[Momaw Nadon]

FYI and discussion

[Rodney King]

They could get people just as interested by screening Planet of the Apes (The original one with Heston, not the terrible one with Markey Mark).

[billorites]

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

Presumably to count the Florida ballots "one more time."

[Grut]

Publicity stunt and junk science.

[19th LA Inf]

I'm no physicist, but it seems to me that acceleration imposed by a centrifuge will have very little effect in "inertial space" as the center of rotation is just moving along with the earth's surface and is constantly cancelling out. If the force were applied in a straight line, then some measurable effect could be expected. Comments?

[anymouse]

Misleading headline, even if actual headline. Shame on The Miami Herald's editors.

[My2Cents]

What's the big deal? I just moved my watch up an hour!

[TheyConvictedOglethorpe]

This article was already posted tomorrow.

[Diogenesis]

[Williams]

Well, travel at high velocity will cause a clock (or anything else for that matter) to SLOW a bit, relative to a stationary observer. Unless his centrifuge is causing the digital clock to move fast enough to account for this four second differential, then it isn't being legitimately accomplished. I find his refereces to his experiments and others to be sloppy. For example, the moving clock would slow down relative to the rest of us, not speed up as he seems to be saying. Also, his references to Franklin, Faraday, etc. are at least immodest, and do not seem to reflect that he is especially familiar with their work.

[Lawgvr1955]

The experiment involves putting a digital clock under immense force by spinning it on a centrifuge.

I knew a kid in the neighborhood spent too much time on the tilt-o-whirl. When the summer was over he applied for and received social security retirement payments.

I agree with the "junk science" label here.

[Sabertooth]

FYI

[Pukin Dog]

I suggest he aim three Tachyon Particle beams at the instability in the Space-Time-Continuem in order to heal the Temporal Rift. (thats how the neighbors' kid says it works, but what do I know?)

[LibWhacker]

I SOOOOO hope this happens; I could skip over all the years rats are in the White House.

[The Sons of Liberty]

It'll never work - he doesn't mention the key piece of equipment - the Flux Capacitor, which makes time travel posssible.

[kAcknor]

The experiment involves putting a digital clock under immense force by spinning it on a centrifuge.

Dolz said it takes about six hours to move the clock ahead four seconds.

kAcknor Sez:

I could have saved them all a lot of time and money for the centrifuge. The clock in my computer can gain those 4 seconds in about an hour!  ;)

"bISovbejbe'DI' tImer" (When in doubt, surprise them.)

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[Hot Tabasco]

I have already won zillions of dollars on my state's lottery. I simply call my friend Shaggy Eel in NZ, who is 18 hours ahead of me and ask him what the lottery numbers are for tonight.

[PatrickHenry]

The experiment involves putting a digital clock under immense force by spinning it on a centrifuge.

He must be thinking of the H.G. Wells device:

[Joee]

Maybe, with enough time stretch, the Wright Brothers will get their aeroplane to fly! Just think of it ---- a flying machine! What next --- a horseless carriage?

[mhking]

Just damn.

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[William Terrell]

The experiment involves putting a digital clock under immense force by spinning it on a centrifuge.

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