Posted on 10/28/2014 5:01:34 AM PDT by BenLurkin
If one day a time machine is built based on Dr. Mallett’s design, what may happen when the switch is flipped? A message from the future could instantly appear.
The time machine would only be able to send information along the timeline from when the machine is first turned on until when it is turned off. So, if it stays on for 100 years, binary messages could be sent to any time within those 100 years. Someone from the future may know that the machine will be activated on a given date and send a message through to that time.
In a BBC-Discovery Channel documentary featuring Dr. Mallett’s work, the narrator said that with time travel, “At stake is nothing less than what it means to be a human being.”
If we could go back in time and fix all the suffering of the world, if we could go back and prevent the bad things that happen in our lives, what would that do for personal growth and wisdom? How would our society change?
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“It’s up to society to decide how time travel is used, it’s not up to an individual,” Dr. Mallett said. The Large Hadron Collider, the world’s largest and most powerful particle accelerator, is run by a consortium of nations. He imagines a time machine would be controlled in a similar manner. He doesn’t imagine time machines will become any more common than nuclear reactors. People won’t have time machines in their backyards for casual use.
For Dr. Mallett, the best use of time travel would be to warn people of natural disasters—to prevent, for example, the thousands of deaths caused by tsunamis and hurricanes.
(Excerpt) Read more at theepochtimes.com ...
you can tell that time travel is possible by all those observers in futuristic outfits watching at historical events.
I want to go back and invest that $20K in Microsoft back in the early 80’s that I passed on.
In reality(and that is where we are like it or not)no matter where you are in the universe, it is always now.
It’s not gonna happen.
Or tomorrows Power Ball lottery number.
I don’t trust anyone who utters crap like that.
You have to admit you wouldn't want any individual to use that (Harry Reid, obammy, et al). However I wouldn't want "society" to use it either.
I thought it was voicemail.
Love, Cole & Dr. Railly
Very ironic when you look around at the 'Society' they made.
What they mean here, of course, is opposite of what they imply, the broader wisdom of the collective. What they really mean is it's a decision best made by bureaucrats and social scientists who give lip service to equality and openness.
All my life, I got messages from my future self, but I never listened so here I am.
I read this a week after the 2016 election
The butterfly effect.
I'm right there with you.
I've actually given time travel an inordinate amount of thought. (aspiring author who sucks so bad not even my dog would read it)
One of the things seldom taken into account when discussing time machines is the fact that everything in the universe is in motion to one degree or another. Consider: the earth revolves. This imparts a considerable vector to you and your time machine. The earth also travels around the sun. Add many kilometers/sec to your motion. The sun revolves around the milky way. Add several tens if not thousands of KPS. The Milky Way has velocity relative to members of the Local Group, and the rest of the universe at large. Total it all up, and you're looking at some serious velocity attached to something that is nominally 'at rest' relative to your current location. (some vectors will cancel each other out, but overall, the 'absolute' vector is several thousand KPS.
Now, jump in your time machine and jump one minute into the future or past. I hope you have a space suit, because otherwise, you're now breathing hard vacuum. I also hope you've built a spaceship (a TARDIS?) around your time machine so you can then travel back to the Earth.
I believe 'time travel' of some sort is probably possible, as the Lord stands outside of time and space IMO. I suspect you'll have to travel through His realm to reach another time. I do not know if He will allow it.
Yup. Sell it all in 2000 and switch to APPL and you'll do even better. MSFT hasn't done squat for the past decade.
To go back in time would require that the physical movement and change that has happened can be erased. To go forward in time would require that movement and change that has not yet happened actually may have happened after all. This is illogical and goes against the laws of nature.
God started it all creating a physical reality that moves and changes as each present moment passes. That is the nature of our physical realm and time simply helps us measure movement and change that in turn helps us reflect on the past and plan for the future. Time is a tool for our physical realm and would not be required without intelligent beings to make use of it. Other insentient physical entities would just continue to move and change without consideration of time :) IMHO
I do believe there is another realm as ou describe it.
“Someday, you’re going to meet a redhead at a party, whatever you do, don’t marry her.”
Hey Ben
Sorry but it violates INFOO7’s law of Conservation of Relativity. You can send back messages but they would be devoid of any usable data.
Be sure to drink your Ovaltine.
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