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[Apr. 15th, 2007|03:08 am]
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Supercool two intense, counter-aimed beams of light in a Bose-Einstein condensate and they twist and crush into an ultra-slow rotating loop that drags time around it. It's a time machine. This is the Ronald Mallett system. The theory has been tested and found valid. One would step into the loop and walk in time, exiting the loop at the desired point on the calendar. Re-entering the loop and walking back to return to your own time.
But you could not walk back in time further than the point at which the time machine was switched on. No nipping back to 1930 and killing Hitler, no killing your grandad or saving Marilyn Monroe or James Dean. You couldn't travel back into history because there weren't any time machines back then.
Which both makes sense and makes no sense all at the same time, and if you consider it for long enough you will actually feel a small part of your brain break off and die.
However, you could travel into the future. But there wouldn't be any point. Because at the moment the first time machine was switched on, time travellers from all over the future would instantly appear in order to witness the historical moment for themselves. At which point, it can be said that all of the future has happened at the same time. The entirety of history has been simultaneously, instantly enacted, and there's nothing else left to happen.
Have a good night. |
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