Popular Science: Time Travel gets easier! No wormhole required.

An article in the Nov. 2005 edition of Popular Science Magazine, describes "a bold new theory that predicts time travel may be more plausible than previously thought."

It's an interview, they have published. I'll give you a sample:

PS: First off, when scientists talk about time machines, you don't mean actual "machines," right?

AO (Amos Ori of Technion, the Israel Institute of Technology in Haifa): Right. It's not such successful terminology. My "machine" is merely a certain configuration of gravitational fields.

Pick up a copy of the magazine and read it, please, if you're interested in Time Travel.

but if he flew around it in the opposite way, would he go far into the future so he could properly gauge the outcomes of his actions?
and if so, could he see who was nice at his funeral, and who was a drunken dick insulting him now that hes dead, and come back by flying backwards and beat them up?
and if so, would he age, like could he perpetuate his existence?

I don't think so, because if he went back to the dinosaurs, he'd be -20 billion yrs. old, or something.

AO: You can go back in time, but only to times later than the moment of the construction of the time machine. So if we construct it now, in 2100 they will be able to visit us now, or later, but not earlier.

"If the laws of nature allow the construction of a time machine, maybe it could have occurred naturally a billion years ago. Then people would be able to visit the dinosaurs."

Bronto burgers!

Or how about Zanto burgers (an imaginary creature from the future)?

i saw some show on time travel and they say we wouldnt be able to go back in time cuz we would need some machine back then to connect it to the future so we would have to have some sort of machine on right now to start it

i dont rly kno that much about it i was stoned and i was kinda doin 2 things but it seemed to make sense

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Originally Posted by Anonymous

i saw some show on time travel and they say we wouldnt be able to go back in time cuz we would need some machine back then to connect it to the future so we would have to have some sort of machine on right now to start it

i dont rly kno that much about it i was stoned and i was kinda doin 2 things but it seemed to make sense

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Yeah, you're right. See you don't lose every piece of information when you're stoned.

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AO: You can go back in time, but only to times later than the moment of the construction of the time machine. So if we construct it now, in 2100 they will be able to visit us now, or later, but not earlier.

"If the laws of nature allow the construction of a time machine, maybe it could have occurred naturally a billion years ago. Then people would be able to visit the dinosaurs."

well to get back they would have to send the materials they need with them and construct the time machine in the past.

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Originally Posted by king kong bong

well to get back they would have to send the materials they need with them and construct the time machine in the past.

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OMG I just wrote a crummy thriller novel in my pants!

He said if the laws of nature allow us to create a time-machine, then one may have been naturally created a billion years ago. (Then people would be able to visit the dinosaurs.)