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[Scott]

Well technology like that won't be cheap. You'd also need to have a destination portal. So you should probably shut your teleporter off when you go out. That just sounds cool. Shutting your teleporter off...

[Ironman21]

lol

well, as long as you would have to have a portal, than the downsides wouldn't be anything that I can think of as of now. It would be kind of strange to be alone at home one minute, and then ended up staring at your ex. while your in the middle of dinner with your girlfriend. Yikes!

[Scott]

Or while your "studying" in your bedroom with a "friend" your mother comes home early, instantly.

[Ironman21]

Man, that would get ugly fast!

[Scott]

That would ruin a perfectly good....Well I guess kids might read this....ruin a perfectly good study and then you might upset your partner for finishing early. Wow that still sounds wrong....

[Ironman21]

No Kidding!
Lets keep this conversation "G" rated
Well, does this mean that einstein and his theories about black holes being holes in space and time support this theory and everything.

[Sam]

@Tretarn

Very interesting read. I never thought of using Wormholes to move across space. Aren't their destinations random? Or are they always constant?

Also I have realized that time travel is impossible which is unfortunate. I thought of it with a much simpler paradox like example (at least simpler to me). My thought is that you can't go backward in time because we would be seeing people from the future. Unless like in Family Guy, they are forbidden to talk about what year they come from. This seems improbable. The only other explanation is that we are the first cycle to discover time travel. This would imply then that time is cyclical and non linear like it is thought (and pretty well known). But is not possible that we could find a way to travel forward in time? Again I'm doubtful because time is not an object to be manipulated but who knows what the future beholds (probably not time travel).

I've heard about the Heisenberg Uncertainty Principle before, and I guess it would mean that re-atomizing (?) would be impossible as the velocity, position, etc of each separate atom is blurred. Is a principle a law or a theory? Either way I really hope this becomes reality.

I realize that we need to make a new, more powerful, and efficient programming language to make truly intelligent artificial intelligence, but I can't see why this is so far away? Personally, I think it should be possible in 25 years the way we are progressing. Maybe I'm wrong but I hope I'm not.

My wormhole physics is very patchy but I think they are not random, although this could be wrong. However, I do definatly know that the ones that naturally occur are very fragile and susceptable to collapse when an object passes through them and we do not know where they end (so essentially random, if you get what I mean). So any that the human race could utilise would have to be man made, which if our understanding of physics becomes sufficient, hopefully one day we will be able to create and manipulate wormholes.

The only way forward in time that I know of is again in relativity. Special relativiy (and we have done experiments that proves this) predicts that if you travel at a massive speed (i.e 99% of the speed of light) then in your frame of reference time will slow down relative to everyone else (but not you, you think you are ticking along at the same rate, but everyone else is going really really fast). Meaning that when you come to a halt you will have aged less than everyone else! so you effectivly travel into the future, this video explains it quite well:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KHjpBjgIMVk

At the moment the heisenberg uncertanty principle is law, but my quantum lecturer has hinted that quantum physics may be reaching the end of the line and pretty soon we will need to have a massive expansion on the theory, so who knows, maybe one day we will be able to simply ignore the uncertanty principle.

I agree with you, I don't think advanced AI is too far away with the research that is going on and appologise if my prior post made you think this. But yeah its definatly a very very complicated subject that we are only just really getting to grips with

[Ironman21]

well, not aging would be kind of cool...but could you still do things, or would you be stuck in that state forever if something went wrong?

[Sam]

well, not aging would be kind of cool...but could you still do things, or would you be stuck in that state forever if something went wrong?

I didn't say not ageing, I couldn't actually think of a worse fate

What I meant was this:
- You travel really really fast
- You personally experiance time normally (so you age at the same rate)
- But everyone else who is left behind experiance time faster than you (yet still to them at the same speed.
- In the grand scheme of things they age faster than you, they experiance events faster than you, they live and die faster than you.
- The closer to the speed of light you get the greater the difference. The difference can get so great that you would only experiance 1 or 2 seconds and in that time everyone you knew would have lived thier lives and died


Anyway away from that depressing thought, this seriously screws with your mind and it defies normal conventions, it took me ages to fully come to terms with it.

[Ironman21]

Okay, but that would be even more depressing than what I thought it was! Would you die when the sun would go out in that minute of your life?

[Scott]

It's strange to think that they can figure this out, considering there is obviously no human who has done this before. Although science can be proved without having to prove anything it seems.

[Ironman21]

very true Scott. I'd like to see them prove some of their theories

[Scott]

I want teleportation darnit! Get to work whoever reading this is a scientist or PhD (so this post is probably not relevant to anyone....or at least very few)

[Matthew]

I was having a back and forth conversation with another forum member about Artificial Intelligence and wandered, where is it going? Sure it's commonly thought to be tied in with games (which it is) but where else could extremely complex AI be used in. One thing that comes in mind is the military. Using a gun that only shoots at people in it's database or possible who don't have a chip like the rest of the military. Complex AI could be used in hospitals as well. Helping doctors figure out the disease and best treatment for a patient with voice commends and comparing the look of the patient to other patients who had other diseases. There are many possibilities. Then my mind just kept thinking about other things in the future. Like teleportation with atom-entanglement, time travel by going the speed of light, harnessing photons for power, etc. So if you have something nerdy to talk about or just want to comment on something I've said feel free. If it gets enough interest maybe admin will consider it it's own thread? Anyway I anticipate the things you guys (and girls) have to say.

I've only scanned though this topic. I'm mostly in reply to the first post.

Teleportation is a bad idea. I've heard it would work by destroying objects before being rebuild in another location. I don't like the destroying part. You'll probably end up dead by losing your soul in the process.

Time travel is impossible. Once things have been done, they can't be undone. You can only adjust the relative speed of objects.

Harnessing photons for power? Don't we already do that with Solar panels?

In the very far future we may create technologies to manipulate and use dark/exotic/negative/whatever energy to create space distortion and hence travel between places quicker than light would with no distortion. Hence, we could travel to other worlds with warp drives and portals.

That's very far into the future if at all.

[Scott]

I was having a back and forth conversation with another forum member about Artificial Intelligence and wandered, where is it going? Sure it's commonly thought to be tied in with games (which it is) but where else could extremely complex AI be used in. One thing that comes in mind is the military. Using a gun that only shoots at people in it's database or possible who don't have a chip like the rest of the military. Complex AI could be used in hospitals as well. Helping doctors figure out the disease and best treatment for a patient with voice commends and comparing the look of the patient to other patients who had other diseases. There are many possibilities. Then my mind just kept thinking about other things in the future. Like teleportation with atom-entanglement, time travel by going the speed of light, harnessing photons for power, etc. So if you have something nerdy to talk about or just want to comment on something I've said feel free. If it gets enough interest maybe admin will consider it it's own thread? Anyway I anticipate the things you guys (and girls) have to say.

I've only scanned though this topic. I'm mostly in reply to the first post.

Teleportation is a bad idea. I've heard it would work by destroying objects before being rebuild in another location. I don't like the destroying part. You'll probably end up dead by losing your soul in the process.

Time travel is impossible. Once things have been done, they can't be undone. You can only adjust the relative speed of objects.

Harnessing photons for power? Don't we already do that with Solar panels?

In the very far future we may create technologies to manipulate and use dark/exotic/negative/whatever energy to create space distortion and hence travel between places quicker than light would with no distortion. Hence, we could travel to other worlds with warp drives and portals.

That's very far into the future if at all.

Tretarn has mentioned using Wormholes which is an interesting and feasible idea. Actually again, thanks Tretarn, he said that going almost the speed of light can make you age less than everyone else which is basically travelling forward in time. It's quite interesting you should read his posts. Thanks for your input