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[mantagte]

The Andromeda spiral galaxy is roughly two and a half million light years from Earth. If we could travel at a speed very close to the speed of light (186,000 miles a second) we could reach it in about thirty (yes 30) years.... ....Time travel into the future is a reality....

Keep taking the pills , Opti.

With the return journey we are looking at   something in the region of  sixty years in total......

To the people of Earth it would appear that you have been away for five million years .....  

Steve should we put your name on the top of the list of volunteers

[markfree]

The Andromeda spiral galaxy is roughly two and a half million light years from Earth. If we could travel at a speed very close to the speed of light (186,000 miles a second) we could reach it in about thirty (yes 30) years.... ....Time travel into the future is a reality....

Errrr..............no..............it would take you...............2.5 million years 

[Field Marshal Dr. Opti]

The Andromeda spiral galaxy is roughly two and a half million light years from Earth. If we could travel at a speed very close to the speed of light (186,000 miles a second) we could reach it in about thirty (yes 30) years.... ....Time travel into the future is a reality....

Errrr..............no..............it would take you...............2.5 million years 

Nope.....not quite. It would take 2.5million years for the people observing from the Earth . But only about thirty years for the people on the spaceship providing they can travel very close to the speed of light. At such velocity time slows down and almost stops. The clock on the spaceship will run MUCH SLOWER than the clock on the Earth.......Simple really...

[Lizzie_Zoom]

is the percentage of the timeline of the universe that life can exist - not human life, all life from single cells to whatever comes after us and beyond

so i guess......make the most of it 

Well as the universe is reckoned to be in the order of 13.5 billion years old, with our solar system 4.5 billion years old, and life on earth...........well let's say 100 million years old, with humans just a few million years old, what figure is that percentage to be calculated on, and from when?

It can only be a theory, and I doubt, with all due respect to the 'Professor', can really be estimated on the little knowledge man knows to date    At what time were the atoms of the universe, that are the building blocks of the cells, originally created?  A crucial question in the calculation of life's "time line".

[albitz]

Can whoever is the first to travel forwards through time, please PM me next weekends lottery numbers, or even a future copy of the FT. Thankyou very much.

[Banjax]

is the percentage of the timeline of the universe that life can exist - not human life, all life from single cells to whatever comes after us and beyond

so i guess......make the most of it 

Well as the universe is reckoned to be in the order of 13.5 billion years old, with our solar system 4.5 billion years old, and life on earth...........well let's say 100 million years old, with humans just a few million years old, what figure is that percentage to be calculated on, and from when?

It can only be a theory, and I doubt, with all due respect to the 'Professor', can really be estimated on the little knowledge man knows to date    At what time were the atoms of the universe, that are the building blocks of the cells, originally created?  A crucial question in the calculation of life's "time line".

not human life Liz - all life - we are an insignificant mark on the timeline as far as even just our planet, let alone the universe goes if the Big Bang was at 00:00hrs on 1st January, and now was a year later, then homo sapiens have been around since 23:54 on 31st Dec  , dinosaurs evolved around christmas day and only left yesterday (30th december), mammals evolved boxing day,birds on the 27th, flowers 28th and insects have been around since the 21st!! - we've barely had 6 minutes


carl sagans famous "cosmic calendar"

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cosmic_Calendar

[Lizzie_Zoom]

is the percentage of the timeline of the universe that life can exist - not human life, all life from single cells to whatever comes after us and beyond

so i guess......make the most of it 

Well as the universe is reckoned to be in the order of 13.5 billion years old, with our solar system 4.5 billion years old, and life on earth...........well let's say 100 million years old, with humans just a few million years old, what figure is that percentage to be calculated on, and from when?

It can only be a theory, and I doubt, with all due respect to the 'Professor', can really be estimated on the little knowledge man knows to date    At what time were the atoms of the universe, that are the building blocks of the cells, originally created?  A crucial question in the calculation of life's "time line".

not human life Liz - all life - we are an insignificant mark on the timeline as far as even just our planet, let alone the universe goes if the Big Bang was at 00:00hrs on 1st January, and now was a year later, then homo sapiens have been around since 23:54 on 31st Dec  , dinosaurs evolved around christmas day and only left yesterday (30th december), mammals evolved boxing day,birds on the 27th, flowers 28th and insects have been around since the 21st!! - we've barely had 6 minutes


carl sagans famous "cosmic calendar"

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cosmic_Calendar

Blimey BJ, you are beginning to sound like a Seventh-day Adventist!!

We know our (mankinds) existence can be measured in terms of the thickness of a postage stamp compared to a miles high pile of books representing the universe's existence, but all time scales are talked of in human terms.  God, or real times, on a completely different scale to our own exist that we cannot imagine.  Regardless of what measurements mankind likes to create, the universe runs on different laws and the end of time will be detirmined by those laws, not what some human scientist, regardless of how well versed, calculates using unproven data.

[markfree]

The Andromeda spiral galaxy is roughly two and a half million light years from Earth. If we could travel at a speed very close to the speed of light (186,000 miles a second) we could reach it in about thirty (yes 30) years.... ....Time travel into the future is a reality....

Errrr..............no..............it would take you...............2.5 million years 

Nope.....not quite. It would take 2.5million years for the people observing from the Earth . But only about thirty years for the people on the spaceship providing they can travel very close to the speed of light. At such velocity time slows down and almost stops. The clock on the spaceship will run MUCH SLOWER than the clock on the Earth.......Simple really...

Nope........ if you could see the Andromeda galaxy thru a telescope you would be looking back in time approx 2.5 million years ago thats how long light has travelled to reach us...............it wouldn't be any different for a space-ship if it could travel that fast.

[Banjax]

is the percentage of the timeline of the universe that life can exist - not human life, all life from single cells to whatever comes after us and beyond

so i guess......make the most of it 

Well as the universe is reckoned to be in the order of 13.5 billion years old, with our solar system 4.5 billion years old, and life on earth...........well let's say 100 million years old, with humans just a few million years old, what figure is that percentage to be calculated on, and from when?

It can only be a theory, and I doubt, with all due respect to the 'Professor', can really be estimated on the little knowledge man knows to date    At what time were the atoms of the universe, that are the building blocks of the cells, originally created?  A crucial question in the calculation of life's "time line".

not human life Liz - all life - we are an insignificant mark on the timeline as far as even just our planet, let alone the universe goes if the Big Bang was at 00:00hrs on 1st January, and now was a year later, then homo sapiens have been around since 23:54 on 31st Dec  , dinosaurs evolved around christmas day and only left yesterday (30th december), mammals evolved boxing day,birds on the 27th, flowers 28th and insects have been around since the 21st!! - we've barely had 6 minutes


carl sagans famous "cosmic calendar"

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cosmic_Calendar

Blimey BJ, you are beginning to sound like a Seventh-day Adventist!!

We know our (mankinds) existence can be measured in terms of the thickness of a postage stamp compared to a miles high pile of books representing the universe's existence, but all time scales are talked of in human terms.  God, or real times, on a completely different scale to our own exist that we cannot imagine.  Regardless of what measurements mankind likes to create, the universe runs on different laws and the end of time will be detirmined by those laws, not what some human scientist, regardless of how well versed, calculates using unproven data.

now a 7th day evangelist would have you believe that rather than 13.6 billion years it took the milky way to form, then our solar system and subsequently all life, the whole shebang took about 6 days (full scale)!!! presumably dinosaurs knocked around for a couple of days then died on Friday 

[markfree]

Can whoever is the first to travel forwards through time, please PM me next weekends lottery numbers, or even a future copy of the FT. Thankyou very much.

Or the cheltenham gold cup winner on friday 

[Banjax]

The Andromeda spiral galaxy is roughly two and a half million light years from Earth. If we could travel at a speed very close to the speed of light (186,000 miles a second) we could reach it in about thirty (yes 30) years.... ....Time travel into the future is a reality....

Errrr..............no..............it would take you...............2.5 million years 

Nope.....not quite. It would take 2.5million years for the people observing from the Earth . But only about thirty years for the people on the spaceship providing they can travel very close to the speed of light. At such velocity time slows down and almost stops. The clock on the spaceship will run MUCH SLOWER than the clock on the Earth.......Simple really...

Nope........ if you could see the Andromeda galaxy thru a telescope you would be looking back in time approx 2.5 million years ago thats how long light has travelled to reach us...............it wouldn't be any different for a space-ship if it could travel that fast.

Opti's quite right -  Einsteins general theory of Relativity - its all about where you are and how fast when observing 


there was an interesting experiment done using 2 synchronised atomic clocks, one remained on the ground, the other flew round the earth and returned to the same spot - the clock in the air was behind the clock on the runway when they compared them after the flight

[tidla]

being a thicky this was an interesting read.

a site i could understand.

http://www.fourmilab.ch/cship/timedial.html

[bigegg]

Can whoever is the first to travel forwards through time, please PM me next weekends lottery numbers, or even a future copy of the FT. Thankyou very much.

Or the cheltenham gold cup winner on friday 

will do.
but you won't receive it 'til next week, cos forward time travel is easy, it backwards that's difficult
 

[tidla]

can you not send him a text..

[Field Marshal Dr. Opti]

being a thicky this was an interesting read.

a site i could understand.

http://www.fourmilab.ch/cship/timedial.html

Excellent article......It shows you really have to travel VERY CLOSE to the speed of light in order to slow time significantly.......