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Posted by Myrk- on Fri Feb 13th at 11:36pm 2004


We can travel forward in time can't we? Cus the faster you go the faster time gets or something strangely wierd (you only notice it near the speed of light or something)... Plus don't we need the power of a star to do it too? [addsig]



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Posted by Leperous on Sat Feb 14th at 12:15am 2004


The faster you move, the slower time goes for you, and your actual length (as observed by stationary observers) decreases. Apparently; I've just started doing Special Relativity, and I'm still wondering whose ass the Lorentz transformation was pulled out of and why it's the correct description of the world! (this is basically a transformation that tells you how distances and time change with your speed, with respect to another observer)





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Posted by Dr Brasso on Sat Feb 14th at 12:45am 2004


i know its an interesting topic Lep, but id be thinking youd be on to more useful topics, such as, "where can i find a good moisturizer"....

**runs

Doc B...

[addsig]




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Posted by Tracer Bullet on Sat Feb 14th at 1:08am 2004


Relativity has been extreemly well tested. time dialation effects have actualy been measured. it my have come out of someones ass originaly, but there is a massive ammount of evidence behind it now.



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Posted by Leperous on Sat Feb 14th at 1:22am 2004


Well, now you come to mention it I am looking for waterproof sellotape...



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Posted by Diarmaidx2 on Sat Feb 14th at 11:07pm 2004


how bout a solar powered torch?
http://www.webspawner.com/users/dainmiller1988/
nothing to do with torches btw, anyone else ever hear of this Philadelphia Experiment? i read in a book about it and there was another exp to do with time travel using wormholes or something.
/edit found it. The Montauk Project,




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Posted by Leperous on Sat Feb 14th at 11:28pm 2004


Yes, it's a load of crap. I think they were just trying some degaussing experiments, things went a bit wrong electricity wise (the idea was that you passed huge currents through cables surrounding the ship to remove the magnetic field, and make the ship immune to magnetic mines) and the sailors went off and started talking out of their arses :/ If the ship travels in time or has people embedded in the hull, it's not going to be sailing around normally the next day...



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Posted by Diarmaidx2 on Sat Feb 14th at 11:42pm 2004


i gathered. all this stuff seams to be connected, from the ship -timetravel - mind control -giant lizard men -aliens.
someone has a lot of time on their hands!




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Posted by OtZman on Sun Feb 15th at 12:16am 2004


what if I went back in time and met myself as a kid... and then I stabbed the young myself with a knife in the arm or something... would a scar appear on my arm then? Or what would happen if I took the young myself "back" to the future? [addsig]



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Posted by Cassius on Sun Feb 15th at 1:26am 2004


Considering the infinite number of possibilities presented at every second, I'd rather not go back in time, for fear of making things even worse.



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Posted by OtZman on Sun Feb 15th at 1:30am 2004


If I could travel in time I would go to the future and buy an ?ber computer and HL3 and go back home and enjoy [addsig]



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Posted by Gollum on Sun Feb 15th at 3:50am 2004


? posted by OtZman
If I could travel in time I would go to the future and buy an ?ber computer and HL3 and go back home and enjoy

If the idea of time-travel doesn't hold any deeper, more fundamental temptation for you, then I envy you.

*sigh* I know exactly what I would do if I could travel back in time. If only I'd been granted one day's grace





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Posted by Dr Brasso on Sun Feb 15th at 4:05am 2004


well, even according to the illustrious mr titor, i wont be alive when it happens anyway, so.....

Doc B...

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Posted by Juim on Sun Feb 15th at 2:05pm 2004


If I could travel through time, what would I do?.

Well the choices are endless. For personal gain I suppose I might go back to a simpler time like America after WWII and invest a bit here and there. That would be a selfish thing though.

Maybe a pop into the future for a gander, to see what we've become. Potentially frightening knowledge there eh?

Would I change anything? or attempt to? Probably not. The potential rammifications are too many to consider that.

Maybe I could save Kennedy, or John Lennon, or Martin L. King. Would'nt that be grand. I tend to agree with Mr. Titor though. I'd probably be taken for a loon and no one would believe me anyways. If he is what he says though, I cant imagine that he'd reveal himself as such. He's probably in big trouble . Seems to me, making yourself known in any fashion (especially with pics of the machine and diagrams and all) would be like breaking the most basic of Time Travel rules. Like the Prime Directive sort of thing.

Cool reading though.

PS is John Titor an anagram for anything maybe?





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Posted by blu_chze on Mon Feb 16th at 4:40am 2004


travelling backwards in time itself (not killing anyone) creates a paradox thus is impossible, as nature abhors paradoxs (As well as vacuum cleaners but thats another Larson concept)

travelling forward to say 1 january, 2100 is possible if a time machine is available now. if you stay in 2100 for like 12 months and 'return' to febuary 2004 several minutes after you 'left', it becomes part of your past. thus you cant go back to the year of 2100, as it will create a paradox. you wouldve gained a years worth of life within several minutes. nifty eh?

the fun really begins when: youre about to return to feb, 2004 in like december of 2100 a time traveller from 2030 kills you... do you die in 2030 (long lived time traveller assumed) or in 2100? hes not infringing on his past or yours so...hmm

/2 cents

[addsig]




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Posted by Cassius on Mon Feb 16th at 5:53am 2004


Why would you want to travel in time if you knew you were going to change it? What use would that be?

I'm more for the idea that we should accept reality as it is, with all its evils attached.





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Posted by Dr Brasso on Mon Feb 16th at 6:29am 2004


yer kinda young to be this cynical cass.....what gives bud?

Doc B...





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Posted by Tracer Bullet on Mon Feb 16th at 8:12am 2004


Why is that cynical? it's merely pragmatic; I couldn't agree more.



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Posted by Pegs on Mon Feb 16th at 9:12am 2004


time travel backwords wont happen otherwise we would of realised it by now but time travel forwords could be posible, a bit like Teminator, but backwords [addsig]



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Posted by Gollum on Mon Feb 16th at 9:19am 2004


? posted by Cassius

Why would you want to travel in time if you knew you were going to change it? What use would that be?

I'm more for the idea that we should accept reality as it is, with all its evils attached.

Bah, there's nothing more annoying than a man who has no regrets






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