Posted on 03/10/2007 8:03:48 AM PST by aculeus
One of the most replayed commercials on television right now is the DirecTV ad with Doc Brown from Back to the Future. Doc, we learn, has forgotten to tell Marty McFly to buy DirecTV in the future. Never mind that the 1955 version of Doc never traveled through time, and therefore wouldn't know about DirecTV. More importantly, how's that whole time machine thing coming? When can we rev up the DeLorean and, like Marty, go to our parent's high school dance with our mother?
Never. But not never, never. Just never for us. First, back to the basics.
A physical time machine—a device available at Wal-Mart, as opposed to a natural wormhole somewhere in the cosmos—is possible. You begin with something square. Next, install mirrors at the corners and send a beam of light, perhaps from a laser, at one of the mirrors. The light will bounce to the second mirror, the third, the fourth and back through this cycle forever.
The force of this constantly circulating light will begin twisting the empty space in the middle. Einstein's theory of relativity dictates that everything happening to space must happen to time, so time begins twisting, too.
To fit a human inside this time machine we need to stack a bunch of these mirrors on top of each other, and add more light beams. Eventually, we'll have a cylinder of circulating light. Once we step inside, we're ready to fly through time.
Rubbish, you say? Well, unlike Doc Brown's second-generation DeLorean, which ran on garbage, the model for our time machine is actually testable. Place subatomic particles—pion or muons—on one side of the light cylinder, and a particle detector on the other side. Then send the particles across.
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Yup. Them critters had lots of rather large parasites, didn't they?
Besides, this stuff really only works way out near the Rim, where space is thin.
Finaly thought: This method is too dangerous, because there is a chance that a photon will hit at a wrong angle, and be faced with equal chances of going in eihter of two directions, causing it to split...instant disaster.
Continuously precessing gyroscopes, that are constrained spacially, are much safer.
Which half goes when/where is really irrelevant.
No! no! no! You've got it all wrong! A crude 3 dimensional resonant chamber would require far too much power and be extremely dangerous, what with the explosive energy of the laser and the total lack of any steering mechanism, assuming you attain space-time breach at any point in a typical human life span. Dimensional transcendetal space time isometries are certainly less accident-prone, but you can't make a working dimensional stabilizer on a table top with a laser scapel and a ball of string. Rubbish, indeed.
It's a hoax -- Bob's just going to steal your weapons and sell them to the Peterborough Gun Shop...
Just curious, are you going to answer that ad?
I think it's an old one from 2005.
(not that time matters for that guy anyway)
;^)
You can travel back, but remember:
"Safety not guaranteed"
http://timetraveler.ytmnd.com/
"Interesting"
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If we can't teleport ourselves across space, then physical movement across time is bound to be impossible as well.
But if "remote viewing" works, would it be possible to see across time, as across space simply by developing a hidden capacity of our minds?
But does "remote viewing" work, or is that another crock?
I was amused by the illustrated novelist Jack Finney's (non-)idea that if we recreated the physical surroundings of a past era, we might somehow almost magically slip over and wake up in that time.
Trust me, though, it doesn't work.
You have a point. And if one agrees that perception is indeed reality, well............
He said a civil war would break out here in 2005. I must've missed that.
No proof that anything he said was true.
remote viewing? you mean "tele vision?"
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