A Benedictine Monk, And The "Chronovisor"

[MindOverMatter]

After reading a book by Jenny Randles called “Breaking The Time Barrier”, it seems to me that scientists are getting closer to building some kind of Time Machine. It also came to my attention that a Monk physicist by the the name of Ernetti, planned the construction of a machine that could see into the past and record, or take images from historic moments. Ernetti said he had actually built the machine and had retrieved a photo image of Jesus Christ looking up towards the heavens. Of coarse, nobody believed him. It was later rummored that Ernetti confessed on his death bed that the picture was a fruad and the machine did not work, but it was said that the theory behind his machine was sound.

A French Priest by the name of Francois Brune, stated his absolute belief in the monks sincerity. He also alleged that the Vatican had been deeply concerned about Ernetti’s device and ordered him into silence. Worried that the achievements of this physicist could be used for “ungodly acts”, they ordered him to dismantle the machine.

This story is a bit hard to swallow, but exciting; if anybody knows anything about these particulor events, i would be pleased to here about it. Also; how would the Vatican, today, address the issue of Time-Travel?

 

[VociMike]

If time machines were built in the future then all past human history would be filled with travellers from the future. So where are they all?

 

[Hastrman]

If time machines were built in the future then all past human history would be filled with travellers from the future. So where are they all?

Their matter turned into antimatter when they went backward in time (the distinction is apparently only a question of orientation in one of the higher dimensions, according to M-theory–antimatter can be treated as matter moving backward in time), and they were “annihilated” into nothing but bursts of gamma rays when they touched real matter.

Well, not really, but that’s what would happen.

Nobody’s doing time travel.

 

[roanoker]

Time travel is for movies only. It would be fascinating if true, but its not. Roanoker

 

[MindOverMatter]

Time travel is for movies only. It would be fascinating if true, but its not. Roanoker

Scientists have managed to slow the speed of light down, in a lab. What do you have to say to that?

 

[rpp]

Scientists have managed to slow the speed of light down, in a lab. What do you have to say to that?

I would say that was a very interesting experiment in high-energy physics.

But it had no impact on time or time’s arrow.

It is well understood that gravity can slow light. That is, after all why black holes are black.

And yes, it is theorized the black hold have a time-dilation effect.

However, there is no widely accepted theoretical foundation for reversing Time’s Arrow.

 

[MindOverMatter]

I would say that was a very interesting experiment in high-energy physics.

However, there is no widely accepted theoretical foundation for reversing Time’s Arrow.

Okay, maybe we can’t go back in time, but what about sending a signal back in time or gathering information from the past through the Chronovisor?

Or

What about Going into the future? If a scientist could slow down time around your mass, then for you, according to relativity, everything would be normal; but from everyone elses perspective outside, you would be moving very slowly or perhaps appear frozen. From your perspective, looking out from the time bubble, everybody and everything would be moving extremely fast. If you stay in the bubble long enough, you would have the ability to leap-frog through time! But it would be a one way ticket.

I think something like that might be possible.

Going back to my original post; would it be immoral to time travel?

 

[Mintaka]

You are traveling through time and space right now, so no.

I think the question to ask is, “Is time travel possible without doing something bad to the universe or other people?” If the answer is yes, then it would not be sinful to travel through time any more than it would be sinful to scuba-dive.

Naturally, it would be gravely sinful to murder your own grandfather just to find out what would happen, or to kill Hitler as a baby before he’d done anything wrong.

Beyond those cliches, you could get into some serious ethical and free will questions if you were time traveling. But that’s what happens all the time in the normal way of things, too.