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Well, that's potentially very easily solved. Consider the potential natural elements that could lead to a wormhole and the rarity of such elements combining in nature. You could enter a wormhole in the Milky way and end up in a section of the universe that Earth does not know about. Any time travel you've done is negated by sheer distance. This is only true if you assume the time you travelled to the past is no more than the distance divided by the lightspeed (t < s/c). If it is

"accroding to M-theory, gravity eminates from another universe parralel to ours" And M-theory (string theory) could be a bunch of nonsense as far as anyone know because it isn't based on a single observation or experiment. I'm not sure the theory actually refers to parallel universes. Just folded up dimensions in our own universe, but I'm no string theorist, so correct me if I'm wrong... "Actually, according to Einstein, you can travel faster than the speed of light."

Heh, well actually I like reading about physics a lot more than actually "doing" physics so trust me, you're not missing much. It gives you a different perspective if you do it yourself, but it's not worth it unless it's your job (math can be fun, but not 40hrs a week...). I turned down a PHD because of that (well and because I prefer actually having a family over travelling the world doing physics). Teaching is fun though, up to a point. Thanks for a good discussion and I'm impressed with your

What is inside the event horizon of a black hole exists outside our universe (in a way of speaking). You can be curious about it, I am too, but whatever goes on there, we have no science on it, just speculation. It's on the same level with string theory. Just a lot of talk/writing, no proof, because no experiment can verify it. Many argue that these things (string theory, inside of black holes), are not even physics, but a kind of philosophy. Experiment and observation defines science.

Oh btw: Here's a link to a BBC news page about the search for the HIGGs particle. http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/4229545.stm It doesn't have any relation to the discussion about relativity, but... you asked. Interesting read and Jos Engelen says something in there too...

"Oh, and I will say this: Since education systems appear to be producing people who misunderstand relativity on the basic level, I'm honestly scared for the future of science and the future of humanity. Doesn't matter if it's me or one of you guys. It amounts to the same problem." I understand these things perfectly. I also understand the math of it and the consequences of this math. I had some good teachers. Including Jos Engelen who is very famous in high energy physics circles and do

Oh and since lots of experiments have been done on these particles, physicists *have* verified that even when time runs slower, physics is the same and the laws are the same. The only things about time/space that are unknown/spotty are those near the beginning of the universe and near black holes (within the event horizon). Any new theory that answers those questions will not prove old theories wrong. It can't, because the old theories work for an enormous amount of experiments. New theories ho

Also: "We happen to know, from theorizing and observation, that time itself does, in fact, vary. Problem is, we've only observed this in minute amounts, not in truly relativistic amounts, and only tested it in those minute amounts." Yea, Einstein theorized this and it's been proven. Not in minute amounts, in HUGE amounts. Particles that normally live for say, a nanosecond, have been observed to live for micro-milliseconds when sped up to near the speed of light. Meaning they li

Ok first off you said: "Um, guys, Einstein was wrong" and "which makes Einstein's theory a laughing stock. It also makes all physicists to be fools, of course, since they can't prove their guesses apply to anything out of the local area." I think this kind of talk is at least slightly insulting. Even if physicists are as you say "wrong" about physics in other times and far away regions, they are not fools. The fact that you are typing these messages on a comp

Allright, I just graduated as an astrophysicist at the university of Amsterdam, at one of the most prestigious astrophysics institutes in the world (the API). I took courses in special relativity, general relativity, quantum mechanics, cosmology and MANY more. So yes I do know what I am talking about, thank you. And yes I do know of Diracs equations and how they allow for negative energies. That doesn't make Einstein wrong in any way. In fact The "negative" energies pertaining to part

Einsteins theory of relativity is completely separate of anything to do with antimatter. The only differences between antimatter and ordinary matter are the fact that their spins, charge and some other quantum numbers are opposite. Quantum? Yes quantum mechanics. Antimatter has to do with that, not with anything Einstein ever said. And Einsteins theory ignores time?? Do you even know what you are talking about? Time is one of THE base concepts the theory is based around. Time and spac