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originally posted by: mirageman
I'm already time travelling at 1 second per second into the future.
I'm also scratching my head as to why this is posted in the UFO and Aliens Forum. It appears to have nothing to do with either UFOs or aliens.
originally posted by: Ilikesecrets
Nice idea, But I am sure the optics needed and the fine fulcrum zoom focus would be just as impossible as a perpetual motion machine would be.
originally posted by: beyondknowledge
a reply to: JimmyNeutr0n
it will take a little over a million years to be a million light years away.
originally posted by: beyondknowledge
a reply to: JimmyNeutr0n
Why would you care what it showed as you would have died a million years before?
originally posted by: DBCowboy
I'm going to time travel back a couple minutes just to show how easy it is and post in this thread.
You all will be shocked!
According to theory, a mirror can absorb energy from virtual photons onto its surface and then re-emit that energy as real photons. The effect only works when the mirror is moving through a vacuum at nearly the speed of light — which is almost impossible for everyday mechanical devices.
Per Delsing, a physicist at the Chalmers University of Technology, and his colleagues circumvented this problem using a piece of quantum electronics known as a superconducting quantum interference device (SQUID), which is extraordinarily sensitive to magnetic fields.
The team fashioned a superconducting circuit in which the SQUID effectively acted as a mirror. Passing a magnetic field through the SQUID moved the mirror slightly, and switching the direction of magnetic field several billion times per second caused it to 'wiggle' at around 5% the speed of light, a speed great enough to see the effect.
originally posted by: Degradation33
a reply to: JimmyNeutr0n
That's all relatively speaking. If you could instaneously send a mirror 66 million light years away, without taking any time to get there, then you could see the dinosaurs.
originally posted by: JimmyNeutr0n
You heard that right, mirrors. You may ask, Neutron wth are you smoking, how will mirrors help me time travel.
originally posted by: Randyvine2
a reply to: JimmyNeutr0n
What if we add a worm hole to your equation and I get there a
head of the mirror and use the telescope to peer back on Earth
what year would I be seeing occur back on earth?
Oh no I've gone cross eyed.
originally posted by: JimmyNeutr0n
If you then focus your telescope at the mirror millions of light years away, you can observe light that has taken 4 million light years to travel, and thus look back in time.
originally posted by: Brotherman
originally posted by: mirageman
I'm already time travelling at 1 second per second into the future.
I'm also scratching my head as to why this is posted in the UFO and Aliens Forum. It appears to have nothing to do with either UFOs or aliens.
Because a time traveller would be an alien from a time stream they are not organic too.
Edit to add: in 3099 we spell # differently
originally posted by: chunder
a reply to: JimmyNeutr0n
What you are suggesting is not time travel and is already being done whenever you see anything.
originally posted by: Gothmog
Time travel is easy . Take a look in the mirror . You are seeing yourself a small fraction of second in the past .
originally posted by: Soylent Green Is People
originally posted by: JimmyNeutr0n
If you then focus your telescope at the mirror millions of light years away, you can observe light that has taken 4 million light years to travel, and thus look back in time.
It will take two million years for the mirror to get there, and the only things you would be able to see are the things that have happened during and since those two million years -- things you could have experienced yourself just by looking at them "live" as they happened.
*of course, this all assumes you would be alive for a few million years, but I'll stipulate that for the sake of this thought experiment.