RE: Time
April 10, 2011 at 3:20 am
(This post was last modified: April 10, 2011 at 3:20 am by lilphil1989.)
(April 9, 2011 at 5:54 pm)Emporion Wrote: I wanted to see if people here knew that it's mathematically impossible to control time.
Mathematically, it's trivial to invent a framework in which time is controlled by any number of parameters. Whether or not that framework is a good representation of physical reality is another matter, but there's nothing in the rules of mathematics to stop you inventing it.
ib.me.ub Wrote:Also, the closer you travel to the speed of light will have a bearing on your relative time? (Please correct me if I am wrong).
Nope, you're right! The Lorentz transforms are the equations describing this.
Whether or not this means you can control time really depends on how you want to define control.
Can you make your time intervals appear shorter or longer relative to those measured by someone else? Sure! Is that control in the context of the question? Emporion?
Galileo was a man of science oppressed by the irrational and superstitious. Today, he is used by the irrational and superstitious who claim they are being oppressed by science - Mark Crislip
