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Old July 12th 18, 05:44 PM posted to sci.astro.amateur
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Default Professor from second-rate university thinks he's going to time travel

Paul Schlyter wrote in
:

On Wed, 11 Jul 2018 15:33:28 -0700 (PDT), RichA
wrote:
On Wednesday, 11 July 2018 02:23:10 UTC-4, Quadibloc wrote:
On Tuesday, July 10, 2018 at 8:34:10 PM UTC-6, RichA wrote:
I'm surprised this guy isn't at the Institute for Advanced

Study...not really.

I would tend to agree with Lee Smolin: time really does pass,
and

as Arthur C.
Clarke said, time travel "is a fit subject for fantasy, not

science".

Still, your title made me think of an old science-fiction
story

about a failed
attempt by a scientist at Unknown University to solve the

terrorism problem by
nipping it in the bud.

John Savard


What I like are moronic "scientists" who think that somehow,
man is

going to create "wormholes" when it would take an atom smasher
the size of the galaxy just to see elementary particles as they
really are. We will never have the power.

Do you think


Since, in his case, the answer to this is "no, of course not, he's
too stupid to ever do that" further questioning is rather
pointless.

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