Test could lead to time travel

The Miami Herald ^ | Sunday, March 21, 2004 | BY RAFAEL SANGIOVANNI

[Rudder]

What does that spinning disk on the back of the sled do?

Does it go 'round in a circle?

If so, ask Billy Preston.

[cyborg]

Seriously, I would not turn back time at all. Sometimes things happen for a reason. Going back could be a monumental screw up.

[AmishDude]

It seems I have to reveal myself on this thread.

I am a time-traveller from the future. I live in the year 2112 in a world ruled by a cyborg constructed to house the mind of Arnold Schwartzenegger. It took the 31st and 295th Amendments to make that possible.

There will be a civil war over the issue of cyborg rights. The neocons will be replaced by the mechanicons, who are constantly battling the jurassicons over the latter's belief that the war against the alien overlords is ill-conceived.

When I arrived fully nude (something you did NOT want to see, BTW) into your world, I couldn't believe you were unable to see what is obviously going to happen in the next year. It's kinda funny. Oh, boy are you going to be surprised. I just can't wait.

I shouldn't say much, though. Disrupting the time-stream and all.

Anyway, I just wanted to tell you, this whole experiment is bogus. If you want real time travel, you have to construct a . . .

. . . what? . . .

. . . oh, I gotta go, "Law and Order -- Robocops" is on.

[Focault's Pendulum]

You might be one up on me. :)

I did the math...then added 42....seemed like the right way to go.

[VadeRetro]

Limited ping.

Superfluous ping. I'm just visiting back in the past, so I already knew about this thread.

[Junior]

Publicity stunt and junk science.

And your qualification for such a comment? Or, do you simply naysay anything scientists come up with as a knee-jerk reflex?

[Political Junkie Too]

A physics professor will try to turn back time in an experiment at the Miami Museum of Science.

You guys are a little late.

Terry McAuliffe already tried to turn back time to Florida 2000 in November 2002. He failed miserably.

He's going to try again on November 2, 2004.

-PJ

[evets]

"what is the frequency...

... Kenneth?"

[RightWhale]

Let's guess. You're all the Art Bell callers on the Time Traveler Line in Dec '02. Or you will be, or will be used to be, or were will be, or have been will be.

[StriperSniper]

Going back could be a monumental screw up.

I would be going that way to avoid people so the risk would be minimal. :)

My interest is mostly a historical curiosity about a pre-industrial world.

(Not to mention I'd love see a time where lobster were considered 'pests' and they used bass for fertilizer because of their abundance.)

[StriperSniper]

then added 42

Well, that is the ultimate answer. ;-)

[AmishDude]

Absolutely not. I only travelled here last year. Those long-temporal calls are murder on the pocketbook. I don't know why they cost so much, but like they say, it's all about the Condoleezas.

[cyborg]

Oh definately then! I'd want to go back to Egypt to watch the aliens build the pyramids :)

[Vermont Lt]

Vade, baby--how are you? I havent seen you since next week? What will we be up to? I've been thinking about that joke you told me next year. You know, the one about OBL and Saddam in the cell next to Yasser. I laughed like there was no tomorrow. Ooops. Almost let the cat out of the bag.

See you last year.

[StriperSniper]

As long as I get to watch and not get put to work. ;-)

[Momaw Nadon]

Wouldn't immense force created by a centrifuge affect the digital clock mechanism itself?

Possibly. I would be much more concerned about the clock mechanism if it was mechanical.

[shaggy eel]

Remember I never said I was normal.

,,, and we never thought you were!

using acceleration to speed up a digital clock by four seconds.

,,, imagine how many times throughout history that four seconds have actually mattered. A good number of times, for sure. I bet his next experiment will involve trapping four seconds in a jar. I'd say Carlos is a bit non-standard too.

[Licensed-To-Carry]

Since I'm definately not a scientific person this may be a stupid question but......

Wouldn't time travel not only involve going back into time but also going back to a certain position in the universe. Like say 500 years ago, the earth and sun were not at this location but somewhere else in the rotation of the Milky Way, and the Milky Way was somewhere else in the universe.

So for time travel to really work, you would have to go back in time and go to the actual spot and rotation of the earth at that particular time. Am I off base?

[VadeRetro]

Almost ran into myself from an earlier time trip yesterday! Ouch! Got to start being more careful.

[Jeff Gordon]

If time travel WAS possible, we'd already know it because we'd have already been visited by travelers from the future.

Try taking a different point of view. Look for time travelers from the past. Once you do that you will see things differently. You can find such examples of past-to-future time travel right here on FR. Just read any Evo/Crevo thread.