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28900http://www.plime.com/webvideo/l/11889/1/xml_widget.rss#q22« TheBlueFrog : Make a sphere with a radius that is 1 mile greater than the sun, positioned perfectly around the sun (a shell that is 1 mile away from the sun everywhere). That is the 'input' as it were, for your time machine. Every bit of matter and energy that crosses that line is sent, through compensation to the exact location of the sun 1 year in the past. The moment you switch the machine on, that moment to which all of the energy was sent, the sun's output would essentially double. How comfy do you think it would be on earth 8 minutes later?

Or start the same way, with the radius exactly the same as the sun, with a steadily decreasing radius. You would double the mass, and density of the sun... probably with quite a disastrous result.One of the things often forgotten in time-travel stories is the fact that you have to travel through time and space to get back to a particular event. If you only travel back a year, but don't move through space, you will come out millions of miles from Earth. What if the transmission line is opened on the surface of the Earth but we forgot to compensate for the movement of the Earth and Sun? Would the atmosphere get sucked out into space?]]>3/5/2007 1:56:18 AM2007-03-05T01:56:18+01:0027861http://www.plime.com/webvideo/l/11889/1/xml_widget.rss#q213/1/2007 9:14:12 AM2007-03-01T09:14:12+01:0027833http://www.plime.com/webvideo/l/11889/1/xml_widget.rss#q203/1/2007 12:49:11 AM2007-03-01T00:49:11+01:0027832http://www.plime.com/webvideo/l/11889/1/xml_widget.rss#q19Each of your sub-atomic molecules have to sign up separately.You mean "sub-atomic particles".]]>3/1/2007 12:35:44 AM2007-03-01T00:35:44+01:0027796http://www.plime.com/webvideo/l/11889/1/xml_widget.rss#q18« stumpotron : grandfather paradox:
you go back in time and kill your grandfather before your father was born.
how did you go back in time to kill him if your father was never born?You would be going back in time to another time line, the paradox is non-existant in the theory of time travel. What you are looking at is the science fiction theory of time travel, in which you can go back in time and alter the course of your world. According the most accepted theories on this subject, you open up a new timeline in an alternate dimension when you go back in time. In other words, you go back in time and kill your grandpa, then you will never be born on that plain. BUT, in the timeline you came from, nothign has changed except that you disappeared.]]>2/28/2007 10:29:55 PM2007-02-28T22:29:55+01:0027792http://www.plime.com/webvideo/l/11889/1/xml_widget.rss#q17you go back in time and kill your grandfather before your father was born.
how did you go back in time to kill him if your father was never born?]]>2/28/2007 10:20:05 PM2007-02-28T22:20:05+01:0027786http://www.plime.com/webvideo/l/11889/1/xml_widget.rss#q162/28/2007 9:43:28 PM2007-02-28T21:43:28+01:0027770http://www.plime.com/webvideo/l/11889/1/xml_widget.rss#q15« Browntrout : Did you go back in time to do that or did you just hit the edit button?heh... edit button ;)]]>2/28/2007 9:05:56 PM2007-02-28T21:05:56+01:0027767http://www.plime.com/webvideo/l/11889/1/xml_widget.rss#q14« TheBlueFrog : This discussion is moving a little too fast for me to go back and edit my posts... I changed both of them.Did you go back in time to do that or did you just hit the edit button?]]>2/28/2007 9:02:41 PM2007-02-28T21:02:41+01:0027758http://www.plime.com/webvideo/l/11889/1/xml_widget.rss#q132/28/2007 8:43:41 PM2007-02-28T20:43:41+01:0027751http://www.plime.com/webvideo/l/11889/1/xml_widget.rss#q12« civicracer18c1 : That would be crazy we could figure out the entire history of the world. However what would happen if you change something would everyone forgot that it happened like would parts of books and information just disappear? Could you go back in time invent the computer before whoever invented it and now you are the one recognized as inventing it? If you save a person do you bring them back in the time with you or do they just appear back in the normal year. Would that mean that you are born again every single day and possibly reincarnated into yourself. Like you just keep recycling. Especially if you can not only go back into the past but you can visit the future. I think it would be cool but I'm still not convinced that it's possible.When you go back and alter something you actually open up a seperate timeline in which your change has taken place. So no disappearing text books.

However, I still don't believe it is possible.

In the event that I am proven wrong, I will go back in time and change my answer. But that will never happen.]]>2/28/2007 8:37:15 PM2007-02-28T20:37:15+01:0027749http://www.plime.com/webvideo/l/11889/1/xml_widget.rss#q11« TheBlueFrog : If it ever happens in the future, why don't we know about it already?That's exactly what I mean by confusing. :-P]]>2/28/2007 8:36:15 PM2007-02-28T20:36:15+01:0027748http://www.plime.com/webvideo/l/11889/1/xml_widget.rss#q102/28/2007 8:35:30 PM2007-02-28T20:35:30+01:0027746http://www.plime.com/webvideo/l/11889/1/xml_widget.rss#q9« Mershaullk : I agree that it would definitely make things really confusing, but if it did happen I believe it would be restricted to a chosen few, or it would not be publicised at all.If it ever happens in the future, why don't we know about it already?]]>2/28/2007 8:33:22 PM2007-02-28T20:33:22+01:0027745http://www.plime.com/webvideo/l/11889/1/xml_widget.rss#q82/28/2007 8:28:10 PM2007-02-28T20:28:10+01:0027744http://www.plime.com/webvideo/l/11889/1/xml_widget.rss#q72/28/2007 8:24:22 PM2007-02-28T20:24:22+01:0027742http://www.plime.com/webvideo/l/11889/1/xml_widget.rss#q6
An easier way to imagine the implications:

Make a sphere with a radius that is 1 mile greater than the sun, positioned perfectly around the sun (a shell that is 1 mile away from the sun everywhere). That is the 'input' as it were, for your time machine. Every bit of matter and energy that crosses that line is sent, through compensation to the exact location of the sun 1 year in the past. The moment you switch the machine on, that moment to which all of the energy was sent, the sun's output would essentially double. How comfy do you think it would be on earth 8 minutes later?

Or start the same way, with the radius exactly the same as the sun, with a steadily decreasing radius. You would double the mass, and density of the sun... probably with quite a disastrous result.]]>2/28/2007 8:21:55 PM2007-02-28T20:21:55+01:0027737http://www.plime.com/webvideo/l/11889/1/xml_widget.rss#q52/28/2007 8:01:43 PM2007-02-28T20:01:43+01:0027735http://www.plime.com/webvideo/l/11889/1/xml_widget.rss#q4
Well thats the fine print for ya.]]>2/28/2007 7:59:56 PM2007-02-28T19:59:56+01:0027734http://www.plime.com/webvideo/l/11889/1/xml_widget.rss#q3« LatueOfStiberty : Awesome!
Where do I sign up?Each of your sub-atomic molecules have to sign up separately.]]>2/28/2007 7:56:42 PM2007-02-28T19:56:42+01:0027732http://www.plime.com/webvideo/l/11889/1/xml_widget.rss#q2Where do I sign up?]]>2/28/2007 7:48:42 PM2007-02-28T19:48:42+01:00