Time Traveler Convention Planned for Saturday, May 7

[420inTN]

By Robert Roy Britt
LiveScience Senior Writer
posted: 02 May 2005 12:21 pm ET

If you're into time travel, mark your calendar for Saturday, May 7, 2005, when the first Time Traveler Convention will be held at MIT. Or if you miss it, perhaps you can wait a few years and attend anyway. That's kind of what organizer Amal Dorai is banking on.

While scientists have not figured out the practical specifics of time travel, they also haven't ruled it out as a possibility.

Dorai, a graduate student in electrical engineering and computer science, hatched a rather ingenious plan to test the concept. Though obviously a stunt, the whole idea is a mindbender worthy of any scientifically inclined mind.

"We are doing this as a very low-risk, low-cost way to investigate the possibility of time travel," Dorai told LiveScience. "Of course the odds are against us, but imagine the scientific discovery we would have on our hands if a time traveler shows up. Of course, no time travelers doesn't rule out the possibility of time travel; they could have just decided not to come to our convention."

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[FloridaPat]

1. I am into time travel. I need to go back to before Bushco.

Does this stuff work? Approved by someone? Anyone come back???

[rzemanfl]

2. Why would anybody with the ability to travel in time come to

Bushworld?

[HereSince1628]

3. Hahahah! If you plan it they will come!

Of course, getting the invitation depends upon accidently running across it in some archive.

[lastknowngood]

4. I was there it's not all it's cracked up to be. Now that I've traveled

back in time to get here I can tell myself not to go.

[Inland]

5. I've already skipped it. Twice. nt

[leveymg]

6. I'd Like to Know This: Does Anything Come After Bush (AB)?

Can we start printing those T-shirts: "I Survived W"?

:evilgrin: O8) :+ :dunce: :nuke: