X-Message-Number: 21137 From: Date: Wed, 12 Feb 2003 05:07:02 EST Subject: Time travel history --part1_160.1ba1e853.2b7b76c6_boundary Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Time travel history. I have said before that time is not a dimension, only a dimensional parameter for global symmetries such U(1) in Special Relativity. On the other hand, by Gell'Mann principle: "In physics, everything not forbidden is mandatory", if continuous time can't be patched to another epoch, discontinuous instants could be related to different epochs. As a joke, I have said that time travel is bad sci-fi or CIA-fi. There is the complete story as I know it. It starts in Haiti sometime in the 19th century. A traveler (don't know his name) explored the country and the life and religion of the citizens, namely the woodoo. He was told about woodoo spirits, including the fearsome "tonton macoutes." For people here, macoutes was not a legend, they was a tangible reality. The explorer was show a proof: A macoute cranium: Something looking as a rat head but scaled up to bear size. At that epoch, fossils where a novelty with the discovery of dinosaur bones in England. Haitian insisted that some had seen living macoutes. We know now that Haiti-Dominican Island is part of a larger island realized only when an ice age reduces the ocean level. Sometime, storms in Amazon or Central America uproot some trees and animals are sent to sea on these "boats." Rodents can live here for some time, eating the tree bark. Some have reached the Caribbean large island and evolved here to produce some giant forms. At the last hot era before the actual one, ocean rise broke the large island into smaller ones, similar to what we see today. That was the signal for the collapse of the "super-roden"world. We know that Chinese dragons come from the many fossil dinosaur bones found by farmers in some regions, so the macoute legend could have been built the same way from fossil remains. For local peoples, the bones would have been proof of a living beast only some years before. Another possibility, is that some "macoutes" survived until the arrival of the first Caraib Indians and that these would have transmitted a tradition about them. When the last Caraibs meet the African imported slaves, they could have transmitted that tradition... Back to home, the explorer wrote a book and the physicist Oliver Heaviside got a copy. It seems Heaviside took the Macoute story seriously and found a way so that modern people could see "living fossils." He had a very bad opinion about his contemporary, including scientists, so he published nothing about that in science journals. Some time from that, Nikolas Tesla demonstrated in public some of his inventions. Heaviside attended at one of the show and was impressed. He meet Tesla and they had some talks on advanced ideas, including the macoute problem. Back to New York, Tesla built a machine using the Heaviside idea. The results where somewhat distressing: The device worked as a weapon, inducing electroshock-like effects to nearby observers. From there, Tesla got a lifelong phobic reaction to anything spherical (a part of the system may have been a sphere...). He don't stopped here yet and build another machine, using it seems the Mikailovich. Filipov's idea about spin 4 interferometric systems (He spoke largely at that time about the possibility to transmit all over the Earth electric energy without cables. That has been interpreted as radio-wave transmission, but the original writing don't matches that idea). It seems the Filipov-Heaviside solution worked, and as there was some discourse at the time about Martians, Tesla said he had contacted some "extraterrestrial." From the historical basis of this system, he was more probably in the time contact business. After some experiments, there was a "problem" and he never more used that technology. At his death in 1943, all his paper where stolen by some intelligence service, they are "confidential" even now. What is public domain has been combed, so that everything about these systems has been removed. Surely, some thefts have made some copies of the Tesla system, but they seem to have encountered too "the" problem. Can we guess at the Heaviside idea? Put in modern form, it could be something as that: Assume we build a relativistic event as the trivial representation of a supersymetric simple group, that would let a right handed spin field whose the 0-form defects would make a hyperbolic Lorentz cones system. That geometry would cover the "elsewhere" region and so allows time travel. Because SUSY groups are local entities and SR ones are global, only a set of instants could be linked to two or more epochs. A Regge trajectory extension of the basic inverted spin space would realize the "meet macoute world." This may be seen as a zero dimensional space with zero dimensional attached phase space, so there is no room for time. If the system is used at two epochs, the two uses get superimposed, making a kind of time communication. A brief set of such snapshots would make a kind of "movie film." The Filipov-Heaviside solution would use full blown SUSY, good luck with it! That system can work only if kept secret, because only the macoute version is manageable and when known, it can be fooled by the full SUSY. No doubt, after stem cells, the next forbidden science will be SUSY theory. To have made something as that at the end of the 19th century ,explains why Olivers Heavside took the scientists of the epoch in poor estimate, against his genius they was really dumb. Yvan Bozzonetti. --part1_160.1ba1e853.2b7b76c6_boundary Content-Type: text/html; charset="US-ASCII" [ AUTOMATICALLY SKIPPING HTML ENCODING! ] Rate This Message: http://www.cryonet.org/cgi-bin/rate.cgi?msg=21137