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No Time Travel, Sorry
MOBE2001 writes "The bad news is that time does not change. Spatial velocity is given as dx/dt. Velocity in time(dt/dt) is nonsensical. As simple as that. In other words, no time travel to the past or the future, no motion in space-time, no wormholes and no hanky-panky with your great, great grandmother. There is only the changing present, aka the NOW. The good news is that distance is an illusion and we'll be able to travel instantly from anywhere to anywhere."
How else could people post articles in The Mysterious Future?
Karma: SELECT `karma` FROM `users` WHERE `userid`=138474;
(Seriously. It's like he read Zeno's Paradoxes and it blew his mind, man.)
Obliteracy: Words with explosions
--dave
davecb@spamcop.net
... because we already know everything there is to know about the universe
As Ford Prefect put it, "Time is an illusion, lunchtime doubly so."
This sig, aah-ah, is comin' like a ghost-sig...
Do they use the Back to the Future method or the Bill and Teds method of time travel?
Also, did they attempt to spin the Earth backwards on its axis? I heard that works if there is a lady in distress.
HA! Take this from a person who has been in a long distance relationship... The distance is a reality, the relationship is the illusion.
We really outa get these theoretical scientist types out of a lab for a beer.
Victory is gained, not in knowing your opponents next move, but in preempting them.
That's it. I'm going to write a letter of complaint to Michael J. Fox and Christopher Lloyd to express my disgust at being deceived for the past 20 years.
A Deloreon, a flux capacitor, 1.21 gigawatts of power, and enough road to get up to 88 miles per hour.
Corporatism != Free Market
Going forward is easy. The hard part is not dying.
I did what?
-1, Nutjob
www.code-fix.com
I'm from the year 3042. We have found that time travel is real, and would have discovered the time machine in 2048, but scientists were detered by this article.
Dan Church is Wicked Ill
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Does this mean then that there is no waiting till tomorrow to see what karma your Slashdot post generates, then zipping back to yesterday to fix it, before returning to today to relax knowing what karma your Slashdot post will have generated by tomorrow?
"It's the height of ridiculousness to say for those 9 lines you get hundreds of millions."
Time travel, remember? YOu haven't done it yet.
I still have more fans than freaks. WTF is wrong with you people?
Go into your closet, and bring enough food and water for 5 years.
Now wait...and eat sometimes.
5 years later, exit the closet.
You will find that time of the world has advanced from when last remembered by 5 years.
PS. don't forget to setup an auto-pay for your residential rent/payment. Otherwise your travel may be interrupted, and you will not be able to travel the full 5 years.
Dark Helmet: What the hell am I looking at? When does this happen in the movie?
Colonel Sandurz: Now. You're looking at now sir. Everything that happens now, is happening now.
Dark Helmet: What happened to then?
Colonel Sandurz: We passed then.
Dark Helmet: When?
Colonel Sandurz: Just now. We're at now, now.
Dark Helmet: Go back to then!
Colonel Sandurz: When?
Dark Helmet: Now.
Colonel Sandurz: Now?
Dark Helmet: Now!
Colonel Sandurz: I can't.
Dark Helmet: Why?
Colonel Sandurz: We missed it.
Dark Helmet: When?
Colonel Sandurz: Just now.
Dark Helmet: When will then be now?
Colonel Sandurz: Soon.
This guy is clearly an Evil Ass Educator aiming to suppress Time Cube,
and only dumb ass students condone such evil. Cubeless institutions are spreaders of evil, and students lack mentality to challenge it.
*golf clap*
I drank what? -- Socrates
Airplane II: "This isn't the past or the present, Elaine! This is the future!"
Slashdot, I have traveled back in time seven days to warn you that you will be duping this post. Please make sure this does not happen. Oh, and the post after the dupe is a counter post, which says time travel is possible, and will be used to let you know of your dupe. Take care.
saboola
Ph.D. Physics, Indiana Unversity, 2001
And this guy should know what he's talking about-- somehow he's managed to make his post travel 5 years into the future.
We can take the differences between this guy and the time cube guy as one vector, and the differences between this guy and Archimedes Plutonium as another.
Now that we have two basis vectors, we can define a two-dimensional phase space for crackpottery instead of relying on scalars.
Now that we can apply some basic vector and tensor operations to the field of psychoceramics, think of the new discoveries to be made!
U rong, he rite. Ugg smash bad math.
Mach (X/S) * (S km/s) = (X km/s)
S = speed sound
X = speed ugg
Ugg no listen reply. Ugg finger stuck ear.
I picked a hell of a discussion to stop taking acid.
Degaussing scares the bad magnetism out of the monitor and fills it with good karma.
Watch this space for my new website showing that all scientists and their science to the present is wrong and that I alone, due to my superior intelligence and my avoidence of indoctrination by not getting a university degree, have discovered THE TRUTH! I should have no trouble getting my story posted to Slashdot, making me rich and famous, unless I am burned at the stake by the scientific establishment trying to keep THE TRUTH hidden from Slashdotters.
I just came back from the future and ... this post was duped 4 times!!
So my best guess is you were 10 hours ahead?
Seven puppies were harmed during the making of this post.
This dude's score is off the charts. I highlighted some of the good ones:
They forgot about dt/dx, with the function being:
lim[t->88(mph)] t / x * v
where v causes the limit to assume a superstate of
both positive and negative infinity.
If you die horribly on television, you will not have died in vain. You will have entertained us.
--Kurt Vonnegut
Somewhere a quantum physicist has hung himself with a piece of string theory.
"Patience is not a virtue, it's a waste of time."
Looks like I picked a hell of a thread to stop sniffing glue.
Of course they left that out, as flux capacitors never work reliably and DeLorean's are almost impossible to find now days.
Computers allow humans to make mistakes at the fastest speeds known, with the possible exception of tequila and handguns
Stop quoting me, bastard!
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You can't calculate TimeCube crackpot index except by a limit process. If you accept ZFC, then it's probably isomorphic to the continuum.
I just flip the page. Same with Newsweek.
"National Security is the chief cause of national insecurity." - Celine's First Law
Is your quantum giving you trouble? I'll work on all quanta, foreign or domestic! I've got a fully loaded Snap-On tool chest, some dirty coveralls, a couple of Schrodinger's cats, an air wrench, and a singularity compressor. You can trust me to treat your quantum with the greatest of care, and I promise I won't put metal shavings in your finite square well transmission when you're not looking. Plus, you'll get the best warranty in the business, valid in all 50 eigenstates!
So, if you see some maintenance on your event horizon, give me a call!
In Soviet Russia, I can think of a few ways I'm going to abuse you!
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