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  • Timothy D. SwieterTimothy D. Swieter Posts: 1,613
    edited 2009-04-04 02:24
    This thread is great!

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  • mctriviamctrivia Posts: 3,772
    edited 2009-04-04 02:29
    i think your problem is you need 7 props to get the flux capacitor working.

    Though for a more serious note in theory your delorian is already a time machine when ever it is moving. Because time slows down the faster you move. The faster you drive the more you will shift your self out of time with the rest of us.

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  • mctriviamctrivia Posts: 3,772
    edited 2009-04-04 02:46
    i calculate if you drive your car at mach 30 for a year you would be off by a second. may need to re think this.

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  • Mike2545Mike2545 Posts: 433
    edited 2009-04-04 03:17
    mctrivia said...

    Though for a more serious note in theory your delorian is already a time machine when ever it is moving. Because time slows down the faster you move. The faster you drive the more you will shift your self out of time with the rest of us.

    You might 'run into' this problem

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  • mctriviamctrivia Posts: 3,772
    edited 2009-04-04 03:28
    2 other mathimatically posible ways to make a time machine:


    1) Build a worm whole between 2 points. Place half the worm whole in a rocket and fire it off at 99.999% of the speed of light for a couple years. The half you still have will shift in time normally with you but when the other half gets back it will have barely shifted through time. You now have a worm whole between 2 times.

    2) Build an infanitly long spinning cylinder. Can't remember why this works but since you can't have a cilinder infinitly long you can't actually build this.

    In both methods and all other mathematically possible methods that have been devised it is not possible to go back to any date earlier then the creation of the time machine itself.

    For more information read "The Fabric of the Cosmos: Space, Time, and the Texture of Reality" by Brian Greene

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  • rjo_rjo_ Posts: 1,825
    edited 2009-04-04 19:58
    There have been a few complaints about what Parallax is charging for flux capacitors... and I would just like to add my 2 cents.

    While it is true that you can get flux capacitors cheaper...

    here's one on ebay

    http://gizmodo.com/gadgets/gadgets/back-to-the-future-delorean-flux-capacitor-on-ebay-171854.php

    I would like to point out that you have to pay for it when you buy it...

    With Parallax... if you aren't satisfied... you actually get a refund check before you place your order.

    Just my 2 cents... but then again... I'm from a time when 2 cents could buy you dinner at the Waldorf.

    That's right...boeboy is from the future and I am from the past... and neither of us would be here if it were not for
    the Propeller.

    Rich

    By the way... you guys sure have a bizarre view of history... absolutely nothing that occurred ever occurred the way you guys think it did.
  • rjo_rjo_ Posts: 1,825
    edited 2009-04-04 20:23
    mctrivia...

    Your calculations about velocity and time come from relativity... this is the same mistake, which the inventors of the original flux capacitor made... and I'll remind you that they disappeared from the pages of history. We know this because they never cashed their refund check from the IRS.

    I didn't have the heart to tell my Chinese friend that the little box I showed him wasn't a Chinese cook book... It was a bad copy of the flux capacitor... version 1.0. And the 12th Century Mandarin that he saw wasn't a recipe for fortune cookies... it was the longest anagram ever produced. My purpose in coming here was to ask Chip Gracey to decode the anagram, which boebot can confirm is the reason for the delay in the release of the PropII. There are exactly two people who find BCM (binary coded Mandarin) easier to decode than ascii... I am one... Chip is the other. Most everyone else considers them to be roughly equivalent. While I have mastered BCM, I am simply no good with anagrams.

    Anyway... back to your calculation. Time dilation does not occur... it is an illusion created by the way light travels. If you would take your Ping module and measure the backend of a moving donkey, you will see pretty much the same thing.
    Clocking mechanisms are affected by acceleration... so in theory, the error on your clock... if it is affected by acceleration... will be roughly proportional to the time you are accelerating it and how much you are accelerating it... but this has nothing to do with time... it has only to do with the reliability of clocks under acceleration.

    The instuctions on my flux capacitor are what told me that this must be a faulty version...

    To go forward... E=mc^2
    To go in reverse mc^2=E.

    This says to me that who ever purloined this design from the pages of the future simply turned to the wrong page.
  • CounterRotatingPropsCounterRotatingProps Posts: 1,132
    edited 2009-04-05 23:06
    mctrivia said...
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    2) Build an infanitly long spinning cylinder. Can't remember why this works but since you can't have a cilinder infinitly long you can't actually build this.
    Because you'd need an infinitely long lathe that's·longer than the cylinder
    --- last time I checked, my Shop Smith didn't have an infinite+1 setting. nono.gif

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