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Date: 2001-08-10 14:01:37

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Intresting stuff, one comment:  Marky Mark traveled either a great distance in time or space or maybe his travels where through a differant demention of space or time (see string theory).  But if his travels agree (at least in part) with our laws of physics the only way to travel such great distances or travel in time would be by going faster that the speed of light or by finding a worm hole.  If he was traveling at faster than the speed of light, he would not grow older but everything else would age.  But for some reason, the clock on the ship seems to reflect not Marky Mark's time but that of the rest of the universe, thus 10 seconds to Mark was thousands of years to the rest of the universe as seen on the clock.  This doesn't make sense, aside from the fact that it is physicaly impossible to travel at the speed of light (Mass becomes infinate).  Worm holes are a phyisical possibility (see steven hawking's website) where space and time are bent.  Imagine a string layed out straight is time or space and you are somewhere on the string.  If you bend the string so it crosses, you could jump from one place in time or space to another time in the future or past or a great distace.  This could only occur with a huge gravitational force such as a black hole or  (maybe) an electromagnetic storm which could bend space time.  Therefore, if we assume mark went through a worm hole, we cannot say if he went in the futre or past or if he just traveled a great distance in the present