To revive an old topic...

[skahound]

Could be an option, if it doesn't rip you apart (what it is supposed to do....)

But if you read what TimeTraveler has to say in the link -e- posted it is possible without ripping you apart.

-e-: You warned me and I didn't listen. I'm completely befuddled by this guy. Amazing.

[Kamal]

I told you man, what the guy types in there is so bloody brilliant, you cant stop fucking reading it.... esp what he says about travelling back in time and re-appearing in the middle of a mountain or a rock.... kinda like what happened to the folks in the Philadelphia Experiment IS THIS FUCKING DEJA VU or WHAT.... got the creepiest feeling typing that line

-e-

[skahound]

esp what he says about travelling back in time and re-appearing in the middle of a mountain or a rock....

Yeah, that the time machine and camera were 15 miles away and 3000 feet in the air.

[Kamal]

read on bruva read on

[master of puppets]

a) it could be possible.
b) that will be amazing.
b) why not?

[palmer]

I love these threads.

http://sargel18.iwarp.com/oopa.htm

[neoee]

Re: To revive an old topic...

do you think we will see even the remotest possibility (in this lifetime) of

A) Finding out there is life elsewhere (other than earth)
B) CERN will finally announce they have discovered the prospects of successfully performing an "expriment" related to time travel
C) Space travel will actually become an affordable public affair


-e-

Great topic -e-, I always love this stuff.

A) Yes- eventually. I think our government has already aware of alien life forms but for our own "protection" they choose not to tell us. Maybe I'm just to easily sold on conspiracy theories but lately I've been turned on to something I saw on the History Channel- The Bible Code.

I've never been religious, for the longest time I even considered myself atheist. After seeing a Wayne Dyer special on PBS I've really had to reconsider my beliefs. Anyhow RE the Bible Code. Some Israeli statistician(sp?) found 'codes' hidden in the bible which have an amazing amount of relevance to our current day and the future. Some top member of the NSA or some such organization set out to disprove this and only convinced himself. Things like 9/11 are in there, almost any major headline can be found. Hitler crossing Nazi, Clinton crossing president, Hussein falling and dates indicating his capture. You just have to look into this and you'll be fascinated to say the least. But back to aliens and such, in the bible code it also has ROSWELL with ALIEN. Ooh, forgot to mention, our government is now relying on this information:

http://www.thebiblecode.com/pdf/Secret_Pentagon_Briefing_l.pdf

B) As Ska pointed out, the existence of time travel has already been proven. I remember seeing the video of the experiment where they use 2 clocks, 1 which flys around the world and the other that stays stationary, back when I was a Junior in HS. So far we only know how go fractional amounts forward in time, but I think eventually CERN or someone else will figure out what is needed to really go places (or times).

I'm going to also go on a tangent here since I saw your mention of John Titor. I ended up reading much of his posts and while very convincing I did catch one of his slip ups which made me believe the whole thing was a hoax. Throughout his posts he indicates that from an outside prospective (that of one not traveling through time) only a second had passed (think of the movie Contact). But in another post he mentions that there were other time travelers that had left before him and were not back before he left... well he completely contradicts himself since if he were watching another tt leave he would have seen him back a second later. Others say that his story has been proven false, I'm not sure based on what criteria, but based on my findings I believe it was a well constructed hoax.

If you really want something to think about try doing a search on the Montauk project, it was supposedly spawned off of the Philadelphia project and some think it may still be running by a clandestine govt. group, even though Congress hearings indicate the project stopped.

C) I believe this is just going to be a time/technology factor. With spaceship 1's flights being successful, Virgin has launched Virgin Galactic and are now working on spaceship 2 which is to hold ~9 people. Initially this will surely be for the wealthy but with time and technology advancements this will become an option for us regular folk.

Than again we may not even need spaceships, NASA is now funding research into the Space Elevator. This was a wild idea proposed by Arthur Clark in one of his books... the same guy that came up with the "wild" idea of putting satellites in space. Fascinating ain't it?

[Yao]

Could be an option, if it doesn't rip you apart (what it is supposed to do....)

But if you read what TimeTraveler has to say in the link -e- posted it is possible without ripping you apart.

-e-: You warned me and I didn't listen. I'm completely befuddled by this guy. Amazing.

Amazing yes, but I think he's a nutcase. Sorry. Have you seen the movie K-Pax? That was the first thing that came to mind.

I don't believe untill I see.

[skahound]

neoee: Fantastic post.

[neoee]

neoee: Fantastic post.

Thanks! The unknown always gets my brain turning.

[bananapeel]

-e-, you don't happen to have any information pertaining to this experiment do you? A link or something. This kind of stuff fascinates me and is one of the reasons I thoroughly enjoy reading Hawking, Thorne, Weinberg, etc.

Weinberg is the man!!!
My friend from Calgary got his PhD dealing with SuperString Theory just last year working with Weinberg. Weinberg doesn't take many grad students, but took my friend under his wings and quickly brough him to M.I.T. 2 years back. My friend was only 22 when he finished his PhD

You might have caught the Nova Episode: The Elegant Universe. That was the 2 part show where the host Brian Greene walks you through some of the concepts of superstring theory in a very entertaining manner.
Now that I mention this show, damn, I'm pissed I forgot to tape those 2 shows.

[neoee]

You might have caught the Nova Episode: The Elegant Universe. That was the 2 part show where the host Brian Greene walks you through some of the concepts of superstring theory in a very entertaining manner.
Now that I mention this show, damn, I'm pissed I forgot to tape those 2 shows.

I just downloaded this via Bittorrent, so I'm sure its still available. Haven't had a chance to watch it thought.

[bananapeel]

You might have caught the Nova Episode: The Elegant Universe. That was the 2 part show where the host Brian Greene walks you through some of the concepts of superstring theory in a very entertaining manner.
Now that I mention this show, damn, I'm pissed I forgot to tape those 2 shows.

I just downloaded this via Bittorrent, so I'm sure its still available. Haven't had a chance to watch it thought.

I'll be figuring out this bittorrent thingy shortly. Haven't tried bittorrent yet
But, yeah, thanks for the heads up neoee!! (and also you're signature had me really, really cracking up )

[picklemonkey]

no no yes.

[gr8pumpkin]

Re: To revive an old topic...

Taking the time travel spin, have you guys heard about the movie Primer? Everyone over at Aintitcoolnews went absolutely crazy about it.

http://www.aintitcool.com/display.cgi?id=18397

Here's the story description from the official website:

"PRIMER is set in the industrial park/suburban tract-home fringes of an unnamed contemporary city where two young engineers, Abe and Aaron, are members of a small group of men who work by day for a large corporation while conducting extracurricular experiments on their own time in a garage. While tweaking their current project, a device that reduces the apparent mass of any object placed inside it by blocking gravitational pull, they accidentally discover that it has some highly unexpected capabilities--ones that could enable them to do and to have seemingly anything they want. Taking advantage of this unique opportunity is the first challenge they face. Dealing with the consequences is the next."

http://www.primermovie.com/

From what I've read, this movie approaches the subject of time travel more realistically than any other film before it. It seems that you cannot watch this movie without believing what is actually happening on the screen. It's that realistic. I think it was made with only $7000 or some crazy small amount like that and won some awards at Sundance. I wanted to see it here in Atlanta when it played for 5 days in a downtown independent film theater but never got the chance. It looks like I'll just have to wait for the DVD. Following this thread makes me think that you guys really need to look into this flick. Have fun.