What happens when space folds? Is time distorted as well?

Question

Spcae folding has been talked about for traveling long distances.

Answer 1

no, time should not be for the most part.

space folding doesn't require speed.

speed or should I say velocity can directly effect time and space time. the more mass / gravity / speed an object has the slower time becomes for it.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GHC8z6ULs18

even if he's wrong, I hope he can prove something in this experiment


uhm the law of relativity shows that the faster you move the more time distorts or seems to slow down.

the clocks on satellites orbiting the earth slow down approx 1/4 of a second each year and must be constantly updated to sync with clocks on earth.
http://metaresearch.org/cosmology/gps-relativity.asp

time CAN be distorted DUE to relativity

Answer 2

Except that... space does not fold. There are no known stable physical solutions to Einstein's Equations which could describe the folding of space.

One can, of course, produce any amount of intellectual nonsense of the kind

"If I can borrow 12 trillion billion million tons of negative matter from my extraterrestrial neighbor and friend Mike, then I can make a wormhole that folds space..."

but then you have the problem to explain where "Mike" got that stuff from and the answer is "Not Walmart!".

You see... logic and mathematics do not prevent you from producing large amounts of GIGO (garbage-in-garbage-out).

Wormholes and space folding are just particularly sweet smelling monster heaps of marvelous GIGO.

So, indeed, if "Mike" brings over some of the negative mass stuff tonight, we'll try to bend time. But someone better make sure he shows up!

Answer 3

Think of it this way... If you could take a balloon, and without popping it, push the sides together so that a small area of one side touches the other and then put a small straw in the touching points you will have a 2-dimensional equivalent of a wormhole (which is the popular name for the phenomemon that you are discussing. if you could travel through the resulting hole, then you could technically travel from one side of the universe to the other nearly instantaneously.

Another interesting phenomena exists around a 'rotating' black hole. These are believed to be the best candidates for passable wormholes...

For more information check out...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rotating_black_hole

Answer 4

time can never be distorted, because of the law of relativity. Space folding is this...

imagine a napkin with two coins, beads, or whatever you want to imagine for where you are and where you want to be.

now fold the napkin so that the two points are aligned with each other.

Does it take time to fold the napkin? Yes that is the same story with folding space, the time taken to fold the two points is faster than having to slide one of the objects toward the other.

Answer 5

in case you are able to desire to fold area you are able to desire to deliver any 2 factors in touch with one yet another and right now be on the different factor of the universe. At one time Einstein theory it could desire to be executed,he claimed the universe became formed like a saddle,he became incorrect.

Answer 6

get this book A BRIEF HISTORY OF TIME by Stephen Hawking

There is another book

A BRIEFER HISTORY OF TIME with Stephen Hawking with Leonard Mlodinow

Answer 7

Space and time are one, called space-time. So anything you do to space, also happens to time. A black hole's gravitational pull distorts space as well as time.

Answer 8

Around black holes or other large mass. it warps space and time.

Answer 9

yup!