Wednesday, January 2, 2008

The Cosmos

I was laying in bed last night, minding my own business when the history channel decided to play a show about the universe. So I thought cool, something to watch besides reality TV. They started in on Wormhole theory and explaining how it works and how time works. For some reason I cannot get my mind around this idea. They were talking about how on one end of the wormhole it is a different time then on the other end. There were pretty pictures and clocks floating in space illustrating this, but I still was baffled. They also talked about how time on earth is different then time for someone in a rocket in space. Ok now, I get that gravity has a pull on time, and I understand the idea of what they are talking about, but for some reason I cannot see how it would make time travel possible. I mean, sure so its 12 here and in space its 1205... but what difference does it make if we are all in the instance. Maybe I am a little dee dee dee on this but how can you travel through a wormhole to the past? Its bothering me that my thinking wont accept this idea. I guess I am just a really linear person and any ideas of differing time in the same instance of the universe is crazy to me. Bleh

5 comments:

Outdoorgirl said...

So which side of the wormhole can you drink beer longer?

Marissa said...

Lets see... it would prob be the side you are on, cause the other side would be ahead of time.. so time lost drinking beer right??

Outdoorgirl said...

Well if the other side is ahead of time and than it came to our time wouldn't that be cause for more beer drinking. So if a body can drink ahead of time and maintain drunkness and travel to our time and drink more I think ahead of time would be more beer drinking, right?

Marissa said...

indeed! lets do it!

Outdoorgirl said...

I am so there, lets go find a worm hole!!