What are your opinions on this ...

entropi

Don't want to seem like a troll but this thread here seemed at home in the physics board clicky

Just wondering what u all think of the John Titor theory and time travel in general.

SkepticOne

Personally, I'm waiting for the book by Dan Brown to come out before deciding one way or the other.

_Dubh_

Appears to be just another nut-ball!

Of course, no matter how post-apocalyptic his version of the future appears, it is still attractive, sprinkled with promises of futuristic technology, a change in world leaders....a return to the rural simpler life (yet holding onto our technology)

He is playing on mans morbid fascination of the unknown. Who cares if 3 billion die? Who cares if there's nukes going off outside the door? Why? Because it's a cool story and it involves time-travel...

Anyway, where re the rest of the freelance time-travellers? Mankind evolves 40 years into the future and this guy comes back and uses bbs to tell his story?

Sapien

Death Sentence wrote:

Don't want to seem like a troll but this thread here seemed at home in the physics board clicky

Infra Dignitatem.

Son Goku

The "Science" behind it is ludicrous. Very much based on popularizations of General Relativity.
There are other errors, in String Theory and and Singularity Theorems, but there is no point going into it, from a physical point of view it reads like he read "The Elegent Universe".

ApeXaviour

Reminds me of the timecube guy

http://www.timecube.com/

Hilarious reading by the way.. I can't believe chap did a lecture/debate at MIT.

NO Time Cube research by evil academic bastards. Students are taught stupidity - denying free speech rights to debate the Truth Cube. Is your university so evil - as to suppress Time Cube? Students are really stupid, without Cubic life wisdom, and yellow belly cowards. Only MIT was courageous.

nesf

From the wiki article on the guy:

Titor claimed that his time travel device utilized 6 caesium based atomic clocks, which are accurate to 1 part in 1015. However, on May 23, 2005, researchers in Japan announced the creation of a new atomic clock using strontium atoms trapped in an optical lattice, which is accurate to 1 part in 1018. Titor says that to minimize 'worldline divergence' the most accurate atomic clock are preferred, which is hard to reconcile with the use of now 'obsolete' caesium-clock technology. This may be the first anachronism that undermines the credibility of the Titor story, although the actual precision of the clocks in the C204 (and C206) are not specified, and may exceed both of these in accuracy. (A research program capable of developing time travel might have superior time-keeping technology, and Titor says that his caesium clocks are actively corrected.)

Case closed.

Next!

nesf

ApeXaviour wrote:

Reminds me of the timecube guy

http://www.timecube.com/

Hilarious reading by the way.. I can't believe chap did a lecture/debate at MIT.

roffle....

Faith IS NOT knowledge,
but evil of not measuring.

He then follows with many examples of not having measured anything....

Sheer brilliance

As for MIT. Sometimes it's best to actually debate these people and show them up for what they are. Misguided. Passionate, but misguided.


Although he does seem to miss the point that there's more to the academic world than the US....

SkepticOne

"My wisdom so antiquates known knowledge, that
a psychiatrist examining my behavior, eccentric
by his academic single corner knowledge, knows
no course other than to judge me schizoprenic."

nesf

SkepticOne wrote:

"My wisdom so antiquates known knowledge, that
a psychiatrist examining my behavior, eccentric
by his academic single corner knowledge, knows
no course other than to judge me schizoprenic."

You know I've never looked at it that way. Hmmm....


Although to be fair, it's actually has a tiny bit of a valid point hidden in there. Psychiatry is not something that should be treated as "factual". It's a mine field and black and white thinking does not work well (all the time) in it. But I digress. The "man" is a loon.

causal

SkepticOne wrote:

"My wisdom so antiquates known knowledge, that
a psychiatrist examining my behavior, eccentric
by his academic single corner knowledge, knows
no course other than to judge me schizoprenic."

By the same token:

"My delusion is so obvious to known knowledge, that
a psychiatrist examining my behavior, eccentric
by his academic & well founded knowledge, knows
of course to judge me schizoprenic."

causal