Time Travel???

Mike B. knows some Democrats?Now,THAT is a unbelievable mystery !!

Planes are known for altering time. When food is brought aboard a passenger jet, for instance, it automatically ages 2 weeks, in the blink of an eye. That's why good airline food is impossible.

[stephen]

Alright, somebody who knows it better than me quote us that chronological inversion thing, where a space ship gets microscopically smaller with speed while time slows down. This, of course, gives berth to the theory that if enough speed was attained, inversion would be achieved, thereby crushing the occupants of the vehicle but achieving way cool time travel.

Then all we have to figure out is how somebody got a Cessna 182 to surpass the speed of light.

[mike_baram]

The last time I flew on Alaska Airlines I experienced time travel. I aged 10 years during the flight.
And yes, I do know some Democrats. I'm just reluctant to admit it publicly. My reputation and all that, you understand.

Chronological thing? If the reference is to the effects of speed near the velocity of light,I may be wrong, but I heard that length decreases, mass increases and time slows until at the velocity of light length is zero, mass is infinite and time stops. Don't think there is any effect that reverses time. And as far as I understand the effects, those aboard any obeject appraoching the velocity of light would not notice any difference in their situation, except they might not be able to peel themselves off a wall because of acceleration.

I suppose it is possible that the Cessna entered a rip in the space-time continuum
thereby dislocating from the impetus engendered by quantum physics to the physical
matrix.

Or, like most pilots, he could be full of it. ;o)

[Stephanie]

Ask a photon.

Anyone familiar with the recent experiments in wave and particle theories involving the firing of photons and protons through various holes might be faced with considering the possiblilty of "time travel." Though these guys are physicists and this other fellow was a pilot....

Cessnas have amazing properties. Remember the Stealth 172 that flew from West Germany and landed in Red square near Lenin's tomb?
To travel back into the past, simply traverse a black hole from side to side, just above the Event Horizon, in a straight line, at just below the speed of light. Light and time will follow the curvature of the gravity well, and you will arrive at the far side of the black hole before the light and time does, thus, retrograde time travel. Whether a 182 can do it, I will leave to others...

[Graeme]

Consider these twopremises:

1 - time is like a rubber band, stretched and twisted

2 - time passes more slowly when you're miserable.

It stands to reason that the pilot of the Cessna was bored out of his skull. As his boredom quotient tended towards infinity, his perception of the passage of time, being relative to the actual speed of time that had already passed, slowed to such an extent that time effectively stood still, allowing the past to catch up. When those areas of the space-time continuum met head-on, or rather prop-to-tail, there was a rather nasty accident. Naturally, when the Cessna pilot woke up, the space-time continuum snapped back to reality.

So there we have it, time travel without the need for dilithium crystals, warp drives or wormholes. Sleep long enough and the past will catch up with you.

Graeme

Fred: I wouldn't try it in anything less than a turbo Centurion.