01/27/01 12:45 (about time travel)
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My "time" machine is a stationary mass, temporal displacement
unit manufactured by General Electric. The unit is powered by
two, top-spin, dual-positive singularities that produce a
standard, off-set Tipler sinusoid.
01/28/01 06:35 (about time travel) 233
My initial flight was from 2036 to 1975 (61 yrs). I then went
from 1975 to 2000 (25 yrs.) Later this year, one of two
favorable windows will open and I will return to my 2036 (35
yrs.) I am here now for personal reasons.
01/28/01 12:22 (about time travel) 234
The probability of us noticing a difference is based on the
divergence of the trip. If all events and outcomes are certain,
there are world lines where I do return for every world-line I
don't return to. All the 'moral' events would then balance out
to zero. Again, it's hard to judge good and bad outcomes' only
good and bad decisions.
01/28/01 12:22 (about time travel) 235
((Besides what's the point of fixing the Unix problem if there's
an infinite number of world lines where this problem doesn't
even exist or has been fixed. After all your own world line
doesn't get the IBM 5100 anyway, so the people that sent you on
this mission are still having that problem.))
Our actions and decisions are based on the knowledge we have in
our own world line. Yes, the bell shaped curve is a useful tool
but if we are capable of change for the better than we feel we
should at least try. Even if 'I' don't return to my exact world
line, a similar 'me' probably will. Besides, I just look at it
as helping a world line where their time traveling me didn't
show up but I did.
01/28/01 12:22 (about time travel) 236
((Also, you stated that "to the people on your worldline you'd
only be gone for a split second". This can't be true, because to
them you'll go away and never return.)) Again, I refer to the
mirror example.
01/28/01 12:22 (about time travel) 237
I'm not sure I said another time traveler 'will' return, I think
I said they 'could' return. The location/gravity 'map' I have of
my path getting here could be duplicated with a fairly high
degree of accuracy. it's just that my machine was not designed
to do that.
01/29/01 12:25 (about the future) 238
((Are the Olympics still being played in your time'))
As a result of the many conflicts, no, there were no official
Olympics after 2004. However, it appears they may be revived in
in 2040.
01/29/01 12:25 (about time travel) 239
((would it not be possible to use that recording to back track
to your original starting point without any divergence at all'
It seems that all it would take it is a couple lines of
programming in the computer-controlled system))
Perhaps it's better to say it's so highly improbable as to be
considered impossible. A good example is the concept of trying
to get closer to something by cutting the distance in half for
every step you take. Since the computer is basically making
calculations from an imperfect model of reality, there are no
absolutes. I also believe there is a theory that states you
would have to violate the speed of light limit to have a perfect
ZD.
01/29/01 12:25 (about time travel) 240
The weather isn't a factor as much as gravitational tidal forces
are at the point of arrival.
01/29/01 12:25 (safety, suggestions, assorted philosophy) 241
The ability for war sleeps in each one of us and we must decide
what we will do before the beast awakens. As for morality, again
I point to the 'universal' balance of good and evil. For every
worldline where there is peace, there is a worldline that has
destroyed itself.
01/29/01 12:25 (about time travel) 242
((what's the use of bringing back an IBM 5100 to a slightly
different worldline, knowing that there are just as many or even
more worldlines in which no-one returns to bring back the IBM
5100. It sounds a bit like charity in favor of other worldlines.))
The decisions and actions we take as individuals can only help
those who we have direct interaction with. I believe it is wrong
to be capable of helping and do nothing. My struggle is in the
irony that if everyone just 'did nothing', on every worldline,
there would be no action and thus no immorality or evil (no good
either).
01/29/01 12:25 (about the future) 243
Keep in mind that not all humans were destroyed but we were all
affected. There is a effort going into colonizing space because
it is believed that the problems of overpopulation were a large
cause of the war. Personally, my generation sees itself as
having a duty to try and repair the mess our fathers handed to
us. When we were young, most of us had a small taste of the
world you live in now and our only dream is to clean it up and
give it back to those still able to have children.
01/29/01 07:47 (about the future) 244
As a result of the many conflicts, no, there were no official
Olympics after 2004. However, it appears they may be revived in
in 2040.
01/29/01 07:47 (right now) 245
Please keep in mind the web site is not mine and I apologize for
the poor quality of the files. The photo you saw was taken by me
with a Polaroid camera manufactured here. The other documents
were duplicated by placing a book onto a copy machine at a
packaging and shipping store and then scanning and saving them.
01/29/01 15:48 (about the future) 246
Although the documents posted were printed from a computer
printer, is it really that hard to believe that manual typing is
just a bit more common in thirty years' After the war, many
things like manual printing machines, bicycles, sailboats and
hand tools were valued a great deal. I have noticed more people
in California are installing wood burning stoves.
01/30/01 06:21 (about time travel) 247
The means by which I travel in time is very physical. I require
a 'machine' to do it. It weighs about 500 pounds and gets quite
hot. I do not own it and I did not build it. Within limits, I
will be happy to discuss how it works and how 'future' science
thinks time works. No we have not completed string theory yet
but (N-10) seems to work pretty well.
01/30/01 06:21 (about the future) 248
As far as the future goes, your worldline is about 2.5%
different than mine. This is a roughly cumulative measurement
based on my arrival in 1975. As far as I can tell right now, you
are headed toward the same events I would call 'my history' in
2036. However, the very nature of time travel states that every
worldline is unique and you are very much in control of what you
do and how you get there. Heck, the fact that I'm here makes it
different from mine.
01/30/01 14:09 (about the future) 249
Technology is not gone in 2036 nor is it the private domain of
'government' leaders. Computer printers just didn't work very
well on 12 volts and many people just got used to doing things
the old way. After the war, the main problem was distribution.
Can anyone tell me how many companies in the United States still
manufacture bicycle tires today' Anyone who still has a bike in
2008 will find out.
01/31/01 06:30 (about time travel) 250
(1) Industrialized mass production does not produce the
uncountable tonnage of useless consumer items so gleefully
absorbed by your society. I would estimate there are about 10
units like mine (C204) and twenty larger units (C206). The main
difference is the sensitivity and number of the main Cesium
clocks. I would estimate that some sort of public time travel
will be common around 2045.
01/31/01 06:30 (about time travel) 251
(2) I'm not aware of any other time traveler's 'here' now. But
if they are here, I'm sure they're pouring over sports history
books so they can go back in time another week and start a
friendly conversation on the web.
01/31/01 06:30 (past predictions) 252
(3) The 'Mad Cow' story here is yet to begin but don't worry,
the fruited jellitine deserts are safe.
01/31/01 06:30 (past predictions) 253
(4) I'm glad to see it's so easy for to dismiss the Middle East
. Yes, I suppose it is a no brainier but pretty soon it will be
a 'no armer' and a 'no legger'
01/31/01 19:13 (about time travel) 254
The distortion unit reaches its target destination by using very
sensitive gravity sensors and atomic clocks. The basic unit of
calculation is the second. So yes, in a sense you do 'dial in'
in a date and the computer system controls the distortion field.
At maximum power, the unit I have is capable of traveling about
10 years an hour.
01/31/01 19:13 (about time travel) 255
Unfortunately, time travel is not an exact science. There is
inherent error and chaos in the computers ability to make
accurate calculations. Based on the current technology of the
clocks and sensors, distortion units are only accurate to about
60 years or so. So no, in 2036, we are unable to travel back
1000 years due to the error rate in the system. The divergence
between the worldline of origin and the target worldline would
be too great. If one were to try and travel back that far,
history would look nothing like what you would expect. The unit
has mass limits but the 204 is capable of transporting about
three people and equipment. I don't think you would like 2036
very much.
02/01/01 08:36 (right now) 256
The 5100 had a very simple and unique feature that IBM did not
account for and decided it was not in their best interest to
advertise (which in hindsight was not very smart). This
accidental feature was thus removed from any future desktop
computers. In order to take advantage of this feature, the 5100
I have now required a couple of special 'tweaks' that had to be
done by one of the software engineers in 1975. Anyone who is
familiar with this feature and was told to keep their mouth shut
about it will be able to tell you what it is.
02/01/01 08:36 (about the future) 257
Yes we still have toilet tissue and some people still suffer
from extreme anal fixation.
02/01/01 08:36 (predictions for the future) 258
The year 2008 was a general date by which time everyone will
realize the world they thought they were living in was over. The
civil war in the United States will start in 2004. I would
describe it as having a Waco type event every month that
steadily gets worse. The conflict will consume everyone in the
US by 2012 and end in 2015 with a very short WWIII.
02/01/01 08:36 (past predictions) 259
The source of power for the C204 that allows it to distort and
manipulate gravity comes from two micro-singularities that were
created, captured and cleaned at a much larger and 'circular'
facility. The dual event horizons of each one and their mass is
manipulated by injecting electrons onto the surface of their
respective ergospheres. The electricity comes from batteries.
The breakthrough that will allow for this technology will occur
within a year or so when CERN brings their larger facility
online.
02/01/01 08:36 (about time travel) 260
Perhaps it would have been clearer to state that the math has
been around since 1970. I would urge you to examine the
properties of Kerr black holes and Tipler cylinders. An actual
working prototype was first tested in 2034. On my worldline,
time travel is not a public recreation but we are all aware that
it exists. You may be disappointed to know that the ability to
manipulate gravity is not the technical challenge that had to be
overcome. Miniaturizing the clocks and sensors, creating clever
ways to vent x-rays and creating a computer system dependable
enough to calculate the changes required to the field were the
main challenges. There are no missing pieces' just missing
energy levels and a few very interesting subatomic particles
02/02/01 06:34 (about the future) 261
The United States is still a representative republic in 2036 but
it was touch and go for a while. After the war, the U.S. had
divided into 5 general areas based on their economic and
defensive strengths. Many people blamed the government
organization for the war and the last Constitutional Congress
was held in 2020 to officially scrap the Constitution and start
over. Fortunately, this exercise in anger pointed out how hard
it was to come up with anything better. It was decided the
document wasn't at fault. As a result, there have been a few
small changes to the Constitution and the executive branch but
you would easily recognize it. The average citizen is more
educated about the Constitution and aware of the rights and
responsibilities it gives them. Federal power has been
decentralized and the focus of daily politics is in the state
senates. Federal law has also been streamlined but much harder
to change or make additions to.
02/02/01 06:34 (about the future) 262
The people who sign my paycheck told me why we needed a 5100 and
sent me off to get one. I was not in a position to make
alternate suggestions. As I recall, isn't the Cray a rather
large system' We need something portable. The 5100 isn't
required for its reliability, its needed to translate between
APL, UNIX and a few obscure IBM mainframe languages.
02/02/01 10:09 (about time travel) 263
Yes, I age and my hair and nails grow at normal rates. Please
keep in mind that gravity distortion does involve some dilation
effects but 'jumping' between worldlines are timelike trips, not
space-like trips.
02/02/01 10:09 (about the future) 264
The air is about the same although I do smell and taste
industrial odors here my parents cannot. The food in the future
is grown and raised naturally inside the community structure.
This is done primarily for safety reasons. I am amazed at the
risks people here are willing to take with processed food. All
of the food I eat here is grown and prepared by myself or my
family. Unfortunately, I do not know if we are acquainted on my
worldline. Yes, love is a challenge. What's harder is knowing
you could go back and correct a mistake but at the cost of the
'you' on that worldline you want to live your life over again
on.
02/02/01 10:09 (right now) 265
You are able to change your worldine for better or worse just as
I am. Although this will make me a far less interesting time
traveler, these are the rules I personally try to hold to:
I will not disclose any information that will cause someone to
personally gain by its knowledge. This means no stock or sports
tips.
I will not disclose any detailed information that would allow
someone to avoid death by probability. This means no earthquake
or bomb information.
I will not disclose any information that may compromise any
future actions by individual people or threaten their family and
well-being. I will not disclose names or events associated with
individuals.
02/02/01 10:09 (about time travel) 266
Now for the physics: The grandfather paradox is impossible. In
fact, all paradox is impossible. The Everett-Wheeler-Graham or
multiple world theory is correct. All possible quantum states,
events, possibilities and outcomes are real, eventual and
occurring. The chances of everything happening someplace at
sometime in the superverse is 100%. (For all you scientists out
there, if Schrodinger's cat had a time machine, he might not be
in the box at all.)
02/02/01 10:09 (about time travel) 267
Therefore, there is a worldline where you are alive and another
worldline where you have gone back in time to kill your relative
and the you on the new worldline won't be born but 'you' the
killer is still running around there. Differences between
worldlines are measured from the perspective of the time
traveler in terms of divergence percentage. The higher the
divergence, the more 'un-like' your destination worldline looks
like compared to your worldline of origin.
02/02/01 10:09 (about time travel) 268
Therefore, any 'prediction' I might make has a slight chance of
being incorrect anyway and you now have the ability to act on it
based on what I've said.
02/02/01 10:09 (predictions for the future) 269
Can you stop the war before it gets here' Sure. Will you do it'
Probably not.
02/02/01 10:09 (about the future) 270
As far as space travel goes... no, we are not on Mars yet but
we're trying very hard so we can avoid another 'Hell's Kitchen'
outcome from an overpopulated Earth
02/02/01 11:41 (about time travel) 271
On a philosophical level, the existence of multiple worlds
implies a moral balance in the superverse. For every worldline
you perform a good action, there is a worldline where you
perform a bad action. There are no good and bad people, just
good and bad decisions. We can only be responsible for what we
do as individuals on the worldline we are on now. So take heart!
Somewhere out there is a worldline where I'm spilling all the
beans on Hockey, the stock market and Hollywood and you're all
off to Vegas and Wall Street making millions of dollars.
02/03/01 09:09 (about time travel) 272
"This is one example of a theory involving "time shells"
progressing in size and intensity around a gravitational point
from all matter. The more massive the object, the larger and
more influential the time shells around it (like an onion). ---
Like an isobaric map of potential time lines and "intentions"
02/05/01 11:28 (safety, suggestions, assorted philosophy) 273
As far as the war goes, my best advice is to find at least 5
people within 100 miles of you that you trust with your life.
02/05/01 11:28 (about the future) 274
No, I haven't met any other time travelers here and although
from my perspective that's highly unlikely, it's not impossible.
No, I don't have any additional information concerning crop
circles, ETs or UFOs. I find those subjects rather interesting
myself and it's one of the reasons I was drawn to this web site.
02/05/01 11:28 (right now) 275
When the civil 'conflict' started and got worse, people
generally decided to either stay in the cities and lose most of
their civil rights under the guise of security or leave the
cities for more isolated and rural areas. Our home was searched
once and the neighbor across the street was arrested for some
unknown reason. That convinced my father to leave the city.