HAWKING WRONG AGAIN, RESEARCHER TELLS MARS CONFERENCE (re: wormhole time machine model.

The Press Box ^ | Wed Aug 25 2004 | Belinda Drizdale

[yankeedame]

The stuff I omitted were simple things like:

B/c various speakers went over the time limit the speech was 20 minutes late
and

A man flew in on his private plane and he was worried he couldn't stay till the end of the lecture.

IOW, nothing relevant to the article

[Aetius]

interesting...

[Darkwolf377]

Maybe he should stick to his budding song-and-dance career?

[Semper Paratus]

Interesting discussion.
But it couldn't be sustained for long after a few beers.

[Heavyrunner]

VERY interesting post! Thank you!

[Andy from Beaverton]

[holymoly]

I wish I'd read that book by that wheel chair guy.

[Stars N Stripes]

"He deconstructed Hawking's chronology protection conjecture, relating how Hawking fails to explain why quantum gravity fluctuations or electromagnetic radiation would build up through any arbitrary opening to the past without doppler effects, further emphasing that connections to the past are not direct connections via linear pathways."

plfff!!! Stupid wheelchair guy!

[whd23]

Laughter broke out though when Marshall introduced the Geroch/Wald factor, where the two professor at the University of Chicago had told Thorne that his wormhole idea wouldn't work because when the ship was within 10 light years of Earth that electromagnetic radiation traveling through the wormhole could make it collapse.

Marshall pointed out that this would be impossible because the ship is supposed to fly out and back to Earth within a total elapsed time of 10 years, flying at a sub-light speed.

Either the article is written poorly or I just don't get it. Thorne was told that his idea wouldn't work because if the ship was within 10 light years of Earth the wormholes would collapse. So I'm imagining the Earth in the center of a 10 light year diameter sphere; within the sphere no wormholes exist. Marshall's comment about a ten year round trip at sub-light speed simply seems to re-inforce the Geroch/Wald objection to Thorne. Why did that evoke laughter?

[lafroste]

nteresting discussion.
But it couldn't be sustained for long after a few beers.

Been there, done that. That's enough said

[lonevoice]

Ping

[Living Free in NH]

Maybe he's just a retard afterall.

[MEGoody]

"These mistakes form a pattern of hidden assumptions which may extend elsewhere in the science and technology community"

Well, duh. And these 'hidden assumptions' are often colored by core beliefs. Nothing new in that.

[longshadow]

CRANK ALERT!

[Selkie]

I don't think Hawking will notice this refutation. Nowadays he's cutting loose at t@tty bars.

[Fiddlstix]

BTTT

[babygene]

My brother and I have been working on a time machine for years. We actually have half of it working. We can go only forward in time at this point, and even that, very slowly. We are looking for funding to complete the othe half of the project. Our big fear is, that going back will be more dificult.

[PatrickHenry]

No ping list deployment unless you advise otherwise.

[longshadow]

No ping list deployment unless you advise otherwise.

Only if you have a "Unintended Irony Ping List"......

As an aside, on can only hope that this guy is better at science than the author is at writing press releases.... but I wouldn't bet on it.