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Chinatown
Sep 11, 2001

by Fluffdaddy
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Mooey Cow
Jan 27, 2018

by Jeffrey of YOSPOS
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Alright so consider the same thought experiment but with one end of a wormhole on a spaceship that goes on a journey such that when it returns, two years have passed on Earth but only one year has passed according to the ship clock. Once again we look through the wormhole and compare the ship clock to ours.

The first case, that we see both clocks tick at the same rate, cannot actually be. Because then two years would pass for both clocks and time dilation wouldn't be real. Either way you'd end up not time travelling.

The second case, that the clock seen through the wormhole ticks at the same rate as when seen through a telescope following the ship, would imply that the inside of the hole is curved in a similar way as in the gravitational example. Which would make sense as that end of the hole would have had to undergo certain accelerations to reach those speeds, and anything travelling through the hole would need to also undergo that acceleration, and thus wouldn't go back in tlme but just experience the same time dilation as the ship until it stops. In this way we once again conserve energy, as it means you can't throw a ball into a wormhole where one end is accelerated and expect the ball to come out of the other end having gained the speed of that end, but would need to be pushed through the hole.

Welp that's that for time travel then.

HAmbONE
May 11, 2004

I know where the XBox is!!
Smellrose
You can use the Time Taco to travel to any point in time where there is a taco present

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