Factors to Go Back - Part 1: Faster than the Speed of Light

Welcome time travelers, once again, to TARDIS Talk!

Today, I will be discovering and researching the fundamental concept of going faster than the speed of light in order to travel back in time. "Faster than light?", you ask? Well, it might seem a bit odd, but if you know Einstein's famous theory of relativity, then you will understand.... kind of...

I have actually found this type of information before, looking for theories. Of course, like every great thinker, I used the internet. Again, I used Google to search up stuff. Very resourceful aren't I? I came across one very interesting website who seemed to really know what they were talking about. This website was the LiveScience site.

LiveScience described the theory of time travel by going faster than light to great extent, explaining how the theory worked. But, what interested me first of all was that physicists are actually changing their mind about the possibility of time travel because of one such discovery: they found subatomic particles, called neutrinos, going faster than light. If this experiment is actually confirmed, the thoughts of time travel could actually be confirmed as well!

Now, onto the theory of relativity. When I first found this information, it came as a surprise to me how it actually worked in the case of time travel. It's a bit complicated to think of, I know, but it actually makes sense once explained a bit more.  It works like this: When you accelerate toward the speed of light, your experience of time changes in such a way, that a second for you, at that speed, would be much longer for the people traveling at normal speed. So, in relation to you (approaching light speed), the outside world becomes slower. Then, once you hit light speed, it stops. So, if this is the case, if we EXCEEDED light speed, would time flow backwards? With the information given to us, this type of theory would actually make some sense. 

Unfortunately, there are a lot of barriers to approaching, as well as breaking light speed, but if we could, time travel, as we know it, could actually be accomplished. So far, we already found neutrinos to achieve it, now we will need to figure out how we make a whole living body achieve that.... Maybe a radioactive boost? Hmm...

Anyway, NEXT TIME, we will be exploring, already existent cosmic phenomena, or more plainly, the black hole.

Goodbye! And if your head hurts from thinking about light speed and relativity and such, that's good BECAUSE it is a sign I am making progress in educating you. Till we meet again, in good fortune and fancy bow ties. 

Traveling to The Past

Hello everyone! I am wearing a bow tie today! I am very happy...

Anyway, TODAY, I will be discussing with you backwards time travel, its possibility, and, if it is possible, how we would be able to achieve it. We'll be talking about backwards time travel for quite a bit, so sit back and just read through these series of posts. This is probably the most common use of time travel ever seen on T.V. or thought about.

So, to find out about this information I went to The Library. Actually no, sorry, I just wanted to make a reference. (Hopefully you Whovians understand.) What I actually did was use the POWER OF THE INTERNET, mainly google, to find out the possibilities of backwards travel. 

The first thing to catch my eye was the HowStuffWorks site. The name itself seemed simple  so I decided that was my place to go.

What I found was familiar information, some that I had briefly covered in my last post. It talks about the theory of relativity, something that we talked about already, concerning the "faster-than-light" possibility of time travel (specifically, backwards). And it also proposes the idea of, rather than using space propulsion technology, using the existing cosmic phenomena: the black hole. The ways of travel are explained once again by this website, but what caught my eye was a law of physics, not referring to travel, but to reality. What they talk about, is the law of causality, or cause and effect.

The law of causality got me thinking about if time travel could actually be possible, not in terms of travel, but in terms of reality. Could I travel back in time without causing a paradox and utterly violating and quite possibly changing our way of reality? Could I travel back and not create an alternate reality? I started to think about this and came to a conclusion. This kind of violation can be prevented, only if we don't do something stupid, like go back and, oh I don't know, sabotage America to make us LOSE WORLD WAR II. Because, if we do something like that, it would surely create a paradox, because it changes one of the most influential aspects of the events that have already taken place, thus also making another reality, where Germany won. I know it's a bit morbid, but it's the most cliche example of alternate reality I could use.

I have already gotten an idea of the reality aspect of time travel which I will have to look deeper into, but for now, I will have to research travel options. What should I start with, light speed or black hole?

So, yes, for the next week or so, our time travel discussion will now be focused on the travel back in time.

And once again, I bid you farewell to your thoughts and your theories.

Goodbye!

The First Factor: Time Travel

Welcome back to TARDIS Talk!

For the next few weeks, we will be exploring the TARDIS's main function: Time Travel. I will be researching what time travel truly is, and how it can be achieved. This is a VERY big concept, with its many questions on the possibility for us to even achieve it, and the many other theories on how it may actually be possible.Of course, we will be talking about backward time travel as well as forward, but for the time being, we will be focusing on how time may even be traversed in general. 

There are many theories on how time travel can be achieved, so I googled the theories to see what I could get. I stumbled upon a website, Space.com, which thoroughly described the various theories. 

I found various premises in the research. A popular theory, being Einstein's theory of special relativity, addresses time slowing down or speeding up, depending on your speed, relative to something else. Then there are other assumptions for time travel such as the wormhole, the black hole, general relativity, and (for all you Whovians) the Time Vortex. There are many thoughts of time travel out there in the world, which I will be addressing some, if not most, of. 

So, Time Travel, traveling to and fro from point to point on the timeline of the world/universe. This is what I will be covering for the next few weeks or so, and hopefully I'll be able to cover enough ground to have an idea for what to do in the actual construct. What I'll have to find out first: What will I have to do to achieve light speed, make a black hole, and such other concepts? I must ponder on this awhile. 

And at this, I bid you, Farewell.

Josh

Into the TARDIS [Talk]

Hello Whovians and other mortals!

In this blog I will be learning about various things regarding the TARDIS, but will ultimately be in an effort to construct my own. I will be learning about time travel itself, finding ways to make it possible. I will also be studying how the TARDIS moves through space the way it does, rather than just moving like a car. I want to study this, because like all fans of Doctor Who and most physicists, I would like to travel through time and space, and make what seems to be only a dream for most scientists and Whovians, a reality. This blog is speaking to the many Whovians out there who have always wanted to traverse time and space in a TARDIS, and also to those who simply would want to achieve time travel. With this blog, I hope to "satisfy" their desire for time travel, and to give them insight on the possibilities of an actual time machine. Many of you will certainly expect many posts relating to research from physicists, theories of time travel, and various explanations regarding the features of the TARDIS. I hope this blog will be able to satisfy your need or desire to know what time travel truly and if it is truly possible. So for now, I bid you farewell, for I have much research to do ahead of me.

Thank You! Goodbye! Geronimo! Allon-sy! Fantastic! Etc. 

You're favorite TARDIS talker, Josh.