Reply to: Friday afternoon quiz - who is this ?

[HairyArsedBloke]

Like shrews for instance. Their little hearts beat like the clappers (to keep themselves heated) so live their lives at a million miles an hour, relative to humans. Or somefink.

Ah! Bless! Girlie trying to understand.

Er, yes, but no. The opposite; the travelers' 'heart beat' would be slowing and live their lives slower, relatively.

[Zippy]

Hang on, we all travel forward in time. It's that it is experienced by the traveler at a different 'rate'. Or somefink, like that. They don't 'travel in time' anymore than anyone else.

Like shrews for instance. Their little hearts beat like the clappers (to keep themselves heated) so live their lives at a million miles an hour, relative to humans. Or somefink.

[HairyArsedBloke]

That's nothing speculative - It's a basic consequence of GR. You travel forward in time just by walking down a flight of stairs, compared with someone who doesn't, and in principle you could travel millions of years into the future compared with a stay-at-home, by making a sufficiently fast round trip.

Hang on, we all travel forward in time. It's that it is experienced by the traveler at a different 'rate'. Or somefink, like that. They don't 'travel in time' anymore than anyone else.

[OwlHoot]

.. Grnated he did have some interesting ideas but was off the mark about Time Travel - ie he maintained it was possible to travel forward in Time but not backward. ..

That's nothing speculative - It's a basic consequence of GR. You travel forward in time just by walking down a flight of stairs, compared with someone who doesn't, and in principle you could travel millions of years into the future compared with a stay-at-home, by making a sufficiently fast round trip.

[shaunbhoy]

I'm witless - does that count?

You ARE sg, and I demand my crisp £5 note.

[Nexxy]

<sigh> So you'll need a demonstration, then?

[RichardCranium]

<sigh> So you'll need a demonstration, then?

[RichardCranium]

<sigh> So you'll need a demonstration, then?

See? It isn't that hard at all.

[Zippy]

Think he was tight about Time Travel. I'll give it a go.........

Yes - as I thought travelled forward 10 seconds. Now I'll try travelling back........

Nope - didn't work

Not really trying are you?

PS - I used to have the album in your avatar.

[Nexxy]

Baloney.

Hawkings didnt do space walks - he went up once in a plane to simulate weightlesness.

Some interesting ideas but was off hte mark about Time Travel - ie he maintained it was possible to travel forward in Time but not backward.

Altough he did have some interesting observations of gravity fields around Black Holes.

Think he was right about Time Travel. I'll give it a go.........

Yes - as I thought travelled forward 10 seconds. Now I'll try travelling back........

Nope - didn't work

[AlfredJPruffock]

it was a stretch i admit

but it was an unusual thing
how many times has anyone here done weightless

Baloney.

Hawkings didnt do space walks - he went up once in a plane to simulate weightlesness.

Grnated he did have some interesting ideas but was off the mark about Time Travel - ie he maintained it was possible to travel forward in Time but not backward.

Altough he did have some interesting observations of gravity fields around Black Holes.

[Zippy]

it was a stretch i admit

but it was an unusual thing
how many times has anyone here done weightless

Ok, I dd sound a bit dismissive. I've never done one but dream of being a bit more weightless.

[RichardCranium]

how many times has anyone here done weightless

Everyone that has been on the swings, that has fallen off something, that has jumped up and down.

Everyone.

[HairyArsedBloke]

I'm witless - does that count?

[EternalOptimist]

What about the space walks bit? I though he'd just done a 'Vomit Comet'?

it was a stretch i admit

but it was an unusual thing
how many times has anyone here done weightless