Scientists to invent time machine in near future (you heard it here First!)

Pravda (Trust but Verify) ^ | 11/04/2005 | Maria Gousseva

[observer821]

I'd want to go back to 1982.

[TalonDJ]

ninja llamas from the future?

[kalee]

ping

[mcshot]

Damn Larry, I think you broke my monitor or I've gone back to nothingness.

mc 8>))

[timer]

One : do you have a CAMERA/REEL big enough to take a snapshot of the entire, inter-related UNIVERSE at any given instant? Two : How do you REVERSE on-going ENTROPY and roll the reel back to that earlier picture? Thus you confuse simple, reversible movies, with the on-going STORY of HIS-STORY.... Actually there is no such thing as "time". t=dKE=m=(W>P) or time is delta Kinetic Energy is mass(inertial or gravitational)is(matter)Wave energy greater than(fermion)Particle energy; ie, deceleration and gravity. I can explain it in more detail if you are interested... W=P

[Spiff]

However, seeing visions of events from the past seems a little more feasible to me.

I just finished reading Arthur C. Clarke/Stephen Baxters "The Light of Other Days" this morning. They went with the seeing the past, not the travelling to or changing the past. Good read.

[layman]

If I go back in Time and kill my Great-Great-Grandfather will I disappear

It depends. If you kill him in Pennsylvania you'll be sentenced to death by lethal injection .... so after all the appeals, etc. you are guaranteed to live at least another 25 years.

[Billthedrill]

The only reality is the present moment.

But...but...but you posted that twenty minutes ago!

[Bigh4u2]

" But...but...but you posted that twenty minutes ago!"

And you posted yours 8 minutes ago.

A little behind the times, aren't you?

:0)

[Levante]

"...no one would want to go back to the late 1970's."

Well, except maybe Clinton.

[Larry Lucido]

Damn! Oh, well, guess ya gotta go to the links. Hilarious cartoons.

Hmm, better make sure I'm still here and not posting from the future.

[Billthedrill]

I knew you were going to post that.

[Bigh4u2]

"I knew you were going to post that."

And I'm a little ahead of myself, if you read the time stamps of the two posts.

Future anyone?

[skinkinthegrass]

One second is gone and another is yet to be. Reality is only now, and it's over...

Precisely...Hey! Einstein...Over here. :)

[ClearCase_guy]

Looks like time travelers enter a parallel universe so we wouldn't see them.

That's true. That's exactly how time travel works.

Also, did you know that adding cream to coffee releases huge amounts of deadly radiation? It's true. Fortunately the byproducts of this chemical reaction enter a parallel universe so we wouldn't be killed by them.

[<1/1,000,000th%]

Because this is the beginning of the information age and the dawn of the new discipline of biological engineering.

Plus this is the beginning of the Freedom Wars.

That's why I came back.

[Joe Miner]

If time travel was possible, where are all the time travellers from the future? They would be everywhere.

Or another possibility is the world was conquered by Islam and we reverted to a society of camel herders too stupid to discover it.

[Bigh4u2]

"Or another possibility is the world was conquered by Islam and we reverted to a society of camel herders too stupid to discover it."

Again??

:)

[DOGEY]

Probably just invented a clock.

[GOPJ]

If time travel was possible, where are all the time travellers from the future? They would be everywhere.

We live in a time second - one-second that keeps "moving" forward. ( In fact, time is a solid, so it doesn't "move") Millions of time travelers could go back in time and keep missing our "second". ( Just kidding, but you asked!)