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Join friends Cesar, Rob, Chris and Victor as we dive head first into topics that might be mainstream but not common knowledge. No topic is too taboo for us to explore. Let's get curious together!
The I'm Not Dumb But Podcast
The Podcast Before Time Travel
This podcast episode delves into the fascinating world of time travel, blending scientific theory with pop culture references to explore its possibilities and paradoxes. From Einstein's theory of relativity to the grandfather paradox and cultural representations, we encourage listeners to think critically about the concept of time and its fluidity.
• Overview of time travel and its historical context
• Explanation of Einstein's theory of relativity and time dilation
• Discussion of wormholes and their theoretical implications
• Exploration of the grandfather paradox and multiverse theory
• Analysis of time travel in popular culture
• Final thoughts on the feasibility and future of time travel
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All right, chris. What are you doing? Let's do this. We still have our time machine right, we have the time. Yes.
Chris:Okay, where are you taking us? No, we're not going to go anywhere, but I just want to. Good, because it's still in the shop. Yes, Okay, good good, we want to talk about it.
Victor:No, we can't give away our secrets about time travel. No, we're not going to give our sticker away.
Rob:Okay, good, I'll be honest with you, I don't really know how it works. I kind of just press buttons and then it takes us back in time.
Chris:I don't even think we have the manual. I think we lost that. Well, grab your flux capacitor and hold on tight. I'm not dumb, but is time travel possible?
Cesar:Welcome to the I'm not dumb, but podcast, where we won't claim to have the answers to life's deepest questions but we'll give you an exciting journey into the realms of knowledge you never knew you'd need Might be mainstream, but not common knowledge. From artificial intelligence to conspiracy theories, no topic is too taboo for us to explore. Let's get curious together.
Chris:I'm your host, chris, and today I'm joined by Rob. Hello, cesar, yo and Victor. How y'all?
Victor:doing what's up, chris?
Cesar:Chris. Back to the Future is one of my favorite movies. It's a great film.
Chris:Trilogy Hello, hello, anybody home? There's a lot of time travel movies. We all seen in the movies like Back to the Future, like you just said, or the shows like Doctor who, but the big question is can it actually happen, though? Do you guys know anything about time travel?
Rob:Well, we're traveling through time right now.
Cesar:Yeah, no yeah.
Rob:We are always traveling through time, you know the one thing we never share is when we time travel in our episodes. The listeners don't know this, but we actually have to time travel back to present day, and that's actually the worst part.
Cesar:Because we've gone back to different timelines.
Rob:Because we've gone back and then coming back is always a problem. You have to kill the other guy. If you overshoot it a little bit, like it's just, it's never clean. That's why we don't use it too much. Yeah, that, and gas prices are crazy. I mean in this economy.
Chris:So what exactly is time travel? Moving through time, moving between different points in time? Fun fact in late 1800s HG Wells he was an English writer popularized the idea of time traveling in his book called the Time Machine. Yeah, raymond, yeo you know about this.
Victor:I've seen the movie. Yeah, what's?
Cesar:his name. What's the main character in that movie? Is it Guy Pearce?
Victor:Guy, something that is the actor that played the time travel man.
Chris:Wait, the movie is based on the book. Yes, I didn't know that.
Rob:I think it has the same title.
Chris:I know, but I didn't know it was a relay.
Victor:I didn't connect the two dots together.
Cesar:Okay, he's an idiot Comes from upbringing. Parents are probably idiots too.
Chris:Since then, the time travel has been everywhere in pop culture movies, books and TV shows.
Victor:Yeah, but like they have to have thought of time travel before that, they probably didn't popularize it like he did, no, but I mean, I'm sure it was on people's minds like, hey, I wish I can go back and not get, of course not let that guy get kicked by that horse, or, you know, let not let that army invade carthage or whatever ancient people think about.
Cesar:People weren't just like, oh, machinery, time travel, like it must have been thought about before, or not probably probably ancient cultures, like thinking about the times, like that the gods were amongst them, trying to go back to them you have chronos.
Victor:What's that I?
Chris:was gonna say wait what's that?
Victor:that's the greek god of time oh, really so.
Rob:Does greek mythology have any cool time travel? Is that the god of war?
Victor:that's kratos rob, you've played god of war. Did you have to fight chronos?
Rob:uh, not in the first one. Oh, he was a titan, he wasn't a god. Oh, I'm sorry, make sure you get it right. Make sure you get it right yeah, let's rewind chronos the titan.
Chris:Back in 1905, albert Einstein. So he introduced a theory of spatial relativity. Einstein suggests that time isn't the same everywhere, it's relative. But what does?
Rob:that actually mean. Everyone knows the theory of relativity, Everyone knows E equals MC squared right. But what does that mean?
Chris:So if you travel close to the speed of light, time for you would slow down compared to someone who's standing still, so in a way you could travel forward in time. Does that make sense?
Victor:No, Can I give it a shot, Chris? Imagine space was a piece of fabric, a tablecloth if you will, and you had a ball pushing down into that tablecloth. Time there is relative to the cloth being pushed down.
Cesar:Because of the gravitational force that that ball is placing on that area.
Victor:And if you move away from that gravity, time is relative to where you are, so it's different from where you are on this ball. So, for instance, our GPS satellites are out in space. Their clocks are set differently to ours because they're experiencing time differently than we are on Earth. So how would I go backwards though? So, according to Star Trek, you just have to circle the sun really fast.
Chris:Engage, and then you go back in time.
Victor:Superman did it differently. Superman just started flying in reverse.
Cesar:And just reversed the planet.
Victor:Reversed the planet. That's how he did it.
Cesar:Wait, he flew backwards, or flew in reverse backwards, Flew counterclockwise to the well, counter rotations to the Earth. So he literally made the Earth go back.
Rob:Yeah, that makes sense, that makes sense.
Victor:I don't think that's how it works.
Chris:No, yeah.
Rob:It doesn't work like that.
Chris:With that theory. There were scientists who tested this with atomic clocks. They're extremely accurate types of clock, pretty much.
Victor:That's such a bad idea. That's such a bad, isn't that what it is? Yeah, but that didn't explain what it was. Describe it to those that don't know. Okay, so you know how most watches are quartz, right, right, yeah, so it's basically sending a small Mine's diamond, but I understand what you're saying.
Cesar:You also have a great health insurance.
Rob:It's made of diamonds. Can't go wrong with diamonds.
Victor:So it sends a small electric charge through the quartz, vibrating it at a certain frequency, which therefore keeps the clock in place, clicking at the same exact speed. An atomic clock does the same exact thing, except it uses cesium or rubidium.
Chris:Hmm.
Victor:Wow, think about old school clocks, right? Pocket watches, pocket watches yeah, you had to constantly crank them for them to keep the time that's what quartz took place of. So instead of you cranking them, they just said, hey, we're going to put a battery in there, run it through this little piece of thing and its frequency is going to keep cranking it, so it keeps working. Oh wow, the atomic clock. Basically. They were like this is way more accurate. We're going to put this piece of cesium or rubidium in there and it's just going to keep it. Gps works the same way. Gps is basically the hand that cranks your clock.
Rob:We went to the same high school. At what point did you learn this I? What point?
Victor:did you learn this? I know I learned this from the military, oh all right. Should have went to the military bro.
Chris:Should have joined the military. Thanks for that, victor. So they sent one on a plane, while the other stayed on the ground. Do you want to guess what happened? They fell in love. Yeah yeah, not quite a bit, but the clock on the plane ticked slower. That's to prove that time changed with speed right. So they actually tested the theory and it actually worked. So if you want to travel into the future, all you need is a way to get close to speed of light. That said, the only person I know who can do that is Flash. I don't know anyone else who can do that, superman.
Rob:Superman can go the speed of light.
Victor:They race each other constantly, so who wins? Yeah, that's a good question.
Cesar:Hello no.
Chris:So let's talk about traveling backwards. So one theory that gets a lot of attention is a wormhole. These are like shortcuts through space-time connecting two distant points in time. Shortest distance between two points A straight line Wrong. Shortest distance between two points is zero Sounds Wrong. Shortest distance between two points is zero Sounds cool, but we don't know if they exist. No wormholes has been found, and even if one did pop up, we might not be able to use it.
Cesar:If you're going to travel through this thing you're going to have the coordinates on the other side. And did Einstein come up with wormhole theory or no? Because if it did, a lot of the stuff, a lot of the theories that he's come up with are being found to be true now. So if there's things, if he's, if he talked about it, right, we just haven't had the opportunity to find out, but there it's probably legit. The same thing with the theory of relativity.
Chris:The same thing with a whole bunch other theories he came up with the reason that why we can't use it, because the wormholes are unstable and would require exotic matter to keep them open, which we haven't discovered, and they also likely too small for travel and could cause time paradoxes.
Rob:So you're saying that there's something happening where time is happening slower and then I'm moving at a faster rate, right? So now I have two different types of time, but the wormhole will allow me to go to this destination quickly, so technically I'll be able to jump that and then be back in the past. I don't get that.
Cesar:Is it actually the past or is it just a different location? That's my thing. It would be in the past, but it just a different um location in in, and that's my thing.
Rob:It would just be. It would be in the past, but it'd be at a different location, which wouldn't help.
Victor:I need to go back what are you looking for in the past? Love, we're all looking for love.
Rob:Just fix all the things I did in my 20s.
Chris:He's gonna fix that too. We need to go back. The wormholes are like just one of the theories that is out there, and I think this is more popular one just because you know we see wormholes in the movies, right, I think you see that more often than other theories or they create a wormhole right yeah, right with exotic matter coming to the stage exotic matter.
Cesar:20s only, please. So we've never, we've never seen a wormhole Coming to the stage Exotic matter.
Rob:20s only, please. So we've never seen a wormhole? No, and we don't know how to use it. Nope, we just have this idea.
Victor:Fun fact for you, there are no evidence that wormholes exist in our world None. However, they're often described in solutions to important physics equations. Fucking math is weird, dude. How hard is it to go the speed of light? Supposedly impossible. You cannot go to the speed of light and why is that?
Cesar:It's basically one of these laws that kind of allows the universe to exist, breaking that down, well then, kind of just destroys everything, but you can get to 99.99% of the speed of light.
Victor:Is that Mach 1?
Rob:No, that's sound, that's sound right.
Victor:Mach 1 is sound.
Rob:Don't they go like Mach 10?
Victor:Yeah, but that's on Earth, right. So that's like a pain in the ass, because now whatever you're creating is fighting air. Oh, right, right. So the fastest man-made object ever Was the Black.
Rob:Knight satellite.
Victor:That's good. It's fastest man-made object ever was the black knight satellite. The truth is out there, reaching speeds of 394 736 miles an hour. This is nearly 400 times faster than a fighter jet and 500 times faster than the speed of sound. Is the nasa's parker solar probe?
Cesar:huh, give it up to parker solar probe is that the one that's recently doing the flybys the the sun? Yeah, that's crazy how they wow, they're doing that dang.
Chris:So what aboutes? Have you guys heard about grandfather paradox? Cesar knows all about it. Go ahead, Chris. If you travel back in time and accidentally prevent your grandfather from meeting your grandmother, would you still be born? Some scientists believe these paradoxes would be impossible because the data mess with the law of physics. Others think that time could fix itself If you did something to mess up the Others think that time could fix itself If you did something to mess up the past. The universe would just correct itself. No one knows, but it's just fun to think about.
Cesar:So in your research, did the idea of the multiverse come into play and like, if you're going to time travel either forward or backwards, you're not going into your own travel, either forward or backwards, you're not going into your own. Yeah, the grandfather paradox might not work or might not exist if you time travel into a different universe. Yeah, realistically, all this shit is theoretical, right? One of the theories I heard is that time is like this the past, present and future are literally all happening right now simultaneously. So what has happened will happen, or it has already happened.
Victor:This timeline sucks, then I've crossed into your dark timeline.
Chris:Let's talk about pop cultures. So, from Back to the Futures to Doctor who, time travel has captured our imaginations. One of the most iconic time machine is the DeLorean. Yes, the DeLorean, of course.
Cesar:The phone booth, bill and Ted's Excellent Adventure. Or the hot tub, hot tub. That's a good one too.
Rob:Hot tubs are great time machines.
Chris:It must be some kind of hot tub time machine. Just want to say that back in the future, where the doctor was a Dr Brown and Marty McFly shows us how dangerous of meddling with time.
Victor:They tried to fix them right in the in the movie.
Victor:It depends which uh movie you're talking about, because only the second one was the one that they were really trying to fix time. The first one, if you remember correctly which I don't think you did, obviously. Uh, he gets trapped, he gets accidentally sent back in time and gets stuck there. He has to, um, find a younger doc brown, convince him that he created a time machine in the future, and then wait for a certain weather event to happen to possibly be sent back to the future, because you need 1.21 gigawatts.
Chris:Go.
Cesar:Johnny Go go, go.
Victor:So in the first one he was just trying to lay low, find Doc Brown and get back to his present time and then ended up bumping into things and messing things up, but he ended up fixing things Like he made his future life a lot better than his past life.
Cesar:You know what I always wondered? Let's say, you make a decision now, right, and you had another decision to make. If you can look at the timeline, you need the time stone. Like you could see that as it progresses like, huh, oh, that would have. Okay, that would have sucked. Oh damn it, I missed an opportunity.
Victor:It's like that Nicolas Cage movie Next, where he could see a minute into the future, and so he would change things depending on what his outcome was. Interesting, for instance, like gambling. He would go and gamble and he'd see what it rolled to or what the number hit, so then he'd go back and then he could, uh, change that never heard of it so, like the movies like the terminator, it's another good one donnie darko and, uh, bill and ted's excellent adventure yeah, that's another good one.
Chris:Donnie Darko and Bill and Ted's Excellent Adventure yeah, that's another good one. Do you guys know any of the movies that comes to your mind? There's Primer Primer.
Victor:What's that one?
Cesar:What's that one about?
Victor:It's about these guys that discover time travel and then they use it to try to bet on stocks and then a bunch of weird stuff happens. Hot Tub Time Machine that's a good one.
Rob:Yeah, hot Tub Time Machine, that's a good one, yeah, a great one.
Victor:Source Code oh, that one's a good one too.
Rob:Oh yeah, source Code yeah.
Victor:There's Looper I haven't seen that one there's About.
Rob:Time. What's the one with Tom Cruise and the aliens? Edge of Tomorrow, edge of Tomorrow. That's a great one.
Cesar:Ooh, that's a great one. That's a on Netflix. It's a series. It's fucking weird. I think it's either Dutch or something like that, but it's called Dark.
Victor:There's Tenet X-Men Days of Future Past.
Rob:One that I like is the one with Loki and the Time Variance Authority, and they have all the threads of different times, and then they do a good job with the time there.
Cesar:Umbrella Academy. They had a little time travel.
Rob:That's time travel? Yes, oh, yeah it does, that does.
Chris:So it's popular, man Right. What about shows besides Doctor who? Do you guys watch Doctor who? No, but I heard it's great. No, I have you guys. Never. I've seen the newest one. Which doctor? The black dude.
Victor:Nope, I stopped after David Tennant. That was probably the best doctor.
Rob:So what is he? He goes back in time in the phone booth.
Victor:Yes, the TARDIS. Yeah, it's not a phone booth, it's a TARDIS, technically a police box.
Rob:It's red. It looks like a phone booth right. No, it's blue.
Chris:Oh, it's blue it's blue, it's a police box.
Victor:It's not a phone bill, so why did you go back in time? A lot of stuff like everything happens because time is.
Rob:It's more like a big ball of wibbly, wobbly, timey wimey stuff it is very interesting show.
Cesar:It's very uh creative yeah now, if you can go back in time, I will go back.
Rob:Crypto, baby crypto, crypto bitcoins we wouldn't even have to go back that far yeah.
Victor:No, you got to go 2008, fucking just buy yeah just buy a ton of everything bitcoin for like a fraction of a cent and then wait till 2025 I want to hear what you guys think about time travel, like like.
Chris:How you guys feel about it.
Victor:I guess it is possible, right? We're constantly moving forward in time and you can go to the future. I am not a mathematician, so I don't know if we can go back in time. And if we could, how would we know what if they already went back in time and changed what they were supposed to change?
Cesar:The whole concept of it is kind of like because, like I watch all these theoretical physicists and stuff and talk about the universe, all laws of the universe and stuff, all that stuff is trippy. I don't know. If you travel back in time, it's like me going back to yesterday. I don't know if that's possible. Right, can't fathom it. I maybe travel forward in time, traveling the speed of light. Maybe I could see that happening, but traveling back to a specific point in time I don't know.
Victor:I don't know if I want to travel forward in time, though it seems that the world's just getting shittier and shittier so I don't think there's anything good in the future, to be honest, no, the future is great man.
Rob:The future is always better, okay, even though you look back and you're like, oh, the past was bad. We had a lot of like. You had like slavery you had like a lot of disease. Not that far back, yeah, but you know, the future is always better. You can always change the future, you know. You just gotta do the hard work now. I have hope there was something that always like interested me, or this theory of, like, um, the quantum field theory. Right, you guys heard about that.
Rob:Yeah, can't say it comes up in my regular day-to-day that often no, but it was like they had a vacuum right, and a vacuum is supposed to have nothing in it. Let's say, this idea is that there's fluctuations in a vacuum, there's actually movement in a vacuum and it's just that these particles pop in and out constantly, but they don't know where they come from and they don't know where they go, and they happen at such a scale that can't really even see it at a large scale. But one of these theories that I always thought about, and it kind of stuck with me, is that things pop in and out from different timelines. They would pop in and pop out. I think it kind of ties into the past, present, future always happening at the same time. Basically, there's this constant buzzing, even in a vacuum, I mean. So if that was the case, like like there's different versions of yourself happening, like the one with jet lee, which is great, right, right, right yeah, yeah.
Rob:But like, how do you go into those other areas? Like the universe is trippy, man, the universe is trippy when you really think about it.
Victor:You probably don't want to well, all I know is that caesar's calves are small in most of those universes forget you.
Rob:I don't know, if there's one, it's like finally makes it to another timeline. He's like are you serious?
Victor:he's gonna. He has to kill his alternate versions for his calves to grow bigger but they would never be aesthetically bigger.
Cesar:He would just be super strong. I'm hoping in one of these timelines just one, they're a decent size. You're on a cycle and you're just like jacked. They're like normal.
Victor:Just normal and even in that world where he's like huge, he's the smallest person there.
Cesar:Yeah, Nobody's bitch.
Rob:You are mine, is it? The universe is too weird. I mean if, if the idea of space time is true.
Rob:I mean, we already know that time is tied into gravity, and we do it now with our satellites, so we know that there's fluctuations in time. I just don't know how we would. I don't know how we would use it, like you know. How do you even do that? I was looking up E equals MC, squared right, so this is what it means. This is why it's impossible. The speed of light, so E is energy, or reaching the speed of light, reaching, reaching 100% the speed of light.
Victor:The speed of light is possible because that's how light travels.
Rob:Yeah, yeah, but so this is how. This is what it means, right? So E is energy, and then equals M, which is mass, and then C is the speed of light squared. So any mass that travels the speed of light would essentially turn into energy. That's why light, which is pure energy, travels that fast. But the problem is is you apparently need a ridiculous amount of energy to move mass that fast, and we do not have it, because I guess, as mass travels fast, it takes more and more and more and more energy to move it even faster, and that amount of energy is impossible with our technology.
Cesar:Give me a couple of monsters, I'll travel with the speed of light.
Chris:Yeah, this is what I think. If time travel was real, we would have some kind of sort of like proof by now, right?
Victor:No, we're fucking idiots, no one was coming back now. Anything.
Rob:Anyone who can go back in time is going to skip this period.
Cesar:The thing is, you wouldn't know, chris, if someone comes back in time and changes something, that timeline automatically changes.
Chris:So you wouldn't know if someone came in, unless they told you I don't know Writing notes anything. They tried this already. What do you mean? What do you mean? They tried this.
Victor:You ever hear of the time traveler party. You have a party, how?
Rob:does it end?
Victor:And then you post about the party in the future, and so whoever shows up to your party is a time traveler.
Chris:Yes, I heard about that. Yes, because there's no way they would have known about it, wasn't that in?
Victor:HG Wells' book. I don't know, I didn't read it, you didn't read it, I didn't read, I don't read yeah, they had a party where they had a table. So much research on the time that you're going to, because you'd probably stick out like a sore thumb If you just threw me in. Like ancient Rome. I don't speak Latin. Like, what am I doing there? I don't even know the customs. I probably don't have the white wardrobe, the hardest part.
Rob:I think about time travel. Let's say we Fighting the apes.
Chris:Oh, okay, sorry, no part. I think about time travel, let's say. Let's say we fighting the apes. Oh okay, sorry, no the apes.
Rob:We figured something out with the apes take your sticking paws off me. You damn dirty ape you gotta pinpoint where the earth was in space time. So the earth is moving in the solar system, which is moving in the galaxy which is zipping through space. So you have to be able to get to the destination of the space time, of where the earth was at that point yeah, but I the let's say the wormhole figures all that out all right, yeah, we got ai, we could just yeah, I thought.
Victor:I thought you meant like getting around, because like I don't have a horse and if I steal a horse they're gonna try to kill me yeah, you gotta learn how to ride a horse.
Rob:I gotta learn how to ride a horse, I can't just I can't just uber to rome like yo.
Victor:Uh, which way you going? I have this app? Uh, it's not. I got no service here. How do I get? I don't know yeah.
Cesar:You ever, guys, heard of the comedian Nate? What's his last name? Nate Borgarsi. He's like time travel. Even if I were to go back, they would ask me questions. He'd be like all right, so the phone, what is it? What is this thing? How does it work?
Rob:I don't really know how it works, all right, yeah, we don't know anything. Yeah, we don't know. They're like all right, great, you can create this gun for us, right?
Cesar:I'm like no, I don't know how that works. I can order it you guys got a computer.
Chris:I'm learning how to do.
Rob:She-Rock. Right now I'm learning how to do She-Rock.
Victor:Where's your closest Home Depot?
Rob:Yeah, you just go to the Lowe's. It's aisle 14. Grab what you need. How doers get more done?
Chris:What do you guys think?
Rob:Final thoughts Rob I think time travel is possible. I don't think we'll get there. And even if I did, what would I go back? For If I went back and changed it, I probably wouldn't even exist. So I probably wouldn't even exist.
Victor:So I'm never going to see it, victor, I think I wish time travel was possible, then I can go back and undo this episode.
Cesar:I knew that was coming. I knew that was coming.
Rob:I'd have you pick healthcare again.
Victor:I don't know if it's possible. I don't know if it ever will be possible. I know I will probably never. I won't around to I understand it or to see anything like it happen. I just want to like go hang out in space and then come back real quick, like that's you can do that.
Victor:Now, though you got 200 000 oh yeah, you got all that fucking money. No, I want it like a commercial fight. I want to like book it through my fucking chase preferred like hey, do you want to go to the fucking resort on the fucking?
Rob:moon. You'll never do. I'll tell you why. Blackout dates yeah, it just would never work for you it would never need a lot of points.
Victor:I understand that I just have to eat out every day. Triple the points. But yeah, time travel cool.
Cesar:Look into it, caesar this is the theoretical, and maybe in the future they'll probably figure it out. At this. I don't know if we can go back in time. We could probably go forward in time. Yeah, interesting stuff.
Chris:Even if time travel is impossible today, it's a concept that keeps us dreaming about the future and the past, and keep your eyes on the future. We want to thank you for listening and, if you enjoyed today's show, feel free to name drop this podcast to your friends and family To stay updated on new content and to join in on the discussion. Check us out on YouTube at I'm Not Done but Podcast, and Twitter at I'm Not Done but Please rate, like and review wherever you get your podcast. Until next time, stay curious.
Cesar:Peace.
Chris:Later.
Victor:Time travel what?
