Post by fluke on Sept 12, 2009 10:09:02 GMT -5
I suppose, that rather than suddenly having time fly, it would be a gradual thing as you squeeze into 4D space, which leaves relativity intact. If you can squeeze into 4D+1, where light isn't the limit any more, then you can have fun fly when you are having time, as it were.
Hmm... so here's another question: would there be a point where you hit another wall in 4D+1 space? Would relativity kick in again, or would it be something different?
Hmm... so here's another question: would there be a point where you hit another wall in 4D+1 space? Would relativity kick in again, or would it be something different?
Thief of Time posits something like this. It all has to do with quantum. When the monks of history need to do things in a crunch, they can slow time down by pushing into the quantum foam. This is called "time slicing" or simply "slicing." To their perspective, time outside the foam slows down. It slows down more the deeper they push into the foam. To those in normal time, it appears as if these little monks are moving faster than possible. It's all relative.
Pushing deeper into the foam gets harder. The monk must exert more effort to "slow time down more." But there comes a point, a sea of tranquility, where suddenly the strain is no more. The monk can push deeper more easily than entering the first time. Then it gets harder again, exponentially harder.
The abbot has postulated that there are more pockets of tranquility deeper into the foam, but each would be smaller than the previous and harder to get to than the last.
It made me think of the fractal bifurcation graph. Where things start orderly, get chaotic, then get ordered for brief periods of time before falling back into chaos.