The trouble is leaping back to your own time.
Posted on 08/22/2007 8:15:35 AM PDT by LurkedLongEnough
A new concept for a time machine could possibly enable distant future generations to travel into the past, research now suggests.
Unlike past ideas for time machines, this new concept does not require exotic, theoretical forms of matter.
Still, this new idea requires technology far more advanced than anything existing today, and major questions remain as to whether any time machine would ever prove stable enough to enable actual travel back in time.
Time travel research is based on bending space-time so much that time lines actually turn back on themselves to form a loop, technically known as a "closed time-like curve."
"We know that bending does happen all the time, but we want the bending to be strong enough and to take a special form where the lines of time make closed loops," said theoretical physicist Amos Ori at the Technion-Israel Institute of Technology in Haifa. "We are trying to find out if it is possible to manipulate space-time to develop in such a way."
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My thoughts exactly...where’s Rod Taylor?
If time travel were EVER to be possible, we’d know it by now...
My apologies.
(Cute little badgers, aren’t they?)
My favorite Doctor. Pertwee was the first one I saw and I do like him a great deal as well. I got to met Peter Davidson at a Dragoncon once, he seemed like a very nice fellow.
Speaking of Peter Davidson, there was a series we netflixed called “The Last Detective” which he starred in. It was a good and typically well made British show.
You mean we'd be inundated with tourists from the future?
The trouble is leaping back to your own time.
That’s true and was proven in true Aristotelian fashion on Coast by Dr Mallett.
Don’t tell me, lemme guess....he was hanging a clock in the bathroom when he fell off the toilet seat he was standing on, hitting his head on the floor and passing out. when he came to, he had a vision.....THE FLUX CAPACITOR!
Go ahead. Give it a try. Make sure your life insurance is paid up here first though.
His closed time curve will probably turn him into something the size of a walnut.....
They should be arriving any minute now, I reckon.
A great line in an otherwise crappy movie. Extra points for obscurity.
“His closed time curve will probably turn him into something the size of a walnut.....”
Would that make him certifiably nuts?
The producers got their money’s worth. They must have spend upwards of $20,000.
A great line in an otherwise crappy movie. Extra points for obscurity.
I'm here to kick ass and chew bubble gum. And, I'm all outta bubble gum.
-PJ
Shyah - check in with us when ya get back, there, Moishe...
You two need to look up an old story called “Rumfuddle”. In one timeline, the group goes back and corrects Hitler in parallel universes. He serves them tea in a Bistro..... Not sure how they would have dealt with Carter :-)
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