This could be a true story, that hasn’t happened yet. It begins with scientists along with a couple computer techs, who had designed a theoretical time travel machine after several years of planning.
The time travel machine was a small unit, this device could hold something the size of a football. The unit wasn’t anything pretty, in fact it looked kind of like a washing machine. It was battery powered which theoretically would allow it to return from the past, after a set period of time, without outside intervention or power. The unit was controlled by a small computer with the thoughts that in the future, a larger unit could be built, large enough to accommodate a person.
It was decided for the first attempt at time travel, they would go back in time just 15 minutes. They had decided to use two stop watches, starting them both at the same moment. One would be kept with the scientists and one placed in the machine. They hoped to be able to prove the device had traveled back in time by comparing the two stop watches, one theoretically being 15 minutes less than the other. The theory that the clocks would be different is incorrect, as time travel, if it were possible, would not have any effect on a mechanical device other than move it through time.
Everything was prepared, the time machine’s computer was programmed and the two watches started, one placed in the machine then everyone went into the next room to view the process at a safe distance.
There was a short count down 5, 4, 3, 2, 1, with all eyes glued to the monitors, of which there was a camera focused on each side of the time machine.
In an instant the time machine was gone. At first all was quiet, then the team began to scream and congratulate each other.
They questioned whether they should go into the lab where the machine had been located? The decision was yes, but we must be out of the room before the 15 minutes have passed. All entered the room, each walking through the area where the machine had been located. There was nothing there, the machine was gone.
The team returned to the control room and began watching the clock and the monitors. The team leader says, it should return in 5, 4, 3, 2, 1, and it was there.
What is wrong with this story?
Think about this for just a moment. Stop reading and think about it!
Thinking – thinking - thinking – thinking - thinking – thinking…
Ok, I will explain the hypothetical circumstances.
If there were a time machine, as in the story above,
They would not need to send it back in time because,
The team would have already seen it work, 15 minutes earlier
In the past.
Now do I have you thinking?
These scientists are in the present time,
They send the time machine back into their past, which is then, their present time.
They see the time machine which they have sent back, so they know it works.
The time machine leaves their present time (the past) to go back to the future, which is in reality their present time.
As you can see, they know it works, now that they know it works, do they need to send it back in time?
Could they, it they wanted to, not send it back in time, since they had already seen it come back in time?
What would happen if they knew it worked, because they had seen it come back in time, and then they decided to, “not send it back in time”? Would that cause a rip in the space time continuum?
More to come:
Don Ford
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