Time Travel Breakthrough? Scientist Set to Test ‘Time Tunnel’ Atom Smasher

Breitbart via Russia Today ^ | Feb 9, 2008 | not specified

[RDTF]

Two Russian scientists claim a device created to investigate the origins of the universe could become the world's first ever time machine

[Grimmy]

Just wait until Torchwood hears about this!

[pillut48]

Well, Captain Jack *is/was* a time agent! Spooky!! :-)

[advance_copy]

Is it a De Lorean? Roads? Where we’re going, we don’t need roads!

[RepublitarianRoger2]

"Well, I read about it yesterday!

Gotta love this excerpt by Douglas Adams:

The major problem [with time travel] is simply one of grammar, and the main work to consult in this matter is Dr. Dan Streetmentioner's Time Traveler's Handbook of 1001 Tense Formations. It will tell you, for instance, how to describe something that was about to happen to you in the past before you avoided it by time-jumping forward two days in order to avoid it. The event will be descibed differently according to whether you are talking about it from the standpoint of your own natural time, from a time in the further future, or a time in the further past and is futher complicated by the possibility of conducting conversations while you are actually traveling from one time to another with the intention of becoming your own mother or father.

Most readers get as far as the Future Semiconditionally Modified Subinverted Plagal Past Subjunctive Intentional before giving up; and in fact in later aditions of the book all pages beyond this point have been left blank to save on printing costs.

The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy skips lightly over this tangle of academic abstraction, pausing only to note that the term "Future Perfect" has been abandoned since it was discovered not to be.

-- Douglas Adams, The Restaurant at the End of the Universe

[pillut48]

“Temporal anomalies give me a headache!”—Captain Janeway, ST:Voyager

[weegee]

I must be back in 1996 because this seems like a rerun of Bob Dole’s presidential run against the Clintons.

[umgud]

This is difficult for me. I’m trying to figure out how to go back in time and not marry my ex, but somehow still get to have my four kids.

[Diggity]

Deja Vu

[RepublitarianRoger2]

Oops, should’ve spell-checked that one before I copy/pasted. The misspellings aren’t mine.

[Total Package]

PARTY ON DUDE

[RDTF]

righteous!

[wastedyears]

No, I’d send them back a few million years to be animal food.

[Thumper1960]

our time would continue, though a new universe on a different timeline would emerge.

[irishtenor]

I usually have vu ja-de. The feeling of never having been here before.

[RepublitarianRoger2]

NO, no...haven’t you read Ray Bradbury’s “A Sound Of Thunder” in which the mere killing of a butterfly in the dinosaur age sets off a series of subtle changes that end up being big ones hundreds of millions of years later?

There’s no telling what, for example, a McCain meal would do to a dino and thus to our very future (present).

Hmm, on the other hand, go for it. Can’t be much worse than it is now. :)

[max americana]

I read about this article 1000 years ago.

[RepublitarianRoger2]

our time would continue, though a new universe on a different timeline would emerge.

Ah, yes, that is what I believe scientific circles call the "Back To The Future II" time-travel model. :)

"We have to get back to OUR 1985!!"

[BenLurkin]

Loved that show when I was a kid — in hindsight I marvel at their concept at interspersing clips from movies into the show. Battle of New Orleans was my favorite.

[BenLurkin]

Randy Newman might disagree.
8^)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kuPwBO5ggXk

[TomasUSMC]

Nice