April 15, 2007

$20,000 Away From Time Traveling


Yes. John Cramer, a physicist of the University of Washington, is traying to get $20,000 to carry out an experiment which aims to find evidence of a photon traveling back in time.

Although, if succesfull, it would grant the world an explanatión for the quantum entanglement and, of course, evidence proving that the Delorean might exist one day, not even he thinks it would work: "It doesn't seem like it should work" said Cramer. In fact, when an experimetn is too weir even for DARPA, it must be extremely weird("the guy from DARPA decided what I was trying to do was too weird even for DARPA." Said Cramer.).

On the other hand, is the try not worth $20,000? What if Dr. Cramer is right? What if even if he isn't right, he finds something else out? One has to give a man like Dr. Cramer some credit, he is not just anybody, he is the author of The Transactional Interpretation of Quantum Mechanics, (Here it s explained very summarized). History is full of weird ideas with a succesfull ending and $20,000 shouldn´t be a barrier.

Hasn't he thought about a personal credit? Or he has, but he thinks it would be a waste?

Is it not enough proof of the impossibilty of time travel, the absence of time tourists from the future (argument by Stephen Hawking)?

If Cramer is right, will we be able one day to wake up at noon, and be at work on time at 8:00am?