This is a copy/paste from a post of mine on ENTP.org, but I was so excited about it I had to just announce it to the world:
Ok, I got to thinking today, and I'm no physics expert (aspiring to be some day), but I thought about a particular physics problem, and then unraveled it. It seems to be evidence for time travel, the multiple universes interpretation of quantum physics, and extremely poetic (when it hit me I almost cried because it seems so beautiful) at the same time:
Imagine a subatomic particle. We'll use an electron just for simplicity. Now imagine that we send that electron moving through space/time. At some point, we transport it 1 second back in time, and that 1 second ago we actually observed 2 electrons, until the point we sent it back in time, where the original disappears and leaves the transported one.
For 1 second, there were actually 2 of the same electron. My objection to this is that it violates the law of the conservation of energy. We have created a second electron...doubled the mass/energy of what we originally had. The universe contained more mass/energy then it did before. It's a violation of physical law...
But then as I was reading the wording of the law of the conservation of energy: "the total energy in an isolated system remains constant" it immediately, suddenly, and forcefully hit me: the universe may not be an isolated system. Of course, I remembered the multiple universes interpretation and this seeming contradiction just seeped to the inner core of me and I had one of the most intense moments of clarity in my life. I realized that the particle may not have been created, but instead had been transferred from another layer of the multiverse, and then the electron from our layer was transferred away from our layer. The total energy in the true isolated system: the multiverse, remained constant, and so does not violate the law of the conservation of energy.
Because there are infinite universes according to the interpretation, it seems we could find one that is exactly how this universe developed, only is still is stuck, say, 1 second behind us. It seems as if it would be "near" us in the multiverse, and this is then where the electron actually went/came from. It just transferred between mutiverses, but did not actually time travel.
Now, I'm not saying time travel is actually possible/impossible and I'm not saying the multiverse interpretation is right as I am no where near as educated as I'd like to be in physics, but this to me is staggeringly COOL. It opens up a world of science fiction to me...a reality that is constructed in such a way that is intensely phenomenal and foreign...yet is the reality we've always lived in.
I feel great today...
Ok, I got to thinking today, and I'm no physics expert (aspiring to be some day), but I thought about a particular physics problem, and then unraveled it. It seems to be evidence for time travel, the multiple universes interpretation of quantum physics, and extremely poetic (when it hit me I almost cried because it seems so beautiful) at the same time:
Imagine a subatomic particle. We'll use an electron just for simplicity. Now imagine that we send that electron moving through space/time. At some point, we transport it 1 second back in time, and that 1 second ago we actually observed 2 electrons, until the point we sent it back in time, where the original disappears and leaves the transported one.
For 1 second, there were actually 2 of the same electron. My objection to this is that it violates the law of the conservation of energy. We have created a second electron...doubled the mass/energy of what we originally had. The universe contained more mass/energy then it did before. It's a violation of physical law...
But then as I was reading the wording of the law of the conservation of energy: "the total energy in an isolated system remains constant" it immediately, suddenly, and forcefully hit me: the universe may not be an isolated system. Of course, I remembered the multiple universes interpretation and this seeming contradiction just seeped to the inner core of me and I had one of the most intense moments of clarity in my life. I realized that the particle may not have been created, but instead had been transferred from another layer of the multiverse, and then the electron from our layer was transferred away from our layer. The total energy in the true isolated system: the multiverse, remained constant, and so does not violate the law of the conservation of energy.
Because there are infinite universes according to the interpretation, it seems we could find one that is exactly how this universe developed, only is still is stuck, say, 1 second behind us. It seems as if it would be "near" us in the multiverse, and this is then where the electron actually went/came from. It just transferred between mutiverses, but did not actually time travel.
Now, I'm not saying time travel is actually possible/impossible and I'm not saying the multiverse interpretation is right as I am no where near as educated as I'd like to be in physics, but this to me is staggeringly COOL. It opens up a world of science fiction to me...a reality that is constructed in such a way that is intensely phenomenal and foreign...yet is the reality we've always lived in.
I feel great today...