BBC Focus Magazine

[Colm]

Considering it was the main headline on the front of the magazine this month, the article didn't really have much information on how to time travel...

[Shadowwolf]

No doubt to protect the integrity of the timeline from a deluge of potentially careless travellers

That or there is no really known means of time travel, in fact it is likely to be impossible. An instance of marketing perhaps?

[Colm]

That or there is no really known means of time travel

Must be the former, because the cover seemed to suggest that there was! And that it involved public telephone boxes...

I think what probably happened was they revealed the secrets of time travel, but some readers used it to build a time machine and caused all sorts of crazy paradoxes, or inadvertedly turned the world into a post-apocalyptic hell, or maybe a cruel police state where The Computer controlled our every move. The only way of saving the time-line was to come back and amend the article so that it didn't reveal the secrets of time travel... But they didn't bother changing the cover...

[nemisis39]

Must be the former, because the cover seemed to suggest that there was! And that it involved public telephone boxes...

I think what probably happened was they revealed the secrets of time travel, but some readers used it to build a time machine and caused all sorts of crazy paradoxes, or inadvertedly turned the world into a post-apocalyptic hell, or maybe a cruel police state where The Computer controlled our every move. The only way of saving the time-line was to come back and amend the article so that it didn't reveal the secrets of time travel... But they didn't bother changing the cover...Colm

Now that’s a conspiracy theory if i ever saw one hmmmm i did wonder why they put the tardis on the front cover maybe the master isn't dead after all, and is alive and doing a rather good job in the editing dept at focus HQ

[M Paul Lloyd]

Ah well now, the 'public telephone box' in question is actually a police box from way back in the 1960's and which the BBC bought the copyright to (in total) in about 1964ish and to which they jealousy guard any craven image or reproduction of same. http://www.themindrobber.co.uk/tardis-police-box.html

Amongst others one Paul Parsons (former editor of The most significant science and technology magazine ever. ) fell foul of said copyright when he used just such an image on the cover of his excellent publication 'The Science of Doctor Who' (worth an Amazon search http://www.amazon.co.uk/Science-Doctor- ... 1840467371) a couple of years back.

Besides time travel must be impossible because not one single time traveller has bothered to attend the time travellers convention ( and I know I would) http://web.mit.edu/adorai/timetraveler/ ever!!??

[Bigsmak]

Hey guys and Gals (I'm new here)

The reason I joined up to the Forum is due to the Time Travel etc. article in the latest Magazine.

I am reading a book called "Physics of the Impossible" by Michio Kaku Amizon Link and it seems to me that everything in the article is pretty much lifted straight from this book!

Now I know that Michio uses a collection of scientific principles in his book so there would be some obvious crossovers but it is very very similar. His main points look at the physics behind;

* Force Fields
* Invisibility
* Energy Weapons
* Teleportation
* Telepathy
* Psychokinesis
* Robots
* UFOs & Aliens
* Space Travel (including Faster Than Light travel)
* Parallel & Alternate Universes
* Time Travel
* Perpetual Motion Machines
* Precognition

Anyway.. I am not a complaining type of person I just think that it would have been a good opportunity for Focus to direct it s readers to this fantastic book that would expand heavily on this latest Focus Article.

Thanks

[M Paul Lloyd]

Hello Bigsmack, a most interesting looking read.

I cannot speak for the author of said article but I suspect that a good deal of similar thinking may possibly be involved, but either way it is worth following up.

[Shadowwolf]

Ahh good old Mr Kaku, seen him many a time on various Docu's, entertaining guy. His book though, is it speculating on what physics might be at work were some of the items cited to be real phenomena or just debunking; as I can't see him giving much credence to some of it. Stuff like telepathy, psychokinesis, alien craft, pre-cog or perpetual motion, none of which has ever been shown to have a shred of basis.

[Bigsmak]

Ahh good old Mr Kaku, seen him many a time on various Docu's, entertaining guy. His book though, is it speculating on what physics might be at work were some of the items cited to be real phenomena or just debunking; as I can't see him giving much credence to some of it. Stuff like telepathy, psychokinesis, alien craft, pre-cog or perpetual motion, none of which has ever been shown to have a shred of basis.

He talks about how current technologies and understandings might be applied to give answers to his questions stated. A lot of the time he says it wont be possible in our lifetimes etc, but he talks about how things might become possible in the future.

Its a fun book written in a fun way and it appeals to "interested in popular science but not an expert" type of person like myself.

Well worth a read.

[M Paul Lloyd]

"interested in popular science but not an expert"

Let us hope that none of us ever comes to believe we are ever 'experts' good Bigsmak.