Professor Predicts Human Time Travel This Century

PhysOrg.com ^ | 04 April 2006 | Lisa Zyga

[RightWhale]

If time travel is possible, and per Einstein's Theory of Relativity it is, then time is not.<->
--Goedel

[So Cal Rocket]

If time travel were possible, wouldn't we already know it? Afterall, someone from the future would have come back to our time (or sooner) and we'd know about it.

[roaddog727]

Now, now.......

[Onelifetogive]

I invented a time travel machine. Unfortunately, mine is a basic model that only has one direction (forward) and one speed setting (1X).....

[imskylark]

"You could go back in time to the night Cynthia Mckinney was conceived and knock on her parents door to interrupt the mood."

LOL!! You're so bad!

[Jeff Chandler]

If time travel were possible, wouldn't we already know it? Afterall, someone from the future would have come back to our time (or sooner) and we'd know about it.

Time-traveling entrepeneurs would be collecting common articles for Fuddruckers of the future.

[Junior]

Okay... so where are all the time travellers?

[uglybiker]

Although theoretically they could distort space-time, they all require an unthinkably gigantic amount of mass.

I just knew we'd find a use for Ted!

[redpoll]

Fermi paradox time. Where are all the time travelers?

[T.Smith]

“The Grandfather Paradox [where you go back in time and kill your grandfather] is not an issue,” said Mallett. “In a sense, time travel means that you’re traveling both in time and into other universes. If you go back into the past, you’ll go into another universe. As soon as you arrive at the past, you’re making a choice and there’ll be a split. Our universe will not be affected by what you do in your visit to the past.”

[American Quilter]

And good ones, too. You could go back in time to the night Cynthia Mckinney was conceived and knock on her parents door to interrupt the mood. Then that DC cop wouldn't have a bruise from her belting him.

My thought, too. Will travelers to the past be prohibited from speaking to anyone or doing anything, lest they change history? Me, I'd shoot Hitler as a kid, knock on Hillary's parents' door on that crucial conception night, warn President Lincoln's guards before he went to Ford's Theater--the possibilities are endless.

Of course, I'd be taking the chance that I'd create something even worse, or that I wouldn't exist at all!

[Clioman]

"To determine if time loops exist, Mallett is designing a desktop-sized device that will test his time-warping theory."

Isn't the flux-capacitor a little smaller than desk-top sized?

[Falcon4.0]

"they all require an unthinkably gigantic amount of mass."

No problem. Just travel at the speed of light and presto, infinite mass.

[RS]

If time travel were ever to become possible, the amount of tourists would become staggering.

... but that might explain the "loaves and the fishes" -- most of them simply brought their own coolers

[Phlap]

Alchemist announces base metal turned to gold. Film at eleven!!

[ElkGroveDan]

I invented a time travel machine. Unfortunately, mine is a basic model that only has one direction (forward) and one speed setting (1X).....

I have the same machine, though it seems to go faster when I'm having fun. I can make it nearly come to a stop at the Department of Motor Vehicles.

[r9etb]

Okay... so where are all the time travellers?

We're them.... The question is: how is it that we're traveling in time?

[stuartcr]

They aren't allowed to tell you.

[Dead Corpse]

John Titor Bump.

Silly people...

[saganite]

I've noticed all these brilliant scientific breakthroughs manage to mention in the first paragraph that they need funding to conduct their experiments. I know, I've posted a few articles like this one.

By the way, I need funding to continue my research on the effects of good scotch on the human nervous system.