Haven’t heard anybody much talking about string theory for a while, which is just as well, because I never understood it in the 1st place. The last few days it’s been all primordial gravitational waves this, and primordial gravitational waves that, and I don’t understand that, either, except that it’s some kind of wave pattern that emerged just after the big bang, and apparently proves that the universe isn’t cyclical, it won’t all end 20 billion years from now as we are all compacted into one point, or sucked into a massive black hole, to prepare for Big Bang II, but rather it will continue to expand until I don’t know what, because that can’t go on forever, either.
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That’s kind of the amazing thing about the universe, whichever theory of the origin of it and its overall makeup turns out to be true, its mind boggling.
Like I said, I don’t understand it, but according to The Guardian (my current go-to site for news) it’s like ripples in the structure of space-time from the birth of the universe. Ripples in the structure of space-time. That means time travel, which would be one of the most super awesomely unbelievable developments out of science fiction possible, right up there with faster than light travel and beaming as a form of ship to planet transportation.
I don’t think it’s actually possible, just on a philosophical level, because part of the definition of time, at least as it relates to our lives, is that it passes. If you go back in time to spend 8 months in a covered wagon on the OregonTrail, you’ll age 8 months. For whatever that’s worth. But the real reason I think time travel is impossible is because it hasn’t happened yet. You’d think there would be people stopping in all the damned time, writing the wrongs and such, and our whole reality would change every couple of weeks, but it seems to me like it’s a stabler universe than that, if you were getting a fresh set of memories implanted that often I think I’d have a headache.
Anyway, primordial gravity waves. Next time you’re at a party, say that really loud and people will think you are smart.
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