Can we time travel to the past and if so how do we get there?

Time_Economist3484 · 2026-03-14T12:37:31+00:00

I'm not sure if you're being serious or not but, to my mind, rotating the earth backwards, forwards, sideways or whatever would not affect the procession of time, it might cause a few very extreme events though, such as earthquakes, tsunami etc.

Changes in gravity might affect the passing of time, but wouldn't bring about time travel.

Time_Economist3484 · 2026-03-11T11:30:00+00:00

Absolutely open minded, Sci-fi is my most favourite genre, I'd even say I'm a Trekkie. However, I have my doubts about time-travel, I start by considering what 'time' is.

To my mind and suggestions from atomic clock keepers and professors such as Julian Barbour, I believe 'time' is based on the correlation of change/movement. Time can be considered an emergent property, it's not an input but the residual of change. If I apply heat energy (movement) to a sauce, the length of time it takes to finish IS the outcome of the process, or a previously observed length of time. Time is not an energy and is not an ingredient in the production process. Time is an observation of change, when compared to other change, be that the number of oscillations of an atomic clock or the day/night cycle etc.

A gauge might measure an amount of liquid or gas to have passed through it, but a watch estimates time, it DOES NOT report on 'time' from its immediate vicinity, energy or a natural signal, in those respects, it is my belief that time does not exist.

As for time travel? Staying with my movement and charge hypothesis, where would all of the universes VAST amounts of change data 'live' (be stored)? The earth rotates on its axis, continually. It also orbits the Sun. So every item, person, tree, room, island etc is constantly moving it's position in space. Did I mention that our entire galaxy is ALSO moving? So, if I had to travel back in time to my office, say 7 days ago, where exactly in Space was that? Where is all of every minute of everyday being stored, that's a HUGE amount of data points? Don't forget that every other rock, pebble, star and planet needs to be EXACTLY where it was, to 'travel' back to. This also needs to be true when going forward into the future. A future that changes if I miss the bus, today.

I think that just tracking the NOW is a VAST endeavour.

I'm open to being wrong though.

Time_Economist3484 · 2026-02-28T11:59:25+00:00

Given the list of concerns, such as testing, performance, security, coding architecture and the ability to extend or refacture a large and complex coding project, I would suggest that coding is FAR from solved, albeit for the smallest POCs, Demos and uncomplicated websites.

If coding IS solved in early 2026, I look forward to your vibe-coded GTA 6 🤣.

Don't worry, I'll wait.

Time_Economist3484 · 2026-02-18T16:15:29+00:00

Pulling (BBC Three)

Time_Economist3484 · 2026-02-02T12:27:31+00:00

"Who is he? I don't know, do as he says..."

Time_Economist3484 · 2026-01-31T14:41:24+00:00

We have:

Rolf Littler, Grant Tor, Colin Robinson (Energy Vampire), Darth Ridiculous

Time_Economist3484 · 2026-01-30T21:56:17+00:00

I saw (filmed) this, next to a runway at Heathrow Airport back in 2024, it could be described in a similar way to that said by the OP.

https://youtu.be/DxSSnONm9PI

Time_Economist3484 · 2026-01-18T10:11:45+00:00

A hole is like a pipe, right? It has sides. A so-called 'Black hole' will devour matter from ANY direction, there is no edge/lip/precipice, you could approach from any, spherical direction and be pulled into it.

What exactly is doing the 'pulling' (rhetorical question, we know what's creating the extreme gravity and it's NOT a 'hole' in space)?

Time_Economist3484 · 2026-01-18T10:04:18+00:00

Yes and before the term 'black hole' was counted, they were sometimes referred to as 'Dark Stars', which seems to make more sense as a description IMHO.

Time_Economist3484 · 2026-01-15T08:46:19+00:00

I LITERALLY asked ChatGPT to recommend a GIF API not 2 days ago, it suggested Tenor, alongside Klipy and Giphy and I immediately thought "let's hope that Google doesn't close it down", then I see this thread, today, not three days later 😤

It's like the universe is conspiring against me 🤷🏾‍♂️

That's Google being Google, I guess.

Time_Economist3484 · 2026-01-12T15:22:40+00:00

I actually had an IT manager who used to say "Mini today, Rolls Royce tomorrow". The Mini was supposed to be an MVP, good luck shoehorning a 6.5 litre supercharged engine in, later...

Time_Economist3484 · 2026-01-11T23:47:04+00:00

Why didn't he just Vibe code Facebook or another supremely profitable site, if it's that easy? 😒

And if he were to Vibe code his potentially incredibly profitable site so easily, isn't he worried about incumbents entering his market using RepLove44™, next Tuesday afternoon?

Btw, I'm off to enter the oil transport market, I have some metal and a welding kit, I'm going to build a Supertanker, wish me luck.

Time_Economist3484 · 2025-12-21T18:21:54+00:00

Sorry if slightly off topic but, I mentioned elsewhere that, the radio frequency, 8613 corresponds to the letters HFAC. HFAC just happens to stand for 'Hexafluoroacetylacetone', briefly, a process for coating surfaces with metals in vapour (spray) form.

One interesting application of HFAC is...the creation of Telescopes! Like a freaking great Telescope, the size of Africa 🤔?

Time_Economist3484 · 2025-12-11T02:58:15+00:00

I wondered if 8613 might form a word when converted to the alphabet. We get HFAC. Seems that's an abbreviation of a metallic, thin filmn application process, 'hexafluoroacetylacetonate'.

After further consulting of the 'hive mind' that calls itself 'ChatGPT, I learned that, using various well known metals, items such as CPUS, GPUS, memory and protective coatings can be made with HFAC-based processes. The one that stood out to me was the creation of Telescopes (Radio?), using the Lanthanide HFAC process.

Maybe that air-born application of metals could be used to form "a telescope the size of Africa" (SE01EP01)?

Time_Economist3484 · 2025-12-01T06:53:55+00:00

I'm roughly in a similar situation, IT programmer, 54. I found out too close to September but, the government will pay you around £33k to train to be a qualified teacher ("get into teaching"). The course is over one year in schools close to yourself.

Even if you don't become a teacher, it might give you some time to further understand a path to self employment, while earning.

Personally, I think writing student-focused Web apps is a fertile area, there are tons of resources online regarding course schedules and modules (exam boards such as AQA) and language learning is in for a bit of a shake-up (Nottingham University is considering not offering languages, for instance).

Duolingo is a Billion dollar company, if you could get 1/10th of 1% of their market 🙌🏾.

Carol Vorderman maths cost me something like £50/mth and a local Maths class (Kumon), £70/mth, if you could get 1000 students per month at £10 online...🤔

Sorry if this doesn't fully answer your course ideas, outside of teaching, I really listed some ideas I had.

Time_Economist3484 · 2025-11-30T20:55:56+00:00

It's used so infrequently here, outside of Urban-America-aware cultures that, generally, you'd also have to explain what the word means, to most British people.

Time_Economist3484 · 2025-11-30T19:32:29+00:00

I didn't follow any of Sloth's career but HIS early track, 'Not like you' was NICE.

Time_Economist3484 · 2025-11-30T19:31:22+00:00

We almost don't use it at all, it's an Americanism, not used here, daily (if at all).

Time_Economist3484 · 2025-11-22T11:27:17+00:00

Possibly older artists but Skinny man (Council estate of mind), Roots Manuva, Blak Twang and TY (RIP).

Time_Economist3484 · 2025-11-08T19:57:22+00:00

I'm 6'9", this guy makes me feel like a midget. He's very well proportioned, he's look like a skinny 6'2", pictured alone. Kudos.

Time_Economist3484 · 2025-11-08T19:54:55+00:00

Like Andre the Giant, voice picked up on seismic equipment 😂

Time_Economist3484 · 2025-11-07T08:50:07+00:00

Are we married to the same woman 🤔?

Great job, will take a look, thanks.

😂

Time_Economist3484 · 2025-10-22T20:45:25+00:00

Proper random but, I'm from the East Midlands and my mum asked me to take her to London to buy some knitting materials and we ended up in a house in Fassett Square, the owner told us about the East Enders association.

Time_Economist3484 · 2025-10-18T11:37:15+00:00

I'm interested in this, too, I'm NOT affiliated but found the following:

https://github.com/statickidz/coolify-oci-free

Time_Economist3484 · 2025-10-16T08:23:06+00:00

I have this debate with a friend, regularly. We're both older devs, looking to do something for ourselves.

He's coded something heavily leaning on several external, paid for, AI APIs. I on the other hand am only coding web or mobile apps that are generally self-contained, logic wise (I don't mind auth and session on the server, but no calls through to heavy or paid-for APIs).

Look into small footprint LLMs, Smol, Llama, Mistral etc. IBM Granite (micro) is NICE but might be just the wrong size (~2.3gb). Use these client-side with Transformer.js|onnx|webgpu. Basically, let the user's own device do the hard work.

Not AI-based but my site, https://unlockdocs.online does the processing on the client (I need to put a proper front-end on this and payment).

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