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TIME WITHOUT END: PHYSICS AND BIOLOGY IN AN OPEN UNIVERSE (*)

Freeman J. Dyson Institute for Advanced Studies, Princeton New Jersey 08540 Reviews of Modern Physics, Vol. 51, No. 3, July 1979 (c) 1979 American Physical Society Edited for Internet Science Education Project by Jack Sarfatti. Quantitative estimates are derived for three classes of phenomena that may occur in an open cosmological model of Friedmann type. (1) Normal physical processes taking place with very long time-scales. (2) Biological processes that will result if life adapts itself to low ambient temperatures according to a postulated scaling law. (3) Communication by radio between life forms existing in different parts of the universe. The general conclusion of the analysis is that an open universe need not evolve into a state of permanent quiescence. Life and communication can continue […] Read More

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1988: TIME TRAVELLER

by Ken Meaux I take pleasure in sharing with you the following occurrence because I personally interviewed one of the parties involved, and have repeatedly gone over the incident with him these past six years. L.C. (his real initials) has been my friend for fifteen years, but as we visited together one day about six years ago, he told me of this most amazing event in his life which haunts him to this day. L.C. and a business associate, Charlie, (fictitious name) had just finished lunch in the small Southwest Louisiana town of Abbeville. Still discussing their work, they began their drive north along Highway 167 towards the Oil Center city of Lafayette about 15 miles away. The date was October 20, 1969, and […] Read More

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Time Travel: Fact, Fiction & Possibility

Jenny Randles explores time anomalies in her recent book Reviewed by Douglas Chapman Jenny Randles’ new book is a fascinating, if loosely organized, look at the concept of time travel, and the possibilities that it may actually be happening. Randles presents many of the theories on the subject,a nifty one, whatever its validity, being that what we experience as UFO aliens are time travellers from various parts of the future. This would certainly explain why the beings show an interest in humanity. Another wonderful speculation concerns the real reason for the sinking of the Titanic being as deadly as it was. It seems that the ship’s weight was supplemented by the presence of all those voyeuristic time travellers who wanted to experience the last […] Read More

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1995: PRACTICAL TIME TRAVEL

The Steven Gibbs Interview by Mark Chorvinsky (A version of this interview appeared in Strange Magazine 14, Spring, 1995) LETTER FROM THE FUTURE? Mark Chorvinsky: How did you get interested in Time Travel Steven Gibbs: Back in 1981 when…I really can’t figure out whether it was a joke or not…I got a letter one day when I was up at Norfork and it was supposedly from my other self from the future. I wasn’t sure if it was a joke or not, because there was just no way the letter could be written up so fast…it was the first day I was there. I just went to the restroom for a few minutes after we got done playing a game, and I was just […] Read More

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Are Parallel Universes Real?

Farnsworth: “There is it. The edge of the Universe!” Fry: “Far out. So there’s an infinite number of parallel Universes?” Farnsworth: “No, just the two.” Fry: “Oh, well, I’m sure that’s enough.” Bender: “I’m sick of parallel Bender lording his cowboy hat over me!” –Futurama Our existence here in this Universe is something that we know is rare, special, beautiful, and full of wonder. Image credit: Kelly Montgomery. Some things happen with amazing regularity and predictability: the occurrence of days-and-nights, the tides, the seasons, the motion of the heavenly bodies, and so much more. The physical laws that govern the Universe are very, very well understood, and that understanding has helped us construct a rather comprehensive view of exactly what our observable Universe consists […] Read More

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Time Travel, Time Machines & Alien Contact – A Rare Interview From 1964

This recording is from the KVOS Channel 12 Films, Center for Pacific Northwest Studies, Western Washington University, Bellingham WA. 700 year old Nordics, Space Travel, Time travel (f =1/T), technology swap. Related articles Why the Usa Forced the Empire of Japan Into World War Ii The Horrors of Public Education The Quest For The Metal Library A Conversation with Jo Ann Richards Regarding Captain Mark Richards U.S The Age of the Pyramids The Conquistadors encounters with Giants

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Parallel Universes

Parallel Universes, Parallel Worlds, Alternative History. Everybody has a opinion on it and SciFi writers have talked about for years, the problem is what do they really mean?   The Parallel universe idea is that for every possible outcome there is a parallel universe somewhere in which that timeline happened. Which means that for every thought and decision, there’s a universe where that opposite thought and decision happened.    Me myself and I all agree its reminds us of the 90’s SciFi TV Show ” Sliders ” or “Fringe” or go back to Robert Silverberg‘s awesome book “The Gate of Worlds“: the book that made me think about this at 9. Each choice spins off a new path, so follow this path and look at some of the info […] Read More

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How to Build a Universe That Doesn’t Fall Apart Two Days Later

by Philip K. Dick, 1978 First, before I begin to bore you with the usual sort of things science fiction writers say in speeches, let me bring you official greetings from Disneyland. I consider myself a spokesperson for Disneyland because I live just a few miles from it—and, as if that were not enough, I once had the honor of being interviewed there by Paris TV. For several weeks after the interview, I was really ill and confined to bed. I think it was the whirling teacups that did it. Elizabeth Antebi, who was the producer of the film, wanted to have me whirling around in one of the giant teacups while discussing the rise of fascism with Norman Spinrad… an old friend of […] Read More

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Who or What Built the Universe?

So who created the universe? Is it the work of a supreme being, or merely the inevitable, mindless outcome of physical law? In answering this question, members of the clergy usually vote for God. Scientists — who prefer explanations subject to laboratory tests — figure that everything we see today was as inevitable as wrinkles, once the Big Bang established physics. Stars and planets were cooked up as huge clouds of matter collapsed and coalesced. Life — amazing as it seems — was just an epiphenomenon, a sticky bit of chemistry that tufted the occasional cosmic niche. The universe wasn’t constructed for our benefit in this scenario: We’re just here for the grins. The split between religion and science is relatively new. Isaac Newton, […] Read More

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Plausibility of Time Travel

This might seem like a subject of Science Fiction, but it encourages a lot of thought in matters both physical and philosophical. A recent paper in Scientific American discussed whether time travel is indeed feasible and why current physical and philosophical objections don’t preclude the possibility of time travel. I’ll attempt to describe how they deal with the objections here and explore the plausibility of time travel. First, relativity allows for time travel into the future: as I mentioned in a previous missive, journey at a very high acceleration and you’ll return to earth years into the future, aging only slightly. This, of course, ignores the fact that we can’t travel at such high speeds as of now; this issue will be addressed later. There is a […] Read More