Re: Destroy Time Dimension?

Mike Bass wrote:
Hello everyone. I'm a screenwriter and currently working on a sci-fi movie. I need to know how you could destroy the time dimension. Is it even possible? A time black hole? Thanks to everyone for your time.

All black holes are by definition time black holes too. They indiscriminately rip apart all of the dimensions, including the time one.


I have a time-energy device already in the script. The explanation for that is:

We add time as a fourth component to Maxwell's equations for electro-magnetism. We build a system that's un-symmetrical in the fourth component and extract energy from the vacuum using logarithmic beams. Could this overload and rip a hole in time-space, create a time black hole that sucks time into it? Hey, I'm a writer forgive my intelligence. Thanks again. (Don't laugh too hard it could hurt you.)


Maxwell's Equations are very 19th century -- classical physics stuff. It would work if your movie were being made back between the 1930's to 1950's, when Quantum Mechanics and Relativity were still new and not yet well understood (and while the films would have already been "talkies").

These days, Relativity and QM are already old-hat, and the current cutting-edge theories that are somewhat mysterious and ill-defined are Superstrings. You have to really exploit that which is still exotic right now. In some Superstring theories, there are actually much more than the 4 dimensions, there are 10 of them; while some Superstring theories have 11 dimensions, while one old one has 26 of them. They believe that the 6 additional dimensions (in a 10 dimensional world), are not gone, but just curled up into funky balled up shapes called Calabi-Yau Spaces. The 4 familiar dimensions, 3 space and 1 time, are the only dimensions that expanded after the Big Bang, the others remained curled up. I could see a plot device where some experiment starts to cause some of the hidden dimensions to expand, by sucking up the time dimension (kinda like a filled balloon filling up an empty balloon by putting their mouths together).

You would be able to tell that time is slowing down because the speed of light would slow down. You could conceivably go relativistic just at walking speeds. You would see that people would start stretch in the direct they are walking and shrink in height and width, just like a bunch of playdoh. Also people walking towards you would start to look blue in color, while those walking away would look red.

Yousuf Khan
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