Posted on 03/24/2004 5:20:35 PM PST by vannrox
Yes, it is. I haven't seen it in a while. Thanks for the reminder.
He's got a new one out where CalTech scientists discover a way to open doors to alternative timelines. Naturally, corporations take advantage of that and start doing business on alternate worlds (many of which are Turtledove worlds).
Sure. But I'd make sure to take a palm pilot with stock prices and sporting event results back with me. You think Bill Gates is rich? You ain't seen nothing yet.
Turns out it was John Kerry on his snowboard.
Look at the information in this article and you will realize it is pure fiction. Some of the information simply points to made up facts and names. Take the physicist's name, there is no mention of where the physicist was from, which is strange since most researchers are associated with an organization.
Also look at the fact about the balloon, what is time travel? how does a time device show a date from the past? time pieces work by either springs, quartz or other mineral vibrations to keep track of time PASSED. In order for that chronometer to show a previous time it would have to somehow be wound backwords(mechanical) or somehow be malfunctioning to be set to a random time not related to the actual time.
Time is not physically related to location or moment. You can not simply read the time of some place with an instrument. This in itself invalidates this article. Also notice the article refers to the chronometer as a watch... who would put a watch in a weather balloon?
Another indication of fabrication comes in the statement "FBI is fighting CIA for controll of the object". The author who invented this story simply doesn't realize that FBI is a domestic organization while the CIA is international. Both would not have been involved in this experiment.
If anything it would have been the NSA or NASA who would have been involved.
Lastly some of facts of the rest of this article seemed to be gathered randomly out of the internet. The facts are disjoined and have nothing to do with the original story. In fact they relate to a more proving of einstein's relativity theories than actual time travel.
Sounds to me the writer had too much vodka when he/she wrote this.
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