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untitledSpace-Time Physics and the Future of Time TravelBy Alex MacLellanHuman beings have always tried to explain the world around them. They have worked to organize it, to measureit, and to understand it. These efforts at understanding such basic concepts as space and time and light have ledto many discoveries. In the last one hundred years many changes have been made to how we understand these concepts.You may not be able to move as quickly and easily through time as the hero of H.G. Well's Time Machine, but scientistshave been able to understand how certain variables can affect time - to slow it down and speed it up - leadingthem to believe that it is possible that time travel may become possible. Before looking at time travel, an understandingof the terms and history are required. Space, time, and light have been studied and the definitions have evolvedas research has advanced. Looking at these concepts as they have been explained through history will help us understandwhat may be possible in the future.

Portrait of Euclid Over history many people have come up with many different views about what time is and what space is, and howto understand them. Space was defined be Euclid, a Greek mathematician. He was the creator of geometry in 295 B.C.Geometry explained the visible world of three-dimensions. Points on a plane can be located with coordinates. Thesecoordinates were called the Euclidean coordinate system, but were also sometimes called the Cartesian coordinatesystem. Soon after the Euclidean coordinate system was made a rule called the Pythagorean rule that could locatethe distance between any two points in a Euclidean coordinate system graph. The rule said that a simple equationwas all that was needed to find the distance between two points, the equation is:L122 = (X2 - X1)2 + (Y2 - Y1)This original idea of how to understand space leads to many discoveries in the future, like locating pointsusing three points, and then soon on to four.

Isaac Newton created the three basic laws of motion and the law of gravity which governs modern physics today.All of the physical world became predictable and orderly using his laws. Isaac Newton was used to modeling spaceusing the Euclidean distance function, but he wanted to also graph time so he created space-time graphs where distancewas the x-axis and time was the y-axis. This was a revolutionary graph because it showed not only things movingthrough space but also through time. Newton said, "Absolute, true, and mathematical time, of itself, and fromits own nature, flows equably, without relation to anything external."

Sir Isaac Newton Isaac Newton was right about some of his ideas about time but he was wrong about others. For instance, he saidthat time is absolute. His theory for this was that if a pulse of light is sent from one place to another, differentobservers would agree on the time it took for the light to get from one place to the next (since time is absolute),but the two observers would not always agree on the distance the light traveled (since space is not absolute).Since the speed of light is simply the distance divided by time, different observers would measure different speedsof light.This is where Einstein disagreed with Newton, because in Einstein's relativity all observers must agree on thespeed of light because it never changes. In Einstein's theory, since the two observers don't agree on the distancethe light has traveled, they must disagree on the time it took for the light to go between the two places. Thetime taken is the distance the light traveled, which the observers don't agree on, divided by the speed of light,which they do agree on. In other words, Einstein put an end to the idea that time is absolute. Since time is relative,space must be relative too.Einstein came up with a formula for his relative time that has to do with you speed and its effect on time. Thisformula is called the time dilation factor. The formula is: (1 - (U/c)2)1/2 (U=speed, c=speed of light)

Albert Einstein The time dilation factor theory says that the faster you go the slower time gets for you, because of the fact thattime is elastic and relative, not constant. "Time is not absolutely defined," said Einstein in his theoryof special relativity. He tried to explain how time and space are connected and that this space-time could be stretchedand shrunk. The method for stretching and shrinking time is very simple - all you have to do is move very fast.This theory, called the time dilation factor theory, has been tested many times. One example of a test took placein 1971 when two physicists, Joe Hafele and Richard Keating, took very accurate atomic clocks and put them in airplanes,which they then flew around the world. They then compared the readings on the clocks in the planes to an identicalclock on the ground. The results were unmistakable; the clocks in the planes were 59 nanoseconds slower. This waactly the difference in time Einstein had predicted in his time dilation factor theory. To figure out how muchslower time will get, you take your speed; divide it by the speed of light, square it, subtract your answer fromone, take the square root, and the result is Einstein's time dilation or slowdown factor.To understand how this affects time travel a basic knowledge of light and time is needed. The fastest known thingin the universe can travel 1 meter in 0.000000003335640952 seconds. But what is this fast thing called light? Afteryears of discussion scientist decided that it is both a particle and a wave. (A good example of why this is, isa solar pinwheel, where a pinwheel-type thing is held inside a clear vacuum sealed container that resembles a lightbulb, and when it is sunny out the light particle-waves go through the glass and spin the wheel). There are manytheories based around light and its speed. A very well know one is part of Einstein's theory of special relativity(E=mc²), which basically means that an object with mass will increase in mass as it get closer to the speedof light, and because of this increasing mass, increasing energy will be needed to speed the object even more.So the object needs an infinite amount of energy to gain the speed of light and when it reaches this point it willhave an infinite mass, thus creating the "light barrier" where nothing that has mass can reach the speedof light.Time as most people know it is constant and never changing, but this is very wrong. Time (according to Einstein)is relative and elastic, meaning that people are affected by time differently depending on their speed (this theoryallow time travel to seem conceivable). This is called the time dilation or "slowdown" factor. Thereare many other affects on time that can allow for time travel, such as gravity. Gravity slows down time. Therehave been studies where scientists have tested these slowdown factors of time. An example of this is an experimentconducted by Harvard University to see if time acted differently at different heights. They found that at the topof a building time was moving slightly faster than on the ground.With this basic knowledge of time and light it is easier to understand what a light cone is and how it works. Alight cone is built up of three parts: an event, a future light cone and a past light cone. An event its when somethinghappens. A future light cone consists of all the paths of light that come from an event and move through time tothe future. A past light cone is made up of all the paths of light that led up to the event.

Professor Stephen Hawking, PhD

Seeing into the past is not as hard as it may seem to be. All you have to do is look up at the stars on a clearnight. The light from the stars has not reached you so if the stars are millions of years away you could be seeingmillions of years into the past. This is because you are looking at the past light cone of those stars. A pastlight cone is everything that happened leading up to an event; a good way to describe this is to think of the sungoing out. If you looked up at the sun at the exact moment it went out you would see the sun as it normally is.You would be seeing everything leading up to its going out - its past light cone. It would take eight minutes beforethe sun's future light cone reaches you, what the sun went through when it went out, the event itself and everythingafter it. This future light cone would then become the past light cone because the event already happened eightminutes ago.If light cones could be folded over so that the future and past overlapped this could allow for time travel. Einstein'sspecial relativity does not support this idea because in special relativity light cones are rigid but in generalrelativity it could be possible. What makes this possible is the ability for light in the light cones to strayfrom the sides of the cones. These sides are called the causal boundaries in the light cones; the only way to straylight from this casual boundary is to use gravity. Gravity has the ability to warp light. Einstein predicted thatlarge suns could deflect light around them; soon after this prediction this very phenomenon was observed in 1919when light from stars could be seen going around a sun during a solar eclipse. This supported Einstein's theorythat light from a light cone could be pulled past the casual boundary if the gravity was strong enough, thereforethe warp of time was possible.Stephen Hawking has continued and expanded on the work of Einstein. He has tried to explain how the universe worksand has studied the problems of space and time for many years. His work on light cones, black holes, wormholes,and time travel were are extremely revolutionary. Gravitational lensing, when a light cone of an event is bentby matter and energy, makes scientists believe that time travel may be possible. The Hubble Space Telescope photographof the galaxy cluster, Abell 2218 is an example of gravitational lensing. The cluster is so huge and compact thatlight rays passing through it are deflected by its gravitational field. The process magnifies and distorts theview of objects that lie behind the cluster. This creates arc,s which are the distorted images of galaxies thatare 5 to 10 times farther than the cluster being photographed. The viewer sees multiple flashes of light whichactually come from only a single source, creating a crease or bend. Because light and time can be affected by gravityand other factors, it may be possible to travel between time episodes.Overall time, space, light, and space-time are very complex things to understand but in understanding them thingslike time travel could be made possible. Peoples interest and understanding of these topics is ever growing. Soonwe may be able to fully understand the mysteries of space and space-time.BibliographyDavies, Paul. How to Build a Time Machine. New York: Viking Press, 2002.Hawking, Stephen. A Brief History of Time. New York: Bantam Books, 1996.Hawking, Stephen. The Universe in a Nutshell. New York: Bantam Books, 2001.Simmons, John. The Scientific 100: A Ranking of the Most Influential Scientists, Past and Present. New York: CitadelPress, 1996.Web Sites"Time Travel in Flatland?" http://www.theory.caltech.edu/people/patricia/lctoc.html.May 24, 2002.Return to the TheMacLellan.com HomePagegeovisit();

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