Listening: Star Stuff on ABC Radio
Mood: Dreamy
Do you believe time travel is possible? I do.
I might even go so far as to say I believe that the Philadelphia Experiment was a real event and that since then, experiments with time travel have been carried out in secret by the military and other private companies and individuals. I also believe that many of the so-called UFO and ET sightings/contacts we hear of are really just US - time travelling back from the future. Not all mind you, but some.
I've added some links to John Titor sites on my sidebar under Time Travel, and I'd highly recommend checking out the information there if this is a subject that you're interested in. I love it, and I've made it my business to learn as much about it as possible. Of course it all started after watching the classic movie of HG Wells' The Time Machine as a child. Since then I've devoured anything I can find about it. Some of the stories are just incredible!
Have you heard about the plans for a time travel device supposedly hidden in the bowels of the Vatican somewhere? It's called the Chronovisor, and was the invention of a highly regarded Benedictine monk Father Ernetti, a scientist and a scholar, who held several degrees in physics and other disciplines and lived at The Vatican for awhile in the 1950's. Check it out, there's a book about it too.
John Titor, a time traveler from the year 2036, also claimed to have had a time travel machine (made by General Electric no less), and he even posted photos of it while he was here, but he's not the only one.
Mood: Dreamy
Do you believe time travel is possible? I do.
I might even go so far as to say I believe that the Philadelphia Experiment was a real event and that since then, experiments with time travel have been carried out in secret by the military and other private companies and individuals. I also believe that many of the so-called UFO and ET sightings/contacts we hear of are really just US - time travelling back from the future. Not all mind you, but some.
I've added some links to John Titor sites on my sidebar under Time Travel, and I'd highly recommend checking out the information there if this is a subject that you're interested in. I love it, and I've made it my business to learn as much about it as possible. Of course it all started after watching the classic movie of HG Wells' The Time Machine as a child. Since then I've devoured anything I can find about it. Some of the stories are just incredible!
Have you heard about the plans for a time travel device supposedly hidden in the bowels of the Vatican somewhere? It's called the Chronovisor, and was the invention of a highly regarded Benedictine monk Father Ernetti, a scientist and a scholar, who held several degrees in physics and other disciplines and lived at The Vatican for awhile in the 1950's. Check it out, there's a book about it too.
John Titor, a time traveler from the year 2036, also claimed to have had a time travel machine (made by General Electric no less), and he even posted photos of it while he was here, but he's not the only one.
John Titor's Time Travel Unit
Michael "Madman" Markham, who appeared on Coast to Coast in the late 90's with Art Bell(who gave him the Madman nickname), claimed to have built one too, and that he'd used it to travel to distant times in the past. He even got jailed once for stealing huge transformers from the power company for his time machine! The last time he went on the air with Art he said that he was going to make his unit, which he called Jacob's Ladder even more powerful, and given my reasonable understanding of quantum theory and physics in general, what he was saying about how it worked sounded very plausible. Anyway, he said that he was going to use it and was never seen or heard from again, literally disappeared off the planet...I wonder where he is now.
I remember a woman calling in to the same show one day a couple of years back when they had a time traveler open lines show saying that she'd seen this wild newspaper article from the 30's. It was a front page story about the strange discovery of a dead man who could not be identified. He was found in some kind of industrial area inside some huge concrete pipe, and his clothing didn't resemble the clothing of that time. He was also found with a device in his pocket that no-one at the time could identify. When she saw the article she said she nearly died, because to her it looked exactly like a mobile phone! What if it was Madman or some other time traveler who's journey had taken a wrong turn? Wouldn't it be sad but amazing if that was his fate? An experiment went wrong.
There's also an incredible account of some work that was going on at Area 51 (and may still be going on, there or in another secret military facility) by a Dr Dan Burisch, who claims to be working alongside a grey EBE (extra-terrestrial biological entity) they've given the name J-rod. J-Rod is supposedly from future, and he claims the Greys are some of our descendants - the result of too much tampering with our genes. He has been working alongside Dr Burisch to try to come up with a solution, as at this time in our history, we are technically advanced enough and have workable genetic material to hopefully come up with a cure for a degenerative brain disease that J-rod says is wiping them out. There's so much more to this than I can relate here - but it's fabulous stuff. Way better than science fiction novels....
Anyway, I could go on for hours, but the reason I'm even talking about all this is because MIT in Cambridge is hosting the first and only Time Traveler Convention on Saturday, May 7, 2005, and they need your help to spread the word to time travelers in the future!
Since this event was announced last week I've watched how much momentum it's gathered, and it's been crazy. Originally, the physics students who came up with the idea (which I think is great because someone HAD to do it), were expecting around 15 people to show up, there was no actual schedule planned for the night, and if no time travelers appeared, they were just going to throw a party instead.
They've now had interviews on some major news networks, they've had so many RSVP's they can't accept any more applications for attendees, camera crews are not being allowed inside, and some physics professor has now agreed to deliver a lecture on time travel. It sounds like a lot of fun. I wished I lived in the States sometimes. Here's what they say about it. Perhaps you too can lend a hand. Here's what the organizers say about it:
The Time Traveler Convention
Michael "Madman" Markham, who appeared on Coast to Coast in the late 90's with Art Bell(who gave him the Madman nickname), claimed to have built one too, and that he'd used it to travel to distant times in the past. He even got jailed once for stealing huge transformers from the power company for his time machine! The last time he went on the air with Art he said that he was going to make his unit, which he called Jacob's Ladder even more powerful, and given my reasonable understanding of quantum theory and physics in general, what he was saying about how it worked sounded very plausible. Anyway, he said that he was going to use it and was never seen or heard from again, literally disappeared off the planet...I wonder where he is now.
I remember a woman calling in to the same show one day a couple of years back when they had a time traveler open lines show saying that she'd seen this wild newspaper article from the 30's. It was a front page story about the strange discovery of a dead man who could not be identified. He was found in some kind of industrial area inside some huge concrete pipe, and his clothing didn't resemble the clothing of that time. He was also found with a device in his pocket that no-one at the time could identify. When she saw the article she said she nearly died, because to her it looked exactly like a mobile phone! What if it was Madman or some other time traveler who's journey had taken a wrong turn? Wouldn't it be sad but amazing if that was his fate? An experiment went wrong.
There's also an incredible account of some work that was going on at Area 51 (and may still be going on, there or in another secret military facility) by a Dr Dan Burisch, who claims to be working alongside a grey EBE (extra-terrestrial biological entity) they've given the name J-rod. J-Rod is supposedly from future, and he claims the Greys are some of our descendants - the result of too much tampering with our genes. He has been working alongside Dr Burisch to try to come up with a solution, as at this time in our history, we are technically advanced enough and have workable genetic material to hopefully come up with a cure for a degenerative brain disease that J-rod says is wiping them out. There's so much more to this than I can relate here - but it's fabulous stuff. Way better than science fiction novels....
Anyway, I could go on for hours, but the reason I'm even talking about all this is because MIT in Cambridge is hosting the first and only Time Traveler Convention on Saturday, May 7, 2005, and they need your help to spread the word to time travelers in the future!
Since this event was announced last week I've watched how much momentum it's gathered, and it's been crazy. Originally, the physics students who came up with the idea (which I think is great because someone HAD to do it), were expecting around 15 people to show up, there was no actual schedule planned for the night, and if no time travelers appeared, they were just going to throw a party instead.
They've now had interviews on some major news networks, they've had so many RSVP's they can't accept any more applications for attendees, camera crews are not being allowed inside, and some physics professor has now agreed to deliver a lecture on time travel. It sounds like a lot of fun. I wished I lived in the States sometimes. Here's what they say about it. Perhaps you too can lend a hand. Here's what the organizers say about it:
The Time Traveler Convention
May 7, 2005, 10:00pm EDT (08 May 2005 02:00:00 UTC)
East Campus Courtyard, MIT
3 Ames St. Cambridge, A 02142
42:21:36.025°N, 71:05:16.332°W
(42.360007,-071.087870 in decimal degrees)
8:00pm start
Technically, you would only need one time traveler convention.
Time travelers from all eras could meet at a specific place at a specific time, and they could make as many repeat visits as they wanted.
Why do you need my help?
We need you to help PUBLICIZE the event so that future time travelers will know about the convention and attend. We need volunteers to publish the details of the convention in enduring forms, so that the time travelers of future millennia will be aware of the convention. This convention can never be forgotten! We need publicity in MAJOR outlets, not just Internet news. Think New York Times, Washington Post, books, that sort of thing. If you have any strings, please pull them.
Great idea, I'd love to help! What should I do?
Write the details down on a piece of acid-free paper, and slip them into obscure books in academic libraries. Carve them into a clay tablet! If you write for a newspaper, insert a few details about the convention. Tell your friends, so that word of the convention will be preserved in our oral history! A note: Time travel is a hard problem, and it may not be invented until long after MIT has faded into oblivion. Thus, we ask that you include the latitude/longitude information when you publicize the convention. You can also make an absolute commitment to publicize the convention afterwards. In that case, bring a time capsule or whatever it may be to the party, and then bury it afterwards.
Can't the time travelers just hear about it from the attendees, and travel back in time to attend?
Yes, they can! In fact, we think this will happen, and the small number of adventurous time travelers who do attend will go back to their "home times" and tell all their friends to come, causing the convention to become a Woodstock-like event that defines humanity forever. Unfortunately, we of the present (2005) don't have time travel, and so we only have one chance at observing the convention. If the time travelers don't leave us their secrets, we won't be able to go back in time and see our convention in all its glory unless it is publicized in advance.
Isn't time travel impossible?
We can't know for certain. The ancient Greeks would have thought computers were impossible, and the Phoenicians certainly wouldn't have believed that humans would one day send a spacecraft to the moon and back. We cannot predict the future of science or technology, so we can only make an effort and see if any time travelers come to our convention. If you would like to read more about time travel, check out our reading list.
I'm from the future, and I'd like to attend!
We're not sure how you're emailing us from the future, but we'd love to have you! Come as you are! No dress code whatsoever. We do request that you bring some sort of proof that you do indeed come from the future, and haven't just dressed like you do. We welcome any sort of proof, but things like a cure for AIDS or cancer, a solution for global poverty, or a cold fusion reactor would be particularly convincing as well as greatly appreciated. (No RSVP required.)
What fun.
Technically, you would only need one time traveler convention.
Time travelers from all eras could meet at a specific place at a specific time, and they could make as many repeat visits as they wanted.
Why do you need my help?
We need you to help PUBLICIZE the event so that future time travelers will know about the convention and attend. We need volunteers to publish the details of the convention in enduring forms, so that the time travelers of future millennia will be aware of the convention. This convention can never be forgotten! We need publicity in MAJOR outlets, not just Internet news. Think New York Times, Washington Post, books, that sort of thing. If you have any strings, please pull them.
Great idea, I'd love to help! What should I do?
Write the details down on a piece of acid-free paper, and slip them into obscure books in academic libraries. Carve them into a clay tablet! If you write for a newspaper, insert a few details about the convention. Tell your friends, so that word of the convention will be preserved in our oral history! A note: Time travel is a hard problem, and it may not be invented until long after MIT has faded into oblivion. Thus, we ask that you include the latitude/longitude information when you publicize the convention. You can also make an absolute commitment to publicize the convention afterwards. In that case, bring a time capsule or whatever it may be to the party, and then bury it afterwards.
Can't the time travelers just hear about it from the attendees, and travel back in time to attend?
Yes, they can! In fact, we think this will happen, and the small number of adventurous time travelers who do attend will go back to their "home times" and tell all their friends to come, causing the convention to become a Woodstock-like event that defines humanity forever. Unfortunately, we of the present (2005) don't have time travel, and so we only have one chance at observing the convention. If the time travelers don't leave us their secrets, we won't be able to go back in time and see our convention in all its glory unless it is publicized in advance.
Isn't time travel impossible?
We can't know for certain. The ancient Greeks would have thought computers were impossible, and the Phoenicians certainly wouldn't have believed that humans would one day send a spacecraft to the moon and back. We cannot predict the future of science or technology, so we can only make an effort and see if any time travelers come to our convention. If you would like to read more about time travel, check out our reading list.
I'm from the future, and I'd like to attend!
We're not sure how you're emailing us from the future, but we'd love to have you! Come as you are! No dress code whatsoever. We do request that you bring some sort of proof that you do indeed come from the future, and haven't just dressed like you do. We welcome any sort of proof, but things like a cure for AIDS or cancer, a solution for global poverty, or a cold fusion reactor would be particularly convincing as well as greatly appreciated. (No RSVP required.)
What fun.
oh my god! that's entirely too much fun!!!
ReplyDeletebut why no press cameras?? if a timeship is gonna materialize from the future i WANNA SEE IT HAPPEN!!!!
I know...how good would it be? Hey, let's organize a time travel convention for OZ! Or better yet, let's work out a way to get there before we die. Maybe WE'LL get to master time travel before we shuffle off...hmmm...
ReplyDeleteThe camera crews that aren't being allowed in are from the media, as it is against campus policy, however I bet they're going to have ample shutter power from the regular attendees, so if there are any time travelers that do hear about it, and SHOW UP, hopefully some bright person will remember that they brought their camera, and take a photo we can all see.
let the paradoxes begin!
ReplyDeletesurely if a time traveller DID turn up - he would have let some other time traveller know, and somehow somewhere along the timeline, we would already know that the convention was going to happen because a taveller had already been there in the past (i mean future) : )
Well unless you see some twins and triplets at that convention, time travel is likely impossible ;]
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