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Time Travel

Posted by michael on from the gladly-pay-you-tuesday-for-a-hamburger-today dept.

Almost Anonymous writes "Ronald Mallett, a physicist at the University of Connecticut, believes he knows how to build a time machine - an actual device that could send something or someone from the future to the past, or vice versa. He plans to have a working mockup this fall. For all those doubters, he assures people that "I'm not a nut"." Uh-huh.

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  1. Re:From the article... by benjamindees · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    Just an idea: if you send it a few seconds into the future, it should "appear" in a few seconds, right on time. This doesn't sound like what he explains, though. I'm with you, completely baffled. Besides, what exactly is a "rotating laser beam"? Is this just a stretch of fiber-optic cable going in a circle, with a laser attached to one end?

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    "I assumed blithely that there were no elves out there in the darkness"
  2. Re:Ill explain by Transcendent · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    Time travel is something our minds do on a daily basis, you can imagine future events, sometimes you are right and sometimes you are wrong, traveling into the future allows you to travel into a POSSIBLE future, but no future is THE absolute future,

    Time is not mapped, its dynamic, it works like this, everything that can happening, is happening if not in this reality in another.

    Exactly WHAT about time is dynamic?

    There is no way for anything in this universe to be random (causing something to by dynamic... to have multiple possible outcomes). Subatomic particles don't just appear and dissappear... that would go against the law of conservation of energy. Something would have to CAUSE them to appear somewhere (if that even happens)... so the thought of parallel universes being created does not go by the rules of physics...

    Explain to me how you can just blow up for no reason what-so-ever... because you say it can happen in a parallel universe.

    So there is an absolute future.... it is controlled by the past...

    If you could travel back in time... be sure to stay a couple trillion lightyears away from yourself, just to make sure you don't interfere with anything effecting you from taking that step into the time machine and going back in time... once again.