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How to send a message to the past using a previously known rabbit?

Let's say we have a wild rabbit that can see a few minutes into the future. Being an insensitive animal, it barely registers these abilities and mainly uses it to find food, avoid predators, save time in searching for mates and other similar things that rabbits do. After several months, some scientists finally manage to capture the subject for study and experimentation.

So after some testing that determines there's nothing special about this rabbit physically, we're left with one incredibly normal but prescient rabbit and a bunch of bored scientists.

So, after some time, one of the scientists realized that since this rabbit could somehow receive sensory information from the future and transmit it back to the present, it might be possible to transmit a message from the present back to the past! So now the question is: how exactly do we do this?

some restrictions:

• the rabbit is limited only by what it can consciously perceive
• a real rabbit knows what it will sense in the future and will respond accordingly (seek if good, avoid if bad)
• and you can't kill a rabbit or put it in an unacceptable risk situation because we only have one.

Court Ammon

Teach him to predict which football team the octopus will choose before the octopus makes his choice. Las Vegas will deal with this!

a4android

This scenario doesn't make sense to me. but I have published several articles on time travel. I can't figure out how this will work. They gave you a plus one from asking an unclear and difficult question.

Burki

I think this question might be acceptable as "weirdest time travel question ever". and I like it! :-)

Answers

Brian Woodbury

There's not a lot of interesting things that can happen in a few minutes, so do you mind if I extend the rabbit's precognition to a day?

This is a smart bunny, so you will teach him a cool trick.

The box has 20 open compartments. At the end of the day, you're going to place one of two colors in each compartment; red or blue. In the morning, the rabbit is allowed into the box for examination, and he quickly returns to the cage. For all the blue compartments that the rabbit visits that day, he enjoys it. For all the red branches that the rabbit visits that day, the rabbit gets a canceled treat. You train him every day for a month (how long do rabbits live?) and he eventually learns to run quickly into all the compartments he predicts will be blue, avoiding all the ones he predicts will be red.

You, the experimenter, find the best-performing stocks at the end of each day and convert their four-letter stock code to binary (5 bits per letter). Then map every 1 to blue and 0 to red. You put them in the appropriate compartments. Then feed the rabbit that made you rich.

Technically you sent a message to the past, but in reality you just let the rabbit tell you what he will see in the future. But it's the same thing, right?

Timothy Ebert

You finally realize that you have a special bunny and you want to send yourself a message at a time when you haven't learned the special properties of this bunny. How does a rabbit get from the cage to the maze? What research question prompted you to create this particular arena several years ago to be accessible? All this aside, you would have to have a red and blue ball in each box, and the rabbit would have to remove one. The rabbit must learn the 20-bit code for each stock, and now is the best time to buy, so the code alone is not enough.

JDługosz ♦

Can rabbits see color?

NonlinearFruit

Making money

Obviously, if a group of scientists is studying a rabbit that they claim can predict the future, funding will be an issue. So monetizing the unique abilities of this rabbit is simply necessary. 60 seconds isn't a lot of time unless we're talking about the stock market.

Here's the plan:

• Program your computer to turn LEDs on/off based on stock price.
• Train your rabbit to use LED buttons in the future
• Program the computer to buy/sell shares based on these button presses.

Step 1 - Materials: Skinner's assembly. Go grab a Raspberry Pi, wire, LEDs, buttons, and rent a Python book from the library (total cost: $55.70). Connect 2 buttons and 2 LEDs to the Raspberry Pi and then attach them to the rabbit hutch.

Step 2 - Training: Train your rabbit to press button 1, B1 when indicator 1, L1 lights up, and vice versa for B2 and L2. The tricky part is that we don't want the rabbit to press B1 because L1 is in this moment included. We want him to press the button if it is turned on after 60 seconds. He needs to press a button in the present based on LEDs in the future. See next section for details.

Step 3 - Programming. Program your Raspberry Pi to run predictable cycles on your favorite stocks. Then, for the current stock, compare its current value to the value it had 60 seconds ago. If it has increased, turn on L1. If it decreases, turn on L2. Finally, when the button is pressed, look for a promotion that will be displayed after 60 seconds. If button B1 was pressed, buy this stock. If it was B2, sell that stock.

Rabbit training

We need to immediately reward the rabbit for pressing the correct button, but we won't know if it is the correct button for 60 seconds. How it works?

To train a rabbit, use the same stock market setup only with fake (predictable) data instead of real data. First use a 0 second delay and reward the rabbit if he presses B1 when L1 . Once he understands this, introduce a slight delay. If he presses B1 when L1 is lit in 1 second, then reward him. Continue increasing the delay until you reach a maximum recognition distance of 60 seconds.

The reason this training works is because of the fake data. We know what light will be at what time, so we know if the rabbit is giving the right answers. Gradually start entering real data. The downside is that we don't know if it gave us the right answer when we use real data. So I would use fake data 90% of the time to make sure the rabbit stays accurate.

Foresight Expansion

Making money and teaching rabbits cool tricks is great, but we scientists. Can we see into the future? Yes we can.

There may be smarter stuff out there (i.e. better than O(n)), but it should expand our understanding of the future by a couple of minutes. Just add some buttons B2a , B2a and B2a , B2a . Train the rabbit to press B1a if it sees itself pressing B1 (after 60 seconds), and to press B1b if it sees itself pressing B1a (after 60 seconds). Once you do this, you will be able to see 3 minutes in the future.

The reason for this is that when L1 is on, the rabbit will see it 60 seconds before it happens and press B1. Then the rabbit will see it 60 seconds before it happens, and B1a. Then the rabbit will see it 60 seconds before it happens, and B1b. This button press is observed and we know that after 3 minutes L1 will turn on.

Conclusion

Since the computer is in use, the rabbit can press buttons at his leisure because an active observer is not needed. The rabbit can press the buttons as often as he wants, and the computer responds accordingly. In this example we are asking whether to buy or sell a specific stock, but in general we can ask any binary question in the future. The only requirement is that we ask in a predictable way. For example, we might ask, “Is the president alive?” and the rabbit can give us as much as 3 minutes of warning about the assassination of the President. All the computer would need to do is somehow judge whether the President is currently dead or alive.

There are uncertainties when making important decisions based on a rabbit's behavior. For example, to get a 3-minute heads-up, we need the rabbit to see L1 and feel it press B1. Then we want the rabbit to see him pushing B1 and we want to push B1a. Then we need the rabbit to see him pushing B1a and feel that he is pushing B1b. The greater the distance to the head, the less likely this will happen.

There are even more uncertainties when making decisions based on information from the future. For example, what if the rabbit told you that the President will die in 60 seconds. Then, with precautions taken, the killer gets a Ferdinand-style opportunity and takes it. So the president died because the rabbit told you "the president will die."

1 set is essentially a skin box, also you probably want a breeding population of these bunnies so you can study how they get their precognition without killing the geese that lay the golden eggs

Timothy Ebert

In this scenario, how do you get your 60 second self to not respond when the signal is transmitted to the 180 second self? For the chain to work, the bunny (who only gets 60 seconds) must do something at each step. I suppose in precognition you could assume that the rabbit knows what you will do and can adjust the message accordingly. You may also have problems if the bunny is now able to send a message to itself some time before it is trained.

NonlinearFruit

@TimothyEbert The computer does everything. If the rabbit decides to press the button, the computer will check the schedule to see what it plans to do in 60 seconds. If he plans to use fake data, he will check that the rabbit pressed the correct button. If he plans to use real data, he will buy/sell shares accordingly.

Timothy Ebert

If a computer is able to check what it planned to do in 60 seconds, then the computer is also precognitive. Yes? Then I'm at a loss as to whether "it" refers to the rabbit or the computer.

NonlinearFruit

@TimothyEbert The computer has planned when it will use live data and when it will use fake data. When the rabbit presses B1, the computer checks the schedule. If the schedule says "in 60 seconds we will use fake data and L1 will be lit" then the computer knows that the rabbit pressed the right button.

Andon

You are essentially talking to yourself. So you need to create a set of rules that you will follow. Let's say we have a rabbit in a long cage and we use Morse code to communicate with ourselves. We can persuade the rabbit to go to one end of the cage or the other - and mark one end as a dot and the other as a dash.

Now we come to the time. How do you tell when a rabbit is wallowing, or when it starts to "Pass" or finishes "Pass"? Well, you teach it tricks. Teach him to roll over to start and stand on his hind legs for a few seconds to finish. On the plus side, luring a rabbit to one end or the other can be done in a completely positive method, without any negative/insurance things involved.

You then allow plenty of time to wait and do nothing for the rabbit. This is your appointment time - you want to make sure you won't be interrupted while receiving anything.

I often send positive messages to my past self. I already wrote on Umka about how this idea came to my mind. I’ll quote myself (from my article 3 years ago):

I often think about my past self. I try to warm myself up in the past, help, support, convey at least some news that everything will work out and be fine.

For example, I was walking home one day, it was cold, my leg hurt, I could barely walk. And nothing makes me happy! The world has conspired - gloomy, gloomy, rainy, strict... I’m walking, feeling sorry for myself, and here a boy comes to meet me - jumping and jumping through the puddles. And he smiles. Well, I smiled. After that, my soul felt so warm, I flew home instead of hobbling.

I came home, turned on the water, ran a bath, and went to the computer to access the Internet. I open the mail, and there is a photo of a smiling boy. I smiled again and suddenly thought: what if it was I who sent the boy to myself walking along the road with a smile? To support yourself, to warm yourself?

Here. And recently we were at a mini-recreation center (dacha in the forest, on the shore of a lake) and I again caught the Buddha state (a state of complete peace, without internal assessment of my thoughts and the actions of others). Only this time I didn’t just enjoy it, but used it for good. :))) I decided to write a letter to myself in the past. It turned out to be a kind of channeling from my own Higher Self (but from the point of view of the observer, i.e. consciousness).

Dear Olechka!

Imagine parents who have prepared the necessary lessons for their child: teach him to walk, talk, identify dangerous objects in the house, find activities for the soul, etc.

Now imagine that the Higher Self is your parents, very loving and caring. So that you learn to distinguish between good and evil, the Higher Self creates situations in which you act as a victim (or vice versa as a villain). Since there is no good or bad at the level of the Higher Self, all experiences are perceived as learning.

If a mother explains to a child that it is forbidden to touch a hot pan because it will hurt, the child will not learn the lesson as effectively as if he himself touched the pan and was convinced that it was hot and unpleasant. If you feel like some situation in your life is unfair and difficult, know that you are holding a hot pot in your hands. :)

Put it back on the stove, don't wait for it to cool in your hands. The Higher Self sends situations in the order of your perception maturing. How parents teach children to speak first, and only then read books. Therefore, you will cope with all problems and troubles.

Your experience is unique and very important for the Higher Self. You know that it is harder to learn from your own mistakes than from others, but the lessons are learned many times more effectively.

I love you very much and am proud that you study so well. :)

This is the letter. :) I hope it reaches the recipient.

In general, if you take the current me and the past me, then that girl (girl and woman) and I have very little in common. But it was thanks to her mistakes and her actions that I became who I am.

I used to often think, damn it, why doesn’t Future-I come and help me! It's so difficult for me! And now I understand that her problems... how can I say this... In general, they are not problems at all. And the necessary lessons. Yes, difficult. Yes, sometimes they are cruel. But the Current Me has learned them. Completely understood. :)

And for this I say a huge thank you to my past self.

God is a tree

During the same Buddha state, a clear image came to me of how our relationship with God the Creator works. I don’t know whether this image came from the Higher Self or whether I read about it somewhere and once, in any case, it seemed very correct and fair to me.

So, God is a tree. Let's say an apple tree. Fruits (apples) are his children (i.e. his Creations - planets, various creatures and people of the Earth as well). When apples ripen on an apple tree and are one with their Creator, the tree, everything is good and harmonious, and interesting in its own way.

But at some point the apples decide to go on an independent journey. Some of them are torn off, some fall on their own. Each apple has its own special journey.

When the journey comes to an end, each apple wants to experience what it is like to be together with God again. But the apple cannot return to the same tree! It would be stupid.

The apple chooses to become a tree through the seeds that are hidden inside it. And it itself becomes God. Now we all as humans are striving to find the divine seeds within ourselves so that one day we can become like our Creator. :)

Here. A little simplified model, but I really like it. And you? :)

Vagan's theory

Surely, before the secret apple fell on Newton’s head, it fell more than once, and even now it falls on the heads of many people. The whole difference is that it was precisely when the apple fell on the necessary head that it became a pushing force, which led humanity to the law of universal gravitation. But let's be honest, gravity and attraction existed before that, and all of humanity knew about its existence. Only Newton clearly deduced the formulas and gave mathematically confirmed principles, and therefore the law of attraction, but this did not change the force of attraction, it remains the same as it was before Newton.

The same can be said about the existence of lightning and electricity. Humanity initially knew and idolized lightning, and then they invented electricity, now we use it to boil water, or transmit information at a distance. But before the invention of electricity, humanity used fires, pigeons, pulled strings, and threw bottles with writing into the sea to transmit information over a distance. Everything we are going to talk about today existed before us and exists just like all of the above. And now I’ll tell you what was Newton’s apple for me, which pushed me to create this theory. And so, a winter morning, the beginning of a new millennium. Before I woke up, I had a dream. In a dream I saw that I was opening a door behind which there was thick fog and the wind was blowing the fog out the door. When I woke up, I naturally forgot about the dream. I washed my face, had breakfast and got ready to leave for work.

An hour later I open the door, there is thick fog and nothing is visible, holding on to the railing I went down to the first floor, I lived on the third floor and when I went down I realized that a heating pipe had burst in the basement. Opening the entrance door all the way to ventilate the entrance, I automatically turned around and saw the fog blowing out the door. After walking a few steps, I stopped because I realized that I had seen it all. Yes, the dream I had an hour ago. Everything was repeated like in a movie. All this puzzled me, how I could see in a dream something that had not yet happened to me, but was about to happen. I know that people rarely have “prophetic dreams.” I thought so: I just saw something that was already in my head an hour ago. Consequently, the information that we receive at a given moment is transported by our brain to the past. It's like Baron Munchausen pulling himself out of the swamp by his hair.

I wanted to understand the very mechanism of what was happening. If we assume that the human brain consists of a receiver of information (everything we see, feel, etc.) and a transmitter of this information. However, the whole paradox is that this receiver receives information before this transmitter sends it. Yes! This is a paradox, however, if we imagine that the brain sends information to itself in the past, then it consequently receives information from the future, sent by it from the future. Now such phenomena as the sixth sense, prophecy, healing, fortune telling, shamanism, intuition, dreams - all these are links in one chain, which are easily explained based on the above definition.

Now, I will give a few examples that confirm and help to better understand this theory.

1. There are often such moments, such situations, even conversations, that it seems that this has already happened to us, is repeated, especially if it is impressionable. This is called Deja Vu.

2. You are walking down the street and in the crowd you see a familiar face; when you come closer, you realize that you have misplaced yourself, but after a couple of steps, you actually meet that familiar person.

3. You are thinking or talking about someone, and a second later he comes up. (Easy to say)

4. You are about to call someone, the call rings and it turns out that it is him.

5. And if you enter a room where everyone is looking at you smiling, most likely they were just talking about you.

6. Every day we pass by beautiful people, but as the song says: “So many good girls, How many affectionate names, But only one of them disturbs, Carrying away peace and sleep.” We pass by and forget, but we met love at first sight, most likely this is the one you will see every day in the future.

Let us quote the words of the great Freud: We do not choose each other by chance... We meet only those who already exist in our subconscious. Sigmund Freud

In Armenia they say: a person’s fate is written on his forehead. What a well-aimed hit to the brain!

That is, where all the information from the future is collected, in simple terms - fate. Since ancient times, people have wanted to know their future. Consequently, shamans, fortune tellers, etc. appeared. These people are able to obtain information from their subconscious, this is called God's gift. True, someone was born like this, and someone became like this after suffering stress, physical or mental trauma (every cloud has a silver lining).

Nostradamus, Vanga, Messing, Kessie. Many people used their gift for good deeds, although there are known cases when this gift was used for selfish purposes. After all, it is known how the priests in ancient Egypt, having a gift, influenced crowds of people, keeping them in obedience. Let's return to our theory about the transfer of information from the future to the present to oneself and from the present to the past.

An example of the application of the theory by the ancients.

Zodiac signs: People, reading their horoscope sign, are surprised at how correctly the definition is given, but according to our theory, a person initially, from the moment of birth, has this information in his brain, which he received from his own future, having matured, this person will read his horoscope and naturally the brain will send information from the future to the past, and the receiver of this information will shape it precisely in this direction. The whole problem is that astrologers use this theory for their own selfish purposes, although they themselves do not understand where it all comes from and therefore everything is attributed to the stars. Therefore, if an employer needs a person with certain predispositions, it’s easy, just look at his date of birth. But this, alas, is not a dictation from the stars, but information sent to us from our future.

Yes, all this is used even when applying for a job, but it is important to know the root of this predisposition. Sixth sense: In fact, every living organism has one. This is a natural process for the protection and development of all living things from the future. Information coming to us from the future protects and makes possible the fulfillment of this future, exactly as it is in the future. If the future does not protect itself, it may be lost, or it will change and go in a different direction. Consequently, from the future, we ourselves send to ourselves information and the direction in which we will go, or we will form new species or modifications, which Darwin called natural selection.

Informed means armed.

This applies to all living things. Later, we will consider all this from the point of view of physics. Several observations from life that many may have encountered on their life path, but did not notice. Leaving the house, I went about my business, a stray dog ​​joined me on the road, my homeless companion walked ahead of me. He and I passed many intersections, the dog had a choice to turn in any direction, but he walked and turned exactly where I should have turned. I saw the dog for the first time and this path was not everyday for me. It was as if she, one step ahead, saw where I was heading and made no mistakes along the way. Here it is appropriate to recall the octopus Pauls, who guessed the results of football matches. However, human selfishness took over and Pauls sank into the summer. And now I will give an example of transferring information from the future to the past: Television was showing a documentary about a complex operation that was performed on one woman.

The camera in the operating room was suspended from the ceiling and you could clearly see who was doing what in the operating room. Then they show an interview with this woman, which was filmed after her recovery, and she says that while under anesthesia, her soul separated and flew out of her body, she saw everything that happened in the operating room from above. Following our theory, nothing was separated from her, she was simply shown this filming, from this camera, and her brain sent this signal to her own past and she perceives this signal from her own future as a flight of the soul. It has been known since ancient times that rats are the first to leave a sinking ship.

Before the earthquake in 1988 in Armenia, according to numerous testimonies, rats ran away from basements to the roofs of houses, so expect trouble. People who survived the earthquake gave examples that it was intuition that helped them survive. Consequently, each brain transmits exactly at the frequency in which only it receives. However, there are exceptions; twins immediately come to mind. Scientists have conducted many experiments, the result of which was that the brain of twins broadcasts and receives signals, not only their own, but also that of their twin. Apparently, nature created them so identical that they perceive not only their own, but also the signals of their twin. Let's call this phenomenon the twin effect. Schools of fish are affected by this effect; let us remember how synchronously and instantly they change direction. A school of fish, like a single and collective brain, protects nature, they can be considered as a multi-eyed organism. If we take into account the huge number of people transmitting signals, the possibility of a coincidence of signals cannot be ruled out, which can also be correlated with the twin effect, that is, it is possible to see and perceive signals from the future sent by strangers living even in different historical eras.

Archaeologists find numerous rock paintings that depict the processes of hunting and everyday life, but there are also strange drawings that look like rockets, tanks, and people in spacesuits. This does not mean that the ancient artist saw all this in real life; the information could have been sent to him through the twin effect by modern people or from a more distant future. From history, there are known facts of the simultaneous discovery by scientists, independent of each other, of the same law and theory. Or, for example, composers created similar works. After all, it is generally known that a book was written about the sinking of the Titan ship 14 years before the Titanic tragedy. Scientists who study the brain still don't know what most of the brain does. Maybe it’s just a bank of information, the so-called fate.

Let's not forget that 1/5 of a person's energy is taken by the brain. One day my friend and I are drinking coffee and she tells me her dream, it was a whole story. I listened to her and remembered that I had recently watched a film that exactly repeated her dream. However, she said that she had not seen such a film; if you haven’t seen it, then perhaps you will, I added. It is known that Morgan returned his tickets for the Titanic, because his friend Nicollo Tesla, through numerous requests and persuasion, convinced Morgan to return this ticket. Thus Tesla saved Morgan's life. Here the intuition of the great Tesla definitely worked, and thereby Tesla saved the life of his friend.

Let's remember some examples that clearly show the transmission of a signal from the future to the past: Since ancient times, people have written fairy tales with fantastic phenomena: a mirror that shows what is happening far away, a flying carpet, a man who rides on a stove, a ring or an apple that rolls and shows way, now we understand where it all comes from, airplanes, steam locomotives that smoke like stoves, television, navigators. Where did all this come from in the heads of these storytellers, long before the advent of all these technical means.

And even now science fiction writers write about numerous new products that don’t exist yet. Therefore, if information comes from the future, it means that all this will be achieved by humanity. Information about the future is coming, which means it has yet to be achieved and therefore life, according to our theory, continues. One should not even mention the so-called commercial ends of the world.

Based on my theory, I can give some advice:

1. Never lie, because if you have to lie tomorrow, then the information starts to torment you yesterday.

3. Pray often. Yes, pray, because prayer, religion, faith - our whole theory is initially inherent in any religion and faith.

Only, everything is laid down on a dogmatic basis, thereby ensuring a pure future for a believer and a person living according to the canons of faith. They show on TV that a man has been possessed by a demon. Let's consider this based on our theory. In this case, the twin effect operates. A person falls into the frequency of a signal sent from the brain of his “twin”, for example a pathologist, a murderer or a person who lives in nightmare conditions. According to Vagan's theory, it becomes clear that the brain constantly transmits signals to itself in the past, but the question arises - where does so much energy come from?

I will answer the question with examples: Someone shouts loudly, and the other stands far away and listens. Which one expends more energy?

Yes, you are right, the one who screams. And in radio engineering, the transmitter consumes an order of magnitude more energy than the receiver. To understand where the energy comes from to transmit so much information through the brain. If the beam from the spotlight is directed at a mirror that we hold in our hand, then with the reflection of the beam on a distant screen, information about the trembling of our hand is transmitted. In this case, all the expended power falls on the spotlight. Surely nature has come up with the most rational system for writing information. The information carrier is immediately processed in the memory bank, new information is supplemented (everything we see and feel now and at this moment) and is transmitted further with the information carrier to our subconscious in the past. Let's stand in front of the mirror and look at our reflection. Do we see ourselves in the past, present or future?

Many will get confused and respond naturally in the present. This is where everyone who answered in the present was mistaken, because they lose sight of the fact that light travels the distance to the mirror and back to our eyes, and therefore time passes, therefore we see ourselves in the mirror in the near past. The mistake is that the fact that light travels at a speed of 300,000 km/s is missed, which is the highest known speed until recent times. In our theory, speed plays a fundamental role. And so we clearly understood and, using examples, came to the conclusion that information is transmitted, we also understood that in order to transmit information, a carrier of this information is necessary.

So what qualities should this medium have?

1. Must have infinitely high speed

2. Have no weight

3. Penetrate and pass through any obstacles. What particle could be like this and where could it come from?

Presumably this particle is a neutrino, the source of which in our case is the Sun. It is also assumed that our carrier of information moves opposite to the current of the Earth’s orbit around the Sun at an infinitely high speed. Passing through any obstacles, our particle picks up information and is guided by the fundamental formula: T=S/V Where T-time (the length of a human life) S-distance that a person travels during his life is meant together with the planet, etc. V is the speed at which this path was traveled. Since our carrier moves in the opposite direction at an infinitely high speed and carries information from the future to the past, the time during which the carrier will travel its life path is Zero, since V (speed) is of an infinitely large value.

That is, at the end of life, what we transmit, we receive without loss of time already at the beginning of life or even earlier before birth. Since we are talking about an infinitely high speed with which our information carrier particle moves in the opposite direction of time, it therefore encounters our brain endlessly and since it has an infinitely high speed, the connection between the transmitting and receiving parts of the brain is continuous.

That is, the recipient is constantly in the coverage area. As a result, information about what is about to happen reaches and lies within us before it happens. Information has always been and will be valuable. And information from the future is generally priceless. Naturally, whose hands this information falls into is of great importance. It's better to let everyone have it. Because there are still more good people. Let's say if Hitler had a device that read the future, he would not have started anything, knowing how it ended. It was said above that although lightning has always existed, people discovered electricity and everything began to develop very quickly, from the light bulb to the Internet. Imagine what can be achieved if you use high-speed particles instead of electricity. This is a matter of many generations. Humanity has long been thinking about intergalactic flights and teleportations.

I am sure we will achieve this, because we have been seeing UFOs for a long time. With the help of laser beams, we created a laser halogram, why can’t the future generation create even better mechanisms for overcoming time, for their various purposes. We are now digging the earth to find ancient civilizations, why can’t our descendants do this. It is clear here that they do this carefully, so as not to accidentally kill their pro-food grandfather, and therefore themselves. Because of this, it is impossible to catch or establish contact with UFOs. Before birth, how does the embryo of any creature develop? The head develops faster than any other part of the body. Maybe because there is a brain there that, before birth, collects all the information from a future life (fate or soul) and it is no coincidence that children are the first to recognize their mothers, even if they are adopted.

Gasparyan Vagan (May 2014)

Almost as long as humans have existed, letters have existed. The man felt a great desire to send his letter to others. But before people learned to write, they asked messengers or friends for help to convey some information to another person.

But only after the invention of writing, people could convey their thoughts to another person without intermediaries.

In ancient Egypt, messages were tightly wound on a special stick, and they were written on papyrus. After writing, they gave this stick to the messenger, who took it to the recipient. People already understood the importance of transmitting information at that time. Messengers were protected by a special law and enjoyed privileges. Messengers from ancient Greece enjoyed similar rights.

In Ancient Rome, road networks developed very well, and people came up with faster transport and recipients received letters much faster, and people began to move faster.

But then it was still very far from the advent of a special postal service. It was only when many roads were built and trade between countries began to develop that people began to think seriously about mail.

Special horse replacement stations were placed on the roads; a person could replace his tired horse with an already rested one. Also, various carts and carriages appeared near the stations. Of course, they transported letters, cargo and people. A special postal service appeared in a number of European countries. The letters were placed in bags on which they wrote where to deliver them, after which they were given to the carrier.

Of course, their delivery was irregular and very slow. Everything depended on the condition of the roads and the condition of the drivers. In summer, letters were transported more slowly, and in winter faster. Only after the postal service also began to transport letters did the work immediately go faster.

Renowned theoretical physicist Dr. Roy Mallett works at the University of Connecticut. But once upon a time he was a little boy who read The Time Machine by H.G. Wells. Mallett was 10 years old when his father died. While reading this book, his imagination was captured by the idea of ​​time travel. He dreamed of going back in time to prevent his father's death.

This was not a passing fad. He studied physics in college and was particularly interested in black holes. He believed that understanding black holes would allow him to get closer to the solution to time travel. At this time, black holes were considered something unimaginable, but at least science recognized them. But the idea of ​​time travel was seen as "unimaginably crazy," Mallett says.

A number of coincidences helped him figure out this issue.

“Black holes were just a cover for me,” he jokes.

Albert Einstein characterized time as the fourth dimension. He said that time and space are connected, which is why physicists talk about time-space. It is believed that time-space curvature occurs near black holes. Mallett was interested in whether these conditions could be replicated on Earth.

He graduated from college and was ready to start research right away. But it was a time of economic decline, and it was difficult to get a job in research institutes. He began working with lasers: studying their cutting characteristics for industrial use. Two years later, he finally got the job he wanted at the University of Connecticut.

To understand the essence of his research, we should recall two of Einstein’s theories:

1. According to Einstein's theory of special relativity, time is affected by speed. It has already been proven that in laboratory conditions subatomic particles can be transported into the future through strong acceleration. Particles appear in the future in a new state, without decaying over the usual period of time. The aging of particles slows down as they accelerate.
2. According to Einstein's general theory of relativity, time is also affected by gravity. Clocks on orbiting satellites move at a slightly different pace than clocks on Earth unless specifically adjusted.

Dr. Mallett knew that gravity can affect time and light can create gravity. Suddenly it dawned on him: “Lasers!”

From his previous work with lasers, he remembered a ring laser, which creates circulating light. “Maybe circulating light can do the same thing to gravity as a black hole,” he thought. He was interested in the idea of ​​whether a circular laser could create a time warp to form a loop - the present, the future, and then the past.

An illustration showing what a hypothetical time machine might look like. The laser creates rotational movements of light, bending time-space inside the machine. Illustration: ProfessorChandraRoychoudhuri’slaboratory, courtesyofDr. RonMallett

If a laser could create such a loop, then information could be sent back in time in binary form. It is possible to create a series of neutron spins that represent 1s and 0s, thereby creating a binary message, Mallet explained.

If Dr. Mallett had gotten the research job he wanted immediately after graduation, he would not have gained the laser experience and knowledge he needed so many years later. “I had experience that my colleagues working in this field did not have. This allowed me to make this breakthrough that would not have been possible otherwise,” says Dr. Mallett.

Now the difficult task lay ahead - to test this theory through mathematical calculations. And again chance intervened. After coming up with this idea, Dr. Mallett was diagnosed with heart disease. He took sick leave and had a lot of free time.

Freed from his committee duties and lecturing, he concentrated entirely on his research.

“If I hadn’t had that time, I don’t know if I would have been able to make a breakthrough or even just work on this idea,” he recalls.

It took him six months to prove that light moving in a circle could bend space. Then it took several years to prove that the curvature of space can cause the curvature of time. Although it was a long, painstaking effort, Dr. Mallett notes that it took Einstein 10 years to prove that gravity affects time.

“It was worth it... to see the equations that prove time travel is possible is exciting,” says Dr. Mullet. New inspiration came when a scientific journal published his article on time travel.

Very nervous, he made a presentation of his discovery to relativity experts at a conference held by the International Society for General Relativity and Gravity. He was especially afraid to talk about time travel in front of Dr. Bryce DeWitt, a famous physicist who worked with Einstein. Devitt gave a presentation right before Dr. Mallett's presentation, which made the task even more difficult.

At the end of Dr. Mallett's presentation, Dr. DeWitt stood in front of the audience and said, "I don't know if you'll be able to see your father again, but he would be proud of you."

This one sentence made him feel that his years of work had not been in vain, his original goal had been accomplished. Although, as a child, he dreamed of preventing his father's death, he felt that the discovery he had made was already more than enough.

For young Mallet, his father was an ideal and an object of respect. His mother worked hard to raise Mullet and three other children in the Bronx area of ​​New York. In the 50s in America, it was not easy for a black woman to find a good job, and the family quickly found itself in poverty. He realized how difficult it was for her, a 30-year-old widow whose husband had died of a heart attack at a young age, to work to support her children.

Dr. Mallett wrote about his life and his discovery in the book The Time Traveler: A Scientist's Personal Mission to Bring Life to Time Travel.

How long will it take to create a time machine?

Dr. Ron Mallett doesn't solder in a garage like Doc Brown from Back to the Future. He is a theoretical physicist, not an experimental physicist. This means that he is only working on mathematical proofs that a time machine will be able to work in the future. But building it is the task of experimental physicists.

The start-up costs alone could be $250,000. These funds will be spent on feasibility studies, which will determine the costs of the pilot phase.

Donations for this research are made to the University of Connecticut Foundation. “$11,000 has already been raised, from generous donors ranging from enthusiastic schoolchildren who gave $15-$25, to an interested young couple ($500) and a bereaved parent ($1,000),” says Dr. Mallet.

He believes that after conducting a feasibility study, the entire further process will take five years.

Philosophical questions

If one day a time machine is built, what will happen when it is turned on? A message from the future may come immediately.

The time machine will only be able to send messages through time when it is turned on. If the machine remains powered up for 100 years, it will be possible to send binary messages at any time within those 100 years. A person from the future could know what day the machine was activated and send a message at that time.

But if we could go back in time and solve all the problems in the world, if we could go back and prevent all the bad things that happened in our lives, what would we do for our personal growth? How would our society change?

Dr. Mallett says the movie Time Patrol, starring Jean-Claude Van Damme, captures this idea well. Van Damme's character controls time travel to prevent people from using it for personal gain. His wife dies, and he is tempted to go back in time to save her.

“The purpose for which time travel is used should be decided by society, not individuals,” says Dr. Mallett. The Large Hadron Collider, the world's largest particle accelerator, is controlled by an international consortium. From his point of view, the use of a time machine would be controlled in a similar way. He believes that time machines will be no more common than nuclear reactors. People won't have personal time machines in their yard for random use.

From Dr. Mallett's point of view, the best way to use a time machine is to warn people about natural disasters in order to prevent the death of thousands of people from tsunamis and hurricanes.