Posted on 04/02/2008 2:34:15 PM PDT by jbwbubba
Physicist Says Time Travel Is Not Only Possible, but Likely Wednesday, April 02, 2008
Time travel? Teleportation? No problem, says renowned physicist Michio Kaku.
Kaku, a professor at the City University of New York, is creating quite a stir in Britain with the release of his new book, "The Physics of the Impossible."
On this side of the pond, outlandish claims in books are recognized as, well, a good way to sell books.
But in Blighty, Kaku's being treated as if he's Doctor Who informing dim-witted humans about the wonders of the Universe, with front-page treatment Wednesday in both the Daily Telegraph and the Guardian. Even the normally staid Economist is chiming in.
Kaku, one of the earliest proponents of string theory, still a contentious issue among physicists, divides the most common science-fiction tropes, or "impossibilities," into three categories — possible soon, possible in the far future and really, truly impossible.
Category 1, as he dubs it, includes things that may become true within the next century, if not the next few decades: teleportation (already possible, but only among subatomic particles); telepathy (thanks to brain implants); invisibility (already being researched using light-bending 'metamaterials'); laser guns (existing, but hugely power-hungry); force fields; and the discovery of extraterrestrial life.
Category 2 includes things that are theoretically possible but would be realized only with thousands more years of technological progress: time travel (possibly through "wormholes" in space); traveling faster than light; and the discovery of parallel universes.
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Paging John Titor.
Hey. He already said that tomorrow.
It seems that teleportation is theoretically possible. We are all made of atoms, and if you had enough technological prowess, you should be able to characterize the current makeup of every cell, and the current electrochemical and biologic state, and then recreate it. Sure, it’s impossible to actually do, but not impossible.
Time travel in a meaningful sense seems impossible. If for no other reason than the fact that if you travel into the future instantaneously, the spot you were at when you started will have moved in the universe in a manner consistant with gravitational and inertial forces in effect at your moment of dissappearance, while you, traveling instantaneously, will not have had any “time” to have those forces applied.
So you should end up in the middle of nowhere. And the energy it would take to make you instantaneously move to the location your position moved to in the real world would be infinite, acting as it would in that instantaneous moment.
One physicists! That’s a consensus, settled science. Get on board you flat earthers, or we’ll come back to your time and kick your butts.
I hate to break the news to the highly paid scientist. There is no “time travel”. He is wasting his and our time talking about it.
I read this next month.
But it only goes in one direction!
And there are no alternate universes.
When he contracts or expands the universe he’ll be sure to let us know.
Time travel “was” developed in the future.
The only reason we have not heard from those “future” time travelers is because, some future intergalactic congress forbid them from coming to the past and fixing (or ruining) their future.
Evidence?
I travel through time every day. It’s always forward at an apparently fixed rate.
Now, if he were a Chemist, it would simply mean he was abusing his own organic synthesis products in order to write things like that. Hoffman and LSD comes to mind.
When did he say this?
Same here except the travel seems to slow between 4:00 and 5:00 pm.
Over all it seems to be speeding up as I get older though.
Me too. It took me five minutes to get here from five minutes ago.
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