This post dedicated to a non-computer science topic which is related to time. Time has a broad definition. Moreover if you think computer clock it is also a time. However todays topic is not too much related with computer clocks...
If you look at the subject, i mentioned about freezing the time and time traveling ?
Are these possible ? Can future`s technology let us go ? I will be trying to find some answers to these questions in this post.
Before reading the rest of this post please note that all these statements and ideas are mine and may be wrong or not. Don`t assume that what is written here is totally correct.
Before trying to finds an answer to time related questions, first lets define the time.
I have been thinking on this topic for a while. I think I am satisfied with my definitions. According to my opinion (i wont repeat this again since all ideas are my own truths) , Time is a "action" , "movement" , "motion" of an object or object groups. As you can see all these words are related with an energy of an object which makes "changes" on this object. In other words it changes the state of the object.
Indeed i haven`t looked at the literature definition of time (maybe it has the same definition). You may wonder, Why am i thinking like that? I will try to explain.
Before giving an example on a live object, i want to explain my thoughts on a simple object. Lets assume that our simple object is a "glass". Is time passing for the glass ? what is the meaning of time for this glass ? Let me explain..
If you apply a force to this glass and create a scratch on this, this glass will "change" its state. So "before" the scratch and "after" the scratch defines a time for this glass. ( Clearly, "before" and "after" are the words which are related with time).
Now, put this glass to a space. A space that no movement takes place in this space. No air ( no friction ), no waves inside it, nothing moves inside this space. All things remain static. Put the glass inside this and come back X years later. ( Note that you can not see the glass during this X year since there is nothing inside the space except glass. this means there is no photon! ). Glass is still the same glass if all things remain same inside the space during this X years. There is no concept such as time for this glass during this X years. How can it be? It is like freezing, no state changed, no events occurred, everything remains same like stopping the time for this glass! When you take it out of this space, time starts to pass again!
What about live objects? Can time also be stopped for them. If you go to such a space that we discussed for the glass, everything can be remain static except you! What does it mean? It means that, if you want to stop the time for you, you should stop breathing, your heart should stop beating, your eyes must not see anything, your ears must not hear anything. In other words, stop your neural system as well as other human systems. No impulse, no flow in your veins. This sounds pretty crazy, doesn`t it? I wont discuss if this is practicable or not. But these are the conditions that must be satisfied if you want to stop the time for yourself. I am not sure freezing your self like in the movies works for achieve this but if you are persistent give it a shot. let us know, if it works :)
If you read carefully, i am not talking about stopping the time by applying some mystic powers. You can not stop the time for other objects by your thoughts or your body energy. Some certain conditions must have satisfied.
So the answer to "is stopping the time possible" is yes. However some restrictions are applied. It is a experiment rather than experience.
In addition, my ideas are in the same page with relativity theory. I mentioned about stopping the time for certain objects. Time may be stopped for an object, but it is passing for other objects. One proof to my claim ( time is an "action" ... ) is that;
when you have no works to do, you are generally bored. You generally look your watch, time doesn`t pass quickly. 10 minutes may be like 1 hour. Do you know why? When you have no works to do, there is less action in your body. Less functionality, slow motions. So time becomes slower for you.
However when you are bored, your friend should be hurry, otherwise he miss the flight! He should prepare his luggage ASAP. Time passes quickly for him. Because he increase his "action". This is the relativity. Relativity is a difference between the velocity of two object actions.
Now, we answered one question. Lets look at the other one. Is time travel to past possible?
Since we have pretty much idea about the time now wen can answer this question quicker.
For returning back in time, you have to "undo" the actions. Can you revert an action which is already happened ? Answer is no. You can not revert it. What was happened was happened. There is no way to go back.
For explaining further, lets go back to our glass example. You scratch the glass and you are regretful now. You wish to go back in time and stop this event. You put the glass to our famous "space" to stop the time. everything is ok till now. You stopped the time for the glass, but how can you go back in time ? Once you stop all of the actions on this glass time is stopped for the glass. For reverting back, you should do some !magic!. Even if you have abilities to do some magic; if you do so, you will apply some action to that glass which causes to start the time for the glass.
So we have a pretty quick answer for time traveling. I am sorry, if i cause disappointments.
At the end of the day, you now have some ideas about time concepts.
Time is another dimension which consists of movements. If you want to stop it, you should stop the actions. If you want to revert it then good luck!
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Apart from the fact that I don't share same ideas with you about time, I should say that even if you put a glass in a motionless space as you explained its atoms will be having their energy still. Don't forget that electrons will constantly move in their ambigious orbits and this is still movement. I you make electrons to stop they will bang to the nucleus and I don't know what will happen if this occurs. One thing that I'm sure about is the thing will not be a glass since then. By the way, not taking "atom thing" into consideration, I should remind you that glass is frequently considered as a liquid which pours so slowly. Considering there will be no gravity in your space I rest my case about being a liquid, but I'm still sure that while atoms still have energy, the time will be passing for this glass according to your theory :)
what about the sun? if you put the glass into the space, there will be always something moving which can be a reference to that object. Even if you do not touch that object in space, time is going on due to some of references such as the sun or galaxy or something else. Elapsed time itself can be different depending on selected reference, but this is another subject. I think if it was possible to stop all objects that could be a reference to another object, freezing time could be possible. But unfortunately this is impossible because we assess everything based on something and we can not find something totally constant for any possible reference. This is called relativity:)
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