time travel (17)

Cool post - you have a very cute wet wrinkled brain thingy!

you would have to be careful and not go too far back in time, if you want to practice herbalism and claim to heal people, as you might be burnt at the stake. than you would really fit your name here on connecting singles.

Caveman times, chat up lines were easy.........no back chat and you got what you wanted..........club and drag method..........club the lady on the head...drag her into the cave and have your wicked way no problems
Just joking ladies

I hope there were no gay cavemen with large pink clubs - that would be a real 'bummer'!

The world of physics is a quirky, fickle field where large ideas about the nature of Time and space and our human place in it seem to be under constant reconsideration. But there was always one thing the harried physicist could depend on: the speed of light. Einstein's theory of relativity declares that when light travels through a vacuum, it's speed never changes. At 186,000 miles per second, to be precise, light holds the top speed record for anything in the universe...until recently.
Recent experiments have however given the case that that is longer true.. The speed of light is no longer sacred. In 1999, an American team of physicists SLOWED light to a comparatively snail's pace speed of 38 miles per second...38 miles PER SECOND. Then on July 10, 2000 issue of NATURE, other scientists reported having urged their light speed FORWARD, speeding it up to exceed the cosmic limit. They accomplished this feat by encouraging pulses to travel in a bunch. This gave them a "group" velocity, making the whole greater than the sum of its parts. Together, the group of bunched up light pulses could easily go over the speed limit set by Einstein, even if none of the individual waves did so.
The major news implied in this finding is that when the speed of light is exceeded even by a factor of 1/300, the light appears to travel backwards in time. Though Einstein's pickled brain may be twitching, the basic foundations of physics are not quaking: the experiments do not violate any of the established laws of nature, but they do show that it is possible to manipulate light and very likely TIME in ways that have astonished scientists across the board.
And then, we have the quantum experiments in different labs, such as subatomic changes in gases such as rubidium that have been rendered transparent and catches light and holds it until the scientists "say so"...again Time held in a gaseous bubble as it were. We have quantum entanglement...teleportation of molecules and atoms, transfering their properties instantly from one place to another; it allows two particles to act as one, no matter how far apart they are. Changes that occur to one particle instantly alter the other; Time is again losing it's cohesion. It will be possible for an object larger than one at sub-atomic levels to travel virtually instantaneously.
If you are really seriously interested in the current experiments see book called Sight Unseen, by Bud Hopkins and Carol Rainey. Or on a much lighter vein(no pun intended) read a collection of essays etc. if the myths of Time paradoxes and Time travelling in general and all the what ifs...time travel in physics, Metaphysics, and all the themes of Sci-fi. The title is Time Machines by Paul J. Nahin 1999.
I can't pick a Time; I want to go virtually everywhen...%)

I'd like to travel back in time to when Smirky's bikini's top was new and up to fulfilling it's supportive role!