in Seattle, Washington, he began to show an interest in computer programming at the age of 13 in the process he became one of the richest men in the world. Bill Gates was well-known for his charitable...
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...Come along with me on an exciting time traveling journey, on our trip we will go to many far away periods, including the Italian Renaissance, the Early 20th Century and the Indian Civilization. Time travel can be dis-orienting. This is also what it is like to appreciate works of art from different periods. As your tour guide back into time I have prepared this book to prepare you for the tour. The first three chapters of this book, prepares travelers for their journey and will help them remain oriented. The information provided in the first three chapters provide a frame of reference that can reduce the dis-orienting effect of visiting later periods of art history and cultures one may be unfamiliar with. We will ask;" how is the work of art we are observing "attained". Getting a proper orientation of architecture or a visual art is similar to taking a tour of a college campus. When you approach a college campus for the first time there are various buildings on the campus. You will have your first impressions as you approach the campus from a distance and more impressions as you get closer- which changes your perspective. Once one has visited several college campuses one learns how to orient themself. You can quickly find the administration building, library, dorms, etc. To keep one from getting lost in the world of Art developing a frame of reference can reduce culture shock and time disorientation. This book examines three periods and three different types of Art that will serve...
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