roorichard
Chrono Cadet
What do you all think about this excerpt from the new book, Breaking the Time Barrier...??
"Frank Tipler had discovered a fundamental problem with experiments such as the one by Lucas when he had designed a time machine based on an artificially created black hole. Such a device wouldonly allow travel back to a period after its own construction. In other words, if you were to build teh prototype in the year 2020, then a decade later it could be used to return from 2030 to the year 2021, but it could never go back to 2019 or any time earlier than that. This may well explain why future time travelers are not all around us. Our present time is unreachable because it predates the moment when the first time machine is activated."
I just have a hard time believing that...
"Frank Tipler had discovered a fundamental problem with experiments such as the one by Lucas when he had designed a time machine based on an artificially created black hole. Such a device wouldonly allow travel back to a period after its own construction. In other words, if you were to build teh prototype in the year 2020, then a decade later it could be used to return from 2030 to the year 2021, but it could never go back to 2019 or any time earlier than that. This may well explain why future time travelers are not all around us. Our present time is unreachable because it predates the moment when the first time machine is activated."
I just have a hard time believing that...