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They've only gone and invented a bloody time machine (click to read)

Creep

I can't think of the film, but I'm pretty sure I've seen it.

But that thing looks like it's made of pop cans o_O

yvo

Read many articles and seen many documentaries about this stuff. Very very interesting. Quantum Mechanics.

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Lets hope they dont collapse the universe when they switch the bugger on.

u1bd2005

I know what the film is that the phrase comes from, but I googled it so I wont spoil it for other people.

Anyway.
If time machines were possible, wouldn't someone come back and tell us?

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Apparently, Stephen Hawking thought the same thing...he reckoned if travelling back in time were possible, then we would be littered with visitors from the future, so therefore it must not be possible. He then set out to 'prove' this theory but couldn't...so he concedes it is possible though perhaps impractical.

Another theory suggests that it is possible but that the act of travelling back in time creates a parallel universe which then goes off on a different timeline thereby unaffecting the original timeline.

Travelling forward in time is of course a proven fact, the world record holder is a Russian cosmonaught who travelled 0.2 seconds into the future.

u1bd2005

The Doctor and Captain Jack Harkness are the only people who have actually proven Time Travel Possible.

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An article you may find interesting:

Prof Michio Kaku on the science behind UFOs and time travel (link to Daily Telegraph)

yvo

This is not about time travel, but very interesting. In the same field of interest. Quantum mechanics. The infamous double slit experiment:

Link

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Yes I have seen the double slit video before, very interesting stuff. I very much enjoy physics as a bit of a side hobby

yvo

Started enjoying physics when I went to tech university. But I enjoy the pioneering physics like this more, than I do the stuff I learn at the uni.
There is more of this stuff on 2D, 3D and more dimensions. Hawkings has talked about there being way more than 3 dimensions. What if there are living creatures that can see more dimensions than us. It is often compared to the so-called 2D world and how we can see creatures in it, but they cannot see us. Here's a vid on it:

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I would contend that the idea of 2d is an impossibility

yvo

cannellbd

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Well for 2d to exist, it would need to be very very very very thin indeed, yes?

No matter how thin, even if a million billion times smaller than the smallest thing man yet knows, then it still has height, which makes it 3d.

It is my contention that 2d is in fact 1d, which doesn't exist either.

cannellbd

Zeph

I think this is all really cool.
Me, my dad, and dad's friend aaron got into a talk about it the other day.
It was pretty weird.
Aaron's explanation of what'd happen when they turn it on:

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I have to say Zeph, I love the way you type...sort of as if you were talking Wink

Zeph

You're the only one who's noticed i do that.
LOL. Very Happy