The real life Doctor Who who believes he can build a time machine

The Daily Mail ^ | 27th July 2007 | MICHAEL HANLON

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It's going to be an uphill battle for you to truly understand Quantum Mechanics. Einstein, and Galileo long before, made a clear distinction between LOCAL and GLOBAL. Locally the earth is flat and unmoving, globally it is round, spinning and orbiting the sun. We have a saying in physics : when all else fails, go back to Newton. Newton's First law : an object(collection of fermions) will remain at rest, or move in a straight line(momentum) at a constant velocity(ignoring curvilinear gravity effects)until an external force(mass-time)is impressed upon it. Momentum is mv, mass is mv^2/2, an intergral/derivative relationship. Locally the collection of fermions feels NOTHING in Momentum, it's in a balanced Wave=Particle state. Globally, you as an external observer with your stop watch, are in an unbalanced W not=to P or mass-time state(ie, using Kinetic Energy at some delta rate). The formulas are : t=dKE=m=(W not=to P) and not-t=PE=M=(W=P). W here means Matter Waves, the other, hidden, invisible half of your existence. Just as light(the EM spectrum) is WAVES as well as PARTICLES, so is matter(ie, fermions, ie, electrons, protons, neutrons, quarks)also WAVES as well as particles. You don't SEE them, you feel them as decelerations/weight(W>P)in your "time-eye" body, as the "observer". Physicists use the term : "collapse of the wavefunction" but I prefer "over running matter wave energy in newtons of wave FORCE". Think of a surf wave slamming into a cliff/seawall, that's how "time" works, with your clock, with your haptics/neural network, stopping at your brain. Try this simple CM experiment : throw a baseball back and forth between your hands. When you accelerate it(coulomb repulsion of electron clouds actually)you have increased the Particle velocity(Pv)but not the complementary matter Wavelength(Ws for Wave shape or spectrum, or lambda), it ALSO has to be increased to match that higher Pv, and thus reach a higher momentum level(W=P). Now, you NEVER feel that local, internal increase in Ws anymore than you do in freefall. What YOU feel is a resistance due to your throwing hand being DEcelerated. Newton's Third : For every action there is an equal and opposite reaction(that's how rockets work). Thus the hidden matter wave energy you are investing in the accelerated baseball is INVISIBLE, GONE into the "bank". Einstein put it as either keeping your money in your pocket or putting it in the bank(w/o deposit slips), but you can't have it both ways! That would violate the First Law of Thermodynamics : Energy is never created or destroyed, only transferred. Thus, LOCALLY the increased +dWs of acceleration is NEVER felt, sensed, detected; even if it's your own body. Thus you don't feel acceleration energy going INTO your body(WP). Thus the impact energy of catching the baseball is that earlier acceleration coming back out(withdrawal slip not included)as deceleration. So try it with any small, dense object : you're throwing matter wave energy back and forth. Real simple if you understand QUANTUM MECHANICS....

[NicknamedBob]

"It's going to be an uphill battle for you to truly understand Quantum Mechanics."

I suppose you think this is the equivalent of getting my attention with a two-by-four.

Why do you think I need a primer on Quantum Mechanics? Because I dispute your contention that time is an illusion?

I have a complete comprehension of all the points you were trying to establish. I understand about the different world-view that an understanding of QM offers.

Try this on for size:

You have a space ship of advanced design. It's reactionless drive depends on high-speed plasma physics. Here's how it works:

You have two very large superconducting rings, with a large mass of plasma circling in each at near-relativistic speeds. They move in opposite directions so that gyroscopic precession effects can be used to shift the orientation of the ship in various directions.

When you are ready to go "thataway", you accelerate the plasma through electrical and magnetic effects, adding mass to the plasma in the process. As they circle the run, and enter an orientation where slowing of the plasma particles can be performed without affecting the course of the ship, mass is removed from the plasma in the form of magnetohydrodynamic energy capture.

In this process, the deceleration forces are trying to disassemble the ship, but it is a sturdy ship. It holds together.

When the plasma is again in a position to be accelerated, it is, as Maxwell's Demon, and all his assorted henchdemons, start rowing as fast as they can.

In a sense, this is a relativistic equivalent of the Dean Drive, and I hope I do not curse it with that appellation. It seems intuitively practical to use the relativistic mass enhancement as a means of producing a reactionless thrust. The rest of the technicalities are left as an exercise for the student.

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Great Scott!!

[P8riot]

If you were to walk into this 'timetunnel' - which would resemble a large vortex of light a few feet across - you could emerge at some point in the past.

Already been done(in 1966).

[RinaseaofDs]

Tesla was the most exploited too.

People still think Marconi invented radio, for example.

[NicknamedBob]

P8riot (I carry a gun because I can't carry a cop.)

Just as well. You wouldn't want any cops on your back.

[P8riot]

Just as well. You wouldn't want any cops on your back.

The voice of experience?

[NicknamedBob]

Two kids from your state got arrested here for asking directions.

That’ll learn ‘em.

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He remains the only black physics professor in America.

Huh? Who makes this stuff up?

[P8riot]

Two kids from your state got arrested here for asking directions.

That’ll learn ‘em.

Only in the PRM would that be an offense. I try to steer clear of any state that doesn't respect my right to defend myself.

[tlj18]

Tesla was the most exploited too.

People still think Marconi invented radio, for example.

Absolutely. I read what is considered to be the best biography on Tesla a few months ago (written in 1982, by Margaret Cheney (no relation as far as I know). I already knew more about Tesla than 95% of Americans. It was both a great and depressing book. In fact, many of Tesla's attributes I can see within myself. Tesla liked money, but wasn't obsessed with it. It wasn't his driving force every day. I am the same way. It's one of the reasons why I joined the military.

I only know of one soldier who knows who Tesla is, and it's only through a movie. Personally, I think that's sad. First of all, Tesla was arguably the greatest inventor in modern times. But more than that, not many people like to read anymore. I'm playfully ridiculed occasionally because I love to do research (on basically anything and everything).

[ohioman]

“Despite his success, the past still intruded in the most horrible ways. Mallett’s first tour of duty was in Biloxi, in the Deep South. There, for the first time in his life, he encountered the soul-destroying racism that had driven his grandparents north 40 years before. “

This part of article makes me sick. I didn’t know Southerners had the ability to destroy someone’s soul.

[RinaseaofDs]

I read, voraciously, the same biography. Cheney is an amazing biographer. The level of research she did for that book is astounding.

The afterward of that book was interesting too, admissions from the Feds that there were concentric levels of security around Tesla’s work.

I’m an electrical engineer. It’s astounding what is NOT being done in the area of high frequency power, given the eye-witnessed evidence of what Tesla was able to do with it.

It’s 2007, and it was only a week ago that somebody finally announced a method for transmitting power wirelessly, something Tesla was doing in 1918 in Denver. There’s a scene from The Prestige that alludes to it - where Tesla and the magician are standing in a field of light bulbs, and the field lights up. Tesla walks over to a bulb, picks it out of the ground like a carrot, and it goes out. Minute he grips the base of the bulb, the bulb lights up again.

As you know, what the Feds didn’t confiscate got burned up in the lab fire he had around 1904 or thereabouts. Had Tesla been as assiduous about filing patents as Edison was, the world would be a far different place.

[tlj18]

Yes, that was one incredible book. I wonder, though, had Tesla not allowed his invention of AC power to be stolen, what else might he have invented? As I remember, starting in the mid-1890’s, he started to have major money problems that only continuously worsened until about 1920 when his physical research was pretty much over. It is no exaggeration to say that Tesla basically invented the 20th century.

[onedoug]

It would seem that one would have to reverse, or increase the expansion of the entire universe since, classically at least, that's what it seems time is based on. Thus it would seem a global rather than a local problem.

Kip Thorne's idea of utilizing a wormhole to such ends might seem interesting, but who wants to go first? And, once in, if you weren't crushed, would general relativity hold up? Could you start and stop where you wanted?

Big...BIG problems....

[HiTech RedNeck]

If you turned on the machine, on January 1 say, and left it running for three months, you could enter the machine in March and only travel back as far as January 1.

If it was going to work at all, you would start to see people from the future walking out of the vortex almost as soon as you started it up.

[HiTech RedNeck]

The problem, of course, with trying to send substantial amounts of radio energy through the air is that it can and will all too easily be intercepted and dissipated by things that we don’t want to intercept and dissipate it. Tesla could put on a grand show but he could not make wiring obsolete.

[Exton1]

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[Manic_Episode]

"Nothing overt or violent (except maybe for fun...) Just an “ill timed” knock on the door, or some other mood killer... " ================================

Reminds me of the time way back when we broke a stink bomb under my roommates door right when he and his girlfriend were right in the middle of a certain activity.

We could almost literally hear a slide whistle sound effect.

Little did I know I was changing history.

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Little did I know I was changing history.

One is always changing history, to a greater or lesser degree...