Posted on 05/05/2010 11:26:51 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
Hello. My name is Stephen Hawking. Physicist, cosmologist and something of a dreamer. Although I cannot move and I have to speak through a computer, in my mind I am free. Free to explore the universe and ask the big questions, such as: is time travel possible? Can we open a portal to the past or find a shortcut to the future? Can we ultimately use the laws of nature to become masters of time itself?
Time travel was once considered scientific heresy. I used to avoid talking about it for fear of being labelled a crank. But these days I'm not so cautious. In fact, I'm more like the people who built Stonehenge. I'm obsessed by time. If I had a time machine I'd visit Marilyn Monroe in her prime or drop in on Galileo as he turned his telescope to the heavens. Perhaps I'd even travel to the end of the universe to find out how our whole cosmic story ends.
To see how this might be possible, we need to look at time as physicists do - at the fourth dimension. It's not as hard as it sounds. Every attentive schoolchild knows that all physical objects, even me in my chair, exist in three dimensions. Everything has a width and a height and a length.
But there is another kind of length, a length in time. While a human may survive for 80 years, the stones at Stonehenge, for instance, have stood around for thousands of years. And the solar system will last for billions of years. Everything has a length in time as well as space. Travelling in time means travelling through this fourth dimension.
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Experimental science: monkeys at typewriters.
Yes and no.
To travel to the future, just get into a vehicle that can travel at 99.9% of 186,000 miles per second.
Travel to the past? Doubtful.
“Science without religion is lame, religion without science is blind.”
-Albert Einstein
Roger, it’s Jesus Christ. The Man who dwells outside of linear time into infinity, Amen
Common sense without faith is rationalism.
Faith without common sense is fanaticism.
-Oswald Chambers
Do they listen? Hell no.
All you need to time travel is an Infinite Improbability Drive.
The man has twisted himself in knots trying to avoid the concept of a Creator.
“There are two kinds of people: those who say to God, “Thy will be done,” and those to whom God says, “All right, then, have it your way”
CS Lewis
I’m watching Hawking’s TV show now on Tivo. The Story of Everything is on Discovery. I’ll give you a review when it’s done.
That was funny...
All your bases are belong to us.
[ShadowAce wrote:
For someone who’s supposed to be so smart, he’s pretty stupid.]
You disagree with him, ergo, he’s stupid. List your accomplishments in any field of science.
TIME TRAVEL QUOTES:
“I just witnessed time travel! Dammit, it was a $500 watch.”
Time Travelers Unite! Yesterday!
There once was a lady named Bright
Who traveled much faster than light
She departed one day
In a relative way
And returned on the previous night
“Please help me, Doctor, I keep seeing into the future!”
“Ah. And when did this start?”
“Next Tuesday afternoon.”
Who’s there?”
“The Time Traveller”
“The Time Traveller who?”
*Knock, knock*
If I had a time machine, I would have put every dime I could scrounge on Secretariat to win.
I am currently traveling to the future at the speed of now...
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