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Old 04-15-2007, 01:52 PM  
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Originally Posted by Goodings Media View Post
I admit that if you couldn't do math correctly, I understand how you would have arrived at your incorrect conculsion ;)

The negative comes as you have....

(gamma)= 1/ SQRT( 1 - (v/c))

Where v is your velocity, c is lightspeed.

(delta)T=(gamma)(delta)T_proper

As you can see, placing a value of v greater than c gives a factor of i (imaginary) which if you keep in there and then square out, gives a negative. It would also mean that the greater proportion of c you travelled above, the further backwards the precognition would occurr.

However as I said, this relies on generalisations of the Lorentx Theorem The math that would follow through for a value of v greater than c goes back to principles and coms out in fucking insane algebra.
or put a different way, there is no such thing as time travel. Because of our reliance on inaccurate math, we've not been able to back up the obvious mathimatically.
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