question about time and stuff

So I heard time can bend with magnets. so I was trying to think of a way of sending a message, back through time and so far all I can think of is ways to send it fwd in time through very shorts amounts.

So I was thinking If we take 2 super magnets and put them opposite, could it separate timewaves making a gap in between them?

If so, try sending some type of pulse/signal unaffected by the magnets between the gap?

How does time “bend?"

And what are ‘timewaves’?

And what is a “super” magnet?

Magnets don’t bend time. The MRI just seems to go on forever because it’s uncomfortable and boring.

The woo is strong with this one.

You heard wrong.

The only thing in your post that makes any sense is sending a message forward in time - and that would be at a rate of 1 second per second. Everything else is just wrong.

Do you have a specific article in mind? That might help us get an idea of what you’re talking about.

Holy crap, it worked!!

ETA: I knew it would!!

Here’s my backward-through-time message-sending experiment.

It must be true, he’s a doctor.

Started well, that sentence.

The shroud of the clueless has fallen. Begun the time war has.

Water, fire, air and dirt
Fucking magnets, how do they work?
And I don’t wanna talk to a scientist
Y’all motherfuckers lying, and getting me pissed.

With gravity. Gravity bends spacetime, and as the name implies time is a component of spacetime.

I suspect the same is true of magnetism, and that enough magnetism would noticeably bend spacetime until the point you get a black hole. A form of kugelblitz; magnetism is energy surely, and in enough quantities would bend spacetime just like other forms of energy can. But I’m no physicist; and at any rate we’d be talking about ridiculously strong magnetism to pull that off.

EDIT: The point I was trying to make is that there’s nothing unusual about time bending. It’s normally bent, except perhaps out in the middle of an intergalactic void.

Did you perhaps write these sentences in proximity to an extremely strong magnet? :smiley:

Yes, spacetime includes time. But spacetime itself doesn’t actually bend. Spacetime just is. Gravity just changes paths in spacetime, which isn’t the same thing.

If we had a full theory of time, then I suppose we could say if time is variable. From what we know now, though, time always progresses at one second per second inside any reference frame and nothing is known that can alter that in any way. That certainly includes magnetism.

Well, spacetime can sort of rotate, with time becoming space-like, and space becoming time-like. This can happen near very large gravitational fields. Roger Penrose worked with the math and came up with some…interesting…results.

Wikipedia article on the Penrose Diagram.

My old physics prof used the term “rotate,” and not “bend,” but I think the idea is the same, sort of.

I’m getting over my head, but I think Penrose diagrams are a tool for representing spacetime at singularities rather than an actual description of spacetime itself.

I’m WAY over my head, but, again, my old physics prof said that Penrose had shown that (mathematically, anyway) near a singularity, space can become timelike, and vice versa. This is how Tipler got to the “rotating cylinder” kind of time machine. Closed paths in space turned into paths in time.