Foundation Seminar 091-22 Problem Set #6

Due October 24, 2:30 pm.

In order to do this assignment you need to read:

Watch segment from "Somewhere in time"
Watch a segment from: "Star Trek, The Voyage Home"
Watch a segment from: "12 Monkeys".
Read "Little Brown Bag" and "Neutron Star". (After Thursday's class).
As usual, every claim made in your work should be referenced if it is not original. Everything that's not referenced is considered to be original. I DO expect 40-80% of the HW to be original. There are no quantitative questions in this HW assignment, but I would still like your answers to be short and to the point.

Problem #1: According to the special theory of relativity events are always order in the same way in space and time, no matter whose looking. The distances and time intervals may be different for different observers. Write a 1 page story in which the crew of a fast spaceship (you choose the circumstances) is observed by aliens that DO NOT know relativity.

Problem #2: The movie segments above have three different views on time travel: The classical, modernist, and postmodernist. Which of these three give a specific method of time travel? Is that in agreement with the movie style?

Problem #3: The general theory of gravitation allows for time travel, and yet it assumes that the speed of light is the same to all observers. Try and construct a situation with a wormhole in which light moves at one speed, and yet information travel faster than light. A drawing will be in order here.