Ronald Mallett, Professor at the University of Connecticut, has used Einstein’s equations to design a time machine with circulating laser beams. While his team is still looking for funding, he hopes to build and test the device in the next 10 years.
He gets around time travel’s “Grandfather Paradox” by also advocating the “Parallel Universes” theory (i.e., if you go back in time and kill your own grandfather, it creates another universe).
I figure a Time Lord will sneak in and destroy Mallett’s equipment just before it’s ready for testing.
I’m in the late stages of working on a time machine. It’s a modified 2003 Toyota Echo. In a recent test run, I went back in time 0.003 seconds. It wasn’t that interesting and when I caught back up in time I was really drowsy. And hungry. The modified Echo gets about 39 miles per gallon on the freeway, 24 mpg or so in town, and 2 mpg in time-travel mode. It’s not worth it.
I’ve always thought that the idea of time travel is pretty cool. But there’s the classic argument that we won’t ever be able to do it; if we at some point in the future discover time travel, wouldn’t we automatically know about it now? We would have met people from the future already.
Maybe there are people from the future walking around here without us knowing it. What if they are here to create a Parallel Universe where they can rule? Sort of like time traveling pilgrims.
Ah, I see a sweet new conspiracy theory coming.
Heh. With the “Parallel Universes” theory, it’s easy enough to postulate that time travel has already been invented in some (perhaps future) universe and this universe we perceive only exists because some schmuck went back in time and shot his own grandpa.
Write a letter to yourself as a note to make an appoint with yourself at a certain time - if time travel will exist you’ll keep the appointment, if you don’t keep the appointment with yourself then it won’t happen in your lifetime.
If they have anything like a Temporal Prime Directive, we’d never have a clue they were here. IF they DID go back in time to alter the past, our timeline could possibly be altered around us without us even being aware.
Also, it may just be that the alternate dimention theory of time travel is even more complex if the theory is considered from the standpoint of a new dimention being created with every decision and the results of said decision being played out in THAT reality…
i have a headache…
I do it every day, no big deal and I get paid to do it, I can’t travel into the future and I am limited only to one hundred and forty years into the past.
Henke - we’re here. We’re just not allowed to tell anybody. Please don’t let Dale know or he’ll want to go back and try to fix that rebate problem. (see the other post)
I thought the guy was a joke, especially since he’s posing with the time machine from the 1960-something movie. (I personally would’ve posed with Yvette Mimieux.) But I found him on the UConn website, and he’s for real.
Well everybody knows you have to bottle a black hole for an energy source and separate your planet’s timeline from the rest of the universe’s in order to have time travel anyway.
Sort of like time traveling pilgrims.
