What do you think?
Oh yuck. Why stop there? Why not make sure none of you enemies was ever conceived?
Nothing overt or violent (except maybe for fun...) Just an “ill timed” knock on the door, or some other mood killer...
He shouldn’t get too choked up about the device’s limitations, because it is never going to work at all.
I picture this guy with a basement full of old toasters that somehow figure into his plan.
Whether or not it actually works, it is an epic story.
Can you be prosecuted for killing some nagging &%*#$ who hasn't yet been born?
Sounds like the plot for a movie.
Oh wait. It was. Primer. Enjoyable movie.
I also picture this guy getting a bunch of people in his basement with color lights in all the fixtures, then he comes back down the stairs and swears that this is “him” from 5 minutes in the future and hey, where did the “him” from 5 minutes before disappear to? He slaps his forehad hard and shouts “The paradox!”
Something is warped and it isn’t time.
"I'll go back in time, become fashionably cool and ask Anna Nicole Smith to marry me. Of course, yuck yuck, I'll take her before the store boughts".
It is only fair to tell you. Yes, it worked!
Dr. FrankenSteyn (ominous organ chord) I presume..
Yeah, maybe like Nikola Tesla.
Tesla was the greatest inventor of all time, yet hardly anyone knows who he was.
I read a short article about an interesting time travel theory. A physicist had figured out a way to make time travel permissible without breaking any physical laws; however, the same equations also showed that any event you went back to observe would have a probability of one. In other words, there wouldn’t be a 50:50 chance of a particular toss of a coin coming up heads. If it came up heads before, it will come up heads every time you go back to relive the event. Conversely, the odds of something happening that didn’t happen before would be zero. A car crash that didn’t happen won’t happen when you go back to see that period again. (Of course, on a quantum level, this means that you wouldn’t see anything anyway. Since the photons necessary to form the image did not impact upon your retina the first time around, the odds of them doing so again on a replay of the event would be zero.)
Well, people can laugh, but I’m sure many of the famous inventors were thought of as kooks. I think one day someone will figure out time travel, if our planet survives long enough.
So many alternate realities that nobody’s enjoying. We really do need time machines so we can experience the unexperienced, the might-have-been.
However...you know how you play solitaire on the computer and it has an option to restart the game? If you lose, do you opt to restart the game and try again with that exact same layout? Nah.
If I had the choice to live my life (and maybe botch up a little differently), or start a whole new one, you wouldn’t see me grabbing the keys to the time machine.
Besides, I like where I am now, and my mistakes got me here, just as surely as my efforts did.
That is incredibly cheap. You would think that some billionaire would finance this project just on a lark.
However, Prof Mallett is fussy about who gives him the money. "We want non-military sources. I don't want to get to a certain point and get 'top secret' slapped over the project and have it taken away from us."
I don’t think using private money is going to prevent the DOD from taking this project away from him if they think he will be successful. On the other hand it may be the DOD that has prevented him from getting a private backer so far.