(lots of reading)

alternately theres HowStuffWorks on time travel picked by camro77 3 years ago

According to Professor Paul Davies "Scientists have no doubt whatever that it is possible to build a time machine to visit the future". Since the publication of Einstein’s Special Theory of Relativity in 1905, few, if any, scientists would dispute that time travel to the future is perfectly possible. picked by shredtone 3 years ago

Don't burn those bridges! picked by suebe 3 years ago

Time has been studied by philosophers and scientists for 2,500 years. Astronomer Carl Sagan had it right when he said that time is “resistant to simple definition.” Lots of us think we know what time is, but it is hard to define. You can not literally see or touch time, but you can see its effects. The evidence that we are moving through time is found in everything – our bodies a... read full post picked by kakana 8 months ago

This article is a little old but it attempts to explain why the classic "time paradox" is a no brainer... it can't happen. picked by BrownTrout 3 years ago

Boston Harbor offers us a chance to go back in time without leaving the 21st century. This link tells us how. picked by meggysue 2 years ago

Why doesn't this ever happen to me? picked by 86Apex 3 years ago

The answer depends, of course, on your perspective, NASA astrophysicist Alex Antunes writes at ScientificBlogging. It's different for a Hollywood director vs. a physicist, for example. picked by bornbad 8 months ago

...With amazingly realistic illustrative sketches. picked by donteatpoop 3 years ago

Unless your time travelling vessel is telepathically linked to you and translates things in your head then you're going to struggle to communicate with people from the past. Luckily, there's a phrase book for the scenario now. picked by pocksucket 1 year ago

Time is no longer a simple line from the past to the future, in a four dimensional world consisting of three dimensions of space and one of time. Instead, Roger Highfield envisages the passage of history as curves embedded in a six dimensionals, with four of space and two of time. picked by DrNothing 2 years ago

Daylight Saving Time ends in most of the United States a 2AM on Sunday, November 1st (Hawaii and Arizona have been on standard time all summer). It makes you wonder how we ever got our clocks coordinated in the first place. Believe it or not, standard time and time zones were the railroad industry’s idea. picked by bingo 5 months ago

Sometimes they swing, sometimes they miss. The best, and worst Time covers reveal how we looked at news and ourselves in peacetime, war, depression and boom. picked by mobase 2 years ago

Trippish does it for you! Just enter in your start and end location along with your departure time, and it calculates a travel route, as well as weather forcasts at regular intervals between your starting point and destination. It even can automatically determine the best time to leave based on current forcasts. Quite handy for those cross-country Plimeets. picked by sidran32 5 months ago

"This is the time to support pro-democracy activists in Cuba, not provide the Castro regime with a resource windfall," Martinez said. "Changing travel restrictions for U.S. citizens will simply allow Americans to contribute to the resources available to the Castro regime to perpetuate its repression." picked by bingo 11 months ago

The pilot episode of the world-famous nature show. Some critics have said that it is the best nature-related piece of cinematic poetry that's ever been made. Nature Time was first broadcast on PSD.tv in Pullman, Washington. picked by jemtman 3 years ago

Our consumer society may still rely on trains to transport things, but those things are pitched to drivers in cars, not to passengers on trains. And so, as early as New Jersey, I realized something that would only feel remarkable a few days later, in the Nevada desert: it’s still possible to travel 3,585 miles across the United States without being the target of billboards, golden arches or ... read full post picked by dollyllama 1 year ago

The year is 2069 and Adam Coil V is celebrating his eighteenth birthday alone in his room with his computers. Adam's mother had just put one hundred and fifty bancredits into a digital dollarfund and given him his very own access code to the account. picked by suebe 3 years ago

If the experiment works, it will arrive before it was sent. Which begs the question, what happens if he decides not to send it once it arrives? picked by jaxomlotus 3 years ago

People who procrastinate tend to be less healthy, less wealthy and less happy. picked by civicracer18c1 3 years ago