Hi sorry about that, don't know how it went to a sales site. anyway here is the link i had meant to post, its to a document on google docs. it pertains to time travel and our conceptions of how it must be achieved and how it actually can be achieved.

 

http://docs.google.com/fileview?id=0B1VRTIzMrgSsNTgxYTFmODMtYThhYy00ZGY0LWE4NzYtMWQwYTk2MmMxOTAx&hl=en

Edited May 28, 201015 yr by usernamehere

That link took me to what appears to be a document about photography, though it is titled "TIME." if that is indeed the subject, perhaps you could summarize it and explain its relevance to this thread.

You have just hit the nail on the head. One can be used to explain the other. "Time and the photon graph" is the complete name of the document and a full reading will explain the connection between the two. cheers.

I'm impressed by how succinctly you summarized it. "a full reading will explain the connection". Wow.

I had a brief glance . I agree that 2d is just a subset of 3d spacetime . I'm not sure I understand the point of the document though . It seems to break down the fact that you wouldn't need an infinate amount of compute power to compute every possible random image (Or something like that . I have no idea) .

 

...it is possible to calculate every possible combination of that set size. We have defined a photograph as a two dimensional representation of light within an area of space and that the photograph is a representation of light at a particular

time. Adding all of these facts together it should not be that difficult to arrive at the realisation we can traverse time visually.

 

WTF!!!!!! I have no idea what that means!!

 

Emulating the big bang on a supercomputer would be the only theoretical approach to virtual timetravel I can conceive (And unless you could get every virtual? wavefunction to break in exactly the right way , who knows what type of virtual universe you'ld have computed . Not to mention the fact that you'ld need a computer as big or bigger than the known universe .

I recommend a short story by Isaac Asimov called 'The last question' to anyone interested in a computable universe .

 

One paradox of such an idea is that running a simulation of the universe in the universe would create a feedback loop when you get to the point in the universe where you create the universe in the universe . The needed compute power would jump in magnitude and causes a crash/overload . If we are indeed already in a virtual world , more virtualization may make our own world crash .

Edited May 29, 201015 yr by HardonColluder