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I'm gonna go with impersonation of someone who needs to get a life. )

But we could use it as a way to set up civ games, thus bringing the obsidian community closer together and thus being good for the forums. And maybe some devs are Civ fans.

Wouldn't it be a good idea to sticky this thread?

You're missing the whole point of Special Relativity! The particles always travel the same distance. s^2=x^2+y^2+z^2-c^2t^2 This is invariant according to Special Relativity P.S.: Sorry about the notation. Go here to see it written properly.

What you're saying is that the muons are "living" longer than they should, hence they're time travelling. But what is actually happening is that time is moving slower for the muons than for us, thus appearing to us as having longer half-lives.

THe secret is in the word appears. It appears to be a paradox but Special Relativity solves that paradox.

It's called a paradox. To us it appears that the muons travelled through time at faster than light speeds, but what happens that time slows down for the muons giving the illusion of travelling through time.

What you're describing is not time travel. Those are just some of the simpler demonstrations of Special Relativity. In the case of the clocks for example, what happens is that time passed slower for the faster moving clock than for the clock left on the ground. Time travel would be if, for example, time for the clock on the plane had instantly changed from say 12:00 to 16:00 of the same day. Wrong, one does not need to travel instantaneously to travel. Take moving a distance in 3D space. One does not jump instantly, that would be teleportation. With time dilation under the effects of STR one travelling close to the speed of light would move forward faster in time and hence time travel into the future. In fact we are all time travelling into the future now. If we weren't the present would remain the present and there would be no future. Yes, time moves forward, but for each specific person their time is always moving at the same rate. For an inertial observer time in their own coordinate system always moves at the same rate, hence there is no time travelling

How enlightening.

What you're describing is not time travel. Those are just some of the simpler demonstrations of Special Relativity. In the case of the clocks for example, what happens is that time passed slower for the faster moving clock than for the clock left on the ground. Time travel would be if, for example, time for the clock on the plane had instantly changed from say 12:00 to 16:00 of the same day.

But you do. When you're going through a wormhole you're passing through a singularity which is a point in space-time with infinite curvature. And this curvature makes you accelerate up to ungodly speeds. In fact you'll be destroyed before getting to the singularity.

That's an awesome moment in the movie. >_ wir sind helden - von hier an blind

Or simply "the alteration of an object or situation". Like when the sun rises or when an egg boils or when a star smashes yet another helium and hydrogen atom together in fusion. But if you speak about alteration or an event occuring you're already speaking about time, only implicitly. You are already saying that an object was first in state n

If those 30-40 hours are filled to the brim with RPG goodness I'm not going to complain.

Actually, I think that to pass through a wormhole you have to, theoretically, pass the speed of light. So going through the wormhole is technically the same thing as what Kaftan is talking about.

I think all polls have a time limit. After that limit you can't vote anymore. I don't think the thread closes though. Anyway, I could be wrong so don't quote me on this.

If you define time as change, you will have to define change. The only definition of change I can think of is this: Change is what happens to a certain object over time. But, this definition of change makes your definition of time circular, and as such meaningless. And if so, your whole argument against time travel loses its basis.

Yeah, he's a cool guy. Did he say anything about his absence or did he just stop posting here?

I like Rammstein too but it's a completely different type of music.

By the way, anyone who wants to listen to some of their songs can go here. Edit:Thanks to Battlewookie.

Great stuff. I've actually been listening to some their other stuff on the net and it sounds pretty impressive. They're have some of the catchiest tunes I've heard in recent years. Also, the videos are very cool. Edit: Found a site with lyrics in english.

I heard "nur ein wort", one of their songs on tv a while ago and I really liked it. Do any german speaking denizens of the boards know about them? If so, do you like them? Also, I don't speak german, are the lyrics good?

Yes, you can: Hell yeah!

Well, the name for the third month of the gregorian year comes from the name for the Roman god war.

Role-Player's idea seems like the way to go to me. I do have a question though. Why hasn't this been done yet? I'd think someone would have come up with this idea already.