Here comes Skynet!

[twittkop]

Tiny Brain-Like Computer Created - Yahoo! News

I thought John Connor was supposed to take care of this.

[cyismydog]

Haven't you been watching Sara Connor the terminator chronicles? This thing is the turk! We're all going to die. (run around screaming)
jk

[bos]

We laugh now, but this kind of stuff is scary.

[The_Architect]

We laugh now, but this kind of stuff is scary.

No kidding. It's amazing how almost all things from science fiction of 40 years ago is becoming reality. Cloning, Robots/AI, Time Travel(we can "go into the future, kinda"), etc.

What's next?

[bos]

No kidding. It's amazing how almost all things from science fiction of 40 years ago is becoming reality. Cloning, Robots/AI, Time Travel(we can "go into the future, kinda"), etc.

What's next?

Im still waiting for the Mad Dog hoverboard Back to the Future promised me.

[dustinal]

No kidding. It's amazing how almost all things from science fiction of 40 years ago is becoming reality. Cloning, Robots/AI, Time Travel(we can "go into the future, kinda"), etc.

What's next?

Wait...what? When did that happen?

[The_Architect]

Wait...what? When did that happen?

It's called Time Dilation and I believe it's been proven. Basically you have two people with Identical watches. One person on earth, the other in a fast moving space vehicle. It's been shown (by using Atomic clocks) that the one moving in the air(or space) has a slower time of reference. Basically the person flying has had their time "slow down."

Now, take something like that and apply it at much higher speeds (ie. the speed of light) and you'd be able to "go into the future" by not aging like the people on the ground...

Here is a Wiki link:
Time dilation - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

I'll try to dig up the article I read a while back about this actually working in an airplane using Atomic clocks.

[The_Architect]

This isn't the article I read a few years back but it describes the scenario. The've done this using Atomic Clocks

"We know for certain that time travel is possible," he told CNN. "For instance, scientists have demonstrated that objects traveling at high speeds age more slowly than stationary objects, so if I traveled on a high-speed rocket into outer space and returned moving close to the speed of light, I could travel thousands of years into the Earth's future."

Article: Fast-forward to the past: The great time travel debate - CNN.com

[jumbopackage]

It's called Time Dilation and I believe it's been proven. Basically you have two people with Identical watches. One person on earth, the other in a fast moving space vehicle. It's been shown (by using Atomic clocks) that the one moving in the air(or space) has a slower time of reference. Basically the person flying has had their time "slow down."

Now, take something like that and apply it at much higher speeds (ie. the speed of light) and you'd be able to "go into the future" by not aging like the people on the ground...

Here is a Wiki link:
Time dilation - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

I'll try to dig up the article I read a while back about this actually working in an airplane using Atomic clocks.

This is nothing new. Einstein's theory of relativity pretty much explains the phenomenon. Planet of the Apes is pretty clear about it as well.

You aren't really "time travelling" just basically pressing "fast forward" to everything not relative to your speed (though at "low" speeds it's a very slow fast forward).

[The_Architect]

This is nothing new. Einstein's theory of relativity pretty much explains the phenomenon. Planet of the Apes is pretty clear about it as well.

You aren't really "time travelling" just basically pressing "fast forward" to everything not relative to your speed (though at "low" speeds it's a very slow fast forward).

Correct. Fascinating nonetheless :)

[dustinal]

This isn't the article I read a few years back but it describes the scenario. The've done this using Atomic Clocks

"We know for certain that time travel is possible," he told CNN. "For instance, scientists have demonstrated that objects traveling at high speeds age more slowly than stationary objects, so if I traveled on a high-speed rocket into outer space and returned moving close to the speed of light, I could travel thousands of years into the Earth's future."

Article: Fast-forward to the past: The great time travel debate - CNN.com

Oh, OK. I knew about that already. But that's just theory. Nobody's ever actually done it. I was the under the impression from what you said earlier that somebody had actually traveled through time recently...

[jumbopackage]

Oh, OK. I knew about that already. But that's just theory. Nobody's ever actually done it. I was the under the impression from what you said earlier that somebody had actually traveled through time recently...

Appolo astronauts actually have a few hundredths of a second on us, if I remember right.

[dustinal]

Appolo astronauts actually have a few hundredths of a second on us, if I remember right.

Good point. I think I've heard that too, now that you mention it. All right then!

[Phaedrus]

Appolo astronauts actually have a few hundredths of a second on us, if I remember right.

That's just the "gravity-well effect". Time flows slower as gravitational pull grows stronger. One of the challenges to accuracy during the early days of ballistic missiles was that time speeds up the further you go away from the gravitational pull of the earth.

So, in order to increase the accuracy of the missiles, which just use time-of-flight to determine range, they need to build in a "correction factor" for the gravitational effect on time.

Now, on time dilation, which uses relative speed as a variable, there is a well-known experiences using subatomic particles called Muons, which decay at differing rates depending on speed. The theory is that their decay is only relative to the observer.

I'm not a scientist, I just think science is cool. Maybe a "real" science geek would like to address the issue better than I can.