Butterfly Effect Phenomenon or something like it

[Tread]

Originally Posted by randolph

Perhaps you guys can explain what this means.

Explain what exactly? Or a short roundup of the whole article?

The causality in the memory example is not reversible either, not like the Newtonian mechanics and relation to causality.
The thermodynamics describes Energy.

The example with the two closed containers filled with gases which are each in thermal and chemical equilibrium and don't allowing any energy to escape or enter. The answer is later written on that page you have this from. You can't compare the two single entropy's in equilibrium to one combined entropy. You have to compare a single entropy with two sub systems in equilibrium to the combined equilibrium. If that is done, there isn't a conflict anymore.

This article describes also the paradox way of time as closed loop, where you can travel forward until you reach the past. This way wouldn't hurt thermodynamics because time always goes in one direction, but there would be problems with causality, like you kill your own grandfather. Then you had killed a necessary cause of your own existence and wouldn't be able to kill him!

[The Conquistador]

Originally Posted by Tread

This article describes also the paradox way of time as closed loop, where you can travel forward until you reach the past. This way wouldn't hurt thermodynamics because time always goes in one direction, but there would be problems with causality, like you kill your own grandfather. Then you had killed a necessary cause of your own existence and wouldn't be able to kill him!

The only way time travel is possible is through parallel universes.

[Tread]

Originally Posted by TheAngryPostman

The only way time travel is possible is through parallel universes.

Nothing is easier than travel in the future. If you travel fast and at a place with a high gravity your time is relative slower than on stationary and low gravity places.
Let's say you travel very fast over the surface of Jupiter and come back to earth, you are relative seen from you in the future.
The person who travelled the most in the future in one trip is Сергей Константинович Крикалёв (Sergei Konstantinowitsch Krikaljow), a Russian cosmonaut. He travelled about 0.04 seconds in future, relative to earth.
He travelled only fast.

[randolph]

"This article describes also the paradox way of time as closed loop, where you can travel forward until you reach the past. This way wouldn't hurt thermodynamics because time always goes in one direction, but there would be problems with causality, like you kill your own grandfather. Then you had killed a necessary cause of your own existence and wouldn't be able to kill him!"

We live in a "Newtonian" world yet Einstein's theories, quantum mechanics and chaos theory are active. It seems the more we know the less we understand. If the LHC finds the Higgs boson, more mysteries will be revealed. Physics may be even better than sex.