Wednesday, July 21, 2010

Well there goes my chance to check this week's winning lottery numbers and then go back a week in time to buy a ticket with the winning numbers.

Not in this Universe, friends!


After episode after episode of Star Trek and those clever Back to the Future flicks, I wasn't sure that the science/mathematics community would ever finally put the idea in the trash heap of interesting, but untrue, "go back in time" possibilities.

The idea of going back in time and murdering one of my direct ancestors always intrigued me. Would I exist thereafter--or therebefore? For that matter, would a murder have even been committed if I didn't exist? Well, researchers led by Seth Lloyd at MIT analyzed how some of the quirks/quarks and peculiarities of real-life time travel might play out and voilla! Traveling back in time simply can't happen!

So you see, Johnny, knowing a little bit about right triangles and similar polygons will come to some use as you traverse the exciting next school year. I really enjoy Science News online, but finally broke down and ordered a home-delivered subscription.

1 Comments:

At 2:54 PM, Anonymous Anonymous said...

Well going back in time might be intriguing it would not be on murdering someone, that would not be a nice thing to do, if you had of done it and come back to the present it couldn't of happened. But I think all of us would of like to have gone back in time and changed a fews things we have done wrong or whatever. But you will be one of the few, that because you use your mind a lot, will not have a problem with your memory, yippee!!!!!!!!!!! Yours Truly From The Ocean Beaches of America

 

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