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Normally, I summarize the TechStuff podcast topics in a single blog post at the end of the week but Monday’s topic deserves special attention. Chris and I talked about a few photographs, forum posts and videos that some people say are evidence that we will eventually figure out how to travel through time. That’s an extraordinary claim and it requires extraordinary evidence. So how does the evidence stand up to scrutiny?
From 2000 to 2001 someone calling himself John Titor claimed to have traveled to the past from the year 2036. His predictions caused a flurry of conspiracy theories, but whatever happened to him? Tune in to get Chris and Jonathan’s take in this podcast.
MIT Paper Works out Paradox; Fry may not be own Grandfather
by Josh Clark | August 19, 2010
This, the “grandfather paradox,” is so named because of the thought experiment used to illustrate it. A time traveler could theoretically go back in the past and murder his own grandfather, which would render the time traveler non extant, and thus would lead to the paradox of the time traveler never having been able to go back in time in the first place.
Everyone’s familiar with the idea of time travel — but how would it work? This week Robert and Allison explore time travel, and this episode focuses on traveling to the future. So tune in and learn why you should — or shouldn’t — meet your future self.
The 2038 Problem and the Office of the Future on TechStuff
by Jonathan Strickland | November 25, 2009
Greetings from the World of Tomorrow TechStuff! This week, Chris and I fired up the DeLorean, set the time circuits to The Future and blasted off for another pair of exciting podcasts. We have to take a moment to thank Liz, our amazing editor. It’s Liz who adds in all the special sound effects that make our shows even better (in this host’s humble opinion, at any rate). She’s also the person responsible for trimming out mistakes. Not that we make mistakes often. Ahem.
On Monday, we answered a listener request to explain the 2038 problem. Do you remember the hysteria surrounding 2000 and the dreaded Y2K problem? The 2038 problem is similar to that. It all hinges on the way Unix-based systems keep time. The whole story is both bizarre and interesting. For example, did you know that according to Unix, time began on Jan. 1, 1970?
Then on Wednesday, we take all our listeners on a field trip to the future to see how offices will take advantage of emerging technologies. We also learn that the TechStuff Time Machine can get mighty stuffy.
This is a fantastic test for HowStuffWorks readers. It is a quick technological quiz based on this premise: If you were to travel 2000 years into the past, how useful would you be in jumpstarting technological advancements? This 10 question quiz will help you figure out your technological usefulness. If you do poorly on the [...]
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There are plenty of legitimate reasons why I’d like a time machine. Each one’s for my own benefit; I believe too much in time travel paradoxes to assassinate Adolf Hitler or Idi Amin or anything like that. Sure, there’s a pretty good chance the deaths of millions of people would never take place, but there’s an equally good chance that a disaster of even greater proportions might transpire. No, I leave the big stuff in history to the course of history.
I would like to travel back in time so I could purchase Coca-Cola stock in 1919 during it’s initial public offering. Then I’d likely head futureward and find Jackson Pollock to pick on him because his paintings were so terrible and he was a big jerk. Then I’d probably get something to eat somewhere and go home and go to bed. That’s just one of the jaunts I have planned after everything … falls into place.
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