now I'm really thinking about starting a Temporal thread...
Thorin wrote:Lt. Staplic wrote:Thorin wrote:If STXI try to use quantum theory to explain time travel it wouldn't be cool. There is no quantum theory of time travel, whatever the press and that crazy rotating laser 'physicist' may tell you.
It's not a quantom theory of Time travel, it uses quantom theory to explain the differences after Time travel has occurred.
By being there Nearo will change the quantom structure of the universe as it had happenned before possably producing several changes in the development of the time-line.
That's not quantum physics. That's stating that the presence of something would effect something else. Hell, that's not even relative physics, that's deterministic Newtonian mechanics.
newtonian mechanics are physics...and yes it can be explained by the cause-effect idea of the past, but quantom mechanics also applies and accounts for the differences.
Lazar wrote:Well from what I can gather, Abrams is going to use an infinite universes theory of time travel (which allows us to go back into the past without causing paradoxes), rather than the single universe theory, which is common in science fiction, but which really makes no sense when you think about it. So some of the differences between the STXI universe and the TOS universe might be explained using a butterfly effect caused by Nero's time travel.
the infinite universes theory is the thing i was forgetting in my orriginal description about the time-travel thing. Infinite universes is proposed based on Heisenburg's uncertanty principal that states that you can never now the position and velocity of an electron, among other things, and (i think) Schrodingers idea that a partical takes every possable path between it's origin point and finishing point.
Because parcitals can (and do) exist in multiple places at once it means everything can (and does) exist in two places at once. An infinate amount of parallel universes would garentee that every path between our origon (birth) and destination (death) would occur, for every person. So one timeline would exist where Nero didn't travel back in time, which is the one we've followed for the most part, and one where he did, the new one from STXI.
That is how Quantum Mechanics explains the time travel and differences in the timeline.
In the beginning the Universe was created. This has made a lot of people very angry and been widely regarded as a bad move.