Rant Chaplins Time Traveler/Time Travel is possible... at some point...

No, but my dear friend Doc Brown invented his flux capacitor after he slipped and hit his head on my bathroom sink while standing on my epiphany toilet, its common rumour it was in fact his invention, but I got board one day and drew the schematics of the flux capacitor on the bog roll after a serious altercation with a dodgy taco. Shortly after that, I invented the aerosol air fresher, due to the atmosphere created from the combination of my body and said Taco. So now you can blame me for the pine scented toilets around the world because nothing beats the smell of sh*ting in the woods like a wild animal.

Also note, I only took the flux capacitor to a schematic level, as during the thought process level of design, I decided I should travel back in time to prevent the digesting of the taco, that had lead to the digestive distress I was suffering, but then decided after the invention of the air fresher, that man really needs fresh air and time travel would be totally useless, even though I did get a buzz sending old ladies back to 1929 with a mobile phone and telling them to call me on arrival. Oh wait!

 

I think you missed my point there, a wee bit.

 

Time Travel is possible... at some point...

Not sure if this has been posted but WTF!

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-northern-ireland-11646933




Just bothered to search the forums...doh -please delete post

 

Yup, that's definitely the only explanation for that...

 

I've got to admit, as stupid as it sounds, unless there was someone very inventive back then, it does seem to be a mobile phone. I mean, the lady is talking away, it's pretty plain to see she's talking.

 

I remember seeing on the news a while ago that someone had used cg effects to create authentic looking WW2 era footage featuring Hitler. As I remember, the producers took existing film and added Hitler in where he wasnt before.

After a quick google I think this is what Im thinking of. Theres some horribly low-res youtube video of the show around too.

Im not saying weve all been duped, especially as Ive never seen the original Chaplin film, just that cg manipulation makes more sense to me than a time traveling old man/lady. Besides, who is she... he... it calling?

 

Well, this one isn't easy to fake is it? Considering the films are readily available for purchase if people want to verify it. Unless he's faked the whole Chaplin series!

*puts conspiratorial hat on*

 

That is pretty weird. The only explanation I can think of is exactly what Jaberw0cky suggested.

However, if this film was not edited, this footage is pretty freaky.

 

http://forums.bit-tech.net/showthread.php?t=196658

Cough. Cough.

Already on here chaps >.>

 

There are a couple possibilities.

1. Yeah, could be time travel. There is a person there that appears to be holding something to their ear and talking.
the problems with this are fairly obvious. Why would a time traveler allow themselves to be recorded. Also, if the tech didn't exist at the time, how is it working? You could argue that if time travel is possible, maybe they've also invented a way to talk through time but that gets less believable.

2. The person is mentally ill. I used to live in a neighborhood where one man was known to walk around in a pink fuzzy coat(regardless of weather, I saw him wearing it in over 90degree summer), pushing a stroller and he would be talking to no one. The mind can do strange things when ill. You can't really tell what the person is holding to their ear in the clip, could just be a shoe sole.

3. Edited.

 

Time travel isn't possible, ergo video = fail

 

Think about it. If you could travel time, what you you do? Change the world to your liking, or chat away on a phone which certainly has no reception?





Yeah, that's what I thought. You'd be chatting away on your phone. Can't step away from your social life for one second, can you?

 

You have to admit it makes for an interesting story or film plot. Shades of Twelve Monkeys...

Perhaps the iPhone 4 has a time travel app (in fact, I'm pretty sure it does). But the lady is holding it in her left hand in a firm "grip of death" so you'd obviously expect signal attenuation problems. And anyway, who could have afforded AT&T's telcom charges then? This was the Great Depression, you know...

More seriously, I'm sure that a time traveller would try to blend in and act inconspicuous. You know, like not talking into a mobile phone while walking down a street in 1924.

OK, really serious now: alternatively it is a 1924 Siemens or (my favorite) Western Electric Model 34A hearing aid. It has an earpiece witrh a wire running to a mobile-phone-like black box carried in a vest pocket that houses the microphone, batteries and electronics (such as they were).

Apparently they had to occasionally be re-calibrated which the person might do by talking right into the black box while tweaking the resistor volume control located halfway down the wire. Because she is walking with a coat in her right hand she is holding the box and volume control in her left while possibly at the same time pressing her earpiece firmer into her ear. Possibly the batteries were dying or there was another malfunction. Hence the lady is observed talking into a mobile-phone-like device.

Another hearing aid that looks vaguely like a mobile phone held to the ear is the Lutz Ferrando portable ear trumpet.

 

Ok, I'm really not very wise to this subject so take everything I say with a pinch of salt, seriously.

Due to 'feedback' and 'paradoxes' the laws of the universe itself make time travel in reverse impossible. Now, as far as I know, time travel into the future requires a giant mass, of which you are very close to, and alot of speed, speeds that we cannot yet reach using technology. As when you are close to the large mass, time passes slower (?) than it does far away from the large mass, so if you were to 'orbit' this mass at very high speed and return, less time will have passed for you, however biologically you will not have aged that much, whereas the people far away, will have. So you would be returning to the future where say 1 year has passed, and you would have been 'orbitting' for 5-10 years, depending on the size of the mass & your travel speed. I don't see how this would be possible in reverse.

I mean, expanding a worm hole is just.....hard enough, after doing that you're going to have to eliminate the other problems like paradoxes and in certain cases feedback, your time machine would simply collapse in upon itself.

Not to mention that, if you were going to travel backwards in time, surely you would prepare something that would help us out, say for instance giving technological advances a little 'boost' or medical research, preventing a genocide maybe?

It has really annoyed me seeing this on several news sites and all over facebook, the amount of people that just look at it and think 'I knew timetravel was possible, hurrrh'

 

Ok think about this trippy ****

 

Ever considered that your life as you know it isn't following its natural course and your future self has already travelled back to change the past as it was into the past as you know it, so you are already in a modified world?

 

As someone who's been wearing hearing aids for most of their life, I'm glad I wasn't born in the 1920s.

 

Trippy I know. That what I was going to try to tell you about killing Hitler but I got confused so I just copied Wiki instead of using real brain power, cut me a break it's Friday

 

The time travel paradox is nicely used in the remake of The time Machine. In this version of the story the main character loses his fiance to a freak accident, which motivates him to complete his research on building a time machine so he can travel back in time and save her. However no matter how many times he tries, she keeps dying by some other freak occurrence. In the end, in a depressive funk he travels into the future where he meets the Eloi and the Morlock.

In his adventures to save the Eloi girl who was captured by the evil Morlock he confronts the uber- Morlock leader who unlike his drones is quite intelligent. He does him the favour (as all baddies do) of soliloquising why the protagonist could not save his finance. "Her death was what motivated you to complete the machine in the first place", he explains. "If she had lived you would have married, had a family and abandoned your research. The time machine would never have been built". As such his time machine can travel into the past, but only those time lines the course of which events would have given rise to its existence. To alter the past in such a way as to cause the time machine never to be built in the first place would create a paradox.