Posted on 02/08/2008 4:24:59 AM PST by TigerLikesRooster
The world's first time machine? Tunnel to the past could open door to future within three months, say Russians
Last updated at 14:07?? on 07.02.08
Time travel could be a reality within just three months, Russian mathematicians have claimed.
They believe an experiment nuclear scientists plan to carry out in underground tunnels in Geneva in May could create a rift in the fabric of the universe.
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Life imitating art? Actors Michael J. Fox and Christopher Lloyd in the movie Back to the Future. Scientists say that time travel could be a reality in just three months
The European Organisation for Nuclear Research (CERN) hopes its "atom-smashing" tests - which aim to recreate the conditions in the first billionth of a second after the "Big Bang'" created everything - will shed invaluable light on the origins of the universe.
But Irina Aref'eva and Igor Volovich, of Moscow's Steklov Mathematical Institute, say the energy produced by forcing tiny particles to collide at close to the speed of light could open the door to visitors from the future.
According to Einstein's general theory of relativity, any large amounts of matter or energy will distort the space and time that surrounds it.
If the energy or mass is large enough, it is claimed that time can be distorted so much that it folds back on itself - creating a wormhole, or time tunnel, between the present and the future.
But Dr Brian Cox, a member of CERN and one of Britain's leading experts in particle physics, is highly sceptical about the Russian claims, calling them "nothing more than a good science fiction story".
Wormhole: Scientists plan to carry out tests in underground tunnels in Geneva in May which could create a rift in the fabric of the universe
He said: "Cosmic ray collisions in the upper atmosphere are far more energetic than anything we can produce.
"They have been occurring for five billion years, and no time travellers have appeared.
"Stephen Hawking has suggested that any future theory of quantum gravity will probably close this possibility off, not least because the universe usually proceeds in a sane way, and time travel into the past isn't sane."
Cynics often point out that if time travel was really possible, we would have been visited by people from the future.
However, Einstein's laws of physics suggest that time travel is only possible into the past as far as the point when the first time machine was invented.
Just think, we can go back and stop the St. Valentine’s Day Massacre.
LOL - perfect!
,,,and deleted yesterday by the poeople who posted it tomorrow.
I keep seeing this same story on FR again, and again, and again. It gets posted tomorrow and I delete it yesterday and it keeps coming back around tomorrow.
So how did it work?
Oh, Time Machines are like Welfare programs?......Yeah, you do the same thing over and over and over again until you go nuts.......
If there’s a time machine that could travel to the past, and it’s supposed to be tested three months from now, wouldn’t we have heard about it already? Or would folks have stopped their work if they thought it had already been done, and there fore it would never have happened in the second place because they saw it in the first place?
Stop me before I paradox again.
Can I be first?
I’d do something a bit more important than that...
Obviously NOT!............LINUX..............
Correction..... experiment in 17 months..... Correction..... experiment 4 years ago..... Correction..... experiment next week..... Correction..... experiment in 17 years..... Correction..... experiment 75 years ago..... Correction..... experiment in 2 months..... Correction..... experiment last week..... Correction..... experiment today..... Correction..... experiment in 3 years.....
Now maybe you can explain to me why the put Braille touchpads on drive-up ATMs.
ping
Doctor Who has been time-traveling for decades, but he hasn’t started yet.
The logical and semantic possibilities of time travel are endless. Of course, the classic paradox is that if I go back in time and kill my grandfather before my father is born, then I would never be born — but if I was never born, I couldn’t have killed my grandfather.
On the linguistic end, time travel will require a boatload of new verb tenses. English is complicated and poorly-learned enough without trying to teach kids the plu-perfect-past-conditional-future-imperative.
Those work from the back seat, too.
I’ve heard the explanation before, but when’s the last time you had a blind guy in the back seat of your car who had to make it to an ATM?
The World’s First Time Machine: A Telescope?
“Can we go back and help Fred !”
Flintstone?
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