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Far-Fetched Time Travel Concept Receives Private Funds

Posted by Zonk on from the if-you're-going-to-make-a-time-machine-do-it-with-some-style dept.

WED Fan writes "A University of Washington researcher who couldn't find funds the old fashioned way has raised funds from private parties to continue with his studies of 'time travel'. He is studying the Einstein-Podolsky-Rosen Paradox. Basically, using spooky action, he wants to be able to use entangled pairs to send messages, not only through space, but also in time. 'As the evidence for this has accumulated, several fairly contorted and unsatisfying efforts have been aimed at solving the puzzle. Cramer has proposed an explanation that doesn't violate the speed of light but does kind of mess with the traditional concept of time.' Despite the implausibility of the science here laypeople have been inspired by the researcher's idea, enough to donate almost $35,000 to his project."

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  1. obligatory by uolamer · · Score: 5, Funny

    Can I get the investors info?

    I have a bridge that...
    In soviet Russia Time Travel You.
    Is this the Lt. Commander Data theory or the Spock theory of time travel?
    if you do manage to do this, send me a copy of all the sports results for the next 100 years and history of the stocks, etc.

    Seriously.. If this was possible, i can only start to imagine how the wrong people or even the right people could really mess up things with their first little test.

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    1. Re:obligatory by dfiguero · · Score: 5, Funny

      Note to self from the future: don't invest in this idea.

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  2. Its not that far fetched. by LiquidCoooled · · Score: 5, Funny

    Its not that far fetched.

    I invested some money in this guy next week and have been earning a decent return on my investment for the last 3 years.
    I did however feel a little shiver as I considered shorting his stock and for some damned reason pictures of my family have started to fade.

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    1. Re:Its not that far fetched. by Reverend528 · · Score: 5, Funny

      1. Profit!
      2. ???
      3. Invent Time Machine

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  3. So? by grub · · Score: 5, Funny


    he wants to be able to use entangled pairs to send messages, not only through space, but also in time.

    Big deal, Slashdot has been bringing us news from the past for years!

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  4. As The Doctor once said... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    People assume that time is a strict progression of cause to effect, but, actually, from a non-linear viewpoint, it's more like a big ball of wibbly-wobbly timey-wimey stuff.

  5. I am already Half way there. by jellomizer · · Score: 5, Funny
    I can send messages to the future but I am having sending messages back.

    #/bin/sh
     
    #send a message 5 minutes in the future
    sleep 300
    echo "Hello from the Past"
    But this doesn't seem to work yet

    #/bin/sh
    sleep -300
    echo "Hello from the Future"
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  6. Re:Two counterpoints by Alsee · · Score: 5, Funny

    Like transmitting radio signals to cavemen.

    Cue pissed off insulted caveman Geico commercial.

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  7. Re:Two counterpoints by s4m7 · · Score: 5, Funny
    Dear Sir,
    I am writing to inform you that I have recieved a message from your future self. Included is the text from that message.

    Hello, me! I just wanted to let you know that I (you) got rich by investing in this man's method of time travelling messages! I (you) invested $2000 just one week after I (you) recieved this very message, and within six months I (you) was a millionare!
    signed, Me (You).

    Here's my address..
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