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Slashdot says no time travel!

croxiscroxis I am the walrus
in Zocalo v2.0
[url]http://science.slashdot.org/science/06/02/09/1847240.shtml[/url]

"The bad news is that time does not change. Spatial velocity is given as dx/dt. Velocity in time(dt/dt) is nonsensical. As simple as that. In other words, no time travel to the past or the future, no motion in space-time, no wormholes and no hanky-panky with your great, great grandmother. There is only the changing present, aka the NOW. The good news is that distance is an illusion and we'll be able to travel instantly from anywhere to anywhere."

BOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!

Infinite poo on them! BOOOOOOOOO

Comments

  • SanfamSanfam I like clocks.
    And if slashdot says to jump off a bridge, will you do that too?

    If you read the article, you'll see that it's full of dumbness. I call bullshit.

    Slashdot has been sucking a good deal more than it should lately.
  • croxiscroxis I am the walrus
    I should get drunk and bark all over them

    [old hag from Princess Bride]BOOOOOOOOO![/old hag from Princess Bride]
  • MessiahMessiah Failed Experiment
    But you can watch..

    Just travel to a spot a thousand light years from here and focus your camera on earth. *Poof* and you got yourself a picture of how it was a thousand years ago..
  • BigglesBiggles <font color=#AAFFAA>The Man Without a Face</font>
    The trick is getting to that spot faster than 1000 years. :)
  • HuntSmackerHuntSmacker Firstones Ambassador to Starcraftia
    Ah yes, that'll be very useful for spotting where exactly that Gou'ald mothership will be placing itself in orbit. ;)
  • MessiahMessiah Failed Experiment
    Re: Slashdot says no time travel!

    Biggles, its all in the details man..

    [QUOTE][i]Originally posted by croxis [/i]
    [B]... distance is an illusion and we'll be able to travel instantly from anywhere to anywhere ...
    [/B][/QUOTE]
  • FreejackFreejack Jake the Not-so-Wise
    Yes, I would question the author's claims. I don't have time to read through it all, but at one point I see he claims that time dialation does not exist, but "On the contrary, it is the clocks that slow down (for whatever reason) resulting in longer measured intervals." Of course to refute time dialation, he simple addresses the v=dx/dt issue outlined earlier in the article, rather than tackling the experiments that prove dialation exists.

    Also, you can tell he's a crackpot himself. A person truely following the scientific method would not allow oneself to make direct barbs at your peers in an attempt to prove oneself right.

    Jake
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