MUTANT

I can help with some of it:<br style=""> 1) Improperly stated. There are particles that travel faster than the speed of light (tachyons, neutrinos, etc). An object traveling slower than the speed of light cannot be "ACCELERATED" beyond the speed of light. A particle can be “BORN” faster than the speed of light. Generally these are considered MASSLESS particles but even that is up in the air. It is a subtle but very important difference. 2) Correct, but no one understands how it works YET. Further more, if you believe there are more unobservable dimensions (I do), then a particle can appear to travel vastly faster than the speed of light although it probably just took a shortcut/path through a dimension (space-time) that you cannot observe. For instance, the quantum mechanical circumstance coined by Einstein as "Spooky action at a distance" appears to us as if two particles with vast amounts of distance between them seem to both react simultaneously to a stimulus applied to only one of them. These particles are paired by some yet unknown force/dimension. It is likely that the particles are actually the same particle connected via multi dimensional space. No one truly understands these phenomena YET. But they are real. ~MUTANT

The universe absolutely allows for travel into the future. It has been proven with atomic clocks on airplanes and the GPS system adjustments that must occur daily. In addition the apparent extended time it takes for particles to decay in a particle accelerator. What folks miss is that - YOU THE TIME TRAVELER DO NOT ZOOM OFF INTO THE FUTURE. - YOU DO NOT MEET A FUTURE VERSION OF YOURSELF. YOU simply slow down Time for the yourself and allow everyone else to travel into the future at their current rate. Time ticks slower (proven) under different circumstances. You simply need to place the time traveler in one of those circumstances and when he emerges, he will return to a point in which everyone/everything else has zoomed on ahead of him. To the traveler, it will be the future and he will have aged less than everybody else as well. The different circumstances to slow down time involve utilization of Mass and/or Speed. So, you slow your own time down for a while (kinda like going to sleep) and when you emerge. Everybody and everything else has moved on into the future. To them nothing out of the ordinary has happened. It is not possible to meet up with yourself in the future because you took yourself out of that space-time arrow and then rejoined it later. Therefore, no paradox is created. And yes, the mechanical clock on your arm ticks at a different rate than your friends that did not join you in the event. This has been proven with atomic clocks. Very strange, but the universe works this way. The important question is “WHY does it work this way”. This is what all of the particle colliders and search for gravitons, Higgs particles and so on hope to discover (among other things). Its all about mass and speed and you can vary either one to create the circumstance. If a person stands next to the Great Pyramid in Egypt and another stands 2 miles from him next to nothing of mass, then the mechanical clocks on their arms tick at different rates. It is imperceptible by a human in this example but it makes the point that being near a large mass causes your clock to tick differently. You can also use speed. If you were on a train that circled the earth at near light speed (8 RPM) for fifty regular earth years; the passengers on the train will have only aged one week while everyone else will have aged 50 years. Also, it is important to note that you will still die of old age. Essentially, you have your standard 70-80 year lifespan to accomplish all of your time travel. You can slow your aging down but you will eventually die. In the train example, you get about 1 shot in your lifetime to execute a time travel. However, if you could live to be 100, then you could do it twice if you started when you were born and didn’t care to look around too much after the first 50 year hop. You could get 200 years out of the deal that way. The fact that you can vary mass or speed independently to affect time is the essence of Einstein’s insight that space and time in OUR universe are inseparable. Thus, the concept of space-time and all of the interesting discoveries that followed. Time travel into the past works mathematically because mathematics can deal with a "Infinity" term in equations to overcome the problems of generating infinite energy. Infinity is no sweat on paper in a math equation. However, it drives physicist’s crazy. There is no current proof that traveling into the past is possible. The paradox of running into a past self or killing your parents can be overcome in concept by using the infinite self’s/time arrows concept. However, without that, to travel into the past means that "Cause" and "Effect" laws must be broken. There are on-going experiments to explore whether an effect can occur before the cause. Its possible that this law can "APPEAR TO THE OBSERVER" to be broken if multi-dimensional effects are considered. To date, I do not believe Cause and Effect reversal has really been proven to be possible YET.<br style=""> <br style=""> I don’t know why these shows and books don’t explain stuff in plain language like that. It is very straight forward. Creating the circumstance of large enough mass and/or enough speed is the hard part. ~MUTANT You are correct under the premis that you state but Your understanding of the premise of "FUTURE TIME TRAVEL" is NOT what physicists are talking about when they refer to traveling into the future. Its a much more mundane and less exciting proposition but it can be done. See my later posts. ~MUTANT Yes, thats what I am saying with regard to traveling into the past. You can conceive of mechanisms to get around some of the problems, but they are not realistic in physics. A math major can handle infinite dimensions but a physics has trouble getting beyond 4. Its the difference between paper math and physical reality. I added some stuff to my post and resubmitted it. That might help. Logic has nothing to do with any of this in the way that you use it. Traveling into the future under the circumstances I outlined are a function of the ACTUAL EXISTING laws of Physics in our universe. These are proven and we use them everyday such as keeping the GPS time on the satellites accurate. Relativity is a real existing law. I don't if Einstein got it perfect, but he sure advanced us thousands of years with this flash of insight. The LOGIC you refer to is exactly why it took so long for scientists to acept it. It sounds counter-intuitive to us humans but it is really there. Whoever established the laws (GOD, RA, ALLAH, etc) must have thought it was logical. ~MUTANT

I am interested in the accelerated expansion as well and why it is happening. Observations confirm it is happening, and they then devise ways of explaining it. I personally believe the universe is "GROWING" at an accelerated rate and not just expanding. I believe both are happening. I personally do not believe our universe is the only one and I believe that other universes (or multiverses if you will) are also interconnected. I believe space is a real "THING" and not emptiness. I believe that "SPACE-TIME" is pouring into our universe from other universe(s) and it is pouring in from every direction thus causing galaxies to (generally) be moving apart from one another in every direction (mostly anyway). This concept invokes a higher dimensional universe concept but that is not unusual as far as space-time theories go and it does not involve the invention of some kind of dark matter or dark energy. All that is required is that some kind of pump(s) are pushing more stuff into our Universe. Our universe simply interacts with other universes in very simplistic exchanges of stuff (information, space-time, etc). At present, our universe is receiving more stuff in that it is pushing out. This likely changes continually as things morph around and change between the universes. I am interested in all the dark matter/energy hocus pocus as well.. there is some merit too it. I just tend to think things are usually more simple that we make out sometimes and just because we cant come up with a simplistic model doesn't mean that one doesn't exist. It usually means we haven't seen the big picture yet. ~MUTANT

Guys, The universe Absolutely allows for travel into the future. It has been proven with atomic clocks on airplanes and the GPS system adjustments that must occur daily. In addition the apparent extended time it takes for particles to decay in a particle accelerator. What folks miss is that "YOU THE TIME TRAVELER DO NOT TRAVEL INTO THE FUTURE". The traveler does not go zooming off into some future place. YOU simply slow down Time for the Time Traveler and everyone else Travels into the future at their current rate. Time ticks slower (proven) under different circumstances. You simply need to place the time traveler in one of those circumstances and when he emerges, he will return to a point in which everyone/everything else has zoomed on past him. To the traveler, it will be the future. The different circumstances to slow down time involve Mass and Light Speed (or near light speed). Thats for another time. So, You slow your own time down for a while (kinda like going to sleep) and when You emerge. Everybody and everything else appears to you like the future. To them nothing out of the ordinary has happened. You are the fish out of water.. not them. I dont know why these shows dont explain stuff in plain language like that. It is very straight forward. Creating the circumstance is the hard part. ~MUTANT Time travel into the past works mathematically because mathematics can deal with a "Infinity" term in equations. Infinity is no sweat on paper in a math equation. However, it drives physicists nuts. There is no current proof that traveling into the past is possible. However, to travel into the past means that "Cause" and "Effect" laws must be broken. There are on-going experiments to explore whether an effect can occur before the cause. Its possible that this law can "APPEAR TO THE OBSERVER" to be broken if multi-dimensional effects are considered. To date, I do not believe Cause and Effect reversal has really been proven to be possible. ~MUTANT