So could it be possible to go into the future in one's own mind? It would be kind of like planning a trip except the destination will be a time and place that you are relatively certain you will be at to fulfill your objective. Emotions would play a big part too. In planning the trip the same emotions that would be in play would have to be extended to the point in time and space that you expect to be going. No obstructions to this point in time and space can be allowed to fulfill the objective. The example in this case would be seeing the winning numbers to a lottery in advance before you play them. To fulfill the objective you would have to be as excited as if you had won in the place where you go in advance to see the winning numbers. That was one of the objectives in the movie Paycheck that I'd mentioned earlier. The scientist had been in the future and saw the winning numbers before they were drawn for a $95 million prize. That would certainly rid one of any financial problems wouldn't it? 

Originally posted by Space Case III So could it be possible to go into the future in one's own mind? It would be kind of like planning a trip except the destination will be a time and place that you are relatively certain you will be at to fulfill your objective. Emotions would play a big part too. In planning the trip the same emotions that would be in play would have to be extended to the point in time and space that you expect to be going. No obstructions to this point in time and space can be allowed to fulfill the objective. The example in this case would be seeing the winning numbers to a lottery in advance before you play them. To fulfill the objective you would have to be as excited as if you had won in the place where you go in advance to see the winning numbers. That was one of the objectives in the movie Paycheck that I'd mentioned earlier. The scientist had been in the future and saw the winning numbers before they were drawn for a $95 million prize. That would certainly rid one of any financial problems wouldn't it?

Please Forgive me......

 You have just Awakened my Awareness of Theodore Roszak & the Myth of Objective Consciousness.

 What a Nightmare. Lol!

Yes.

 Indeed it would. I tried to post last night, but it didn't go through. I was trying to explain how the Time Dilation effect in FTL speed travel could be overcome quite easily and simply.

 By using the idea of a Tangent creating another circle, it seems to me that it might be possible to follow that second circles' perimeter back to the original location rather than going back along the diameter.

 I'm not sure how difficult it would be to navigate this or if the difference in distance would be a factor, but by travelling full circle it seems only natural one would end up in relatively the same place. It's only an idea, but it's the best one I've got.

The trouble.......

 seems to be stemming from our idea of the Arrow of Time itself. It may be best to regard the nature of Time as circular rather than Linear.

 This common sense approach would explain why sometimes time speeds up and at other times it slows down. It would speed up whilst travelling down the perimeter and slow down whilst travelling upwards. The best image I can come up with is those loop the loop Roller Coaster rides in the Amusement park. It takes more energy to climb the loop and at the moment of being completely upside down, time itself seems to "stop" until going back down again.

In essence the theory behind FTL travel would involve a magnetic bubble that the FTL ship remains stationary inside. Theoretically space would be moving around the ship so time would pass normally both inside and outside the magnetic bubble. Navigation would have to be performed by a computer that makes computations FTL. Hydrospheres used with lasers to transmit the computations could easily accomplish this feat. There may even exist today computers that use this method for computations. We could well be closer to FTL travel than first imagined by only sci-fi writers as long as 100 years ago. Einstein's comment about science fiction one day becoming science fact is slowly, but certainly coming to light. Pun Intended! 

It's the damnedest thing, but..........

 I seem to have been researching One Dimensional Electromagneticism in terms of Circular motion when I came upon the idea that if you take the wave function and "fold" it so that both points form a Circle; wouldn't this be similar to what you were trying to describe about Folding space/time so that two separate points become the Same point?

Originally posted by Space Case III The theory of relativity, E = mc^2, is just that, a theory, it is not an absolute. Theories are meant to be experimented with to find the loopholes that could later be compounded upon to become theorems that can't be argued as truth. The Pythagoras theorem is one such example. This can be used with any right triangle as I'm certain you already know. FTL may involve splitting atoms and then recombining them in ways we didn't think of before the attempts at FTL travel. I know for certain when it happens whether by a group of scientists or a lone dreamer that it will dawn a new age for all of mankind.

See the little Wave inside of this circle?

 It is like that. By folding the wave we are travelling Full circle.

 The therory of Relativity needs to be redefined, but in order to do that we must redefine Gravity.

 I am trying to Envision how anything could remain Absolutely still in terms of Relativity and perhaps this is my hangup.

Originally posted by Space Case III If dark matter could be created in a laboratory, perhaps this may hold key to using magnetism to divert the time dilation effect. Consider a black hole which consists mostly of dark matter at it's core. Gravity need not be redefined for logic dictates that the particles of energy have to be moving at FTL because light can't escape the gravity field. If the same effect could be established using electromagnetism in a laboratory then effectively a warp core could be built. Polarities could be reversed in the field to change matter into energy and vice versa. Ta-da you've just devised a matter-anti-matter transporter. Didn't we discuss in an earlier post that such a device existed somewhere in the world?

Yes, I agree, but........

 Gravity needs to be redefined in order to develop a Grand Unified field Theory or GUT.

 We may be ignoring something obvious like Dark Matter and Dark Energy. I don't think Einstein even thought Black Holes were possible. There have been many physicists involved in the formation of Scientific knowledge. Einstein is not the only one. Einstein did however upset the Laws of Motion that were determined by Sir Isaac Newton. The only idea Einstein preserved in Classical physics was that of Gravity.

 We need to start considering the Reality of Energy/Matter moving at Velocities faster than Light within the Black Hole.

 A Black Hole is after all, the Strongest known gravitational force in the Universe. What we really need to focus upon is the Relationship between Black Holes and the Dark Energy/Matter within our Universe. Maybe then we will understand the creation of Conduits such as Wormholes between separate parts of our Galaxy.