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brettdale

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10. Im more excited by Stephen Hawkings 2010 time travel thing

Reply to Electric Monk (Reply #7)

Mon Apr 30, 2012, 03:03 AM

Apr 2012

The doco thing, when he said, physics allows you to travel into the future.

If you build a train track around the globe, and put people in the train, and have them go at
a speed just under the speed of light, if they stay on the train for a week and then get off, it
will be 150 years into the future.

You just need to build a train to go that fast, so its a engineering and economic issue, not a physics one.

It is technically possible to go to the future.

Great Scott!

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Quantum teleportation achieved over ten miles of free space [View all] MindMover Apr 2012 OP

This was talked about in Mass Effect. Zalatix Apr 2012 #1

Is your name Zalatix trademarked ? MindMover Apr 2012 #2

Nah. It's actually an old login password I used to use, hahah. Zalatix Apr 2012 #6

File the paperwork. It's gonna get used for either an expensive medication nilram Apr 2012 #15

Star Trek has been using it since the 1960s nadinbrzezinski Apr 2012 #9

Individual humans cannot teleport. A human and a fly together can. n/t dimbear Apr 2012 #3

That would be a real buzz. ChairmanAgnostic Apr 2012 #16

Does the mean I can sleep later and still get to work on time? jberryhill Apr 2012 #4

Beam me up Scotty.....LOL MindMover Apr 2012 #8

How come the Fly wasn't part giant bacteria and skin mites? saras Apr 2012 #5

So if real, it's faster than light? Electric Monk Apr 2012 #7

Im more excited by Stephen Hawkings 2010 time travel thing brettdale Apr 2012 #10

And on high-speed rail to boot! - n/t coalition_unwilling Apr 2012 #11

We are all going to the future cthulu2016 Apr 2012 #13

Even tea baggers? ChairmanAgnostic Apr 2012 #17

No intelligible *information* can be sent faster than light cthulu2016 Apr 2012 #12

Faster than light? 2on2u Apr 2012 #18

Transwarp beaming is right around the corner! longship Apr 2012 #14