Time Machine In The Works (No, Seriously)
Some quick highlights from the article…
According to the research published by Irina Arefieva and Igor Volovich, “in general relativity, a time-like curve in space-time will run from past to future. But in some space-times the curves can intersect themselves, giving a closed-like curve, which is interpreted as a time machine - which suggests the possibility of time travel”
- 20 years work-in-progress
- team of 7,000 physicists from more than 80 nations
- 27 kilometers in circumference, 175 meters underground
- facilitating head-on collision of protons, travelling very near speed-of-light
- each tunnel is big enough to run a train through it.
- temperatures generated: more than 1000,000 times hotter than the sun’s core
- superconducting magnets are cooled to a temperature colder than in deep space
Check out the article
The fact that people are actually working on something of this magnitude is incredibly awesome and incredibly scary. Bending of time, wormholes, etc. are still hard for me to even grasp at a conceptual level.
Anyway, I’d also like to mention that Dark Roasted Blend (where I read about this) is chalk full of amazing content to browse through. The site design is quite messy though making reading pretty difficult, so I highly suggest using your favorite newsreader to read the posts as it gets rid of all the superfluous elements.
Posted in Interweb on March 17th, 2008
April 21st, 2008 at 7:06 am
Awesome but scary as… Not so sure humanity is quite equipped for that kind of responsibility. Maybe I have seen too many sci-fi flicks but time travel imo could lead to nothing but bad things.
The age old question “What if I could just go back and…” but in theory who really knows how/what effect(s) will result from tampering with the fabric of space. We could cease to exist entirely, it could get better or of course worse.
Exciting and cool for sure though, and glad it is a multi nation effort, the world needs more unified efforts to better humanity and the world.