Actually, quantum mechanics, with its parallel universes and the quantum concept of time, does not rule out, in theory, the use of black holes to achieve travel along multiverse pathways. What it does rule out, is any kind of paradox (time, grandfather, or knowledge).
The laws of quantum mechanics impose extreme restrictions on which pathways in the multiverse can be connected. The pathways being what is traveled, and not time, although the pathway may be either future or past directed.
It can be argued that Einstein's equations predict that past directed travel would be possible in the vicinity of massive, spinning objects and black holes definitely qualify. Although no satisfactory quantum theory of gravity exists, Deutsch points out that typical candidate versions of such a theory not only allow past-directed connections to exist in the multiverse, they predict that such connections are continually forming and breaking spontaneously. According to him, the typical pathway formed by such effects is about 10 to the -35 metres across, remains open for one Planck time and so only reaches on Planck time into the past.
Future-directed travel a less complicated in terms of actualization technically, but since I've blabbered on and on I'll spare you the details, as I'm sure, with you being into Astrophysics, you already know. :-)
Gödel's theories don't have any negative effect on the multiverse POV (well at least as far as I can see) and his Incompleteness theorem in particular is as brilliant as it is obvious. Because of it we know that there will never be a fixed method of determining whether a mathematical proposition is true. It proves that progress in mathematics will always rely on creativity (this is very important in relation to the knowledge paradox that quantum theory rules out).
So all that babbled, how does that all relate to magic?
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Date: 2005-03-23 12:30 pm (UTC)The laws of quantum mechanics impose extreme restrictions on which pathways in the multiverse can be connected. The pathways being what is traveled, and not time, although the pathway may be either future or past directed.
It can be argued that Einstein's equations predict that past directed travel would be possible in the vicinity of massive, spinning objects and black holes definitely qualify. Although no satisfactory quantum theory of gravity exists, Deutsch points out that typical candidate versions of such a theory not only allow past-directed connections to exist in the multiverse, they predict that such connections are continually forming and breaking spontaneously. According to him, the typical pathway formed by such effects is about 10 to the -35 metres across, remains open for one Planck time and so only reaches on Planck time into the past.
Future-directed travel a less complicated in terms of actualization technically, but since I've blabbered on and on I'll spare you the details, as I'm sure, with you being into Astrophysics, you already know. :-)
Gödel's theories don't have any negative effect on the multiverse POV (well at least as far as I can see) and his Incompleteness theorem in particular is as brilliant as it is obvious. Because of it we know that there will never be a fixed method of determining whether a mathematical proposition is true. It proves that progress in mathematics will always rely on creativity (this is very important in relation to the knowledge paradox that quantum theory rules out).
So all that babbled, how does that all relate to magic?
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