Jump to content
Search In
  • More options...
Find results that contain...
Find results in...

pandacoder

Members
  • Posts

    79
  • Joined

Posts posted by pandacoder

  1. If you agree with chaos theory and the theory of infinite parallel time streams (and their corresponding multiverse), time travel in the way most people here are thinking about it would be impossible. It would accomplish nothing in your own timestream.

    Now, this is all assuming it is possible in the first place – issue:

    Laws of conservation of matter and energy.

    If you move back to a past time you are transferring your body and consciousness, which would be particles and energy, or just your consciousness, which is energy. This however, according to the laws of conservation of matter and energy, are impossible. By moving to another period in time, you are "destroying" matter and/or energy in your present time, and "creating" it in the past point in the other.

    And by the way, you can't use a black hole to go to the future either, because time and space is only distorted in a black hole, and if you leave it you are just reversing the distortion. Theoretically it should take just as much time as it took to apply the distortion, so by the time you leave the distortion field, the same amount of time will have passed, and if you tried to pull a million year stunt doing this you would die anyway -- because your body will still feel the effects of a million years passing on your way in and out of the black hole, if not even MORE time.

    Assuming it is possible:

    By going back in time you create another tree of infinitely branching time streams. Your timestream and present will still exist. It will still have the same issues. There will just be another version where the issues are not present because you changed it in THAT timestream's parent (past) timestream, but not your own. You can't change your own timestream (or its parent timestreams) or it would cause a paradox. It will ALWAYS create another one.

    However, going into the FUTURE is a little bit more tricky. Now you have an infinite number of timestreams to go into, and you actually can go into them. Unfortunately due to the conservation of matter and energy, you will either delete yourself in the process, or delete whatever is made up of the energy and particles that make up your present body.

    However if you managed to accelerate your body to infinitely close to 0 (commonly called decelerating), this would be possible without destroying anything as the particles and energy that make you up will still exist, and will not have changed into anything else. Provided you can reaccelerate your body faster than you decelerated, you still have to find a container that can handle it, and make sure it won't be altered in the mean time. This would probably require a distortion field, and an unbelievable amount of energy, probably in great excess of the energy needed to accelerate particles to the speed of light and beyond.
  2. Anyone who says they learned from a good engine that is a descendant (of sorts) of Mirage is nuts.

    Anyone who says they learned from a good engine that is coded in VB6, is nuts ten-fold on top of that.

    If you want to use or learn from a "good" engine, its going to be far larger, and the source is probably going to be open (MIT/Apache/etc license), under a license (might have a hobbyist license with it), under a license with only pre-compiled libraries with headers/linkage files (headers in reference to C/C++, "linkage" for generalizing whatever method other languages might implement) or the engine will be specialized, closed source, and expensive as hell (with a license still).

    I also saw something on page 1 about good game engines having scripting languages and listed Game Maker and RPGM. I'm sorry but those are neither engines nor good, especially if you want to call yourself a programmer and not a scripter.

    Unity I believe can be interfaced with from code, but aside from that I don't know much about it. Haven't used it, don't care to, never will use it. I have no further information to provide here.

    I recommend looking at things like OGRE3D (Rendering), jMonkey, Cube/Cube 2 (3D games), LWJGL's project list, RAKNET, Mana Source (The Mana World), and in general googling yourself.

    P.S. Don't use VB of any kind. It's standing with one foot in the grave.
×
×
  • Create New...