chronovisor
Temporal Novice
Hi all. I've taken an interest over the last few years in the potential reality of time viewing (not time travel). I should note that I'm not a science guy, so forgive my lack of intimate knowledge on quantum physics, etc, etc.
A few years ago, I read a book called "Breaking the Time Barrier" by Jenny Randles. I found it a pretty fascinating read overall, but one particular section really made an impression. It's available on Google books, and the section I'm talking about is around page 72.
http://books.google.com/books?id=9NedOIaGR8kC&pg=PA72&lpg=PA72&dq=eglin+noctovision&source=bl&ots=g0kRlad153&sig=v8G_CIvfxTbrOxrLudbWkhUKg9I&hl=en&ei=3KlKSqD3O4-IMqb3zLAC&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=1
Apparently, an inventor named John Logie Baird, among his other achievements, came up with some innovations in night vision photography. According to Randles' book, a plane flying over Eglin Air Force Base (Florida) was experimenting with a next-generation version of the Baird "Noctovision" camera. They picked up signature ghost images of cars that had been in the parking lot earlier in the day.
This blew my mind! I had to wonder why this hadn't immediately been investigated, developed, improved upon, and used in practical applications like crimefighting, mystery solving, lost key finding, etc. For all we know, they did develop it (this was sometime in the 1950's, I think), and a working time viewer now lies hidden deep within a government bunker in Virginia. But I digress.
So, while I don't think that it's likely that visiting and affecting past events is possible, I think that technology can be developed to view events from the past (perhaps even hear them, but that would be a whole other department).
I started wondering about the concept of mirrors--how they're basically the lighted images being bounced back from a reflected surface into our eyeballs. I wondered (again, not being a science expert by any means) what it might take to somehow bend, refract, or otherwise manipulate a reflective surface so as to actually delay the light (and the image the light is showing) as it exits the device. If it were possible, could the device then be further manipulated to delay the action a millisecond? A second? A minute? Ten years?
Naturally, such a device would only "play" the events that are in it since it was installed. You couldn't put it up in Ford's Theater today and have it play back the Lincoln assassination, since that took place long before the device was installed.
However, that event did take place in a large room that had to have had at least a few reflective surfaces. What if (stay with me now) you could somehow "extract" the image that was reflected in George Washington's mirror, or the barrel of Booth's gun, or the volcanic rock on the side of a mountain during some famous Greek battle?
It seems like, if we can see the light of stars millions of light years away, and that light is from millions of years ago, there might be a way to see the same light that came from our own planet at a given time and date. It's just a matter of figuring out the right buttons and whistles, and adjusting them accordingly.
This is my first post, and I really would like to have some engaging conversations on the subject, so have mercy on me.
A few years ago, I read a book called "Breaking the Time Barrier" by Jenny Randles. I found it a pretty fascinating read overall, but one particular section really made an impression. It's available on Google books, and the section I'm talking about is around page 72.
http://books.google.com/books?id=9NedOIaGR8kC&pg=PA72&lpg=PA72&dq=eglin+noctovision&source=bl&ots=g0kRlad153&sig=v8G_CIvfxTbrOxrLudbWkhUKg9I&hl=en&ei=3KlKSqD3O4-IMqb3zLAC&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=1
Apparently, an inventor named John Logie Baird, among his other achievements, came up with some innovations in night vision photography. According to Randles' book, a plane flying over Eglin Air Force Base (Florida) was experimenting with a next-generation version of the Baird "Noctovision" camera. They picked up signature ghost images of cars that had been in the parking lot earlier in the day.
This blew my mind! I had to wonder why this hadn't immediately been investigated, developed, improved upon, and used in practical applications like crimefighting, mystery solving, lost key finding, etc. For all we know, they did develop it (this was sometime in the 1950's, I think), and a working time viewer now lies hidden deep within a government bunker in Virginia. But I digress.
So, while I don't think that it's likely that visiting and affecting past events is possible, I think that technology can be developed to view events from the past (perhaps even hear them, but that would be a whole other department).
I started wondering about the concept of mirrors--how they're basically the lighted images being bounced back from a reflected surface into our eyeballs. I wondered (again, not being a science expert by any means) what it might take to somehow bend, refract, or otherwise manipulate a reflective surface so as to actually delay the light (and the image the light is showing) as it exits the device. If it were possible, could the device then be further manipulated to delay the action a millisecond? A second? A minute? Ten years?
Naturally, such a device would only "play" the events that are in it since it was installed. You couldn't put it up in Ford's Theater today and have it play back the Lincoln assassination, since that took place long before the device was installed.
However, that event did take place in a large room that had to have had at least a few reflective surfaces. What if (stay with me now) you could somehow "extract" the image that was reflected in George Washington's mirror, or the barrel of Booth's gun, or the volcanic rock on the side of a mountain during some famous Greek battle?
It seems like, if we can see the light of stars millions of light years away, and that light is from millions of years ago, there might be a way to see the same light that came from our own planet at a given time and date. It's just a matter of figuring out the right buttons and whistles, and adjusting them accordingly.
This is my first post, and I really would like to have some engaging conversations on the subject, so have mercy on me.
