Post by ajax86 on Sept 20, 2012 6:11:37 GMT -5
Read every post and this was very entertaining. I'm clearly years late to this discussion board, however, I would like to mention some things no one has discussed. If Wormholes exist, how much energy is required to sustain the Einstein-Rosen bridge to allow anything of our size or a jet liner engine to transverse comfortably. And while you all wrestled with the notion that objects with mass cannot achieve light speed, no one spoke of inflation, how the Space-Time fabric can and has accelerated faster than the speed of light constant during the inflation of the universe in its infancy. Correct me if I'm wrong, but it is my understanding that this inflation has continued expanding at an accelerating rate. If you were somehow able to obtain enough energy to warp the space-time fabric, albeit with gravity or eletro-magnatism, you could theoretically surf this manipulated wave without having to apply any force to your vessel. An example is how a surfer doesn't need to expend any energy of their own to get from the surf to the shore. Clearly there is tremendous energy causing the wave. If this space-time wave were moving faster than the speed of light, then the object riding this wave would arrive at their destination in the past relative to observers from their initial point of departure. We can admit Donnie Darko plays more on the metaphysical implications of free-will rather than detailing the physics required for time-travel. Perhaps the Physics teacher, Monnitoff, was trying to say that if by moving faster than the speed of light, you are traveling back in time but the easier way would be sending an object through a wormhole meant to connect two separate regions of space-time instantly. Curiously, I believe it was the collapsing Tangent Universe that formed this black-hole/wormhole to appear and Donnie was able to use his powers and knowledge from the POTT to return the artifact to the Primary Universe. I will still never understand why the Living Receiver has to die, if this is a rule to traveling back in time paradox, as the POTT says this is what happens/ is tradition for the LRs. Seems to me that the energy required to sustain a wormhole of that size rivals the gravitational energy required to form Black holes, if not substantially more, (an act of God according to Monnitoff). I'm curious as to which method of time/space travel is actually more feasible or effective energy wise. Quantum mechanics has proven just how bizarre our world is as such particles experience these complex behaviors.