Pentcho Valev
2023-06-16 14:37:32 UTC
Thibault Damour, Einstein's apostle in France: "The paradigm of the special relativistic upheaval of the usual concept of time is the twin paradox. Let us emphasize that this striking example of time dilation proves that time travel (towards the future) is possible. As a gedanken experiment (if we neglect practicalities such as the technology needed for reaching velocities comparable to the velocity of light, the cost of the fuel and the capacity of the traveller to sustain high accelerations), it shows that a sentient being can jump, "within a minute" (of his experienced time) arbitrarily far in the future, say sixty million years ahead, and see, and be part of, what (will) happen then on Earth. This is a clear way of realizing that the future "already exists" (as we can experience it "in a minute")." http://www.bourbaphy.fr/damourtemps.pdf
Jumping "arbitrarily far in the future, say sixty million years ahead" is an idiotic idea, whether it is or isn't a corollary of Einstein's 1905 postulates (actually, it isn't). Normally, sane minds would pay no attention to such a jump. Yet the Overton window https://exploringyourmind.com/overton-window/ can shift to include the idiocy and make it not just acceptable but also highly venerable.
Pentcho Valev https://twitter.com/pentcho_valev
Jumping "arbitrarily far in the future, say sixty million years ahead" is an idiotic idea, whether it is or isn't a corollary of Einstein's 1905 postulates (actually, it isn't). Normally, sane minds would pay no attention to such a jump. Yet the Overton window https://exploringyourmind.com/overton-window/ can shift to include the idiocy and make it not just acceptable but also highly venerable.
Pentcho Valev https://twitter.com/pentcho_valev
