Okay, now this is some fascinating stuff. Even if it is a hoax (which it probably is) it's an interesting read. http://www.johntitor.com/ Read thru the intro. Then on the left side, under "choose a date", just select November 2000 and start reading. I started an hour ago and I'm still hooked in . . .
Crazy thing is I never heard about this guy until a friend brought it up a few days ago, now I've seen stuff about him on two websites :shock: I still think its a hoax, but whoever did it must have planned it well so no one could punch holes in his story
I posted this over on the Turbo board also. This guy may be a liar, but he's not stupid. Entertaining, if nothing else.
I guess we should all move to Omaha. Evidenlty that is gonna be a pretty safe place to be! I think the part I found most fascinating about this was the technical aspect of the time machine. This guy is either a genius, or should be writing screenplays in Hollywood.
HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAH Oh man... I may not stop laughing for a week! This dude must know something about Canadian politics to write that... I gotta tell ya, this guys physics knowledge is kinda comical (he makes a number of impossible claims and omits solutions to rather obvious problems) but he is very, very, funny. Incidentally, the #1 problem with time travel ain't time. It's space. Go back in time 0.01 seconds and you'll be floating! The planet is rotating at about 1000km/h and orbiting at over 110000 km/h, never mind the glactic drift. To go back in time you'd require a navigation system based on 10 dimensional space, and some sort of galactic references that were real-time independent (not light-time dependent). If you can solve that one, then spatial curavture to a closed timelike curve is easy.
If you're interested in this kind of stuff, have you seen the movie "Paycheck", with Ben Affleck? Very interesting concept, based on Einstein's theory of "predicting the future".uzzled::Smarty::TU:
I can see that I have several hours worth of reading to do one of these days when I get some free time. Thanks for the link. :TU: This kind of stuff has always interested me. I'm very skeptical, but the kid in me loves to half-believe this stuff. :laugh: Anyone like to read about perpetual motion? There's some very interesting reads on the net about it. I DO believe that perpetual motion will be a reality sometime in the future, and magnets/gravity will play a major role in the technology. OK.. I guess I've shown enough of my inner geek now. p
Rick, Perpetual motion already exists! It's only at the Quantum level, and has no practical application but it's there. The neat part is that the Thermodynamic "Law" eveyone touts out to say perpetual motion is impossible is actually a theory. We cannot conclusively prove it's impossible. IIRC someone did prove that it is mechanically impossible. *sigh* Geeks get no respect... Hi, I'm Clint and I have a Physics obsession....
2036 "There is no large industrial complex creating masses of useless food and recreational items. Food and livestock is grown and sold locally. People spend much more time reading and talking together face to face. Religion is taken seriously and everyone can multiple and divide in the heads." ......funny, to me it doesn't sound like 2036, sounds more like 1836 or 1936. :Smarty:
Paycheck is based on a short story by Philip K. Dick. He also wrote "The Minority Report", short story (Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?)that was made into "Blade Runner", an other story made into "Total Recall". In the dediaction page of one of his books, he lists the numbers of his friends who have died of drug complications...he was the last of his group. All of his stories are thought provoking. A link to a site dedicated to him: http://www.philipkdick.com/
