Time Travel
You super duper lot are recycling over 300 whopping tonnes of paper, card, plastic and aluminium a year!! That’s the equivalent weight of 300 rhinoceroses, blimey.
Go team Laundry, high five (I can’t master the high five or any five, I was in a night club once and someone offered me a low ten behind the back - I thought he wanted to jive, so grabbed hold of his hands and started to shuffle. He wasn’t impressed)
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Guys; I had this whole great set up worked out last week - I was “time travelling”: writing the email from the Friday before and sending it into the future - well didn’t blumin work did it, but even though am now doubting that this analogy even made sense, the fruits of my labour will not be lost:
Let’s talk time travel, here is what my research has yielded
The short story The Clock That Went Backward by Edward Page Mitchell, which appeared in the New York Sun in 1881, was probably the first widely-published story to feature time travel. Since that time both science and fiction have expanded on the concept of time travel.
Of course we were all visited by a time-travelling elephant this year:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/in_pictures/4977870.stm
I missed it, my dratted sister went though and didn’t invite me, cuh!
weee heee, look at this:
http://www.bttfmovie.com/bttf_site.html
But let’s take a breather and talk science -hmph it’s all looking negative - it seems that 1.21 jigawatts is not enough to make it happen…
Time travel in theory
Some theories, most notably special and general relativity, suggest that suitable geometries of space-time, or certain types of motion in space, may allow time travel into the past and future if these geometries or motions are possible. Concepts that aid such understanding include the closed timelike curve.
Many in the scientific community believe that time travel is highly unlikely. This belief is largely due to Occam’s Razor (he said, if there are two competing theories choose the one that makes the least number of assumptions for example if your watch stops and two explanations spring to mind: 1. you have been paid a visit by miniature-person-like-invisible-creatures that have constructed a social hierarchy in which the most subservient members are forced to continually push against the hands of your watch 2. the battery is dead; Occam would opt for 2)…
Any theory which would allow time travel would require that issues of causality be resolved. What happens if you try to go back in time and kill your grandfather? Also, in the absence of any experimental evidence that time travel exists, it is theoretically simpler to assume that it does not happen. Indeed, Stephen Hawking once suggested that the absence of tourists from the future constitutes a strong argument against the existence of time travel—a variant of the Fermi paradox, with time travellers instead of alien visitors. However, assuming that time travel cannot happen is also interesting to physicists because it opens up the question of why and what physical laws exist to prevent time travel from occurring.
I say we are all time travellers, the only limitations are the forwards motion and travelling at a rate of one second per second, deep eh?