I was once installing IP-forwarding on my secondary box to cleverly avoid paying extra for cable. So me and my friends were fixing and configuring. Then my firewall prompts that someone unauthorized is trying to send a packet to me.
First I just thought "what?, this usually happens when I'm surfing". Then I realized we've put the cable-line on the other machine and my box was on an empty hub.
I have stong reason to believe it had somethong to do with me having LOTS of electronics (15-18 appliances) plugged in my room.
Back when i had a TV, the picture would sometimes shake when the fridge whent on (mind you, the fridge is in the kitchen, a totally different room).
So going really fast is effectively the same as not moving at all. By travelling at speeds close to the speed of light, you slow your own time in realtion to people moving at velocities almost-the-speed-of-light slower than you.
You would basically appear to be in a near-stasis state to all onlookers (in time, because in space you would be going really fast). So it's kind of like freezing you. To yourself time would go at normal it's normal speed.
So going really fast is not time travel any more than typing this reply. Though it is a way to see the future you otherwise wouldn't. REAL time travel is experiencing tomorrow today, not waiting until it comes naturally.
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I was once installing IP-forwarding on my secondary box to cleverly avoid paying extra for cable. So me and my friends were fixing and configuring. Then my firewall prompts that someone unauthorized is trying to send a packet to me. First I just thought "what?, this usually happens when I'm surfing". Then I realized we've put the cable-line on the other machine and my box was on an empty hub.
I have stong reason to believe it had somethong to do with me having LOTS of electronics (15-18 appliances) plugged in my room.
Back when i had a TV, the picture would sometimes shake when the fridge whent on (mind you, the fridge is in the kitchen, a totally different room).
So going really fast is effectively the same as not moving at all. By travelling at speeds close to the speed of light, you slow your own time in realtion to people moving at velocities almost-the-speed-of-light slower than you.
You would basically appear to be in a near-stasis state to all onlookers (in time, because in space you would be going really fast). So it's kind of like freezing you. To yourself time would go at normal it's normal speed.
So going really fast is not time travel any more than typing this reply. Though it is a way to see the future you otherwise wouldn't. REAL time travel is experiencing tomorrow today, not waiting until it comes naturally.
You're right, I don't get all the fuss about new technology. It's the same with computers today, pentium schmentium, my IBM 286 can count too.