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Edge · Feb 16, 2004, 01:59 pm

</span><blockquote><span class="smallfont">Quote:</span><hr size="1" />Originally Posted by (Comrade,)
Time travel is an interesting but pointless debate.
Time is human concept. There is no giant timeline of events that you can fast forward or back on.<hr size="1" /></blockquote><span class='postcolor'>

I believe that Richard Feynman (physicist from from Cal Institute of Tech), Einstein, and a few others would dissagree with you. Time is not a human concept but our observation of it is. According to quantum mechanics, time is itself quantized. The smallest unit of measurement is (I believe) about 1x10-33 seconds. Time, like other dimensions, are curled and "coupled", for lack of a better term that I can think of right now, with every other dimension, and every particle in the universe. You "see" time through the perspective of space-time, as such, your observation of time is colored by the space that you exist in.

Feb 16, 2004, 01:59 pm	#20 (permalink) (top)
Edge Molten Ash Posts: 76	</span><blockquote><span class="smallfont">Quote:</span><hr size="1" />Originally Posted by (Comrade,) Time travel is an interesting but pointless debate. Time is human concept. There is no giant timeline of events that you can fast forward or back on.<hr size="1" /></blockquote><span class='postcolor'> I believe that Richard Feynman (physicist from from Cal Institute of Tech), Einstein, and a few others would dissagree with you. Time is not a human concept but our observation of it is. According to quantum mechanics, time is itself quantized. The smallest unit of measurement is (I believe) about 1x10-33 seconds. Time, like other dimensions, are curled and "coupled", for lack of a better term that I can think of right now, with every other dimension, and every particle in the universe. You "see" time through the perspective of space-time, as such, your observation of time is colored by the space that you exist in.