Hayek
2010-07-27 16:32:44 UTC
FTL or Mutual Time Dilation ?
Which belongs to fact and which belongs to fiction ?
The players :
Ann - the stay at home twin - clock points at 2025
Betty's time is 2023.
Betty - the traveling twin - clock points at 2023
Ann's time is 2021
Enter mutual time dilation and ftl :
Ann sends ftl message to Betty, message arrives in 2003.
Betty retransmits message to Ann, message arrives in
2001. Causality destroyed.
This is under the assumption that for Ann, Betty is
still in 2003 and that for Betty, Ann is still in 2001.
There is another, much more simple explanation : they
are still both in the same now, let us take the Earth's
time as a reference, 2005, but Betty's molecules have
just moved slower (imnsho because of higher inertia),
just as she would have as being in some cryogenic system.
In this context : Ann ftl-calls Betty and realizes that
her speech is gamma times slower, Betty notices that Ann
speech is gamma times faster. Ftl works just fine, only
the phone bills are too high.
What is the greater science fiction, ftl or mutual time
dilation, the latter giving rise to time travel and
causality breaches ?
Ftl does not breach causality, MTD (mutual time
dilation) does.
MTD = Science Fiction.
Uwe Hayek.
--
We are fast approaching the stage of the ultimate
inversion : the stage where the government is free to do
anything it pleases, while the citizens may act only by
permission; which is the stage of the darkest periods of
human history. -- Ayn Rand
I predict future happiness for Americans if they can
prevent the government from wasting the labors of the
people under the pretense of taking care of them. --
Thomas Jefferson.
Socialism is a philosophy of failure, the creed of
ignorance, and the gospel of envy, its inherent virtue
is the equal sharing of misery. -- Winston Churchill.
Which belongs to fact and which belongs to fiction ?
The players :
Ann - the stay at home twin - clock points at 2025
Betty's time is 2023.
Betty - the traveling twin - clock points at 2023
Ann's time is 2021
Enter mutual time dilation and ftl :
Ann sends ftl message to Betty, message arrives in 2003.
Betty retransmits message to Ann, message arrives in
2001. Causality destroyed.
This is under the assumption that for Ann, Betty is
still in 2003 and that for Betty, Ann is still in 2001.
There is another, much more simple explanation : they
are still both in the same now, let us take the Earth's
time as a reference, 2005, but Betty's molecules have
just moved slower (imnsho because of higher inertia),
just as she would have as being in some cryogenic system.
In this context : Ann ftl-calls Betty and realizes that
her speech is gamma times slower, Betty notices that Ann
speech is gamma times faster. Ftl works just fine, only
the phone bills are too high.
What is the greater science fiction, ftl or mutual time
dilation, the latter giving rise to time travel and
causality breaches ?
Ftl does not breach causality, MTD (mutual time
dilation) does.
MTD = Science Fiction.
Uwe Hayek.
--
We are fast approaching the stage of the ultimate
inversion : the stage where the government is free to do
anything it pleases, while the citizens may act only by
permission; which is the stage of the darkest periods of
human history. -- Ayn Rand
I predict future happiness for Americans if they can
prevent the government from wasting the labors of the
people under the pretense of taking care of them. --
Thomas Jefferson.
Socialism is a philosophy of failure, the creed of
ignorance, and the gospel of envy, its inherent virtue
is the equal sharing of misery. -- Winston Churchill.