Time Travel

Time travel is easy...just drive between the time zones

 

Man, its been a bad week. What events are the preventing?

 

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I am convinced you need to buy some stuff from me.

 

The only time machines we have right now are cameras, and video cameras. That's the closest I think we will ever get.

 

In theory time travel to the future (one way) is fairly easy. Just travel at near the speed of light and for you time slows down to nothing at 1.00c.

We are also able to observe the past directly as it happened. All of the stars are varying distances away, and we see them as they were their distance in light years away. A star might have went supernova or had a gamma ray burst aimed right at us some time in the past, but if it is more recent than its distance away, we will never know until the light from that even has reached us.

Travelling to the past creates all sorts of paradoxes and implies travel faster than light is possible. Objects with mass do not appear to be able to even travel the exact speed of light, so it seems very doubtful.

I would believe in a concept of "Engineers" from the movie Prometheus before I would believe in backward time travel.

 

Hawking made a valid point; he said if it were possible, we would have met time travelers by now, regardless of the space time continuum currently happening.

 

Only relativistic time travel possible so far. Ie. one object needs to be traveling close to speed of light. And compared to the other--non fast moving object--time will have dilated.

Physics aside. Section 31 and carbon creek startrek. Awesome!!

 

Oh?

Says who?

 

They could be duplicated, without a doubt. Only real problems are a purpose and a vast amount of money.

 

I think he means by the technology available at the time. It is quite a mystery how they cut the rocks so precisely, and how they managed to build such massive structures without the use of machines. I find it very interesting. It almost like we lost a massive technological society with ways of doing things we have yet to understand.

I don't think a time machine was involved, but a different type of thinking certainly was.

 

That's not what he said. And even so. Of course it could be done. Obviously... since they did it!

 

Obviously...but how..

 

Hard work... done by tens of thousands... over decades.

 

The pyramids are indeed impressive in size, precision of build, huge amount of labor and material, and management required. We do know that the builders developed effective systems for quarrying, transporting, cutting, and erecting stone - they did get built! But in the end they were just big piles of stones covered by a precisely cut and set veneer.

Much more impressive in all ways are the cathedrals built in Europe in the mid to late medieval and Renaissance periods.

 

There are other, smaller pyramids created before the Valley of the Kings versions, they were not perfect. Some were "bent" where they started too steep and had to make the angle less toward the top. So apparently they had a learning curve too.

They know where the quarries are that the blocks were produced from, and Egypt had skilled artisans based on the temples and other structures.

Most likely the blocks were roughed in and then a small group of the very best finished them before being placed.

 

Based on what anthropology analysis are the wonders of the ancient world impossible?

Oh, and John Titor already time traveled to warn us about the "next era" Too bad he wasn't specific, and was a noob on message boards, and used a C4 Corvette as his time machine. Everybody knows that stainless steel helps with the flux!

 

Interesting topics in this offbeat thread. Time travel I guess gets a thumbs down because of RacerX's post that I agree with. Best time travel show -- Star Trek episode "The City on the Edge of Forever"

The pyramids are a great topic all by themselves from their precision and engineering to their alignment. I will try to find a great video I watched tomorrow. The giant pyramid would have been an unreal sight to see in it's prime, not like today at all, bright white stone finish flush from top to bottom and a black walkway leading up to it.

European church's are amazing like Notre Dame.


But many many strange and cool things are happening faster and faster in science these days, like this I found today -- tcetoday | News | Lasers turn cement into metal

 

not just big piles of stone -- the engineering, angles, precision stonework are mind-boggling. When new the Great pyramid was covered in polished white limestone which would have been blinding in the desert sun. Today's appearance is the result of looting of the surface and erosion.

One the last remaining facade stones in place -- http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_Be5EvAsQf5k/Svuzz-tmnfI/AAAAAAAAR0Y/APMH5W4tE8Q/s1600/ScreenShot001.jpg

A very entertaining segment from Australia's 60 minutes of the inside of the pyramid showing the quality and precision of the stonework --- Secret Of The Pyramids - Part 1/2 - YouTube


The best hypothesis of their construction I have seen -- Great Pyramid Mystery Solved? - YouTube


If still in its original condition easily the most impressive man-made structure