Mad Scientist Working on a Time Machine

[Amy, Queen of Time]

Well, at least this time machine inventor looks and sounds like a mad scientist:

"He scoffs at noted theoretical physicist Stephen Hawking, who has dismissed the concept of time travel by asking where all the time-travel tourists are in the present day. 'They wouldn't want to make themselves known,' Barnes said, comparing a time-travel tourist to a scientist studying animals in the wild. 'They stay hidden away so they can observe the animals without being detected.'"

http://www.thisweeknews.com/content/s...

[Howard]

Amy, I can relate but see a flaw.

He is attempting to alter the flow by creating a rip, but he fails to understand the 'Elastic Limit' of the continuum.

I'm afraid 14,000 watts won't even come close to what's needed, if he preceeds along this line, that is.

[Tej]

Howard wrote: "Amy, I can relate but see a flaw.

He is attempting to alter the flow by creating a rip, but he fails to understand the 'Elastic Limit' of the continuum.

I'm afraid 14,000 watts won't even come cl..."

He didnt say 14000 watts will be enough but it will be a larger scale of what he's demonstrated.

Holy mo, this guy is a serious physicist, he really thinks he can rip a hole through space time...with an electric fan?!? I havent got a bloody clue what he is explaining ...but I love it! And oh, he is the one that Hawkings lost a $100 bet with on the discovery of the Higgs Boson. I knew of the bet as Hawkins jokingly mentioned his loss but its a revelation to discover it was with this guy. One of the commenters posted a link to his profile and its bloody impressive (impressive in a way that I dont understand half of the vocabulary).

I love the flippant re-assurance he gives that time travel to the past is safe because you just create a parallel timeline. He says it as if it was so damn obvious, "duh", lol. He might be mad but its free thinkers like him that leads to all sort of scientific breakthroughs...this time machine may not ever deliver on its promise (who knows, dare I say maybe?) but his work could lead to other kind of discoveries and theories that other scientists can pursue. Einstein, Galileo, Copernicus, were all like him.

And damn, that hairdo is for real. That is surreal. I dont care if this guy might even need a straight jacket but he sounds like fun.

Amy, once again, You are such a super journalist. So glad you founded this group and collate all these wonderful crazy news bites for us.

[Tej]

Marshal Barnes is working on 2 books that will explain all about time travel theories and space-time etc. First book will be in 3d (he actually invented some forms of it) to aid the our dimensional thinking (man, he is funky) and the second book will give the real low down how time travel will work, at least that's the gist I'm getting.

http://www.prlog.org/11872255-marshal...

Surely this is a must have :) Think I am going to be a fan of this eccentric dude or complete madman.

[Howard]

Tej:

You are very perceptive in stating much of what we know was gleaned from, or built upon the work of others, but the opposite is also true.

Throughout human history a very few 'greats,' often unsung, have made totally independent breakthroughs that changed the world, or at least set it in a new direction.

Most of these were Time Travelers though.

In other words, you can have positive outcomes from 'the butterfly effect', although from my reading this guy would disagree, as you pointed out.

But I do agree that Amy does a great job.

[Paul]

Howard wrote: "Throughout human history a very few 'greats,' often unsung, have made totally independent breakthroughs that changed the world, or at least set it in a new direction.

Most of these were Time Travelers though."

Of course, someone from the future going back in time and planting an idea in the past raises the paradoxical question of where the idea came from in the first place .... a scenario well worthing exploring in science fiction.

[Howard]

Ahh, Paul, you're getting close now.

[Paul]

Amy, Howard, Tej, Paul,

I'm a little late finding this discussion (new member), but you guys are amazing. Love it! I'm wondering who Mr. Barnes might have been in decades/centuries past?

Paul Sherman

[E.B.]

This intrigues me as well. What a smart fellow. Wonder what it would be like to sit in a room with him, have him all to yourself, for any question you wanted to ask??

[Paul]

He's probably already a member of the TT Group. Assumed name, of course.

[Paul]

He played the role of Cliff Barnes in the original 1980s Dallas, and now again in the current 2012-2013 reboot.

[Paul]

Paul wrote: "He played the role of Cliff Barnes in the original 1980s Dallas, and now again in the current 2012-2013 reboot."

I think you got it, Paul! The dude's aged well.

[Steve]

Perhaps they should work on sending information through time before trying to send an object. Imagine time like the ocean waves on a shore, or ripples in a mud puddle. These waves would be what is used so to speak to skip the rock of information backward or forward through time.