Wednesday, December 14, 2011

I was watching a few documentaries about Time and Space again. Yes, again. Because no matter how many times I think about it, I'm still very fascinated about how everything began. However, even though I already had all the fundamental concepts that I got from the show. Something sparked off, and a link was formed.

For all purposes of this writing, I shall assume that The Big Bang is how the universe is created. I know that there are many ways to make it happen, to list a few:

1. The singularity explanation
2. The membranes of different dimensions colliding
3. The principle of uncertainty

Of course, there are many many more explanations but these are the main and the most probable ones. At least to me. All of these explanations are related to how the big bang occurred, hence the assumption of the Big Bang Theory.

I've thought about this for a long time. About what happened before the big bang. We know that time and is born from the big bang. So what lies beyond that?

Before you continue, I must stress that this is really mind twisting. Because it warps the fabric of reality. Now, proceed to get your mind blown.

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Sunday, December 04, 2011

It just suddenly hit me somehow. I'm sure others have thought of it before, but I haven't really read anything about it yet so I thought, hey this is quite interesting. And I shall not Google for it since it'll dampen my brilliance.

So here's my idea.

You all know about the speed of light, 299,792,458 m/s to be exact. I hope you have a slight idea about the theory of general relativity and special relativity.

If you don't, in short, it just means that, the faster you go, the slower time passes in your perspective relative to a stationary person. Because of your relative distance to the place that is "measuring" the time. To put it into daily example, imagine an ambulance as it whizzes past you, the sound gets trailed off as it moves away from you, the pitch changes, but in the perspective of the driver, the pitch always remains the same. Fun fact: The law of general relativity is also used in GPS.

Okay, so you have that, and we also know about light years, it's the measure of distance according to how much distance light travels in a year.

It is fascinating because, let's say for example, we're observing a star that is 100 light years away. What we see isn't the star, but what the star was 100 years ago. So, we are literally looking back into the past. Yes seriously, I'm not kidding. 

So I thought about it for awhile.

IF. I was able to travel 365 times faster than the speed of light. Effectively making 1 light year = 1 kaboom day. So, in 50 of my days, I would be able to reach a planet 50 light years away.

Now, if I had an exceptionally powerful telescope, able to zoom 50 light years across.

Would I be able to see Earth 
from 49 years, 315 days ago?


Theoretically, I would think yes. What do you think?

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