inter planetary pseudo time travel technique

another good way to see what happened 50 years ago is to record something on video tape and then watch it 50 years from now

  On 1/18/2010 at 7:49 PM, Gary C said:

Coming back to it, it's an interesting idea. It would make good sci-fi.

iain m banks already did something very similar

edit: what that summary fails to mention is that events are sparked by the light from a sun going nova or some shit fifty years ago finally reaches a planet in another system

  On 1/19/2010 at 7:33 PM, Fred McGriff said:

another good way to see what happened 50 years ago is to record something on video tape and then watch it 50 years from now

irl lol

http://mkaku.org/home/?page_id=250

posted before, but very necessary..

We just need dat Planck shit.. you know.. the energy of a star (or maybe galaxy?). Then we can be Kurt Russell and kill the Egyptian aliens.

  On 1/19/2010 at 4:14 PM, hexagon son said:

  On 1/18/2010 at 10:06 PM, Brandi_B said:

  On 1/18/2010 at 8:22 PM, theSun said:

 

 

basically you have to open a worm hole or physics says naw.

 

Hawking debunked that theory a few years ago.

so you have a link to a reference on this? would be interested in reading that.

Well, it's more in reference to a black hole. "Worm holes" haven't been proven to exist yet (or never will), and black holes are similar, and have been proven to exist. Basically what he is saying is that once something goes INTO a blackhole, it will always come back out. But not get destroyed as previously thought, but ultimately changed from the original form that went in. Which fascinates me. Also there is only one entrance and exit and they are one in the same. Or they are the same door in other words. So you couldn't "stretch" the blackhole to create a time traveling tunnel because there is only one opening. If a wormhole was real, based on current theories on what they may actually be like, it would seem they would be too fragile to be modified, if used at all without collapsing in on themselves.

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(AP) Famed astrophysicist Stephen Hawking said Wednesday that black holes, the mysterious massive vortexes formed from collapsed stars, do not destroy everything they consume but instead eventually fire out matter and energy "in a mangled form."

 

Hawking's radical new thinking, presented in a paper to the 17th International Conference on General Relativity and Gravitation in Dublin, capped his three-decade struggle to explain an elemental paradox in scientific thinking: How can black holes destroy all traces of consumed matter and energy, as Hawking long believed, when subatomic theory says such elements must survive in some form?

 

Hawking's answer is that the black holes hold their contents for eons but themselves eventually deteriorate and die. As the black hole disintegrates, they send their transformed contents back out into the infinite universal horizons from whence they came.

 

Previously, Hawking, 62, had held out the possibility that disappearing matter travels through the black hole to a new parallel universe — the very stuff of most visionary science fiction.

 

"There is no baby universe branching off, as I once thought. The information remains firmly in our universe," Hawking said in a speech to the conference.

 

"I'm sorry to disappoint science fiction fans, but if information is preserved, there is no possibility of using black holes to travel to other universes," he said. "If you jump into a black hole, your mass energy will be returned to our universe, but in a mangled form, which contains the information about what you were like, but in an unrecognizable state."

 

At that point, the audience of about 800 people, including many of his peers, laughed.

 

He added, "It is great to solve a problem that has been troubling me for nearly 30 years, even though the answer is less exciting than the alternative I suggested."

 

In a humorous aside, Hawking settled a 29-year-old bet made with Caltech astrophysicist John Preskill, who insisted in 1975 that matter consumed by black holes couldn't be destroyed. He presented Preskill a favored reference work "Total Baseball, The Ultimate Baseball Encyclopedia" after having it specially flown over from the United States.

 

"I had great difficulty in finding one over here, so I offered him an encyclopedia of cricket as an alternative," Hawking said, "but John wouldn't be persuaded of the superiority of cricket."

 

Later, Preskill said he was very pleased to have won the bet, but added: "I'll be honest, I didn't understand the talk." Like other scientists there, he said he looked forward to reading the detailed paper that Hawking is expected to publish next month.

 

Hawking pioneered the understanding of black holes — the matter-consuming vortexes created when stars collapse — in the mid-1970s. He has previously insisted that the holes emit radiation but never cough up any trace of matter consumed, a view that conflicts with subatomic theory and its view that matter can never be completely destroyed.

 

Hawking, a mathematics professor at Cambridge University, shot to international fame with his best-selling book "A Brief History of Time," which sought to explain to a general audience the most complex aspects of how the universe works.

 

Despite being virtually paralyzed and wheelchair-bound with amyotrophic lateral sclerosis since his mid-20s, Hawking travels the world on speaking engagements. He communicates by using a hand-held device to select words on his wheelchair's computer screen, then sending them to a speech synthesizer.

Source: http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2004/07/16/tech/main630203.shtml

that article isn't really groundbreaking.... just basically saying that things don't go poof! and disappear in a black hole.

IMHO, a black hole is just a super dense ball of mass. nothing more, nothing less.