TENSORSPACE DIAGRAM
This section
is for discussion of time travel theory, the way I see it. Many people
have asked me if I believe time travel is really possible. The answer
is: “Yes, I do.” I don’t wish to re-hash the theories of others,
but to form theories of my own on how it might be accomplished.
This first discussion
is from Chapter 9 of BTTM: “SPACE, TIME, AND UNIVERSE”. The
Time Traveller, in his sitting room, always anxious to talk to anybody
who will listen, “discusses” his theories of time travel. And one
of his postulations is the existence of a “TENSORSPACE” containing “DIMENSIONAL
TRIOS”, each with three (3) degrees of freedom (i.e., three mutually perpendicular
“planes”), starting with SPACE, TIME, and UNIVERSE.
The three perpendicular
planes or “freedoms”) of SPACE are: length, width, and height.
Those of TIME are: progression, track, and phase. And those
of UNIVERSE are: plane, event, and warp. You’ll note that in
this concept, TIME is NOT a continuation of linear SPACE dimensions, but
a SEPARATE classification with three “dimensions” (“freedoms”) all its
own! And ditto for UNIVERSE.
Not only that:
there may be an infinity of other DIMENSIONAL TRIOS, each with its own
three degrees of freedom. Some may be “beyond” the UNIVERSE trio,
indicated by “ultra?”. Others may “precede” the SPACE trio, indicated
by “micro?” and “subspace”. And still others such as “FORCE FIELDS”
(one, specifically, with electricity, magnetism, and gravity as its three
mutually perpendicular degrees of freedom) may be off-shoot branches from
the main procession of trios.
In short, the
Time Traveller postulates that TENSORSPACE (the tensor totality of everything)
consists of one main “procession” or “progression” of these trios going
from “somewhere” to “somewhere”. As such, the complete scenarios,
taken as a whole, form this “TENSOR TOTALITY OF EVERYTHING”.
For those of
you uncomfortable with the word “tensor”, let’s start at the beginning,
with nothing. The first thing (attribute) you have is a “scalar”,
which is defined only by MAGNITUDE. The next step up is a “vector”,
which has both magnitude and DIRECTION. The next step up is the “tensor”,
which the Time Traveller postulated has magnitude, direction, and EXISTENCE.
Or, said tensor
could have even more attributes such as magnitude, direction, existence,
and a SPECIFIED REALITY. A tensor may have an infinite number of
attributes. The notation gets tacky, and the explanations and words
used often conflict from person to person (math specialists, please forgive
me!). I will try my best to define my usages. Others may be
able to define them much better as discussions move on.
Our own perceived
existence is based mainly in terms of SPACE, and partly of what we can
perceive in the “progression” attribute of TIME. We know little or
nothing of the “SUBSPACE”, “MICRO”, and “ULTRA” trios. See diagram
below.
TENSORSPACE DIAGRAM
The “complete”
tensorspace consists of all series of trios taken as the whole -- which
define the total tensor definition (tensor totality) of everything.
Anyone and anything moving through space and time (per our perceptions)
is also moving through tensorspace (all those other trios).
One’s own travel
through tensorspace is best described as a “STRING” following some smooth
regular (or even, perhaps, irregular) path, determined by one’s actions
in life. Once this string is disturbed by portal or temporal-field
travel, any number of things might happen. A “branching-off” point
may be created, taking one on another generated existence (from that point).
It may be close to, or even far from, the original “string” which would
have defined one’s path without the disruption. The original string
may still be continuing WITHOUT one’s presence within it.
The second possibility
is we might “swap” strings with other existences. We could trade
existences with any of those billions of “you’s” acting concurrently with
you. Portal travel is very disruptive to existential string progressions,
even in a SPACE-only mode from here to there, without any “distance” between.
The effect would be manyfold more strings affected. And a TIME-SPACE
movement through a portal could produce very serious anomalies in one’s
existence, such as completely fracturing one’s string of existence, at
which one can only guess the effects and consequences. Such a fracture
could trigger a googolplex (10 to the [10 to the 100th] power) magnitude
of other existence-string disruptions.
Once SPACE (via
portal or other unknown ways), TIME, or any other trio might be disturbed,
everything else in tensorspace is also disrupted in unknown ways.
And because of this, there can be no “TIME anomalies” per se -- from the
standpoint of “you”. Because once you leave an existence, you can
NEVER return to it. (One can NEVER re-enter one’s former string of
existence.) If you meet yourself, you meet yourself in a NEW string
of existence. If you arrive beforehand and stop yourself from taking
a time-trip, you have stopped yourself -- but in ANOTHER (different) existence.
The concept
here is very simple. You can NEVER exactly repeat any action in SPACE,
or even define any specific moment in TIME. You can define it close
enough for practical purposes, but never to the nearest one-“infinitieth”
(1 ÷ infinity) of positioning. As such, no action can be EXACTLY
repeated; nothing can be EXACTLY duplicated; and nothing can
be EXACTLY placed in TIME.
To repeat, once
you leave an “existence frame”, you are gone from it forever -- meaning
that if you go off into time, other “you’s” (in an very large number of
alternate close-proximity “existence frames” of reality) also go off into
TIME. Once you re-enter TIME, though it may SEEM like where you departed
(or even like your expected future), it will NOT be. There ALWAYS
will be differences -- sometimes small, sometimes great. Because
you and the other “you’s” either have breached each others’ existence frames,
or possibly branched, or even created new existence frames with “your”
return. The terminology gets tricky here, but the concept should
be fairly clear about what happens.
It gets even
much more complicated; but I think this is good enough for a starter.
I plan to continue this discussion if and whenever I get the chance.
* * * *
And now we get
down to the possibility ACTUAL TIME TRAVEL, of which there are two possible
modes. The first is “ANALOG”, meaning that a temporal field is somehow
created, and the “traveler” and his/her “Machine” slowly cut through the
temporal (TIME) plane via limbo-time (outside of normal time flow), using
mainly the “progression” attribute. As such, TIME travel can be either
forward or backward.
Creating such
a temporal field means using a combination of forces (electrical, magnetic,
gravitational, atomic), sophisticated resonances, waveforms, and/or other
things which will affect the “progression” attribute of TIME. Experiments
have been done with high-voltage and electro-magnetic fields in order to
accomplish this. There are also recipes for time travel over the
Internet. But the fact is: anyone who is smart enough to have
discovered actual time travel is also smart enough NOT to talk about it.
So that leaves the problem of creating temporal fields in the realm of
the unknown. Trisecting the angle (in plane geometry) would be a
far easier pursuit.
The second possibility
is DIGITAL time travel, which is much more intriguing. In essence,
it means getting from “here” to “there” without any (or with minimal) “distance”
in between. And the one thing that might accomplish this is the classical
“wormhole”, which I prefer to call a PORTAL.
PORTALS can
be long, short, thin, fat, scrawny -- all shapes. If floating portals
could be “seen”, they might appear as diaphanous, cellophane-like tubes
squirming and undulating like restless caterpillars in their aimless floating
from “here” to “there”. While visualized mainly as circular, they
may be oblong or even irregular in shape; and their undulating diameters
may vary widely. But they ARE “tubular”, with at least two ends (openings).
It seems a much
more feasible project that one could build a PORTAL-CAPTURE DEVICE.
This consists of a heavily insulated “tunnel” of circuits or whatever,
which can capture a portal end and direct its other end to wherever one
pleases. It has been postulated that CREATING a portal would take
a near-impossible amount of energy. But with so many available and
free-floating, why waste effort trying to “create” a new one -- especially
when an existing one might be adapted, using far less energy?
There are portals
and portals and portals out there -- floating around EVERYWHERE, invisible
to the eye or any other known detecting device known at this time.
They are among us, in other/alternate planes (“dimensional trios”), beyond
our perceptions. The problem is: how do we ATTRACT and capture
one of these portal ends, open it up into our “plane” of existence, and
direct its other end maybe into distant space, or as close to the next
town a few miles away, or into the next room, or even a few feet away?
The TIME attributes
of that portal also might be directed and set (e.g., perhaps a few feet
away, but 2500 years into the future). The captured end (the “entry”)
and the directed “exit” end, should be visible through each other.
Physical transfer of atmosphere (from pressure gradients), heat, and other
attributes is probably unlikely until activated. And that also may
pose a problem to whoever and whatever goes through any active (open) PORTAL.
The starting
construction for a PORTAL-CAPTURE DEVICE might be a large (at least 8 feet
in diameter), insulated, open tunnel-like structure several feet long --
containing coils, circuits, and/or whatever else necessary, built on the
inside. Ultra-high voltages, powerful electromagnetic fields, and
high-amperage waveform generators also would be a start. Interaction
might include induction and other coils with windings at odd angles, fed
by isolated external power sources in order to avoid redundancy (nullifying)
problems.
Whatever is
done, only minimal essential circuitry (such as mounting parts, coils,
rotors, etc.) need be located INSIDE the tunnel. The “support equipment”
such as power supplies, servos, amplifiers, generators and other peripheral
equipment may be external to (outside) the “tunnel” area. But it’s
IMPORTANT that all the outputs, fields, and other effects they produce
must occur INSIDE that “tunnel”. It’s also important that the produced
effects be contained WITHIN the tunnel.
As for the actual
(necessary) circuits, electronics, amplifiers, high-voltage transformers,
whatever, again that is left to discovery. Eventually, some particular
combination of energy and/or field interaction(s) from the above may produce
some unexpected results -- appearing like unexplained auras, glows, waverings,
or mirror-like effects. With a strong capture, the “scene” through
the portal’s exit end should also become visible. The rest is up
to the experimenter to refine the process.
A successful
capture can occur in either direction of the open tunnel. If and
when it does occur, the front end (entry end) of the portal will display
the mirror-like wavering described above. The “back” side (i.e.,
other end of the tunnel, viewed from the rear) might best resemble a thin,
diaphanous, cloud-like large “tube” slowly fading into nothingness (out
of our “dimensional reality”) as it gets further away from the tunnel.
From far enough
away, the back end of the tunnel might resemble a thin cloud-like ring
with vigorous swirling inside -- and no visible front-end waverings.
Getting too near it could result in shock or other unpleasant physiological
effects such as severe cellular and neural disruptions. So the word
here is: if you do manage to capture a portal, keep a safe distance
from the “back” of the tunnel structure!
For an ANALOG
Time Machine, all the circuits would have to be portable (i.e., INSIDE
the generated temporal field), and would move through time along with any
time traveler(s).
There’s so much
more to say. It’s very difficult to elaborate on any subject with
almost no groundwork or precedence. I expect many comments and reactions
to all this -- some pertinent, some vacuous. But for all serious
points and topics brought up, I’ll do my best to elaborate and learn as
I go along.
If there are
any questions or topics you might want to discuss or see discussed about
time travel -- in both REAL POSSIBILITIES and in fiction -- please let
me know, and I’ll try to add the info to this website as feasible.
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