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Time Travel
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Posted By:
Penny
Jun 29, 2004
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is this for real? i came across this site http://www.johntitor.com/ ,i'm not sure what to think about the guy that calls himself john titor..
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Matt
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Posted: Sun Jun 27, 2004 | 12:41 AM
Like many science fiction authors, it appears he's put a bit too much effort into the fiction and not enough into the science. His description of how the device works is somewhat vague, but it appears to use time dilation. This theory, unfortunately, is a one way mechanism. It explains how to slow down time, but not reverse it. You could travel into the future with a gravity based time machine, but not into the past. The text he wrote suggested he does not have much of any idea of how his device is supposed to opperate. If I were making up a story like that, I'd simply suggest it opperated on some unknown rule of physics and not bother trying to explain it using a law that is relatively well mapped out. He is pretty imaginitive. Still, the nut case who sent out all that spam looking for parts to repair his time machine was a lot funnier. |
#1
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Posted: Sun Jul 11, 2004 | 06:45 PM
So, if time travel were possible, could I go to the time when the time machine was invented, and destroy it? What would happen? Hmmmmm...
"America. What a country!" - Yakov Smirnoff |
parazyte
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Posted: Wed Jul 14, 2004 | 04:15 AM
Oh Penny! Please. No. You should be able to convince yourself that time travels aren't possible. |
Bob K
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Posted: Sat Oct 09, 2004 | 06:21 PM
If time travel works as it was explianed last night on George Norry coast to coast., equipped with the time travel device, I could install it in a vehicle and travel into the past or future. okay I choose the Roman empire, just for some good old fashioned 21st Century sh*t disturbing
I would travel in a special armored Hummer called the Expanded capacity Vehicle (ECV). It has a larger payload capacity, and signifiant room for troops or weapons.
I would carry with me., 4 highly trained special forces soldiers &
AK 47's-20
Gil Anti Tank Guided Missiles-5
Colt M16's with lazer guideance-20
Rocket propelled grenades-10
Ammo & shells
Heckler & Koch MP-2013SD: 600e-a dozen
browning 9mm pistols -20
Browning 50 machine gun-5
IMI Shipon Rocket launcher
RAFAEL Gil Anti Tank Guided Missile-3
various misc weapons
Needless to say in about a week we would be in fucking charge of Europe. Who the hell would stop us..It would be fun to see the look in the eyes of those gladitor, mid evil mo fucks...oh and a case of trojans...the chicks had the clap
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Bob K
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Posted: Sat Oct 09, 2004 | 08:17 PM
That should have read
Gil Anti Tank Guided Missile launchers-5
Colt M16's with lazer guideance-20
Rocket propelled grenade launchers-10
We'd bring down the Roman Empire in days...
they'd treat us like Gods after a few demonstrations
of the havoc we could cause. I'd also bring a dozen industrial strength I Pods loaded with everything from Johnny Cash to Led Zep and Hip Hop, Swing..make these primitive assholes listen to some tunes. oh and of course
all the modern meds I could get. |
Rex D.
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Posted: Tue Dec 21, 2004 | 09:12 PM
What would happen if you traveled back to before the big bang, or a point before time even began? |
Charybdis
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Posted: Wed Dec 22, 2004 | 11:54 AM
Obviously, at a point when time didn't exist you wouldn't be able to travel through it. Think un-cooked hotdog vs. reinforced concrete wall. Splat.
The question is - Would you carry "time" back with you?
Of course, currently there are no answers to any of these questions. (and may never be) |
Stephen
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Posted: Wed Dec 22, 2004 | 02:48 PM
The reason why John had to come to our time is because the internet runs slower in the future and he really had to get online. Just for an example, his time machine is plugged into the net(thats another story though) and it took him 4 months just to go back to his time. |
Rex D.
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Posted: Wed Dec 22, 2004 | 06:53 PM
Time is only a point of reference, so I don't think it could come with you. either you cease to exist, or you get thrown back like a rubber band, but I doubt the latter. You know, the latest in quantum physics is that time doesn't even exist. It's merely a way to keep sane, like the valve effect. It's been theorized that if we could use 90-100% of our brain, we couldn't handle what we would experience and would instantaneously go insane, or possibly even braian death. Funky. |
Charybdis
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Posted: Thu Dec 23, 2004 | 11:25 AM
I don't know about you Red D. but I use 90-100% of my brain. It may not be used efficiently but it's definately being used.
Or were you not referring to the "we only use 10% of our brains" BS? |
Maegan
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Posted: Thu Dec 23, 2004 | 01:43 PM
Time deffinately exists. I don't mean in the sense that right now it's 11:40am...But that right now...it's NOW. We couldn't have now if we didn't have time. Also, I feel quite crazy knowing that I have about 10 hours total to finish my Christmas Shopping. If we have time to keep us sane, then it's not working. |
Maegan
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Posted: Thu Dec 23, 2004 | 01:44 PM
...oh yeah, also, the world is in a constant entropy. If time was 'invented' then we wouldn't have to worry about entropy. |
Hairy Houdini
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Posted: Thu Dec 23, 2004 | 03:04 PM
Time keeps on ticking, ticking, ticking into the future |
Rex D.
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Posted: Thu Dec 23, 2004 | 08:28 PM
Hey man, I never said time didn't exist, I said thats what the "experts" think. I am no expert, therefor believe time exists. Nor do I at all subscribe to the beliefe that we use approximately 10% of our own brains. Thats just poopoo. Doggystyle. (dogpoo you dirty, dirty person) If you look at EMRI slices, or 3D images, you'll see the whloe thing doing it'' own thing. You dig? |
Hairy Houdini
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Posted: Fri Dec 24, 2004 | 12:17 AM
Time travel is like standing in front of a mirror with another mirror behind you. If you bend to the side a bit, you can see image after image, all just a bit further away. If you approach the speed of light, you shrink a bit, and time slows down for you relative to other objects moving at a lesser speed. If we where able to move faster than light, which is theoretically impossible, we could overtake reflected light images from Earth. Therefore, if we passedhose images, and then turned and observed them, we would be looking back in time, much the same way that we look at light from stars many light years away, not the true current position of those stars. We can only observe. |
Rex D.
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Posted: Fri Dec 24, 2004 | 12:21 AM
Sounds like fun. Lets do it! |
Rex D.
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Posted: Fri Dec 24, 2004 | 05:45 AM
I am currently watching the science channel and theres something on about time travel. They are saying if we could go faster than the speed of light, we would travel backwards in time. Now how in the $@%# does that work? When you go faster, you simply go faster, right? I guess not. |
Charybdis
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Posted: Fri Dec 24, 2004 | 01:02 PM
As you accellerate time slows down. At the speed of light time stops (and mass becomes infinite, but that's another story). Faster than that would mean time goes backwards. It's one of the reasons that nothing is supposed to travel faster than the speed of light or even, technically, exactly at lightspeed. Except photons, of course. And maybe massless tachyons. It gets complicated and I'm no physicist. |
Hairy Houdini
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Posted: Fri Dec 24, 2004 | 03:28 PM
All this was covered in my thesis on the previous page. I don't want to have to explain it again. Pop quiz. |
Rex D.
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Posted: Fri Dec 24, 2004 | 04:24 PM
I understand the concept, I just think it's stupid that when traveling fast-as-light, you can't go faster, instead sort of change direction. I was looking forward to cruising beyond C. Might as well scrap the plans for my LightRider. |
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