OT(?): REAL WORKING TIME MACHINE

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collection? Perhaps finding out that the 0 feedback seller from China might
not have been completely honest? Want to finance that complete collection
of the coins of Romulus Augustus? Get a matching pair of aureii of Caesar
Augustus?

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of $121.00. Only 4 days and 20 hours to go to get this bargain of bargains
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"If you will not fight for the right when you can easily win without
bloodshed,if you will not fight when your victory will be sure and not
too costly,you may come to the moment when you will have to fight with
all the odds against you and only a small chance of survival.There may
even be a worse case;you may have to fight when there is no hope of
victory,because it is better to perish than to live as slaves."
---Winston Churchill

That is actually quite clever, IMHO.

Sadly, while General Relatively does allow for backwards-going solutions to
time travel, you need to fly your time machine in a prescribed orbit around
a 'superstring', a linear black hole which may not even exist in the
universe (now called a 'multiverse', BTW). Plus GR is almost certainly
inaccurate in some of its details.

On the Bright Side, a forwards-going time machine is relatively simple to
make, and the physics behind it (Special Relativity) is well known and has
been proven by direct measurement. You just need a really fast rocket.
What you could do is take your coin collection with you in the rocket,
accelerate to near the speed of light, then come back to earth. You would
find (depending on your speed) that only a few years have passed, but on
earth you might find that a thousand years have passed and now your
collection is worth millions of dollars.

Sadly, you would then be bitterly disappointed when you walk into a
convenience store and see the 'Have a million $'? Need a million $' Dish.
Inflation, you know.

--Keith

"Jim Higgins" wrote in message
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Ever lose the bidding war on the last coin you needed to finish your
collection? Perhaps finding out that the 0 feedback seller from China
might not have been completely honest? Want to finance that complete
collection of the coins of Romulus Augustus? Get a matching pair of
aureii of Caesar Augustus?

Has this seller got a DEAL for you! 44 bids so far and a current bid
level of $121.00. Only 4 days and 20 hours to go to get this bargain of
bargains and only $20.00 for Priority Mail shipping.

http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll...9364 441&rd=1

--
"If you will not fight for the right when you can easily win without
bloodshed,if you will not fight when your victory will be sure and not
too costly,you may come to the moment when you will have to fight with
all the odds against you and only a small chance of survival.There may
even be a worse case;you may have to fight when there is no hope of
victory,because it is better to perish than to live as slaves."
---Winston Churchill

Fletch wrote:
Sadly, you would then be bitterly disappointed when you walk into a
convenience store and see the 'Have a million $'? Need a million $'
Dish. Inflation, you know.

The real bitch would be that the US *still* hasn't discontinued the
penny, and you'd have to cough up 10,000,000 cents just to make change.

--
Bob