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To: Gregory D. John who wrote (17144)	6/6/1998 11:21:00 AM
From: Raymond James Norris	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 39621

Really? In which model and how? Is it as "practical" as quantum tunneling? - which is to say: possible for macroscopic objects, but with extraordinarily low probability. I believe Einstein was the one who proved it was possible using the train analogy. If one could travel nearly as fast as light, one would accelerate into the future. If one were to travel at the speed of light, time would stand still. If one were to travel faster than light, one would move into the past. Of course, time travel may never be possible by the will of God. I could be wrong but time travel would give people the opportunity to try and change significant things in the past (i.e., trying to sink the ark or something ludicrous <g>). Things like that would crash the entire earth since so many things are dependent upon so many things (kill one person from the year 200 B.C., and you've killed thousands). Ray

To: Gregory D. John who wrote (17144)	6/6/1998 12:00:00 PM
From: Father Terrence	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 39621

Gregory: There have even been designs for creating working time machines but we do not yet have the technology to build them. One that comes to mind is a 1/2 mile long spinning cylinder that must be composed of matter as dense or denser than a white dwarf and the spin rate must be at least 1/2 the speed of light. You would go backwards or forwards in time depending on the approach vector of your spaceship to the machine. The only drawback is you cannot go farther back than when you first "turned it on" and no farther forward than the thing actually lasts. If it lasts 1,000 years you could go up to 1,000 years in the future. The point is, since we are beginning to see how it could be done, it's possible that within the next few hundred years rudimentary time machines can and will be built. Father Terrence