06/20/2001 - Updated 02:32 PM ET



Maybe time travel could be possible

Q: I believe Einstein's General Relativity Theory mathematically proved that time travel into the past is impossible. Do the recent experiments showing that light can be slowed, then returned to its normal speed, have any theoretical implications for time travel?

http://www.usatoday.com/news/science/wonderquest/2001-06-20-time-travel.htm

Consistency with Special Relativity

Einstein special relativity (SR) is able to prove based on its premises that nothing can propagate faster than the speed of light in forward time. Is our result for the speed of gravity an experimental falsification of SR? The correct answer must be a qualified "yes and no." Strictly, the minor new interpretation of SR needed for consistency with our result is no more a falsification of SR than GR was a falsification of Newtonian gravity. In both cases, the earlier theory was incomplete rather than wrong. We will now examine exactly what must change about SR for full consistency with all existing experimental evidence and this new result as well.


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I've a subscription to Scientific America and will looking around and see whats in the archives and post anything of interest after a bit...

Facinating site, though, its all a bit hard to swallow. Civil war in 2005? Ill believe it when I see it.

Has anybody ever thought that the speed of light may be just a slow form of a physical particle stream and thereby be a non-judicious form of standard speed measurement. Come on, people we've only just now stepped out of the stone age (geologically speaking) and we already seem to be saying we understand the mechanicians of the Universe. Arrogance in the extreme! There's probably unheard and unknown speeds in the Universe that we can't now or ever be able to fathom. The web site is an interesting bit of sci-fi though. >

Good words from OC. Man is intelligent, therefore we know we are right...ha!

"The Earth is the centre of the universe, anyone who says different will be burned at the stake"

Sound familiar? "Nothing can travel faster than light..." Sounds familiar to me (without the burning at the stake bit)

Man is barely evolved pond scum, just take a look around

This Titor guy needs putting away somewhere. A room with nice soft walls should do the trick.

Not that it is relevant to time travel, but allow me to quote some deep thought inducing material from Stephen King...
"If you fell outward to the limit of the universe, would you find a board fence and signs reading DEAD END? No. You might find something hard and rounded, as the chick must see the egg from the inside. And if you should peck through that shell, what great and torrential light might shine through your hole at the end of space? Might you look through and discover our entire universe is but a part of one atom on a blade of grass? Might you be force to think that by burning a twig you incinerate an eternity of eternities? That existence rises not to one infinite but to an infinity of them?
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I agree with OC's line of thought, that man in his ever increasing infinite wisdom is yet still a sniveling idiot in the general scheme of things. For all we know, Einstein, while seeming to be extremely intelligent, may have been entirely incorrect in the larger scope. How can one possibly discount ANY possibility when we really know nothing of the true nature of things?
I don't really subscribe to this John Titor thing, however, you can bet that if this civil war does begin to take shape within the next year or so, I will be looking more closely at possibilities for 2015, although a full scale nuclear war as he describes would render the planet uninhabitable for many years more than from whence he claims to have arrived from...

Man is barely evolved pond scum,

We did NOT evolve.

No...we are STILL pond scum....

exactly!

What I meant though is we were Created not evolved.

But that is a decussion for another thread.

As far as what we do know or don't know about science, the universe, etc., I always come back to this:

As advanced as we are today (as a civilization), we know enough to know that we know nothing yet.

Just my $0.02

Such BS.

He creates an air of plausible deniability; if he predicts something and it comes true then it's because he's from the future. If not, then it's because of the multi-verse. Such BS!!!

"What music do 20 year olds listen to?"

"People listen to all types of music. A great deal of it is available over the web. I would also add that people spend much more time making their own music."

Gimme a break. He can't anwser simple questions? So vague. Over the web? Realllllly???
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A wannabe Nostradamus...[sp]......lives in la-la land....should we just laugh or is that cruel?....