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A.Mistrean
Lyceum,,B.P.Hasdeu
Before 1905 there wasn't much to say
about time. In the 17th century
Newton defined time as something
that continues, no matter what,
without any link with reality and
according to its own nature.
Everybody believed that time had its
influence on the environment, but if
you believed that the environment had
its influence on time, you really had to
be mad! That changed in 1905 with
Einstein's special relativity theory, in
which he showed that time can be
influenced. But this doesn't mean time
can be changed in such a way that
you can travel to the future or the
past. That's what it's all about on this
pages: Is it possible to travel through
time, and if possible, under which
circumstances?
It will become very clear that the
speed of light has got a major
influence on the possibility of time
travelling. An object should move
faster than light speed to travel
through time. Therefore we use the
tunnel effect, an effect in the quantum
mechanics. That means that a ray of
light or a bundle of electrons that is
sent through a certain barrier arrives
sooner at the other side of the barrier
than if there wasn't a barrier.
If time travelling is possible
according to the relativity theory,
there will be a lot of other problems.
I'm not talking about the technical
problems, 'cause that's not what this
is about, but I mean the paradoxes.
For these problems there is no such
thing as a logical explanation, no
matter how long you'll search. There
are 2 sorts of physics: Newton's
physics and Einstein's physics. When
you use formulas from Newton and
formulas from Einstein's physics to
calculate a certain physical value,
you'll become not the same value. In
'normal' situations these differences
are extremely small. But in 'extreme'