So what is the idea of time travel. If you have to guess, the speed of light would have to apply in order to fulfill that requirement. Science works backwards. Science tells us only what we can reveal about ourselves. But not at the quantum level. My understanding of quantum theory tells me what I need to know is for lack of permeance. I want to fight for it. This world is all we have.
If machine life were able to contrast itself into an anomaly, do you want to upload your personal genetic code (DNA) into a machine. Do you exist formlessly?
If we can prove that heaven exists in an isometric scale, that eternity is therefore limited to simulation of your machine life made up your DNA in the realm of quantum computing. Where the future involves is not as a species, but a model that is machine generated.
These questions between if you choose to be automated and therefore invincible i.e. consciously aware for infinity. Do you forgo your human body as your vessel? Is time a machine constructed capsule.
It's going to be the reality within the next 1000yrs. But my question isn't predictable as the answer.
Do you want what is your real life version of you, or do you want a consciously permanent neverending construct visble to everything in the universe. Where norhing is invisible to you but you and your understanding. You conduct yourself as a machine.
Only you don’t want it.
(That's the paradox.)
There is a finite construct incoming. The universe will be invariably distinct from this one if we do nothing to resist.
Science fact needs peace attached to the unqualifying idea of science fiction itself.
I want to write my own story. Practice owning my space in time. The concept of free will is what makes the architect. Machine life will not accept that.
My point is a practical one.
Which choice do you ("we") make as a species moving forward. The one where god has his only son or playing god for the purpose of a conscious machine life.
- Marco
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Time is not a constant. Einstein figured this out in 1905 and it has been confirmed repeatedly since. The faster you move through space, the slower you move through time. This is not casual theory. It is measured, verified physics that GPS satellites correct for every single day or your maps would drift by kilometres.
Now scale that up to something genuinely mind-bending.
The Andromeda Galaxy sits 2.537 million light years from Earth. A round trip at 99.9 percent the speed of light would take approximately 5 million years from Earth's perspective. Civilisations would rise and fall. The continents would shift. Most species alive today would be extinct or unrecognisable.
For the traveller, the story is completely different. At 99.9 percent the speed of light, time dilation compresses the experienced journey to roughly 224 years of personal time. Push that to 99.9999 percent and the same trip shrinks to about two years. You board a ship, travel to another galaxy and back, age a handful of years, and return to an Earth where 5 million years passed without you.
Nothing about that violates any law of physics. Einstein's special relativity says that space and time are a single fabric, and motion through space trades off against motion through time. The mathematics are exact and confirmed by atomic clocks on aircraft.
The barrier is not the physics. It is the engineering. Accelerating any object with mass to even a fraction of light speed requires energy that dwarfs everything humanity has ever produced.
But here is the part worth sitting with. Time dilation is happening to you right now, relative to someone sitting perfectly still. They are ageing fractionally faster than you are.
Not by much. But the universe is genuinely that strange.
