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Old 09-22-2006, 08:10 PM  
wizhard
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Dagwolf
Time is a function of motion. Stop motion at the atomic level and you stop time.

Not sure what would happen if you reversed motion at the atomic level, though...
Time isn't really a "function" of motion, it's just a way of measuring it. Although we have conditioned ourselves to generally lump the two together in essence they are seperate.

For many years post Isaac Newton it was thought that motion could be theoreticaly reversed at an atomic level, ( and thus lead to backward time travel ), but we now know that owing to the unpredictability of calculating the movement of atoms at best we can only make guesses based on statistical probability. The more individual atoms you throw into the equasion the bigger the margin of error becomes untill it quite quickly becomes a mathematical absurdity trying to accurately predict the revesed paths of just a few atoms.

However many physicists now belive that those funky little atoms may not work at all as we expect and their movement may be based more along the lines of them receiving "instructions" rather that them just being bounced around by means of any logical "cause and effect".
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