The Nature of the Universe, Time Travel and More...

[Will The Serious]

I'm not sure why the observation of high frequency agitation leading to a slowing of radioactive decay is evidence of an affect on space-time. Why not, though. I'm sure one can argue, and even find a formula that demonstrates all change imposes an affect on space-time.

However, could there not be a more mechanical reason? Maybe hyper-sonic vibrations expand the valence fields of atomic structures, effectively recapturing sub-atomic particles that might otherwise escape their nucleus binding naturally over time.

Who needs a sword to cut into other realities, if you can carry a tune?

Orpheus was said to even move (emotionally) the stones (make them weep) with his music. I think that if there is any real example of "magic" in the universe, it's music. Music affects/moves people in ways that are causally inexplicable, but completely understandable.

Beauty is impossible to quantify, but undeniable in its power.

-Will

 

[publiusr]

If ultrasonics really does allow for reactions that are normally disallowed—it might allow for more widespread transmutation…say, transmuting a carbon disulfide liquid into silicon dioxide as it leaves a nozzle—turning tear gas into sand.

Lots of nasty sulfur out there to be dealt with.

Reactors turn mercury into gold—that bombardment is associated with some level of vibration…field effect, etc.

 

[Gingerbread Demon]

Voyager 1 thrusters reactivated to prevent build up in fuel lines.

NASA’s Voyager 1 Revives Backup Thrusters Before Command Pause - NASA Science https://share.google/KxVVnzLvZLyCqpoPg

 

[Will The Serious]

A very Star Trek fix, I think.

-Will

 

[Gingerbread Demon]

I think it's pretty cool, and they are upgrading their Earth based antenna to keep in contact with the probe which amazingly is still working out there. How much longer though is anyone's guess. I would have thought its power supplies would have long since drained.

2036 according to a bit in this article but t hat's only a suggestion for its final transmission

When will we get the final message from NASA's Voyager spacecraft?

They've traveled farther than any other human spacecraft. And they're carrying messages.

mashable.com

 

[publiusr]

Let me run this past you gentlemen since I don’t trust AI.

The New Horizons probe is healthier than the Voyagers.

Now, even with new telescopes coming on-line, I doubt the NH guys are going to find any more Kuiper objects ahead.

The heliophysics guys wanted that probe, but Stern was loathe to hand it over quickly.

SOHO has seen all kinds of comets slung outwards by the Sun.

I think it might be easier to search for new targets from behind.

If the Sun flings out a comet that managed to hold together—along a trajectory pointing towards New Horizons—the probe should have ample time to angle in for one last rendezvous.

Then hand it over to the solar dynamics guys here or in ESA so it could survive budget cuts.

 

[Will The Serious]

I've been thinking lately about time as the fourth dimension.

If One considers a system of dimensions, such as cartesian coordinates, as accurately representing of the foundation of our multidimensional universe, time as the fourth dimension implies stasis and time travel could not exist.

What I'm saying is that to consider time as the fourth dimension is to place time, as a dimension, in exactly the same relationship to the other three dimensions, just as axis X is to axis Y and Z. That would mean, to actually exist, an object has to be positioned somewhere along the X axis. Every object in the universe would occupy a place somewhere along the X axis. Likewise, that object along the X axis also exists somewhere along the Y axis and the Z axis. Even a single dimensionless point would be at some intersection of all three axis. This would have to be true, also, for the T axis.

How to visualize this four dimensional system. Now it is easy enough to picture our very familiar three dimensions. If we limit our imagination to a cube with an internal grid with three axis, the fourth axis would look like that same cube in the same 3D location ad infinitum. Each member of the infinite set of 3D spaces would be a unique point along the T axis.

A dimensionless point that only occupied one location along each axis would only appear within one of those infinite cubes, as each cube represents a unique point in space-time. An object that occupied a range of time, just as any object that had dimensions in the traditional sense, would appear within a series of those cubes. It could be like a tall, skinny object, for example, having limited or narrow range on the X and Y axis, but stretching up, multiple times as far, along the Z axis. Except, here the object would appear, from an outside observer, like it extruded it's 3D form through a range of the T axis, seconds, minutes, days, years, millennia,...

In the end, the only conclusion I can see is that a unique 3-dimensional universe exists for every point along the T axis (infinite), and those universes are each unchanging and unique to each of those points. There would be no movement, as that would be evidence of a 5th dimension, which again, includes the concept of stasis within all five dimensions. Thus, it follows as well, there would be no possibility of time travel, since each universe along the T axis exists at a concurrent space-time as every other point.

For time travel to work, an object must not only be able to move along the T axis, but to occupy a point along the other three axis that that object didn't occupy before it existed originally along the T axis. It could only be perception that could travel along the T axis. Any actual movement would pull the T axis out of the multidimensional system to make it a separate attribute from space-time.

-Will