Just keep the ball centered on the panel
Posted on 01/31/2010 9:55:37 PM PST by divine_moment_of_facts
Quite amusing show tonight. Nice to hear Art’s mellow tones. The spleal on faster than light speed messaging is absurd, but folks won’t know that so the show will be quite entertaining. BTW, a time tremor detector??? LOL, dreams are just that, absurd scenes defying temporal limits.
“It’s hot stuff.. It’s on Fire!” ~Art Bell
You mean the super duper time calculator tazmatic ?
Sorry George, Art was the original host of Coast to Coast, and a better host..
The thing about time travel that I have not heard someone like the guest on Coast to Coast address is that space travel would be a part of it. Just think of the simple fact that as time goes by the earth is in constant movement around the sun, or is it Obama??? Any way, throw in the fact that the universe is expanding at a fantastically fast rate and the realization that in order to time travel, and “land” at a specific place on earth, you would need to travel great distances in space. From a fixed place in space, exactly how far did the earth move and how would you cover that distance IF you could travel through time?
Long live Art Bell.
I read this message last week.
Oh, I don’t know... haven’t thought about this in years but just off the top of my head - spacetime is grainy and bumpy and foamy at sub-sub-sub-atomic levels and microscopic wormholes open up and almost immediately close (something like within a few trillionths of a nanosecond). If you could (get ready for a real big “if” here) stabilize and widen that wormhole, and move one end of the wormhole spacially near to the other end and move it there very close to the speed of light such that relativistic time-dilation sets both ends of the wormhole at different times, then you (or perhaps merely an electronic squirt of information, if the hole can’t accomodate a human body) could step through the hole to some time in the future and then as easily step through to the past.
This would work. No reason why it wouldn’t. Don’t expect us to manage this level of technology anytime soon though. Breaking lightspeed isn’t a real big mystery either. I could tell you a thoroughly workable theory for that too. Again, I wouldn’t expect any practical results on this either - not in our lifetimes (or at least a few generations).
You want a nice paradox? A 25 year old guy meets a scientist who sends him 26 years back in time - he meets a 26 year old woman, has a one night stand and comes back to the future. He gets into a car accident and at the hospital he is found to have both male and female parts. Too badly damaged to be restored as a male, they restore him as a female. She goes back to the scientist and goes back in time, meets “himself” for their one night stand, stays there, has the baby, puts the baby in an orphanage, and goes back to the future. The baby, 25 years later meets a scientist who sends him back in time...
This individual is his/her own mother and father.
Wrap your head around THAT paradox and tell me where this persons DNA originated.
How many quatloos does he need?
This seems like a bad risk investment, due to poor management, if he didn’t have the forsight to send ahead and have the money waiting for him now.
I’m not sure I’d even buy a used self sealing stem bolt from him.
Uhhhh... just take my word for it.
Actually as scientific theories go - this is not especially new. Over 25 years ago I switched to computer science from a double major in Physics/Astrophysics when I figured this out and that there was no way none of the fun stuff (time travel, faster than light travel) had even a remote possibility of happening in my lifetime.
I wanted to be able to do these things - it seemed nobody knew how - so I figured it all out and then lost interest as soon as it became clear we weren’t even remotely close.
I could tell you more, but I am not here on this planet to answer questions - I’m here to judge you!
I need to work more on saying things like that with a straight face.
Just keep the ball centered on the panel
>>>>You want a nice paradox? A 25 year old guy meets a scientist who sends him 26 years back in time - he meets a 26 year old woman, has a one night stand etc
Robert Heinlein thought so too. That’s more or less the story “By His Own Bootstraps”.
I saw a werewolf drinking a pina colada at Trader Vic's.
His hair was perfect.
Isn’t that the plot of Heinlein’s “All You Zombies”?
VietVet
I'm constantly traveling forward in time. It's like I just can't stop myself(!)
When out on the empty highway late late at nite I Live for the Coast to Coast show.
The last time we were out traveling over the PNW Coast range coming home George had a guy on who was very serious (I lol all the way as did George) about his leprachons and gnomes living amongst us.
Then there were the call ins.......
I had wondered if any freepers who enjoy the show were listenting that night.
Was a hoot.
A gal we know lost her keys and I just belted out (jiving it up) you must call in your Lucky Charms as the Leprechans are hiding them in plain site.
The joy of the wide open road (no other cars/trucks/deer) at 2 am with COast to Coast..
(fun)
As one who has put quite a bit of thought into the idea of time travel, I'd say you're spot on.
When discussing the subjects one of my first questions is always, "Let's say you can build a time machine. What else do you need?" Answer: a space ship.
The Earth - she moves!
The cumulative motions of the Earth, (rotational, and orbital), the solar system (orbital in relation to the galaxy), and the motion of the galaxy itself to a hypothetical point of rest in space is huge. If you were to travel just a year into the past, you'd need to travel further in your spaceship to reach the earth than any craft we've ever sent into space.
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