Test could lead to time travel

The Miami Herald ^ | Sunday, March 21, 2004 | BY RAFAEL SANGIOVANNI

[Fiddlstix]

Presumably to count the Florida ballots "one more time."

ROFLMAO!

[onedoug]

This is "time dilation", which has been well documented in relativity studies.

Everyone who's ever flown in an airplane has aged however imperceptably more slowly from being that much further from the local gravitational source, i.e., the earth.

I suspect though that "changing" time would require a corresponding change in the entropy of the entire universe, since that is what most likely sets the "arrow of time".

[PatrickHenry]

You are correct. At best, this is another version of the Hafele and Keating Experiment.

[My2Cents]

I'd hate to see a tear in the space-time continuum, and then have to depend on "Q" to bail us out.

[Pukin Dog]

Okay, now I'm getting a rundown on Q from the neighbor kid, here to help me build a new computer. I guess I need to get the DVD now.

[MeekOneGOP]

[RightWhale]

speed up the frequency of the pulses, or ticks, produced by the clock

Whoa! Is this correct? Wouldn't the clock slow down if anything? And then consider that the radial acceleration would be cyclical and cancel itself out. Only the initial tangential acceleration would count. For this to work, the clock would have to be accelerated to a tangential velocity and stay there. How fast will the clock be moving in the centrifuge? I would estimate no more than 700 mph due to sonic shock. They would have to spin it for a year to see anything, and even then it would be only a fraction of a second.

[Godfollow]

Publicity stunt yes, junk science no... I'm no scientist, but I know a few things of which this experiment consists. The only real problem with the set up is the G forces the digital time piece will be placed under. It may be that the gravitational forces exerted on the timer as it spinns may have an adverse affect on the overall experiment.

[The Sons of Liberty]

It'll never work - he doesn't mention the key piece of equipment - the Flux Capacitor, which makes time travel posssible.

[kAcknor]

The experiment involves putting a digital clock under immense force by spinning it on a centrifuge.

Dolz said it takes about six hours to move the clock ahead four seconds.

kAcknor Sez:

I could have saved them all a lot of time and money for the centrifuge. The clock in my computer can gain those 4 seconds in about an hour!  ;)

"bISovbejbe'DI' tImer" (When in doubt, surprise them.)

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[Hot Tabasco]

I have already won zillions of dollars on my state's lottery. I simply call my friend Shaggy Eel in NZ, who is 18 hours ahead of me and ask him what the lottery numbers are for tonight.

[RightWhale]

Franklin, Faraday

He might have their flair for demonstration, but it is pointless if the demonstration doesn't work.

[baltodog]

You said that tomorrow...

[PatrickHenry]

The experiment involves putting a digital clock under immense force by spinning it on a centrifuge.

He must be thinking of the H.G. Wells device:

[RightWhale]

You might be right. What does that spinning disk on the back of the sled do?

[Joee]

Maybe, with enough time stretch, the Wright Brothers will get their aeroplane to fly! Just think of it ---- a flying machine! What next --- a horseless carriage?

[Qwinn]

So, just curious, how do you explain the discrepancies that have been mentioned, the ones I most agree with being that time should slow down, not speed up? As for the motion being circular "cancelling itself out", I'm not sure that's necessarily accurate... by that logic, the famous anecdote of orbitting the planet a few times near the speed of light to produce the time effect should cancel itself out too. Besides, if it could "cancel itself out", that would imply that you could use the time shift to both speed up and slow down time, a positive and a negative... and that doesn't jibe with my understanding either.

Qwinn

[mhking]

Just damn.

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[Young Werther]

That movie was on AMC or TCM this past weekend. Love that Yvette Mimeaux! Now that was a 60s kinda girl. What three books would take back to the Eloie future?

"The Nutty Professor" was on as well. Jerry Lewis rocks in that flick!

[Quix]

Thanks.