i quite like the idea
that time travel isn't actually forbidden by the (currently known) laws of physics. even if it is horribly impractical...
(beanojam isn't really Ricardo Flange, Mon 26 Apr 2010, 17:04, 2 replies, latest was 16 years ago)

Okay...I know I'm going to regret asking this but...
How?
( chickenlady b3ta's very own Elizabeth Taylor, Mon 26 Apr 2010, 17:07, Reply)

something to do
with connecting two ends of a wormhole together to create a 'closed timelike curve' that would theoretically enable you to travel back into your own past. however, as has been pointed out below, the realities of actually achieving this are frankly beyond all known technology and are likely to stay that way for quite some time (read: several thousands of years!).
(beanojam isn't really Ricardo Flange, Mon 26 Apr 2010, 17:32, Reply)

Ah....
Wormholes...I'm not going to find them in my garden am I?
( chickenlady b3ta's very own Elizabeth Taylor, Mon 26 Apr 2010, 17:35, Reply)

From the few conversations I've had with the sort of physicists who deal with the quantum and particle-type stuff
"Not actually forbidden" isn't quite the same as "Possible in theory"
(LongJohnBaldry, Mon 26 Apr 2010, 17:09, Reply)

My father is hugely into that stuff
and from what I gather in real terms it might as well be declared impossible. Shame though.
( Monty Boyce, My cheese game is strong, Mon 26 Apr 2010, 17:11, Reply)

Does he drive a DeLorean?

( Bartleby A dead man on vacation, Mon 26 Apr 2010, 17:19, Reply)

Ford Mustang last time I was over there, the midlife-crisis cock-end.

( Monty Boyce, My cheese game is strong, Mon 26 Apr 2010, 17:25, Reply)

That is quite poor.
I imagined that he would import an MGB and drive that around.

Have a word with him will you.
( Bartleby A dead man on vacation, Mon 26 Apr 2010, 17:27, Reply)

How funny.
When he moved to the UK that was the first car he had.
( Monty Boyce, My cheese game is strong, Mon 26 Apr 2010, 17:28, Reply)

I'm in your brains.

( Bartleby A dead man on vacation, Mon 26 Apr 2010, 17:29, Reply)

brains poop chute

sigh
( Naked Ape call me Caitlyn, Mon 26 Apr 2010, 17:30, Reply)

My father in law to be has a beautiful MGC
He has two daughters so I'm tapping him up to leave it to me!


Like so: www.mgownersclub.co.uk/images/1967-mgc-roadster.jpg
( Naked Ape call me Caitlyn, Mon 26 Apr 2010, 17:29, Reply)

Can't he just leave you both daughters?

( Bartleby A dead man on vacation, Mon 26 Apr 2010, 17:31, Reply)

Yeah
Flog the rougher of the two to an Arab once you've 'finished with her', then buy a car with the money.
( Monty Boyce, My cheese game is strong, Mon 26 Apr 2010, 17:33, Reply)

Sounds like a plan, but I thought in teh Arab world
it is women for babies boys for fun?
( Naked Ape call me Caitlyn, Mon 26 Apr 2010, 17:37, Reply)

And goats for ecstacy*, I believe.
* Not a bartering system.
(Cave Duck, Mon 26 Apr 2010, 17:55, Reply)

As long as it's a classic "Bullet era" Mustang

( Naked Ape call me Caitlyn, Mon 26 Apr 2010, 17:28, Reply)

Yeah, but driven round at less than 70mph. It just aint right.

( Bartleby A dead man on vacation, Mon 26 Apr 2010, 17:30, Reply)

70 was probably it's top speed, old cars are fairly rubbish
but very beautiful
( Naked Ape call me Caitlyn, Mon 26 Apr 2010, 17:30, Reply)

Its not the speed that's important,
Its the rubbish handling. No brakes, crap steering, terrible road noise. It takes bottle just to get it to 70.
( Bartleby A dead man on vacation, Mon 26 Apr 2010, 17:35, Reply)

Exactly and always make sure not to mix radial and crossply tyres

( Naked Ape call me Caitlyn, Mon 26 Apr 2010, 17:35, Reply)

Isn't that like remembering not to cross the streams?

( chickenlady b3ta's very own Elizabeth Taylor, Mon 26 Apr 2010, 17:38, Reply)

Oh they've not been 'playing firemen' in the urinals again, have they?
FFS.
( Monty Boyce, My cheese game is strong, Mon 26 Apr 2010, 17:39, Reply)

That's how you get cock AIDS

( Naked Ape call me Caitlyn, Mon 26 Apr 2010, 17:40, Reply)

I think it is. Fucking old anyway.
I know precisely zero about cars, and care about them slightly less than that.
( Monty Boyce, My cheese game is strong, Mon 26 Apr 2010, 17:31, Reply)

The way it was summed up for me
-and this was coming from a bloke who, last time I bumped into him, was due to head off to CERN, so I presumed to trust his judgement -

was, "Strictly speaking, the laws of quantum mechanics contain nothing to forbid the universe spontaneously rearranging itself into a giant daisy, it's just that the probability of that happening is so ridiculously tiny it's not worth considering."
(LongJohnBaldry, Mon 26 Apr 2010, 17:22, Reply)

This is very true

( K2k6 has a proper job these days, Mon 26 Apr 2010, 18:16, Reply)