mike.mainguy

I'm admittedly an armchair scientist... I believe I was quoted at one point as saying "well special relativity is just a THEORY, so it could be wrong" which was met at the time with a snarl from someone who kinda knew that stuff better than me. Here's my layman's question: What if our perception and measurement of time is simply is flawed and time is really a function of how much the universe has expanded? Put another way; assuming that universe is expanding at a (mostly) constant rate, might time not be an independent dimension, but simply derivable from the difference in size of the universe? If this is actually true, then isn't time travel really a lot less complicated? Don't we immediately remove paradoxes like "if I go back in time and kill my father will I ever be born?". What it might mean is that time is not really some thing that exists independent of the spacial dimensions, but is simply a function of an underlying effect we ...

Next time you find yourself in a pointless argument with someone who "knows" statistics, remember the bottom statistic. On the flipside, it took me at least 30 minutes of watching videos and reading explanations to figure out how it could even be possible to propel something directly downwind, faster than the wind, propelled only by the wind .