MadScientist

down is another name for small/young feathers

Yup and yup to Subjunk with the ditch answer too.

I'm just wondering, what's the point in posting riddles to a group of really clever people with superbrains like ourselves?? (Let's not be modest - a spade is a spade. )

Cards.

 

Wednesday is the name of the horse.

Yup and yup.

That just leaves these two:

What is lengthened by being cut at both ends?

What always remains down even when it flies up in the air?

haha yeah i thought it was strange you were saying something that contradicted your data

Yeah it's a good one. I think the 1m thick walls one is the worst riddle I've ever heard' date=' I can't believe I racked my brain searching for a literal answer.

You're a mean, mean man YT2095[/quote']

 

Perhaps we could seal the swine up in a room with 1 metre thick concrete walls, floor and ceiling with no doors or windows. We'll be generous though YT, we'll leave you a torch and a table and saw so you can get out by crawling through the bloody whole.

 

Here's a few more easy ones...

 

What is lengthened by being cut at both ends?

 

What always remains down even when it flies up in the air?

 

What is it that is put on the table, cut, and passed, but never eaten?

 

A man needs to get to hospital really quickly because of his injuries, he's no phone and no transport other than his trusty horse. So on Wedsnesday he rides to hospital where they patch him up, it takes two days though but once he's recovered he rides back home on Wedsnesday again.

And he's not a time traveller.

How about a new forum for showing experiments (mainly safe ones ) that we can do at home??

Like I recently found out laser pointers can be used to create holograms with.

Or how you can cook a CD in a microwave oven and get a nice effect.

Or ideas for ways to use things other than their original purpose..

Like when you shine a laser pointer through a bottle of Coke/Pepsi it lights up the contents.

Or how you can shine the laser dot onto a surface to mark it without actually marking it, not that I do much DIY though.

And why can't the posters ID show their sex too??

It drives me mad having to refer to people as s/he or him/her.

chimes are at (in seconds) 5:59:30, 5:59:36, 5:59:42, 5:59:48, 5:59:54, 6:00:00 for 6 o'clock, nothing happens at 5:59:55

That's what I mean, once you realise that, you realise the clock can't be chiming at 5 second intervals.

very good madscientist! You're the first person I've told who has got it right. I'm on a mac at the moment and don't know how to open your file, so when I'm back on my PC I'll have a look :-D

It's pretty easy once you realise 5:59:30 leaves the final chime at 5:59:55 instead of 6:00:00. And I couldn't figure out why you didn't mention when the chimes for 4 o'clock started either, you must've left that out for a reason.

As for the attached program, it just shows the chiming patterns for the different times like this:

12 o'clock at 5 second intervals :=

Chime number 12 at 12:00:00

Chime number 11 at 11:59:55

Chime number 10 at 11:59:50

Chime number 9 at 11:59:45

Chime number 8 at 11:59:40

Chime number 7 at 11:59:35

Chime number 6 at 11:59:30

Chime number 5 at 11:59:25

Chime number 4 at 11:59:20

Chime number 3 at 11:59:15

Chime number 2 at 11:59:10

Chime number 1 at 11:59:05

12 o'clock at 6 second intervals :=

Chime number 12 at 12:00:00

Chime number 11 at 11:59:54

Chime number 10 at 11:59:48

Chime number 9 at 11:59:42

Chime number 8 at 11:59:36

Chime number 7 at 11:59:30

Chime number 6 at 11:59:24

Chime number 5 at 11:59:18

Chime number 4 at 11:59:12

Chime number 3 at 11:59:06

Chime number 2 at 11:59:00

Chime number 1 at 11:58:54

With similar outputs for 6 o'clock to verify things.

I think it burned up all my brain cells for the day, so I'd better head back to my nice cosy padded cell.

Correct

 

1: he was walking

2: he`s a preist

Too easy??

Or are you and Sayonara looking on the same riddle site that I am??

nice try madscientist but you can't change the question to suit your answer' date=' it's the other way around

The 6 o'clock bells start chiming at 5:59:30, and your answer is wrong [/quote']

 

How can the 6 o'clock bell make its first chime at 5:59:30??

Its last chime would ring out at 5:59:55 which would be 5 seconds early.

 

HAH!!

There are 6 second intervals between each chime and not 5 second intervals!!

 

11:58:54

 

That was a great riddle!! Must've been cos it prompted me to do a bit of programming, hopefully there's an attached file to this post TimeRiddle.zip

I just hope my programming's correct.

TimeRiddle.zip

not even close' date=' no explosives anyway, at 1m+ thick he`de never get out anyway (except as a gas maybe).

 

no clue just yet, let some others have a go 1`st [/quote']

 

He saws the table to get sawdust.

He dismantles the torch, I'm assuming it's got two batteries in it so he powers the bulb from the torch with one battery or maybe he puts up with working in the dark.

He saws the battery in half letting the acid soak into the sawdust then slaps the acid soaked sawdust against the wall.

Then he sits in the corner and eventually dies through lack of oxygen because it's going to take 500 billion years for that weak battery acid to cut through that 1 metre thick wall of titanium.

 

Saw the table in half, use the two halves to make a whole and crawl through the (w)hole.

 

 

 

Here's a few:

 

An ice cream van driver travels half a mile the wrong way down a busy one way street, he passes several police cars none of which stop him.

 

I know a man who married lots and LOTS of women, he never divorced nor got prosecuted for bigamy which was against his beliefs anyway.

There's an old clock tower with an automated bell that chimes according to the time. e.g. at 4 oclock it will chime 4 times.

At 6 o'clock' date=' it chimes 6 times, starting 30 seconds before 6 o'clock, the last chime happens at 6 o'clock. When will the bell start chiming for 12 o'clock?

 

p.s. When i first read this riddle, I got it almost straight away, but no one I've given it to has got the right answer 'till I've told them. From a psychological view-point it's very interesting as it indicates the thought processes of the person working it out as opposed to other brainteasers that test your intelligence. My theory is that if you spend 5 minutes working it out and don't get it, you never will even if you're the smartest person in the world, that's the hypothesis anyway [/quote']

 

 

11:59:05

It took me about half an hour to figure out, it helps if you use an old analogue watch/clock to move from 11:05 to 12:00.

 

The clock made its first starting chime for 6 o'clock at 5:59:35 and not at 5:59:30.

here`s another one for you all (probably one of my last posts before I get banned for life LOL!)

 

A man is in a room made of 1 metre+ thick reinforced concrete' date=' there`s no windows or doors, he`s got a torch so he can see ok.

in the room with him is a Table and Saw.

 

How does he get out?

 

 

I got 11:59:30 as a wild guess for more clues [/quote']

 

My guess is he got in there some way so with the torch on he can see his way out. You say there are no doors does that mean there are no doorways too??

Is there a ceiling to the room?? Maybe he makes a ladder.

Well quite.

 

Like they'd be walking around with big placards that said "we're from the future! please interrogate and dissect us' date=' because disrupting the universe is FUN!"[/quote']

 

You're accepting the possibility that these "aliens" could be us from our future??

Does that mean you're accepting that they probably are us from our future too??

 

I hope you are cos that means we can start discussing why they've never made real contact with us. All they've done is the typical time traveller stuff we'd do on people if we went back in time ourselves.

 

We'd abduct people, look at how they're developing then after wiping their memories of the event, stick them back so it wouldn't affect our time when we came home.

We'd probably be interested in other species development too, we'd do experiments on cows to see how they were developing and how as being a food source they affected human evolution.

 

What if we stuck a huge sign up saying "We know who you are!!"??

 

Maybe we're looking at time travel the wrong way.

Instead of spending time and energy trying to figure out how to become time travellers we should spend be trying to figure out how to become people visited by time travellers.

Doesn't that make more sense?? It's easier to stick that sign up than create a time machine simply because we already know how to make signs.

 

But what could we use to send a signal to these aliens (aka ourselves from our future) saying we know what/who they are??

Well if they're from our future and they'll know all our knowledge all we should need to do is send a message to the future.

What the Hell would happen if a huge number of people started accepting this theory?? Would our future selves would go back to that time and introduce themselves...

Please tell me you're kidding - he used the "no visitors" argument.

That reminded me of something else I was thinking about RE this thread..

I'm going to start talking about aliens visiting us from other worlds.

I'm not going to say they do exist just theorise about what they might be..

The chance of any life that developed on another planet turning out to look almost human like is astronomical. The number of different ways for life evolving on alien worlds is unbelievable.

So let's forget about these "aliens" we keep getting reports of coming from other planets.

They look far too much like the human race after a few million years more evolution OR a few generations of genetic manipulation.

So the most likely explanations are they could either be humans from our future, genetically enhanced to survive the trip or something like that.

Or just figments of peoples imaginations, back in the days when aliens were first "invented" they wouldn't have realised the chances of aliens having arms and legs with 5 digits on each, 2 eyes, 2 nostrils, a single mouth, 2 ears etc.. would be slim to none.

So they're either us from the future or figments of our imaginations from our past.

And until Hawking finds out whether they're actually real or not how can he say we've never been visited by people from the future??

Here's one for you...

If you travelled back in time to yesterday how would the universe know where to put each particle of matter and energy??

The computer this simulation is running on would have to have random access memory. But there is no hard drive storing the log file for the universe.

So the only way to move through time is linearly, either forwards like we are or backwards.

Travelling forwards quicker or slower than we currently are (time dilation) isn't a problem because you're moving through each instant of time as is the rest of the universe but you're moving from one to the next quicker or slower than the rest of the universe.

Because all the particles are following their natural path from one instant to the next.

So to "rewind" time the entire universe is going to have to throw all those particles into reverse just for you.

yes thats just what madscientist post was pointing to,wether or not he intended that i dont know,I was merely saying at a particle level its just parts, like a table inanimate dead,If we accept were just the sum of subatomic particles then they must consciously interact and perform the creation of complex objects including life.Which must direct us to thinking the universe is conscious.

Yup that's basically what I was saying.

I'm not sure if there's anything "magical" happening, the big bang just spews out loads of fundamental particles of energy called quarks which get packed into protons, neutrons, electrons and packets of energy and whatever else. Those larger building blocks just naturally bond together the way they did to form all this...

I'll assume everything is made from these same fundamentals either quarks or strings, if you're a string theorist.

That means there's just two things in this universe, those fundamentals and our consciousnesses that can perceive these things in our universe.

We really are just computers, the universe throws all these facts at us which we process and react to, creating new facts to throw out into the universe.

Trippy pothead type section:

What amazes me though is if the string theorists are correct and conscious thought does exist at that level, IOW the strings themselves contain all the data we have in our minds. What if those same strings can do amazing things like talk to each other over any distance?? If all the strings in a mind are working together to achieve their goals of providing us with memory and thought processing, then why can't they use some of their other abilities to achieve other goals??

If we don't have to use any huge powerful devices to get them to all work together so we can add 2 and 2 together in our minds, why should we need devices to get them to all work together to do something similarly amazing?? They'd just be doing what they naturally do already...

I don't think it's wrong or insane to think along these lines, the only way to find out if a road is a dead end is by travelling along it.

I must leave that acid and cannabis alone LMAO

Nonsense!!

The universe wants you to think and if there are things you can do to yourself to think better you should use them.

Not that I'm advocating the usage of soft drugs of course.

Perhaps the answer to time travel is not in a space ship but rather in the panets. If time dilation goes by speed, then if one were to live on a planet that has an orbit of a completly differnt speed then wouldnt time on the planet go at a different speed? if we can measure time dilation in small quantities on jet p[lanes then wouldnt it be plausible to measure the time dilation of the planets as they all travel at different speeds?

As far as I know the planet would have to be orbitting far FAR faster than our own OR we'd have to stay on that planet for a long time before we noticed the effects of time dilation.

The other thing is you could still only travel into the future, just at a different speed than we are on Earth.

You could let the Earth overtake you or overtake the Earth then return to the Earth.

What would be the point though?? It would be better to put yourself in suspended animation for a while and stay on Earth.

I think it might be interesting to do the same thing on a large scale though.

What's going to happen when we colonise other worlds either in this solar system or others??

If we colonised Mars or the planets with the fastest and slowest orbits, right now what would be the time difference for that colony in 100 years, at a guess I'd say - probably just a few seconds.

What would happen in another solar system though??

Could there be systems with stars that have far more gravity than our Sun and the planets orbit at greater distances??

I was wondering what the extra gravitational forces would have on time in a solar system like that.

Or say a black hole passed by close enough to distort time but not damage the system physically.

Or doesn't it work like that??

just cause you guys are such smartasses and keep getting my brainteasers here's another one.

 

There men stay at a hotel for the night. The innkeeper chargers $30 per room per night. The men rent one room' date=' each pays $10. The hotel porter leads them to their room. Later, the innkeeper discovers has has overcharged the men and asks the porter to return $5 to them. On the way upstairs, the porter realised that $5 can't be split evenly amont three men, so he decides to keep $2 for himself and return $1 to each man. At this point, the three men have paid $9 each, totalling $27 and the porter has $2, which adds up to $29. Where di the 30th dollar go?[/quote']

 

I can tell you what's wrong with this paragraph but not the one in the previous riddle you posted.

 

Where does 9 * 3 even come into it??

The men paid 30 but the innkeeper said that was too much and dropped their bill to 25. The porter took the 5 back to the men but gave them 3 and kept 2 for himself.

The maths for this should be

25 + 3 + 2 = 30.

and not

27 + 2 = 29

About using random number generators on a computer...

I'd have thought it would make the process of prediction more difficult, to visualise the number shown on a computer monitor, all those photons hitting the mesh to illuminate them. Wouldn't a dice or coin toss be easier to visualise for predictions since it's something you can both see and touch already.

there is a barrel with no lid and some wine in it.

one person thinks the barrel is more than half full' date=' the other says it's less than half full. without any measuring implements and without removing any wine from the barrel, how can they easily determine who is correct?[/quote']

 

Tilt the barrel to one side, watch the level of the wine as you tilt it until the wine touches the top edge of the barrel on one side. Look at the bottom of the barrel, if the opposite side of the wine at the bottom is touching the edge too then it's half full.

 

I hope I've worded that clearly enough...

 

Basically if you tilt the barrel till it's nearly spilling over one edge the opposite edge should be touching the join between the bottom of the barrel and the side of the barrel..

You're in luck' date=' I found this thread through Google and I just happen to be what you would call psychic.

 

I really don't know what to say, I've had a feeling I was different from other all my life (growing up a blonde in the southwest US will do that, too) but it was only recently I looked up several psychic tests and such and all lead me to the conclusion I am psychic- in fact, I am the rarest kind: an Ultra-Sensitive. Whereas, I'm told, other psychics must concentrate it comes like a second nature to me, but with one serious drawback: I cannot shut it off. This is really bad because one of the powers I exhibit is Empathy (everyone remember Counselor Troi from Star Trek? "Captian, I sense hostility.." ) When I get near people, I sort of sense their emotions and feelings but since I can't control it very well, so social situations make me uneasy. I also try to block it out as best I can, but in doing so, people think I'm rude that I won't maintain eye contact or shake hands. I also show precogitive powers, I practice with a deck of cards or dice now. In the beginning, I tried easy stuff like a coin or trying to predict a card color (50/50 chance for each) but now I'm getting to the point I can get suit, and sometimes the actual card. As for genetics, so far my father, mother and brother have have not shown any similar talents that I am aware of. If it is a gene, it must be recessive on my mother's side somehow, as I share more traits with her (lighter skin, blonde hair because my father has brown-black hair, and height). I'm not sure what else you'd like to know, but keep in mind I'm a regular person with these abilities I myself do not fully understand.. Although I am somewhat of a wierdo, I'm not a crystal hugging hippie!! [/quote']

 

I can see Cpl.Lukes point of view that the empathic ability is just you being really good at picking up signals from people that most of us don't notice. Then overreacting to them, as if you put yourself in the other persons shoes and if it's a negative feeling you get you don't like it so you shun it.

 

I'm not saying that's the case, just that as a non empath that's how I explain it.

But if you feel strongly enough that it is some kind of esoteric sense you've got and you're trying to test your precognitive abilities, I think you're going the wrong way about testing/developing them.

Since you can already sense with people use your precognitive on people too.

Look out of a window onto a busy street and predict the sex of the next person to walk by or what mood they're in or clothes they'll be wearing.

 

Or I'd get someone to hold the card up, which would be more of a test of your extra senses relating to people, in this case telepathy. If you can read emotions so easily...

 

The one thing I cannot understand about this kind of thing though, is why isn't more evidence of it provided to us non special people??

Why isn't it on the TV more??

If Uri Geller can become so famous for a spoon bending trick you'd think some people with real abilities would become just as if not more famous.

Which is why I remain a hopeful sceptic.

I don't thing that anybody trying to race here something,this forum should be about discus possib. of the time travel put it out ideas,even primitive ideas,discus that all,and if you will- came up with solution. That should be the goal!!!

I've no idea if you're joking or not but we were just having a laugh with each other, at least that's the way I meant it which is why I put the in there.

Edit:

BTW infinity to the power of infinity + 0.00000000000001, I reckon it's more like a draw. ;)

ok i've got one' date=' You've probably all heard it before, but anyway:

 

A man is walking in the desert, he is captured by some local tribesmen. They take him to their king.

The king says to the man: "you have a chance to say one sentence, it has to be true or false. If you say a true sentence I will kill you quickly,If you say a false sentence, I will kill you slowly."

 

The man says one sentence, and the cheif has to let him go.

 

Now I've heard many plausible answers to this riddle, all correct, and because of that I'm only going to accept the one I'm thinking of HEHEHE

 

have fun with that one if you dont already know it!!![/quote']

 

 

Say nothing and keep on walking.

 

 

Or say "If you kill me I won't be able to return to my people and tell them to open trade with yours, we have many incredible things to offer you and your people."

 

Or say "I was sent by your god as a prophet."

 

Or say "I am a healer and can heal your people with my magic."

 

Or anything that forces the king into a position where he wouldn't want to kill you at all.

if this were the case, then i guess if you but a barrier between you and the rest of spacetime, it is possible that the rest of spacetime travels backward and you may stay the, same travel forward, travel back at a different rate, ect. now what could be a barrier? black hole? might work, but sounds painful and hard to get out of.

I have a typically mad theory for overcoming that black hole problem.

A ship with a powerful anti gravity generator, as you fly into the black hole you turn the anti grav up so there is more gravity going out from the centre of the ship pushing things out more than they're being pushed in.

A bit like increasing the pressure in a submarine so it can dive deeper..

Small problems...

How the hell would you build a device capable of generating enough gravity to overcome the gravity a black hole generates? You'd need something as powerful as a black hole in the ship.

Then the ability to control the amount of anti gravity it generated, whilst flying in normal space everything would be pushed outwards away from it.

Flying into a black hole without being affected by gravity would be pointless, you wouldn't get crushed into a small point or affected by time dilation, you'd just fly over it wouldn't you??

The same would go for just hovering near it, the time dilation effect would be negated by the anti gravity bubble you and the ship were in, wouldn't it??

But you should be able to turn the anti grav device down so you were still slightly affected by it but even then the time dilation would only be as powerful as the amount of gravity you could safely deal with from the black hole. You would need a really tough ship to survive the "pressure"..

Another mad theory.

The only "time barrier" method I can imagine is finding out how particles naturally travel from one time to another, then how to block that natural process.

Doing it on a human scale you could then prevent a person from moving forwards in time with the rest of the universe.

That would be difficult because the device blocking time would travel to the future along with the rest of the universe.

Then there's the problem of travelling through space too. If you stopped the person from travelling into the future while everything else naturtally moved forwards in time, the Earth itself would move through time and space so the person would drift out of the field you were generating.

So it would have to tow the person along frozen in time.

You would have to find out how particles naturally move forwards in time and not only how to block that process but how to apply more force to push the person backwards in time and how to aim them at a specific point in space.

If the Earth was moving xd, yd and zd you'd have to fire the person -xd, -yd and -zd but the Earth orbits in a circular/elliptical orbit and it's rotating...

BUT when you fired the person back the sun and Earths gravity would still be affecting the person in the same way.. Unless you fired them backwards too quickly so the gravitational effects didn't have enough time to affect the persons location in space.

Like watching a DVD running backwards of a car driving forwards at twice the speed the DVD normally plays, our eyes wouldn't see everything that happened.

And once you've got them moving backwards in time would they stop moving backwards or just continue going backwards forever??

It would have to act like moving upstream in a river, push the boat upstream and it moves against the flow for a while but eventually the current slows it down to a stop where it starts to move with the natural current again.

BTW infinity plus 1.0000000000000000000000000001

Your move.

When time is considered a quanta' date=' its called the chronon.

 

10^-43 is planks time, and is how large a chronon is. Plank time is how long it takes a photon to travel planks length. Since nothing can go faster then light, nothing can take longer then 10^-43 to transition states. Thus, plank time (chronon) is the smallest unit of time.

 

http://www.daviddarling.info/encyclopedia/C/chronon.html

 

Time is 2D in almost every model except 4D relativity, and Newtonian mechanics. The discovery of sum-over-paths is why quantum mechanics has two, and sometimes more dimensions of time (dependent on the model there is one that has 1D of time). But yes, most theories have at least 2D of time.[/quote']

 

I can understand time acting as 1D forwards and backwards, I think I've got the grasp of how it would behave in 2D. Forwards, backwards but also sideways...

Something could exist now and here but also now and there as well, IOW an object could exist in two places at the same time.

Not only that an object could move diagonally - exist in a previous time and at two seperate locations in space. Same in a future time.

 

I've looked into the basics of string theory and they reckon that at the quantum level things exhibit weird behaviour patterns. Particles existing in two places at once, existing before they formed, jumping to the future etc..

 

Would that be applicable to a large object though or is it just individual quantum particles??

 

 

So assuming I can visualise the 2D time properly (as above) how would 3D or even 4D time manifest itself??

 

 

And if a quantum particle can exist in two places at the same time, could something really insane have happened and every single fundamental particle in the universe is the same one - just existing at the same time in different places and behaving slightly differently??

 

Could that be used to explain where everything came from out of the big bang?? The universe was originally just 1 single fundamental/quantum particle but it got "cloned" to exist in 2 places at the same time, then those 2 were cloned giving 4 and so on...

After cloning its neighbouring fundamental affects its behaviour in some way or the actual "cloning" process alters its behaviour.

 

Would that fit in with our model of the universe??

Time das not exist universaly only on earth couse we created.

So we we are saying that 1 hour is 60 min and 1 min is 60 sec and so on.

if we whanna created time machine we must start think out of the box!

Not like on earth but universaly otherwise we will never gona got to that point

to build one.

Why mathematicly it might be immpossible to biuld such machine that would be able to travel speed of lite 160 000 m/per sec.

Ya the all kay is in speed and as we know speed of lite is the fastest for us couse we do not know other.

the point??

we are in time machine! right now and everyday and if one of us can go truth that day faster than the others than the (He/she)traveling to the future!

So if are time is 24 h. one day then 240 h. is 10 days. So we all traveling to our time 24 h/per 24 hours-(86400/sec) 86400 time 10=864000 sec/per 24 hours.=10 days/per 24h!!! so far with me???

 

That is: 276480000000 miles/per 24 hours WOW!!! (160 000 m/per sec)

Can we build such machine?? No !!

But do we use suche machine on everyday life basis?? YES!!! The light!!!!

The point????

 

If we would be able to send Camera roling in form electrons example (FAX)around the globe for 24 hours Imagine 4 huge mirors around the globe in space distance of satelite so woud not have to be in deep space and lite betven those mirors evkos with camera roling would travel for 24 hours strait.!! than we have movie of the ares earth for next 10 days we know now if there is mager huricane and where!! Or huge asteroid next than 10 days wil araive and so on!!!

 

thing about that

 

 

PS:Sory for my engl.

I've got to agree with T-77 on his idea that we are living inside the time machine right now and that we've got to start thinking outside the box. Given the size of the universe it's a BIG box to think outside of.

I think what T-77 is trying to describe is a means of looking into the future by sending something there but how would you send the signal back in time to you??

Read on...

The only way I can ever see us being able to travel faster into the future is using a really fast space ship which is pointless IMO because it would be easier to perfect cryogenic suspension.

But for the big one - the only way I can ever see us travelling backwards in time is by learning how to convert matter into energy well enough to be able to do it with a full human being. We'd need to invent a molecular transmission system or something like that...

Then tachyons need to be discovered and how to convert the energy sent as a molecular transmission into tachyons so the energy a human has been converted to can travel faster than light and backwards in time...

So we'd need a biological molecular to energy convertor, a transmission system for that energy and a convertor to reconstruct the human from the energy.

That is gonna be TOUGH!!! The conversion from matter to energy would HAVE to be absolutely instantaneous!!!

If it converted from top to bottom or vice versa or in any other fashion like inside to outside.. Say it went top to bottom, what happens when the body is sending blood or thought patterns upwards and they try to pass into part of the body that's no longer there because it's been converted to energy?? The blood would spurt out of the missing part or the neural connection that was being made would break. A bit like a car driving along a road then all the road from a millimetre ahead suddenly disappearing.

So it's got to be an instantaneous conversion at both ends, hasn't it??

Freezing the subject in time would help with that process though, maybe cryogenics would allow the person to be converted to/from energy slowly..

Then we need a particle accelerator or some similarly incredible machine to turn those energy particles into tachyons and a way of guiding them to the reconstructor in the past...

I've read that most of the cosmologists like Hawkings reckon any time machine would only be able to send you back to the first time you got the time machine working.

With the idea I'm talking about you could only ever send a person to a time when the receiver was turned on and wasn't busy reassembling another person.

The BIG problem is keeping all the tachyons together in one package and filtering out tachyons not part of the package.

Back to T-77's future observatory, convert the signal to tachyons and send that back in time to your receiver..

And if you think all that's too out of the box because "Tachyons don't exist!!"

Maybe we need to invent them.

What if some advanced species in the future has invented/discovered them and they're sending beings or data back waiting for another less advanced species to figure out how to catch them and reassemble them into their original forms??

It's all science fiction though, a bit like men flying to the moon in rocket ships.

Or cooking a meal by firing radio waves at it.

Or making a glass ball light up when you connect two bits of metal wire.

Or reproducing a human being without sex.

Or sending a moving picture through the air to peoples homes.

Or...

So forget my idea cos obviously it's just a load of old bollo...