Fun with Time

March 20, 2004

Rather than being an idea for one story, this is an idea for a set of stories. I will call them Fun with Time. The reason is that they dal with time, and several aspects of time that have not been considered to my knowledge. I haven't worked out all the details, even to the point that I can give any of the charactors names.

The first deals with time as relative. That is, for a dog, for example, time goes faster than for people. This is caught up in the phrase, "That's 50 years in dog year's." Actually, if one considers a fly, for example, even minutes are quite long. This could be taken to any extreeme. Suppose that there is a place where all the physical laws that we know operate in reverse. That is, the intelligent life in this world learn that entrope is always decreasing, and all the physical laws we do, except with the time component reversed. Then, suppose that a person gets transported to this world. What would it be like. The person, call him Jake, would know the "future" for this race, and could, therefore, give an exact description of how everything was going to turn out. Also, Jake could learn with certainty about his future.

Imagine the meeting. Jake is welcomed by a race of people who know all about his arrival even though Jake is unaware of this race at all. They speak perfect English, although slow.

Years, indeed, generations and ions, go by. By this time people are well aware of this race. However, as the years go by, the race knows less and less about humanity. Finally, humanity gets to the point where they observe the first member of the species being born, and the same scenario as was pointed out above is repeated in reverse. Now it is humanity that must say "goodbye" to this race of "people," while they stand in wonder at the depth of knowledge that humanity has.

Is there such a race among us now waiting for humanity to get to the point that that race can be seen? What would be the implications of knowing how it all ends? Perhaps this is similar to the feeling that a person has as they watch their parents dying slowly under the infuence of Dementia.

There is another version of this story I've thought about that gives much more room for thought. There are theories of the creation of the universe that say there should be just as much anti-matter in the Universe as matter. If this is so, then it must be such that there are anti-matter worlds out there, with, presumably, anti-matter people. In the Lectures on Physics it is noted that anti-matter acts just like regular matter, except, strangely enough, the time dimension is reversed. Therefore, there could be the same scenario as above, except that communication would have to be via some intermediate particles, such as photons.

(I remember seeing somewhere that this was disproved, but I have not seen the research. Until I see it, I will not believe it. In my opinion, too many scientific "facts" are accepted because of intimidation. That is, whenever someone accepts some scientific principle simply because of the author, then it is being accepted because of intimidation. If Einstein (and I don't mean to suggest there is any problem with his work. I've seen his research.) says something, and that is considered enough reason to accept the work as the truth, then there is intimidation at work.)

Communicating with this type of a race through photons would be interesting. The reason is that one could not use a standard radio transmitter and receiver as invented by Telsa, rather one side (or both) would have to be able to detect when radio waves left the antenna. The reason is that whereas a photon is its own anti particle, so that both sides could interact with the photon, a photon leaving an antenna in the "natural" world would be seen as being attracted to the antenna in the anti world, and visa versa. (Hey, if you have trouble seeing this, e-mail me at Bill@baldwincs.com and if I can I will give additional instruction in the world of the reversed.)