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From: [m f terman] at [phoenix.Princeton.EDU] (Mutant for Hire)
Subject: Re: How to use stargates for timetravel?
Date: Fri, 1 Oct 1993 20:47:40 GMT

Suppose you have a wormhole between two points A and B. They're
totally synched in time. Now you take the wormhole at one end
and start accelerating it up, fly it at high speed then slow
it down and stop it at point C. Now reverse the trip.

Standard relativity theory tells us that the wormhole that
moved has experienced less time than the wormhole at A. So in
the X years that have passed at A, X - Y years have passed at
B. Assuming that A and B are less than Y light years apart
(by a good margin we will assume) we have a time machine now.
All you do is take the wormhole to point B then fly back to A.

Its problems like these that give people studying GR a real
headache. No one is certain whether wormholes connecting two
points of spacetime exist. A theory of quantum gravity is
needed for that.

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