Scientists to invent time machine in near future (you heard it here First!)

Pravda (Trust but Verify) ^ | 11/04/2005 | Maria Gousseva

[bruin66]

I don't think I've ever felt more stooopid than when I read that book...

[Red Badger]

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[feedback doctor]

PRobably to bet on sports scores. You know, like in Back to the Future.

Or that movie from 2037 - Honey I messed Up the Past

[feedback doctor]

Actually AIDS didn't come about till the exploration of Titan and the encounter of saturian primates. Then a time traveller took it back to 1979 hoping that a cure would be found by 2101 when he catches it.

[feedback doctor]

Yeah, my Time Machine works only in Forward ( and slowly at that) Still working on the Back part............Maybe Microsoft can help.......

The only mode on my Microsoft time machine is "Wasting Time"

[Dont_Tread_On_Me_888]

The cause-effect relations are very stable, and all events happen in such a way that they cannot be changed.

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McCoy: Shouldn't you be working on your time warp calculations, Mr Spock?

Spock: I am. (He resumes staring into space)

From Tomorrow is Yesterday

[beezdotcom]

John Kerry might finally be able to go back and actually spend Christmas 1968 in Cambodia...

[Red Badger]

Yes! He could have a cup of wassail with Pol Pot.........

[P8riot]

There was a young lady named Bright,
Who travelled must faster than light.
She left one day,
In the relative way,
And returned on the previous night.

[Hillarys Gate Cult]

I thought it only went back to the late 1960s, early 70s and the traveler would be stuck there forever.

[steve-b]

If time travel was possible, where are all the time travellers from the future?

The various extreme-physics concepts of time travel I've seen imply that you can't go back any further than the initial construction of the time machine....

[steve-b]

"Everything that can be invented has already been invented."
--Charles H. Duell, director of the US Patent Office, 1899

Actually, that turns out to be an urban legend.

[steve-b]

I just finished reading Arthur C. Clarke/Stephen Baxters "The Light of Other Days" this morning. They went with the seeing the past, not the travelling to or changing the past.

One bit I recall is that so many future viewers were tuned to the Crucifixion that they interfered with each other.

[OB1kNOb]

Scientists to invent time machine in near future

Yeah, yeah, I heard this same thing 30 years from now.

[Red Badger]

Issac Asimov wrote a good short story about exactly why you would NOT want to invent a time machine, or, as in his story a "Time Viewer". When does the past start? A century ago? A decade ago? Last week? Yesterday? One microsecond ago is a good start. If you could build a machine that just "views" time in the past, you'd have the perfect spying machine...................

[SunkenCiv]

Here's one from Science News -- this particular time machine isn't a machine per se, but once started in motion, would make it possible for future would-be time travelers to visit. Until the machine is set in motion, people in the future wouldn't be able to do so.

Realistic Time Machine? New design could forgo exotic ingredient
Peter Weiss
Science News
Week of July 16, 2005; Vol. 168, No. 3 , p. 38
http://www.sciencenews.org/articles/20050716/fob7.asp

[DBeers]

If time travel was possible, where are all the time travellers from the future? They would be everywhere.

Many theories involving the possibilty are premised in the concept of distorting or bending space/time e.g. a wormhole -in essence, a portal or carrier between two locations. The theories tend to favor informational "travel" being far easier to accomplish than physical travel and as such informational would be first realized. Anyway, as to travel between -both locations would have to be established prior to any possibility of transmission either way. Some of the theories hold that until a time "transceiver" is created and established in the "now" that the future has no location to come back to AND that the first time "transceiver" will enable a watershed of technological advance from the untapped infinity that entails future time/space.

In essence, your question is similar to asking where are the radio programs when we have no radios yet...

Research what Ronald Mallett is up to for further insight into this line of thinking:

Professor Predicts Human Time Travel This Century

Ronald Mallett, Professor at the University of Connecticut, has used Einstein’s equations to design a time machine with circulating laser beams. While his team is still looking for funding, he hopes to build and test the device in the next 10 years.

With a brilliant idea and equations based on Einstein’s relativity theories, Ronald Mallett from the University of Connecticut has devised an experiment to observe a time traveling neutron in a circulating light beam. While his team still needs funding for the project, Mallett calculates that the possibility of time travel using this method could be verified within a decade.