First time-travel movies reveal surreal universe
February 1, 2013
Developed by Wolfgang Schleich and colleagues at the University of Ulm in Germany, the first time-travel videos mathematically recreate the weird world of Gödel’s universe.
— New Scientist
Video Source: Wolfgang Schleich and colleagues
Comments (10)
by Jackus
Reminds me of the novels “Peace War” and “Marooned In Realtime” by Vernor Vinge. How will the “bobbles” be used to benefit humanity?
by asiwel
Ah, yes, well … Gödel’s World .. one would expect it to be a bit different .. and, of course, never disproven! Douglas Hofstadter didn’t name his famous book “Gödel, Escher, Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid” without reason. Mathematicians study interesting spaces and geometries all the time … and every so often one of these turns out to be amazingly relevant to real problems in our own reality! After all, consider string theory.
by Bri
I feel like I should quote Morpheous when he first brought Neo to the ” construct”. He asks, what is real? What we think is real is just electromagnet energy interpreted by our senses. To bend the spoon you have to realize the truth. There is no spoon. Just a bunch of quantum dots gazing out at an illusion that they create. It’s really all a matter of perspective. Time and space are constructs of consciousness. Just home movies playing on the holodeck. The concepts or spirit of things is eternal. Time and space force a relativity. The concepts of things has always existed. It’s what manifests and when that creates the drama. Otherwise it’s all always happening everywhere. This video just changes the relativity of what appears and when. It’s still the same objects that your familiar with. Only your perspective has changed.
by WLGJR
Very aesthetically pleasing and psychedelic.
by Thrillhouse
Zero understanding here. Was this clip part of a larger explanation?
by Editor
Yes, please click on the “Related” link for the New Scientist article.
by someone
It’s a 3d projection of a 4d picture, where the 4th dimension is time.
by GatorALLin
-this comment helped me…. now I understand better…thanks!
by Mark
This clip is bad. I don’t know if it is accurate or not, but even with a bit of background in this, I don’t understand it. Someone without any background would be completely lost.
Might be okay for Hawking, Susskind, and their ilk, but it isn’t very good for the rest of us.
by Knute
I agree, Mark. I am totally lost.