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How to Build a Time Machine

Posted by michael on from the mad-scientist dept.

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."

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  1. Re:Perhaps . . . but: by Crispin+Cowan · · Score: 1, Redundant
    I thought the reason that clocks ran faster in the attic than the basement was because of gravity's affect on the MECHANISM rather than gravity's affect on time.
    Uh, no. You are precisely, exactly wrong. Clocks in the attic run faster than the basement because of gravity's effect on time, not on the mechanism.

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