<div class="quote_poster">Quote:</div><div class="quote_post">A new concept for a time machine could possibly enable distant future generations to travel into the past, research now suggests. Unlike past ideas for time machines, this new concept does not require exotic, theoretical forms of matter. Still, this new idea requires technology far more advanced than anything existing today, and major questions remain as to whether any time machine would ever prove stable enough to enable actual travel back in time. Time machine researchers often investigate gravity, which essentially arises when matter bends space and time. Time travel research is based on bending space-time so far that time lines actually turn back on themselves to form a loop, technically known as a "closed time-like curve." "We know that bending does happen all the time, but we want the bending to be strong enough and to take a special form where the lines of time make closed loops," said theoretical physicist Amos Ori at the Technion-Israel Institute of Technology in Haifa. "We are trying to find out if it is possible to manipulate space-time to develop in such a way." Many scientists are skeptical as to whether or not time travel is possible. For instance, time machines often are thought to need an exotic form of matter with so-called "negative energy density." Such exotic matter has bizarre properties, including moving in the opposite direction of normal matter when pushed. Such matter could theoretically exist, but if it did, it might be present only in quantities too small for the construction of a time machine. Ori's latest research suggests time machines are possible without exotic matter, eliminating a barrier to time travel. His work begins with a donut-shaped hole enveloped within a sphere of normal matter. </div> http://news.yahoo.com/s/livescience/200708...machineoutlined
I always wanted to go back in time. I would win all the lotteries, invent google and all that. But then it could rip the fabric of time, which is bad, but that is a small factor when you can win MILLIONS upon MILLIONS of dollars.
Surely, though, if time travel is possible, people from the future will have come back here to win the lottery or other such things.
<div class="quote_poster">chingy0007 Wrote</div><div class="quote_post">Surely, though, if time travel is possible, people from the future will have come back here to win the lottery or other such things.</div> That's what I want to do. Maybe all those people who win are from the future??!?!?!!?
Perhaps, but I somewhat doubt that people would only win once. Some jackass would be bound to think they could get away with winning multiple times in a row.
<div class="quote_poster">chingy0007 Wrote</div><div class="quote_post">Perhaps, but I somewhat doubt that people would only win once. Some jackass would be bound to think they could get away with winning multiple times in a row.</div> I would be that jackass.
My Dad keeps trying to make me think about things like that, and sometimes I get interested, but then stuck. After all, some of the greatest minds in the World have been trying in vain to accurately describe time and what it is.
<div class="quote_poster">chingy0007 Wrote</div><div class="quote_post">My Dad keeps trying to make me think about things like that, and sometimes I get interested, but then stuck. After all, some of the greatest minds in the World have been trying in vain to accurately describe time and what it is.</div> I think we need to do this: De Lorean Time Machine <div class="quote_poster">Quote:</div><div class="quote_post">To operate the De Lorean time machine, one starts by turning on the "time circuits" which brings up the following three LED readouts on a display built into the dashboard: a "Destination Time" showing the date and time one wishes to travel as entered on a keypad; a "Present Time" showing the continuously updating point in time where the De Lorean exists; and a "Last Time Departed" showing the time the De Lorean was located in before the last time it time-traveled. These readouts are composed of the day of the month, written with the month-day date notation used in the United States, and the year, both according to the Gregorian calendar. This is followed by the time of day on a 12-hour clock with a switch that allows one to differentiate between "a.m." and "p.m." in the destination time. In Back to the Future Part II, the time circuits malfunctioned twice, reverting the target date to twelve o'clock on January 1, 1885. Its unclear whether there is any significance to this particular date in the machine's programming. In order for "temporal displacement" to occur, the De Lorean must reach time-travel velocity (eighty-eight miles per hour), though, as demonstrated by the climax of Part III, it does not necessarily have to reach that speed under its own power (a steam locomotive was used to push it up to eighty-eight mph). The De Lorean reaches the target time instantaneously and remains on the same world line, meaning it stays at exactly the same longitude and latitude. The latter is changed in the animated spin-off, in which one can program in a target location in addition to a target time. A traveler within the De Lorean experiences a flash of light at the point where time travel occurs. An observer outside the De Lorean witnessing it depart, will see it seem to explode and leave fire trails where it would have driven after disappearing. An observer witnessing the De Lorean arrive will see two blue flashes of light, after which the De Lorean bursts out of nowhere, often careening out of control. In the first film, the De Lorean appeared covered in ice upon its arrival, but this was largely abandoned in later films due to the difficulty of achieving the effect.[1] The "flux capacitor", which consists of a box with three small, flashing incandescent lamps arranged as a "Y", is described by Doc Brown as "what makes time travel possible". The device is located above and behind the car's passenger's seat and, as the time machine nears eighty-eight miles per hour, the light of the flux capacitor pulses faster until it has a steady stream of light. Doc originally conceived the idea for the flux capacitor on November 5, 1955 when he slipped and bumped his head while standing on his toilet to hang a clock. </div> The Greatest Idea Ever... De Lorean Time Machine Flux Capacitor
time travel would be the *****...but what happens when people go back in time and change something...with every reaction there is a reaction so would that F up the future to?
<div class="quote_poster">chingy0007 Wrote</div><div class="quote_post">So long as we split the profits from the lottery 50-50, I'm in </div> Sounds good. So you get the Flux Capacitor, I'll get the De Lorean, and set everything up. I'll take a plane down to England and we'll do this.
<div class="quote_poster">The Super Villain Wrote</div><div class="quote_post">time travel would be the *****...but what happens when people go back in time and change something...with every reaction there is a reaction so would that F up the future to?</div> This is also something that I don't get.... Talking about this stuff makes my head hurt.
What would be nice is if they would find out what gravity actually is... I don't think they have found any particles or anything like that yet. For TSV and Marbire: What seems most logical is that if you back and "change" anything in the past, that stuff has already happened. But that opens up for a whole bunch of paradoxes...
Man can't even live on the moon yet what makes people think time travel is any closer. I doubt it will ever happen
Anybody ever read "Timeline" by Michael Crichton? I thought that was one of the more interesting takes on time travel I've ever encountered.
I wanted to watch the movie on DVD, but I heard it sucked. If I could travel through time, I would go back to 9/10/01, set up camera's at both the Pentagon and the Twin Towers, come back, and sell those tapes on eBay.
<div class="quote_poster">igotask8board Wrote</div><div class="quote_post">I wanted to watch the movie on DVD, but I heard it sucked. If I could travel through time, I would go back to 9/10/01, set up camera's at both the Pentagon and the Twin Towers, come back, and sell those tapes on eBay.</div> Why wouldn't you tell the US Governement about what is going to happen, so they can stop it? Why would you just watch it?
<div class="quote_poster">Master Shake Wrote</div><div class="quote_post">Why wouldn't you tell the US Governement about what is going to happen, so they can stop it? Why would you just watch it?</div> Yeah, exactly what I was going to say. Jackass. Call on a pay phone and they can't trace who you are if that's what you would be worried about.
<div class="quote_poster">P.A.P. Wrote</div><div class="quote_post">Yeah, exactly what I was going to say. Jackass. Call on a pay phone and they can't trace who you are if that's what you would be worried about.</div> Man, why would you wanna sell videos of it? You like thousands pf people dieing? I'm not judging, I'm just saying...
