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From: crimmin@tle.DEC (DTN 1-2015)
Newsgroups: net.physics
Subject: Time travel/Star Trek/Asimov
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Date: Thu, 12-Dec-85 14:57:15 EST
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Returning to the discusion on time-travel:

Last night on Star Trek, Capt. Kirk and his crew were
zapped into the past, where they approached a planet
they believed to be the Earth. [Like Buck Rogers in reverse.]

Later, they nearly crashed into the atmosphere of the planet.
Their only means of escape was an emergency start of the Enterprise's
engines. This tactic worked, and also zapped them back to the
present at the moment when they were first sent into the past.

As a result, they had lived for three days in a time-frame
that existed independently of their own. When they returned,
they picked-up from where they had left off; with a net gain
of 3 day's time.

The sketch recalls Isaac Asimov's science fiction, and the
way he approaches the idea of time travel. In books like, The End of
Eternity, he envisions a parallel dimension wehre it is possible to step
outside of normal, causal time. In this dimension, called Eternity,
biological time continues, but it is possible to move to any point in
real-world time and to step back in at that point if desired.

Previous suggestions in the .net have focused on traveling at, or near, the
speed of light to move into the future. But, as noted, this can't work
backwards. What about the idea of existing in another dimension that is
independent of real-world time? Is it just a goofy idea, or does it suggest
possibilities?

Piter (New Hampshire)