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US researchers from Vanderbilt University believe they are one step closer to creating time travel.
The team think that they may be able to use the Large Hadron Collider, to send a type of matter called the Higgs singlet into the past.
This means that it would be possible to send future lottery numbers to themselves in the past so that they can buy the right tickets.
It all sounds brilliant, but the downside to the cunning plan is that they are unsure if the Higgs singlet actually exists and whether the machine can produce it. A Higgs Singlet is not, as you would think, a quantum string vest which is worn by a ""God Particle" when it is sunbathing.
According to a report by AP, the Large Hadron Collider is supposed to create the Higgs boson. If it does the Higgs singlet may also appear. The God Particle is never supposed to go out without its Singlet.
The scientists think that the Singlet may be able to jump through space and time, travel through a hidden dimension, and then re-enter our dimension forward or backward in time. This makes it like Higgs socks, which normally travel in pairs. When placed into a washing machine the pair will separate with one disappearing into a hidden dimension never to be seen again.
Scientists Professor Thomas Weiler and graduate fellow Chui Man say that using a Singlet to travel through time is that it avoids all the big paradoxes.
These paradoxes include things such as is it possible to travel through time and kill your grandmother, or can Dr Who cross his own timeline.
Weiler said that because time travel is limited to these special particles, it is not possible for a man to travel back in time and murder one of his parents before he himself is born.
But if scientists could control the production of Higgs Singlets, they might be able to send SMS messages to the past or future.
However, we would have thought that he does not manage to do that. If he had, surely all he needs to do is get his future self to send him a message from the future to explain how he did it.
Maybe that is the problem. He has to build a machine to send receive the message first. We wonder what the first message will be? Lottery numbers, or "beware Daleks", or "put some trousers on, Pond."
......what?
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When a human physically departs as in death and assuming that there is existence after “death” [the contrary being nothing to say nor do], will he still be, say, a great American opportunist or perhaps a very “rich” zillionaire. The latter is easily answered because it is all about the material but what about the emotional/depressive and the egotistical/aggressive. To be exact, whether one is aggressive or depressive, will one remain “American”? As for opportunising, that’s gone too, right? So, what about merely being American then. Well, it can’t be because there is nothing one could do to aid “Americanism”, now is there, unless ghostly influences are a stirring reality. Spooky then is not the word but Bookie is. Should there be a non-pysical existence, this existence must have a purpose too, right, because being non-productive will most probably mean that being American after death is a myth/lost-cause too. Now, what about being masculine or feminine and being, ghostliness forbidding, homosexual too? Is reproduction possible should genders/genderising exist? More questions than answers then, oka going nowhere real. Like time, it is beyond comprehension/realisation/the reality of almost all.
After tying the above physicality/materialism knot, is stupidity still at the fore or is it posssibly receding … to be replaced by dumbness. G_d know? How about God knows - say it clearly and distinctly, there being no need for meekness of the ‘froat without when it is merely driven by anger/feeling-of-superiority within. The above example is why the concept of time is in such a knot for humanity. Meaning O’ Sharpness of the Goatee … meaning that when your universe is being referred/index-linked to the material, you have no means of accessing the immaterial. None as in zero. When you are of the material/materialism, the immaterial is just a knot for limiting your concepts. Should God/Divinity/Spirituality exists, then time is meaningless. As such, is this another moment of “them against us”. Not at all but it will be should one be materially linked.
Time is firstly about a measure of distance be it from The Big Bang or the rotation of The Earth vs the rotation of others. When applied to the immaterial, theology and advanced scientific theories, like knowledge, has width but not depth when it is a concept shackled to the material. The immaterial within spirituality has no concept of materialism be that distance or the rotation of something relative to others. In Reality, time is merely the distance from the beginning to the ending which is cyclical and circular with both being the same. Like birth and then death. The concept which is immaterialism is a principle within Spirituality. Thoughts are immaterial but they do become real/tangible through the process of Attention. Similarly, the spiritual dimension could only become real through the process of being non-physical. As such, the best a Collider and its collidists could do is to have their version of The Big Bang because there is zero way of accessing the immaterial through the material. Aha, theories being of thoughts [of the stupido-ego], surely one could get more explosive prize-ness via that loophole. Not on your nelly unless The Bookie is gathering His lovelies to grant one hell of a favour but even He is limited to the body and not some non-living mess of greed-fear. Without having realised spirituality, knowledge is just a religion when it comes to the immaterially constructive, the human being, and not some machinery, is the instrument for engaging-connecting with the immaterial.
Uh... what?
Philosophy is wonderful and good, from an ethical stand point and perhaps as a tool to consider if research of something might actually be feasible, (ex. research into that non-state called 'nothing' would not be, in that it does not exist.) but to use philosophy as a means to defend a belief in lack-of-linearity is.. ..a far stretch of the capacity of philosophy by it's very nature (in that, if you believe in a "lack-of", it is only because you are capable of perceiving (thus, believing) in it's counter, existent state). However, i'll bite:
In that time can be measured and in that we do experience linearity, thus time, it could be said that linearity, thus time, must exist - even if our own perception is in reference to a primarily non-linear (timeless) whole - otherwise it would not be experienced & if it were not experienced, there would be no conception of it. In that linearity can be perceived and conceptualized, it must exist in one form, or another. So, the question isn't a matter of IF time exists but rather HOW time exists and this I believe, is indeed greatly worthy of research.
However, what time & homosexuality have to do with one another, I'm with FreezeDriedMouse: Uh... what?
I tell you.
Wide Expanse of the Ocean
where church and state are
"dissevered and divorced,"
Many, many years ago there
when I was twenty-three
I was married to a widow
who was royal as could be.
This widow had a grown-up daughter
Virgina who had hair of red.
My father fell in love with her and
soon they two, too, were wed.
This made my dad my son-in-law and
changed my very life
For my daughter was my mother,
'cause she was my father's wife.
To complicate the matter,
even though it brought me joy
I soon became the father of
a Yankee doodle baby boy.
My little baby then became
a brother-in-law to dad
And so became my uncle Sam,
though it made me very sad
For if he was my uncle,
then also made him, oh brother
to the widow's grown-up daughter, who,
of course, was my step-mother.
My father's wife then had a son
who kept the band on the run
And he became my grand-child,
as he was my daughter's son.
My wife is now my mother's mother,
and it this also makes me blue
Because, although she is my wife,
she's my grandmother too.
If my wife is my grandmother,
then I am her grandchild, oh great
And every time I think of it,
it nearly drives me wild of late
For now I have become the
strangest case you ever saw
As the husband of my grandmother,
I am my own grandpaw
and am no bastid by another.