The World's First Time Travel Machine, Video documentary

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Very interesting documentary about time travel, other dimensions and parallel universes.

The 2003 BBC documentary "The World's First Time Machine", directed by Ben Bowie and featuring Ronald Mallett, premiered in the USA on The Learning Channel on December 3, 2003. This documentary features some of Dr. Mallett's current time travel research. It has since been shown numerous times on The Science Channel.

Watch it on the link below:
http://dark-truth.blogspot.com/2007/01/wor...el-machine.html
 
Mark my words:

"Ronald L. Mallet will, in fact, be a key factor in the instantaneous demise of existence."

People just do not understand time. Let's all pray to god that he fails, and fails miserably. Or, perhaps, by some freak of nature, he is right.

At least by the video he was in, from what he claimed he "knew" about time, we know he is wrong. The paradox's he obviously struggles with are only half complete. And, unfortunately, he completed the wrong half of the paradox first.

I would LOVE to discuss this subject, but I wouldn't know where to start. So, I suggest we begin to pick this apart little by little, half a subject (or less) at a time. This is the only way we can possibly hope to have even half a rational debate about time travel.

If, for example we start by saying that there can be only one time line, and no parallel universes, we must quickly open the subject of the effects of traveling into both the past and future to determine why there cannot be, which in turn will cause us to have to discuss whether or not time travel is possible, which in turn will force us into discussing the necessity (and possibility) of traveling faster than the speed of light, which will make us bring up whether or not any particle can indeed withstand traveling faster than the speed of light, etc, etc, etc.

We can quickly see that opening this debate is going to be difficult as we will need to answer all of the questions basically simultaneously, because in fact, we need the answer to each question to answer the other question.

I suppose we should start on a subject that doesn't involve an extensive knowledge of physics so that we can all contribute and comprehend the debate at hand. So, that kind of removes talking about moving faster than the speed of light.

I'll just stop now and see where it goes. Thanks for the great post Meikyousisui!
 
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Time Machine? FTW??
You really must be smoking too much.

The only thing that is actually close enough to a time machine is the forces caused by a black hole. This happens when the object approaches the event horizon(the rim to where once a object passes it, it cannot escape).
When it approaches the singularity(the center, basically), and if it is strong enought to withstand the immense forces upon it, It will have a moment in which it seems that it has stopped time. If another ship was outside the event horizon, it would slowly see the ship decelerate, until it seems it has stopped, but in fact it is being stretched by the immense forces from the black hole. This, in a sense, would cause the observer to think that the ship is somehow defying time and space.

Currently, there is NO WAY of generating the forces needed to be able to approach the threshold that will cause space-time to rupture. Maybe when people are able to generate a contained black hole, it MAY be possible.
 
I don't believe in time travel myself, simply because I see Time as a "perception" not as "something", in other to be able to travel to the past and to the future you are suggesting that you can somehow manipulate time, and in other to manipulate anything it first must exists in a physical form, and time has no physical form.

For example Light can be manipulated, but we all know light has a physical form, time however is just one of our many perceptions of life and space, we invented time, we created schedules, we created the concept of weeks and months to help us measure it.

If time was physical then it would theoretically be possible to have a space without time, Can you even imaging that? So if time is not something to be manipulated, then is not possible to travel through it
 
I agree with you 100% QuickSilverD. As a matter of fact, I was just going to come on to post the same thing.

Saying that we can travel through time would imply that time is a physical thing. Time, as QuickSilverD put it, is something we humans created to organize our life, and to more easily communicate with other humans. In order to travel through, slow down, or even stop, time, somehow every single moment that ever existed would have to be recorded and kept somewhere (parallel universes for example).

When I was watching the video I was screaming at the idiots on there talking, especially when they were referring to moving so fast that time you would eventually move through time. How could you?! Spaceships, people, heart rates, even the aging process could possibly be slowed through moving quickly for extended periods of time, but not an idea. How can you slow down an idea?

Skipping into parallel universes (which is what the pool table example was all about) could, theoretically speaking, be possible. Two objects in separate universes could, once again theoretically, exist in the same space as each other, and therefore affect each other. In order for this theory to work properly, however, they would have to touch only in very small places, almost single dimensional points, in order to not affect each other too much.

Perhaps we should create two separate threads on the two issues; one for time travel discussion (in case anyone cares to disagree with me and QuickSilverD), and one for moving throughout parallel universes.

What do you guys think?
 
Actually, I think it IS possible to create an artificial blackhole and I believe I have even read that scientists have been close to recreating one. (God Save us when they actually do, cause those things cannot and will not be contained)

Even Albert Einstein had an astounding theory that kinda involved time traveling.

He asked himself the really childish question of.

'If I was in a train and it went faster than the speed of light. How would my watch count the seconds compared to the clock outside the train?' (Didn't quote him, but this is how I took it.

And it makes sense, cause your own watch would probably keep doing what it was doing, and the clock on the outside should stay in the normal zone, meaning it slowed down compared to you.

Isn't that basically time travel?

I highly doubt going BACK in time is achieveable though.
 
Time travel is fucking around with what is not to be fucked with.

It's so incredibly off the charts of fucking around with existance. Like Nuclear weapons/power, cloning and selective breeding, it's something we shouldn't venture towards, IT IS NOT TO BE FUCKED WITH.
 
KradDiher said:
Actually, I think it IS possible to create an artificial blackhole and I believe I have even read that scientists have been close to recreating one. (God Save us when they actually do, cause those things cannot and will not be contained)

Even Albert Einstein had an astounding theory that kinda involved time traveling.

He asked himself the really childish question of.

'If I was in a train and it went faster than the speed of light. How would my watch count the seconds compared to the clock outside the train?' (Didn't quote him, but this is how I took it.

And it makes sense, cause your own watch would probably keep doing what it was doing, and the clock on the outside should stay in the normal zone, meaning it slowed down compared to you.

Isn't that basically time travel?

I highly doubt going BACK in time is achieveable though.
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No, it isn't the same as time travel. By traveling faster than light (were that possible for a human to withstand) would merely change the rate at which you visually perceive the world around you. You would just see the clock outside the train later than usual, so it would appear to be earlier outside of the train. Nothing else.
 
they wouldn't tell us...ever heard of a paradox? Besides, even if it's possible would we know if something had been changed in our time-line? No..the wave of change, or paradox wave if you like, would also include us as we are part of that time-line. We wouldn't have any idea that anything was wrong. It may be possible to travel in time but why the hell would you want to?
 
Clyde said:
If time travel was succesful, someone from the past probably would have come to our time and told us... unless it was top secret
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The theory is that they couldn't. Time travel, if it is ever successful, in regards to going back in time, would only allow the traveler to go back as far as to when the time machine was created. After that there would be no source for time travel anymore, and you would therefore stop going back. In other words, once you made it back to the time when the machine wasn't functioning yet, you no longer have a working vessel to bring you back anymore.
 
Time travel is completely ridiculous. Either something exists or it doesn't- there's no "separate universes" representing each period of time like you see on the movies. Plus, all of the time paradoxes resulting from time travel make the very idea of it completely impractical.
 
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