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

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

[Graymatter]

Well if they ever do invent it, I’m signing up for a few PPV events. See the pyramids go up, Atlantis go down, Santorini go up, the dinosaur-killer asteroid go down...
While my dead husbands wait to talk to me, and hear all the things I never got to say, I’ll be glued to the tube.

[LibWhacker]

Right. Just stumbled across this the other day. No one can travel in time if it doesn't exist.

[caseinpoint]

I have a bookmark which says “Why do I do what I do when I know what I know?” We all do things we know aren’t good for us. We don’t exercise enough, don’t eat the right foods, don’t get enough sleep,don’t get enough sunshine, or we get too much sunshine, don’t drink enough water, or too much water, don’t brush our teeth well enough, or too well. We play games that put too much stress on certain vulnerable joints, we take chances in our driving. We say things we ought not say, think things we ought not think. And part of it is simply the deep-seated idea that if we lived according to all the “right rules” (which are changing all the time, by the way), our quality of life would negate any increase in its duration.

[Bender2]

Golly, Mr. Peabody... can Professor Mallet really reverse time by using just a circulating beam of light?

Of course not, Sherman... the amount of energy to run such gigantic lasers would be prohibitive.

What do you use... to power the Wayback Machine?

A simple formula of plutonium, magnesium... aged cat poop and just a dash of Louisiana Hot Sauce.

Why... the hot sauce?

It kills the smell of the cat poop... but leaves the tangy taste.

What... was that?

It sounds like... gigantic lasers being activated.

Gigantic... lasers?

Yes, gigantic lasers... Or a Flux Capacitor!

So, you... you are that time traveling dog?

Peabody here... and this is my boy, Sherman. What can we do for you?

Its Doc Brown... I need to go back to the Wild West and rescue him. Can you take me there?

Sherman, warm up the Wayback... we have to help the Three Dimensionals again.

[toddlintown]

OK. I’m calling BS, with racial baloney mixed in for effect.

[Pontiac]

But I think he missed the main point. His father would not change his behavior even if someone from the future went back to warn him. It’s part of human nature.

You never heard of a life altering event?

Having your son visit you form the future might just be such an event (supposing that you could be convinced of that fact).

What is missing from this article is the fact that in Professor Mallet’s theories on time (I’ve heard him speak at length on his theories before) is that your trip to the past is one way. Once your there your stuck there.

[fanfan]

I think I am starting to get a head ache.

LOL. Me too.

[Pontiac]

Question is given his views on who he wants to build it, would they go to him to design the working model.

They could always get a scientist to study his published work and design a time machine for them secretly.

[Pontiac]

The article doesn’t describe how he gets back.

What is missing from this article is the fact that in Professor Mallet’s theories on time (I’ve heard him speak at length on his theories before) is that your trip to the past is one way. Once your there your stuck there.

[TheInvisibleMan]

‘OK. I’m calling BS, with racial baloney mixed in for effect.’

Good God! What if it is mentioned that Einstein fled Germany to escape Nazism and possibly concentration encampment? Where is the baloney in adding biographical detail to a story?

[SpaceBar]

If macroscopic reversable time travel were a natural consequence of physical law it would already be happening at all times and all causality of the known universe tossed out the window.

[nicmarlo]

Alternatively, as physicist Kip Thorn proposed in the 1980s, you simply need to create a 'wormhole' - a tear in the fabric of spacetime, using perhaps a tame black hole or dozens of nuclear bombs.

darks.....maybe you can help out with the black hole... : )

[toddlintown]

BS. The whole story, and I don’t care what color he is. BS is BS.

[TheInvisibleMan]

“Well, here’s how it works. His drunk dad tells him to get the “F” lost and downs another three belts of booze before falling asleep with a lit cigarette in his hand, thereby saving his preciious time machine.

If he’s particulary unlucky dear old dad pulls a gun and his time saga ends on the first trip. Just as well, imagine the tediousness of dragging dad’s drunk rear to countless AA meetings, just to learn the lesson Bill Murray went through with the old codger in Groundhog Day?”

Man...You seriously need some kind of therapy.

[TheInvisibleMan]

Then.....why throw in the race card?

[ran20]

One rarely talked about issue is that the entire milky way galaxy is moving at great speed constantly. So assuming you could transport back in time to 1950 to the same spot in space you are sitting right now.. You’d be out in the middle of space floating around.

[mysterio]

If he does succeed, he's not going to be able to go back and change anything.

Let's say at some time in the future, he succeeds in perfecting time travel. He decides to go back in time and change something. At the point we are at right now, his future self has already been back in time and tried to change the event. Which means he can only participate in and facilitate an event, not change it, since the event happened anyway.

Even with time travel, we can't modify the past.

[SpaceBar]

the entire milky way galaxy is moving at great speed constantly...

Relative to what?

[toddlintown]

“Then.....why throw in the race card?”

Can you read? I didn’t write the fracking article.

[samm1148]

“I picture this guy with a basement full of old toasters that somehow figure into his plan.”

Toasters are a prime source of parts for the parabolic influctuator.