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Time-machine design made simpler

Posted August 21, 2007 1:42 PM

From MSNBC.com: Science:

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.

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08/21/2007 11:27 PM

Obviously this never got built or our great----great grand kids would have been back to kick our ases for using up all the oil and resources and leaving none for them.

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08/22/2007 4:32 AM

That's the great time travelling paradox, if there are any time machines, where are the tourists? Are the time police that good? Or will they only go back to see the dinosaurs?

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08/22/2007 9:13 AM

This is how we know we havn't gone too far with the enviornment. The day the terminator shows up with news of a desperate future, I will sell my SUV.

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08/23/2007 5:42 PM

Or its so bad we don't have a future.

There are supposed to be multiple parallel time line. With a space time warping machine, how do you control which one you're moving back into?

Don't try to build one that goes to the past. Build one that goes into future first.


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