Poll of the Day > What if the whole universe is spinning

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around the big bang point?

What would it be spinning relative to? It would just be a fundamental force in the universe to move away from the center.

Icoyar topic.
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Fun fact: ICOYAR stands for Initial Coin Offering YAR, which references a pirate-based cryptocurrency. He was very ahead of his time.
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Zeus posted...

Fun fact: ICOYAR stands for Initial Coin Offering YAR, which references a pirate-based cryptocurrency. He was very ahead of his time.

I came up with Zeno's Paradox before knowing it was already a thing
http://mathforum.org/library/drmath/view/52507.html

It's a fallacy though. I think all paradoxes are.
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What if the entire universe is just a grape
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I know if you're just making a joke topic but this has already been hypothesized

Yellow posted...

It's a fallacy though. I think all paradoxes are.

I'd love to hear how you'd solve the Grandfather Paradox, then.

That's not sarcasm, btw, I actually would be interested.


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ParanoidObsessive posted...

Yellow posted...

It's a fallacy though. I think all paradoxes are.

I'd love to hear how you'd solve the Grandfather Paradox, then.

That's not sarcasm, btw, I actually would be interested.

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ParanoidObsessive posted...

Yellow posted...

It's a fallacy though. I think all paradoxes are.

I'd love to hear how you'd solve the Grandfather Paradox, then.

That's not sarcasm, btw, I actually would be interested.

I have a dumb answer but I think it's the right one, time travel is impossible.

Otherwise, just traveling back in time would put your entire atomic structure in a paradox since just the way your atoms vibrate are always going to be different no matter what you do.

So you go back in time and vibrate your heat off into the air, your heat effects how everything around you vibrates, eventually getting to future you, affecting how you vibrate, and all the sudden every atom on the planet is in an infinite set of positions creating an infinite amount of changes to random events just by traveling back in time regardless of whether or not you had sex with your grandma.

If you had sex your genes would also in an infinite set of positions since your genes are chosen randomly. That doesn't even answer the question of where your half of your genes came from in the first place. That's probably the most plot-holey part of the whole question. Then combine that with a subject scientists don't even know much about, how the universe works and what happens when you break it.

A) If time is linear, then nothing matters. You had sex with your grandma and gave birth to a baby that's not you. That makes me wonder how tf you got back in time in the first place.

B) If time is constantly refreshing, then you just create infinite alternate realities. That sounds like a waste of infinite space to have sex with your grandma. Fun fact: you would have no clue that nothing makes sense living your life as normal jumping across the globe every universal micro-micro second.

C) If the universe has some kind of protective mechanism then the superpositions snap back into place. If time travel is possible then this makes the most sense to me. Everything else about this universe seems tailored to let us survive.

D) Time travel is impossible.

E) I'm not a physicist and I'm missing some important detail. Maybe time travel is possible but extremely confined.

F) The universe could have tied itself in a knot around a human life setting up a situation that could be perfectly replicated over and over to the very atomic vibration because Cthulu was bored.
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Tl Dr if we could time travel (and we can't) we would have a better understanding of how it works (and we don't) and then know what would happen.
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F) The universe could have tied itself in a knot around a human life setting up a situation that could be perfectly replicated over and over to the very atomic vibration

This fucked me up.
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Yellow posted...

ParanoidObsessive posted...

Yellow posted...

It's a fallacy though. I think all paradoxes are.

I'd love to hear how you'd solve the Grandfather Paradox, then.

That's not sarcasm, btw, I actually would be interested.

I have a dumb answer but I think it's the right one, time travel is impossible.

Otherwise, just traveling back in time would put your entire atomic structure in a paradox since just the way your atoms vibrate are always going to be different no matter what you do.

So you go back in time and vibrate your heat off into the air, your heat effects how everything around you vibrates, eventually getting to future you, affecting how you vibrate, and all the sudden every atom on the planet is in an infinite set of positions creating an infinite amount of changes to random events just by traveling back in time regardless of whether or not you had sex with your grandma.

If you had sex your genes would also in an infinite set of positions since your genes are chosen randomly. That doesn't even answer the question of where your half of your genes came from in the first place. That's probably the most plot-holey part of the whole question. Then combine that with a subject scientists don't even know much about, how the universe works and what happens when you break it.

A) If time is linear, then nothing matters. You had sex with your grandma and gave birth to a baby that's not you. That makes me wonder how tf you got back in time in the first place.

B) If time is constantly refreshing, then you just create infinite alternate realities. That sounds like a waste of infinite space to have sex with your grandma. Fun fact: you would have no clue that nothing makes sense living your life as normal jumping across the globe every universal micro-micro second.

C) If the universe has some kind of protective mechanism then the superpositions snap back into place. If time travel is possible then this makes the most sense to me. Everything else about this universe seems tailored to let us survive.

D) Time travel is impossible.

E) I'm not a physicist and I'm missing some important detail. Maybe time travel is possible but extremely confined.

F) The universe could have tied itself in a knot around a human life setting up a situation that could be perfectly replicated over and over to the very atomic vibration because Cthulu was bored.

Pretty sure you can safely time-travel into past versions of yourself.
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