Time Odyssey

So the problem I have with most of the nature of science fiction and the concept of time travel is the fact that it ignores a fairly fundamental principle of Newtonian science. The problem is this: if the universe is in constant motion and we were to travel back in time even an hour or two, shouldn’t we find ourselves floating in space? See here is the thing

The earth is rotating at 0.45 km/s (1610 km/hr) relative to its axis
The earth is travelling at 30 km/s relative to the sun,
The sun is travelling at 250 km/s relative to the galaxy, and
The Galaxy is travelling at 600 km/s relative to the rest of the universe

Essentially what this means is that in order to effect time travel, one needs to not just understand when in time one wants to travel to, but where. The implication is that experiments that focus simply on the movement of particles from one location to another assuming their frame of reference is static will only ever be able to conduct experiments which take place in nanoseconds because anything longer than that and your observable results will either be flung off into space or buried within the core of the earth. Essentially then for true time travel to exist we not only have to control time but be able to bend space so that we are both in the right place and the right “time” at the same instant (something that would be constantly changing from moment to moment).

The Joint Quantum Institute annouced todayresearch with regards to quantum imaging. The general gist of it is that dual images produced using specialized mechanisms have the capacity to influence each other despite the distance relationship between the two.  Little quirks of quantum mechanics like this are being used to help create the first generation of quantum computers. What I find fascinating however is that when combined with this concept of universal expansionbased on minor quantum fluctuations I’m wondering whether its possible that time leaves a quantum signature, or a ghost image if you will, of past events which are carried forward in space but not in time. Sort of like a set of backup copies that lie just beneath the surface of our own reality that could be accessed like the way a data center accesses back-up copies of sytem files. Since these ‘snapshots’ are fixed in time, they would follow us around as we travel through space only being lost when the quantum gravimetric film on which they are developed becomes our of sync with our space-time.

Think of it like pouring cream into a soup – the cream has a very specific form and recognizable shape when first placed in the soup but as the soup is stirred eventually the cream becomes blended with everything else and the quantum information is then lost (or at least very difficult to come by). The implications then are that so long as the ‘cream’ is recognizable, something that might be explained through Newtonian physics at least for awhile, time travel to the past may be possible although we wouldn’t be able to interact with it. – K