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Time Paradoxes

Fractal Fantasy posted on Aug 13, 2010
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No Future,neither past.... Some theories, most notably special and general relativity, suggest that suitable geometries of spacetime, or specific types of motion in space, might allow time travel into the past and future if these geometries or motions are possible.[16] In technical papers, physicists generally avoid the commonplace language of "moving" or "traveling" through time ('movement' normally refers only to a change in spatial position as the time coordinate is varied), and instead discuss the possibility of closed timelike curves, which are worldlines that form closed loops in spacetime, allowing objects to return to their own past. There are known to be solutions to the equations of general relativity that describe spacetimes which contain closed timelike curves (such as Gödel spacetime), but the physical plausibility of these solutions is uncertain. Relativity states that if one were to move away from the Earth at relativistic velocities and return, more time would have passed on Earth than for the traveler, so in this sense it is accepted that relativity allows "travel into the future" (although according to relativity there is no single objective answer to how much time has 'really' passed between the departure and the return). On the other hand, many in the scientific community believe that backwards time travel is highly unlikely. Any theory which would allow time travel would require that problems of causality be resolved. The classic example of a problem involving causality is the "grandfather paradox": what if one were to go back in time and kill one's own grandfather before one's father was conceived? But some scientists believe that paradoxes can be avoided, either by appealing to the Novikov self-consistency principle or to the notion of branching parallel universes

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daggerwilldo

1:47PM | Fri, 13 August 2010

Interesting concepts and a great fractal to boot. Nice work. On a piece of paper draw the straight line between point A and B. Geometry suggest this path represents the least distance between point A and B. Now fold the paper so that point A and Point B converge on top of each other. The distance becomes infinitely smaller.

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carlx

3:08PM | Fri, 13 August 2010

Wonderful flame work!!!

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sandra46

4:44PM | Fri, 13 August 2010

super cool image, great work!

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lyron

12:16AM | Sat, 14 August 2010

Excellent work!!

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peedy

12:28AM | Sat, 14 August 2010

Gorgeous! Corrie

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RodolfoCiminelli

5:24AM | Sat, 14 August 2010

Wonderful and creative work.....!!!!!

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faroutsider

6:35AM | Sat, 14 August 2010

Great design. The paradoxes lead to endless speculative fiction...

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3DClassics123456

7:35AM | Sat, 14 August 2010

Pointlace and jewellery!

lucindawind

8:41AM | Sat, 14 August 2010

excellent design !

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AureliusdeMercoeur

11:47AM | Sat, 14 August 2010

A beautiful and timeless image !! Excellent work !!

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amota99517

7:40PM | Sat, 14 August 2010

Marvelous work! Your narration is interesting and causes one to ponder the meaning of time or perhaps the absence of time. Excellent work!

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jmb007

6:53AM | Sun, 15 August 2010

beau travail!!

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zmarek

1:46AM | Tue, 17 August 2010

Very creative image, I like that.


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