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Post by Nemesis on Jul 22, 2002 8:18:49 GMT -5
exactly. Cat, why wasnt that clear.. what didnt ye understand 
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Post by Frink on Jul 22, 2002 15:08:19 GMT -5
Oh, yeah I know about those parallel universes and stuff. Are quantum machanics and parallel universes the same thing?? Parallel universes stem from one particular interpretation of quantum mechanics, Hugh Everett's many worlds interpretation. It says that wave functions (descriptions of a quantum system's state that, when squared, give the probability that the system is in a certain state) never collapse into just one state, each possible state that a system could be in gets its own universe: the universe splits into others in which the system has a different state. We just get to see only one and so it looks like the system is in only one of the infinite number of possible eigenstates it could be in. I don't like that idea. |
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Post by CatBreath on Jul 22, 2002 15:12:51 GMT -5
aahhhh...
by combining yar explanations with Frink's here i got it...
and Welcome to the site! again!...
and why dontchya like the idea?
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Post by Frink on Jul 22, 2002 15:19:06 GMT -5
Because it's no different than saying "quantum mechanics is the way it is because of god." It doesn't explain anything, it can't be proven or disproven. Maybe that's the way it is, but I don't see any reason to think so.
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Post by CatBreath on Jul 22, 2002 15:28:29 GMT -5
but was it said to explain something?
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Post by Frink on Jul 22, 2002 15:35:54 GMT -5
It attempts to explain what is happening or what happens when the wave function of a system collapses. But it raises questions of its own: how, why, where?
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Post by CatBreath on Jul 22, 2002 15:37:45 GMT -5
so its as logical as my space energy wormhole monkeys that clean up after UFOs?
meaning has no basis?
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Post by Frink on Jul 22, 2002 15:49:24 GMT -5
It has a basis--it works. It could be what's happening. But that doesn't make it likely.
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Post by CatBreath on Jul 22, 2002 16:14:59 GMT -5
well looking at it like that gives my space monkeys theory a basis too doesnt it?
there arent too many UFO proves out there are there?
teehee ;D
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Post by Nemesis on Jul 23, 2002 16:11:40 GMT -5
Frink welcome.. 
Cat, as i said ;D
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Post by Freya on Aug 17, 2002 22:23:03 GMT -5
Oh..but people..you can time travel..in a way... When you go through time zones! You go ahead by your normal time or back from it! Which I did when I went to another province this summer.. That in a way, is time travel!! Think about it!! It's true!!! Makes sense to me!
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Post by Chaos_Childe on Aug 18, 2002 7:33:15 GMT -5
It's also possible to travel to yesterday by that method of jumping time zones... Travel fast enough say a 3 hour travel time and start from say Milton Keynes (UK) at 00:00 to Timmins (Canada). You would arrive at Timmins at 10pm the day before.  Often made me wonder as a kid if you could travel around the world fast enough whether you would arrive in the middle of last week...  |
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Post by Freya on Aug 18, 2002 19:52:57 GMT -5
It's not obvious to where he wants to go! Oh no no no....*TOTALLY SARCASM*
So you see..to all those scientists..that say time travel is impossible!! HA!!
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Post by Chaos_Childe on Aug 18, 2002 20:09:15 GMT -5
aaah well you see it's a case ofI know members live in Timmins (yourself included) and I know other people live in Milton Keynes (Bennu, Witchboy as well as myself) and I know the time difference so you see its all down to ease of reference  |
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Post by Nemesis on Aug 19, 2002 3:29:45 GMT -5
Ppl ppl!  That isnt time travel pur sang.. that's switching timezones..
We talk about those events which you, as a traveler from Milton Keynes, already have experienced, but still have to happen in Timmins. If ya can travel that way, thát is true time-traveling
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