Time Travel 1191
Almost Anonymous writes "Ronald Mallett, a physicist at the University of Connecticut, believes he knows how to build a time machine - an actual device that could send something or someone from the future to the past, or vice versa. He plans to have a working mockup this fall. For all those doubters, he assures people that "I'm not a nut"." Uh-huh.
Hey Doc (Score:3, Funny)
Also can you maybe make it out of, oh i dont know, a ferrari?
Waves of light (Score:4, Funny)
From the article... (Score:4, Funny)
Oh, just an engineering problem. That's great. Maybe after Mallett perfects time travel, he can get to work on cold fusion and a perpetual motion machine.
By the way, that reminds me of the Simpsons where Lisa builds a perpetual motion machine, and shows Homer. Homer gets mad and yells, "Lisa, in this house we obey the Laws of Thermodynamics!!"
I guess this guy doesn't have a Homer to yell at him.
hey... (Score:4, Funny)
Preliminary pictures of the device (Score:2, Funny)
Just imagine if it were true... (Score:2, Funny)
Hawking says... (Score:2, Funny)
- Stephen Hawking
Time travel? (Score:3, Funny)
Hasn't this story been posted before?
Re:From the article... (Score:3, Funny)
> Oh, just an engineering problem. That's great. Maybe after Mallett perfects time travel, he can get to work on cold fusion and a perpetual motion machine.
Actually, I solved cold fusion last Tuesday. Unfortunately it involves "more energy than physicists today know how to harness, [but it's] merely an engineering problem." So that's alright then. Where do I collect my Nobel Prize?
First Post! (Score:4, Funny)
- Stealth Dave
Re:Haiku (Score:4, Funny)
(OT)Re:Preliminary pictures of the device (Score:3, Funny)
Our new Houston facility is scheduled for completion later this year. These images depict how we are getting ready for that big move, so we can bring the our excellent service one step closer to you at our new facility in Houston.
Followed by fourteen beautiful photographs of...um...boxes. And crushed boxes. And crates. And pallets. And assoted pipes and other oddments that might be identifiable if the pictures had been taken with something besides a $20 OfficeMax Special digital camera...
Some employees have way too much time on their hands...
DennyK
Awesome idea.... (Score:5, Funny)
One of us has got to dress up like Ronald Mallett-- all out, with a mask and everything, plus a scorched labcoat and frizzy hair-- and show up at his doorstep.
Slashdotter: Ron! Ron, it's me, your future self! You must listen to me!
Ronald Mallett: Who... who are you? You look like me!
RM: How do I know you're really me, and not a robot imposter from the future?
etc.
Better yet, we can send him an "aged" letter from himself postmarked April 6th, 1843. *evil grin*
Re:Hey Doc (Score:2, Funny)
Re:Waves of light (Score:3, Funny)
pass on the better genes, then it makes sense if those with better genes
are able to hunt/manipulate those inferrior ones.
If it is all about passing genes, and continuing the survival of the fittest,
then there is no need to distinguish lesser humans from other species.
As we exhaust or natural food resources (assuming we can't somehow control our
population through nukes or disease, or if we don't find other planets to host
the exploding population.) then it is OK to eat weaker humans.
As long as we abide by the rules of nature, and only consume each other, based
on strnegth and intelligence (i.e. no bias, based on superficial criteria like
religion or nationalism.)
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Re:If time travel was going to be made possible... (Score:3, Funny)
Re:From the article... (Score:1, Funny)
Speaking of the simpsons, remember when homer said "Lisa, in this house we obey the Laws of Thermodynamics!!"
Have you considered the possibility (Score:5, Funny)
exactly how in the hell.... (Score:2, Funny)
2:00am - 3:00am didn't happen today...
maybe it was the time machine...
Re:The best he can build is a disintegration chamb (Score:4, Funny)
Somewhere... out there... in a parallel universe... people get free socks out of thin air. Of course, these socks are always half of a pair. It's not possible to send both socks in a pair into one of these parallel universes. I'm not sure which law of physics this would falls under.
I wonder... if I tied a string to a pair of socks... and one went into the parallel universe and the other remained in my dryer... where would the string lead to? Oh well... I'll leave the string theories to the experts.
-Twilight1
Time Travelers Please Help! (Score:1, Funny)
have the technology to travel physically through time I need your
help!
My life has been severely tampered with and cursed!!
I have suffered tremendously and am now dying!
I need to be able to:
Travel back in time.
Rewind my life including my age back to 4.
Be able to remember what I know now so that I can prevent my life
from being tampered with again after I go back.
I am in very great danger and need this immediately!
I am aware that there are many types of time travel, and that
humans do not do well through certain types.
I need as close to temporal reversion as possible, as safely as
possible. To be able to rewind the hands of time in such a way
that the universe of now will cease to exist.
I know that there are some very powerful people out there with
alien or government equipment capable of doing just that.
If you can help me I will pay for your teleport or trip down
here, Along with hotel stay, food and all expenses. I will pay
top dollar for the equipment. Proof must be provided.
Please be advised that any temporal device
that you may employ must account for X, Y, and Z coordinates as
well as the temporal location.
I have a time machine now, but it has limited abilitys and is
useless without a vortex.
If you can provide information on how to create vortex generator or
where I can get some of the blue glowing moon crystals this would
also be helpful.
I am aware of two types of time travel one in physical form and
the other in energy form where a snapshot of your brain is taken
using either the dimensional warp or an electronic device and
then sends your consciousness back through time to part with your
younger self. Please explain how safe and what your method involves.
Also if you are one of the very, very, few beings with the
ability to edit the universe PLEASE REPLY!!!
Only if you have this technology and can help me exactly as
mentioned please send me a (SEPARATE) email to: IneedTimeTravel@aol.com
Please do not reply if your an evil alien!
Thanks
Re:Poignant. (Score:5, Funny)
My God. A 10 year-old died of cancer? From smoking cigarettes? And this 10 year-old fathered a son before dying? And that son is now trying to build a time machine? What the hell kind of genes are running in this family???
Re:First Post! (Score:3, Funny)
Dude... (Score:4, Funny)
You have to promise me that you'll never do that. You could end up ripping a hole in the space/time continuum! Who knows what could happen! All the socks that ever disappeared could simultaneously materialize in your dryer! Can you imagine the devistation it would cause?
Re:Poignant. (Score:3, Funny)
"You obviously don't know Newfies" - Judi Dench as Agnis Hamm in "The Shipping News".
repeat. (Score:2, Funny)
Sorry to disappoint everyone.
We time-travel at our own peril... (Score:3, Funny)
For instance, what if we use a time machine to travel back to the 70's, then we return to the present day. Everything appears normal, but then we go to download some pr0n, and all we can find is cheesey 70's pr0n with bad soundtracks and mediocre women. AAaarrrrgggghhhhh!
Re:He really isn't a nut (Score:2, Funny)
Travelling into the future is no big deal, only technical. theoretically just jump to near light speed a short while, jump back and thousend years will have passed on earth.
However travelling into the past _is_ a big deal, as it questions a lot of physical fundamentals.
Easy: You move back in time by moving *SLOWER* than light. Just sit there and wait..Re:ways around the time travel paradox (Score:3, Funny)
Post from the future. (Score:3, Funny)
Bonus: Intel is going to announce something new on April 15th that will totally kick ass. Look for the share price to jump $50 in the following 2 months.
Note to the SEC: This is a joke, so don't you dare try to prosecute, you asswads.
Where's my tinfoil hat when I need it? (Score:3, Funny)
Been There, Done That (Score:2, Funny)
I propose a test (Score:2, Funny)
i got a job that way... (Score:2, Funny)
Re:An explanation of why this man is a crank. (Score:2, Funny)
Your first year will pound into your head lots of basic F=ma type stuff, and plenty of acceleration is the first derivative of velocity and velocity is the first derivative of position blah blah blah. By they time you finish this semester you will be so tired of figuring out where and when a ball will hit the earth, given that it was thrown at a certain angle and at a certain initial velocity, of course we are neglecting friction due to air.
Your second and last required semester will turn to electricity and magnetism, here let me sum up that semester for you: Electrical fields and Magnetic fields always co-exist orthogonaly.
If you go on to get a minor in physics, as I did, you basically spend a semester or two learning the heavy duty math needed to do heavy duty physics problems yet not taught over in the math dept. Then, you effectually repeat the first semester but no longer neglecting friction. Almost all the problems are impossible to actually solve and you really learn how to accurately estimate solutions, except of course for the really easy ones, which are solvable using coupled differential equations.
Finally, you get to take your upper level electives, one or two may be introductions to quantum physics. I say introductions because all the real juicy stuff is at the PhD level.
At this point none of your questions about time travel will be answered, but you will realize that you need to get you a55 over to your department and finish the degree that will be your bread winner and all your background in physics will do is allow you to do is write a lame post like this on an internet discussion, kind of sad, isn't it?
Re:hey... (Score:2, Funny)
The universe may be infinite, but it's not that big.
Re:Paradox' a Bitch (Score:3, Funny)
Personally, I believe that the matter is displaced towards the nearest empty area while taking 3d6 damage, but my proof is insufficiently rigorous to post yet.