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STEPHEN HAWKING: How to build a time machine
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| 05/05/2010
| Stephen Hawking
Posted on 05/05/2010 11:26:51 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
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To: OldDeckHand
The concept that time moves at varying speeds was almost heretical back in Einstein's day. But, there it is, proven completely accurate. Just because science is unable to prove a particular theory accurate do to technological limitation, doesn't necessarily mean the theory is flawed, even though it may contradict well-accepted scientific and philosophical principles. Exactly! And it even hits us with "real world" issues. For instance, when GPS was first implemented, there were problems with the coordinates shifting dramatically, all the time. It turned out that the clocks on the GPS satellites and on the earth actually run at slightly different speeds, due to the difference in gravitational force on the earth's surface, vs in orbit at about 12,500 miles.
Mark
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posted on
05/05/2010 12:25:10 PM PDT
by
MarkL
(Do I really look like a guy with a plan?)
To: TexasRepublic
“All you need to time travel is an Infinite Improbability Drive.”
And lots of duct tape.
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posted on
05/05/2010 12:26:03 PM PDT
by
Carl LaFong
(Experts say experts should be ignored.)
To: SeekAndFind
The time machine concept is very interesting, however I'd hesitate to assume too many constants in the universe, such as the position of the planet. Sure, maybe you get it to work and it takes you from your present location and places you in the exact same position 100 years ago. Not accounting for the expansion of the universe, you suddenly find yourself in the empty vacuum of space.
And I assure you, that would suck.
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posted on
05/05/2010 12:27:11 PM PDT
by
Caipirabob
( Communists... Socialists... Democrats...Traitors... Who can tell the difference?)
To: SeekAndFind
TIME TRAVEL QUOTES:"Time is natures way of keeping everything from happening at once."
Mark
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posted on
05/05/2010 12:27:24 PM PDT
by
MarkL
(Do I really look like a guy with a plan?)
To: edcoil
"Its official: he is a crank."
I'm afraid I'm gonna have to agree with you.
Looks like Obama's teleprompter programmers have hijacked Hawking's text-to-voice machine...
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posted on
05/05/2010 12:31:50 PM PDT
by
DJ Frisat
(How's that change workin' out for ya, Obama voters?)
To: SeekAndFind
Once again, Hawkins delivers a big pile of nothing.
This article is virtually plagerized from Gamov's Mr. Tompkins in Wonderland which was written in the 1930s or 1940s. (recently updated a decade or so ago)
P.S. Its a great little book for kids.
P.P.S. Heck, I once needed to urgently solve a problem with an ongoing experiment and the only reference I had at the moment was this little story book. It saved the day.
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posted on
05/05/2010 12:32:34 PM PDT
by
nevergiveup
(When in Rome, speak Roman.)
To: Jim 0216
To: SeekAndFind
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posted on
05/05/2010 12:36:34 PM PDT
by
El Sordo
(The bigger the government, the smaller the citizen.)
To: DJ Frisat
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posted on
05/05/2010 12:41:53 PM PDT
by
HushTX
(get over it.)
To: HushTX
I always forget which websites use which input style for html.... <> [] ugh. Pretend I got that right, ok?
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posted on
05/05/2010 12:42:54 PM PDT
by
HushTX
(get over it.)
To: Carl LaFong
All you need to time travel is an Infinite Improbability Drive. Actually, the IID allows you to pass through all points in the universe simultaneously...a highly improbable event. It's not a time travel device, as such.
BTW...how many people understand (or have expressed understanding) of the meaning of your screen name?
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posted on
05/05/2010 1:03:02 PM PDT
by
Bloody Sam Roberts
(The only moral use of violence is in retaliation against those who initiate its use.)
To: SeekAndFind
I have a really simple reason for believing that time travel (at least to the past) will ever be possible....
If it were EVER possible, then people from the future would be visiting the past constantly. There is no way the technology could be contained, anymore than the secret to the atomic bomb could be.
To: SunkenCiv
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posted on
05/05/2010 1:08:13 PM PDT
by
KoRn
(Department of Homeland Security, Certified - "Right Wing Extremist")
To: MrB
Yes. He forgot to give his thanks and praise to Odin.
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posted on
05/05/2010 1:11:03 PM PDT
by
GreenOgre
(mohammed is the false prophet of a false god.)
To: MarkL
Maybe everything is happening at once.
To: SeekAndFind
If I had a time machine, I’d sell it on Craigslist. I might test it out by going back in time and buying a cheap tank of gas, but them I’d have to remember when unleaded gas came out so I wouldn’t screw up my catalytic converter.
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posted on
05/05/2010 1:30:44 PM PDT
by
USMCPOP
(Father of LCpl. Karl Linn, KIA 1/26/2005 Al Haqlaniyah, Iraq)
To: SeekAndFind
Hmmm...I just read this same post 16 years from now...
Living here in MD near the most massive black a_hole in the universe has really screwed things up...
Unfortunately for Hawking's mind experiment, driving around the beltway always accelerates (not slows) time for those in a vehicle. Every 5-10 minutes during rush hour your life flashes before your eyes in an instant...
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posted on
05/05/2010 1:57:41 PM PDT
by
SuperLuminal
(Where is another agitator for republicanism like Sam Adams when we need him?)
To: TexasRepublic
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posted on
05/05/2010 2:13:53 PM PDT
by
Andonius_99
(There are two sides to every issue. One is right, the other is wrong; but the middle is always evil.)
To: Snickering Hound
"It's a decroded piece of crap!!"
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posted on
05/05/2010 2:19:53 PM PDT
by
reagan_fanatic
(Never trust anyone who points their ass at God while praying.)
To: SeekAndFind
Perhaps I'd even travel to the end of the universe to find out how our whole cosmic story ends. Variation on the same theme. No need to invent a time machine and go the end of the universe to see how our story ends. Just go to end of the Bible. It's all there.
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posted on
05/05/2010 2:47:05 PM PDT
by
Jim W N
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