Assuming that instantaneous teleportation exsisted. If you could teleport from one side of the universe to the other, would the time thing apply? When you returned, would everything have aged?
2006-10-01 22:41:44 · 11 answers · asked by David F 1 in Science & Mathematics ➔ Physics
If you're talking about instantaneous teleportation, then no. "The time thing" only applies when you're talking about traveling at the speed of light. If you somehow figure out how to jump from here to another galaxy instantly and then came back, it would be just as you left it. However, if you somehow found a warp engine and traveled to another galaxy at the speed of light and back, then time for you would have been "slower" and thus people on Earth would have seemed to age more than you, but "the time thing" only applies to traveling at the speed of light.
2006-10-01 22:46:32 · answer #1 · answered by guyinjapan07 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Let me see if I got your question right... This instantaneous teleportation thing is not really related to your question? You just want to know if time is... well, time as we experience it here, also everywhere else in the universe? Then I would say yes, we assume so. It's called "The Principle of Uniformity of Nature", and it postulates that the laws of nature (including causality) discovered on Earth apply throughout the universe. We have to presume so when we for example observe distant stars and make assumptions about things there and in between.
However, if you throw in the concept of instantaneous teleportation, then things get more complicated. I honestly admit that I'm not too acquainted with latest trends and thoughts about quantum teleportation and stuff like that, but if you presume instantaneous teleportation, then you presume some basic things about relativity null and void. After that, we wouldn't know what this universe would look like in these new conditions.
2006-10-01 23:52:08 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
If you teleported there and back immediately there would be very little change. If you traveled at the speed of light, you would be nearly the same age and everyone else would have been long gone.
2006-10-01 23:00:37 · answer #3 · answered by starjoy 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
You answer it in your question:
"Assuming that instantaneous teleportation exsisted"....
If it was instantaneous, then you could transport there and
directly back and nothing would have changed... It is highly doubtful
if this is possible....
2006-10-02 03:38:33 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
'Now' is all that matters. Its only relative because we don't have means of crossing over so fast. I believe its only a matter of time before we find ways to do it as well.
It would've taken a 1000 years in prehistoric ages for a man go from US to Europe. But it only takes only few hours now. 'Now' in US is 'Now' in Europe. So would be the answer for your question.
2006-10-01 23:48:42 · answer #5 · answered by nalaka 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
time is basically made up. Distance you can measure and you can change distance, (e.g. where you are standing) but once you get to a certain time you can not, no matter what, return to that time.
2006-10-01 22:45:12 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
well you would first have to break all the laws of pysics
therefore your question is impossible to answer
it seems like most people know nothing about the world arround them
2006-10-01 22:45:17 · answer #7 · answered by exchange 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
So you're asking....
Assuming relativity did not apply, would relativity apply?
I would say no. Assuming relativity did not apply, relativity would not apply.
2006-10-01 23:24:45 · answer #8 · answered by Holden 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
You can't even be in space without having altered time, I don't think that'd be possible.
2006-10-01 22:45:19 · answer #9 · answered by crudhouse 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Some say time doesn't exist.That It is all an illusion. I have no idea.
2006-10-01 22:44:54 · answer #10 · answered by sanja77 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋