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How to Build a Time Machine
frank249 writes "The September issue of Scientific American has an article discussing the possibility of time travel. They say that it wouldn't be easy, but it might be possible. It could be a while until we can expand worm holes and tow them to a neutron star but didn't someone say that if it is possible it will happen. If it is impossible it will just take a little longer."
I move we call for a slashback in a few hundred years when this might be possible. ;-)
Wouldn't the best way to speed up things for this be to leave a post-it note stuck in the files saying "when this is finally invented, please travel back to August 24, 2002AD and provide the HOW-TO."
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Todd
Go back in time and stop CmdrTaco from starting Slashdot. This way the trolls would never be around to make asinine comments like the parent. You know you agree with me, too!
As long as you pay the toll...
"Somebody's gotta go back and get a shitload of dimes!"
This article was posted years ago.... Oh umm. Wait a minute. Never mind. I never saw this article before. Yea thats it. I never this article before. Realy I have never saw this article. Why are you looking at my third eye funny?
If something is so important that you feel the need to post it on the internet... It probably isn't that important.
Who in their right mind would WANT to come back to THIS time ????????
Then again . . . maybe the corporate powers of the future are already here - and setting up the laws that make them invincible . . . . .
Wear weird clothes (not weird in the everyday weird people sense, but truly out of place). Walk up to someone (inventing an accent is fun) and ask them what year it is. When they say, puzzled, "2002", get a huge smile and dance a future dance away yelling "it worked, it worked!"
Fun to confuse people with.
Just as fun: Dress up like a hippie or something else interesting from the past and change everything accordingly to the past.
Crispin
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Oooo! Everyone check out the big brain on Crispin!
You're using her as bait, Master!
did i get first post?
no, but perhaps someday you can go back in time and get it.
1. Build a time machine.
2. ?????
3. Profit.
1 tequila 2 tequila 3 tequila floor
With one of these gizmos, I'll be first posting every time!
If Slashdot were chemistry it would look like this:Cadaverine
In the meantime, those of you who are really interested in the truth can take a look at this following link for a complete debunking of time travel and other crackpottery from the physics community
To prove you wrong; I went back in time and made the URL go away...
Time Travel Ad
homer [as he is being sucked into a blackhole]: there's so much i don't know about astrophysics. i really wish i read that book by that wheelchair guy...
Satanists get good grades too...suspiciously good grades
Or the Universe halts with a stack overflow...
All kings is mostly rapscallions. -Mark Twain, The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
Your theory, and millions of other ones, are based on the theory that one cannot travel faster than light(e).
You consede the fact that one can travel at half the speed of light(e/2). Assume that two object(a&b) both have a y and a z coordinate of 0 and that they each have a y and z velocity of 0. If object a is heading with an x velocity of e/2 and object b is heading with an x velocity of -e/2. Object a and object b then have a velocity of e relative to eachother.
Origin (0,0,0) only exists for the purposes of describing mathematical situations and velocity cannot be measured relative to a nonexistant point. When all speed is relative, it cannot be capped. Why the hell does everyone insist that nothing can go faster than light when no one can give me a reason WHY.
I've heard that it is "infinit speed". That's complete BS. Does infinity==299,792,458!? If it is not infinite speed, then a craft wouldn't need to carry infinite fuel. Hell, a craft doesn't even need to carry its own fuel!
I do not have a phd. I do not have a college degree. Hell, I don't even have my high school diploma yet. If you can explain this, please email me.
That said, time travel would be a great way to make seemingly instantanious trips. I think that "facsimily transmissions", such as that episode of the Outer Limits would be the fastest way, without time travel. That said, it would take a LOT of money to make it legally permissable.
You can't judge a book by the way it wears its hair.
All of these arguments that the lack of time travelers is evidence that there is no backwards time travel got me thinking: Maybe there are time travelers, but we've given them no reason to show themselves publicly. So...
We need to prepare if we want to find out if backwards time travel is possible.
Here what we to do. We set up a well publicized botique for time travelers, a place that sells tee shirts that says "My parents went backwards in time and all I got was this lousy tee shirt!" If anyone buys the tee shirt then we know that time travel is happening.
Rocky J. Squirrel
That's X-L-N-tay!
Thanks, epine. If I had mod points to award, and could award them to just a portion of a post, I'd rate that sentence a "5".
But I don't and I can't.
Time flies like an arrow...
fruit flies like a banana
--Groucho Marx