So...........
If it were possible to move inter-dimensionally how would it be done?

Or how would you want to do it?
( chickenlady b3ta's very own Elizabeth Taylor, Mon 1 Sep 2008, 10:40, 19 replies, latest was 16 years ago)

Define "dimension"
We talking Parallel Universes, or we talking Time?
( Cawl, Mon 1 Sep 2008, 10:42, Reply)

Funnily enough
I'm reading Michio Kaku's 'Parallel Worlds' at the moment.

When I'm done, I'll answer your question.
( K2k6 has a proper job these days, Mon 1 Sep 2008, 10:44, Reply)

Parallel universes or time?
Either, both...

Whichever really...I haven't decided that much yet, I just want to know if it should happen in a blink, consciously or something else.
( chickenlady b3ta's very own Elizabeth Taylor, Mon 1 Sep 2008, 10:48, Reply)

Hmm...
I did a radio programme about time travel a while back.

This is gonna take me a while to type up from memory, but if you're patient, I'll get a chunk written down.
( Cawl, Mon 1 Sep 2008, 10:51, Reply)

I just found this discussion on a forum (thank you Google!)
And I can see the potential here for at least two or three short stories and possibly even a novel....

www.unexplained-mysteries.com/forum/index.php?showtopic=93328

Fascinating stuff - regardless of whether you believe what they're saying has any basis in fact or if they're just deluded, it's immaterial - this is just a cracking idea!
( chickenlady b3ta's very own Elizabeth Taylor, Mon 1 Sep 2008, 10:58, Reply)

I'd
ride between dimensions on a pink flying sea-camel named Bob.
(Ethelred is watching cheese grow, Mon 1 Sep 2008, 11:05, Reply)

Ethelred
Where would you keep it when you weren't travelling?
( chickenlady b3ta's very own Elizabeth Taylor, Mon 1 Sep 2008, 11:23, Reply)

That forum is really interesting
Kind of a mix between the butterfly effect and a film I forget the name of.
( TGB checking Off Topic is still shit at, Mon 1 Sep 2008, 11:26, Reply)

The main problem I keep having with the whole idea of this
and I have the same problem with the idea of ghosts and aliens, is that when people begin to explain their own experiences there are far too many which scream out MAD!

I knew a guy once who suffered with paranoid delusions - he used to see goblins in the loo and other such delights (and that was as a child so not as the result of illegal substances). He now relies upon an entire truck load of medication to get him through each day without harming himself.

All that said, it's really easy to just dismiss people with odd ideas as ill but looking back in history plenty of people died for their strange ideas which we now rely upon and regard as Fact.

Imagine if we were to go back in time and tell the Vikings about electricity, the internet, modern medicine, global warming. How long do you think we'd last before we were ripped limb from limb?

Mind you I think if we were to tell them about Viking kittens singing metal songs we'd be fine.
( chickenlady b3ta's very own Elizabeth Taylor, Mon 1 Sep 2008, 11:40, Reply)

The human mind is a strange thing
I used to know someone who would, for one summer, occasionally ask "Who's XXX?" when you were thinking about XXX, even if she had never met them before.

She described it as hearing the question "Who's XXX?" coming out of her mouth before realising she had said it.

Freaked me and others out on several occasions, but I saw her the other day and she said it hasn't happened since.
( TGB checking Off Topic is still shit at, Mon 1 Sep 2008, 11:50, Reply)

@ fowlgirl
He'd be tucked up in a floating stable. Would have to visit him often or he'd get lonely too I guess.
(Ethelred is watching cheese grow, Mon 1 Sep 2008, 11:56, Reply)

@ TGB
That's bloody weird. I know what she means about not knowing about saying something until you hear yourself say it. Really weird that. Kind of like talking in your sleep when you're awake I guess.
( Captain V, Mon 1 Sep 2008, 12:00, Reply)

Vrothdar
Yeah it is really freaky to think that someone can hear your thoughts! But she said she never heard anything apart from herself asking the question which probably freaked her out as much as us.
( TGB checking Off Topic is still shit at, Mon 1 Sep 2008, 12:07, Reply)

Have men in black suits accompanied by more men in white jackets
Come to collect her? Sounds like something out of a film *tries to reel in his imagination*
( Captain V, Mon 1 Sep 2008, 12:13, Reply)

No she never made a point of telling people
And it wasn't on demand If it was that would have been really creepy!
( TGB checking Off Topic is still shit at, Mon 1 Sep 2008, 12:19, Reply)

And really awesome
You've made me wonder when the next series of heros starts now...

:edit: It starts (in the US) on my birthday! Woo!
( Captain V, Mon 1 Sep 2008, 12:26, Reply)

Well
The time travel part is the easiest(?) to do. Physically we aren’t at a level of development where it is possible but theoretically here is what you would do.

Locate six dwarf stars of equal size and mass. Move five of these into orbit around the primary and set them all spinning clockwise about there axis. You would then need to set the orbit of the five dwarf stars so that they orbited the primary in an anti-clockwise manner. You would then use the gravitational gradient within the system to pick you’re temporal destination within the light cone (simply the life) of the primary dwarf star.

But please remember that this is all theory that a friend of mine (PhD in astrophysics) and I worked on one night, and we weren’t even in the pub.

Interdimensional travel would be far more tricky as you would need to find a way of breaking out of the light cone of the Universe and we couldn’t see a way of doing that.
(Herr Doktor Lemminge Is bored, so cheer me up!, Mon 1 Sep 2008, 13:52, Reply)

Herr Doktor
Do you think a couple of pints of Diamond White and a pair of rusty scissors might do it?
( chickenlady b3ta's very own Elizabeth Taylor, Mon 1 Sep 2008, 16:50, Reply)

Maybe
if you leave the rusty scissors in the Diamond White I would think that they might just cut anything.
(Herr Doktor Lemminge Is bored, so cheer me up!, Tue 2 Sep 2008, 11:46, Reply)