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      I found a time machine


A few definitions first.

Time is what the clock says it is according to the director of the United States Naval Observatory where the GPS Master Clock is kept.

A time machine alters the passage of time for objects inside the machine.

Time travel to the future. A clock which shows the time T is synchronized to UTC (T=UTC) and put in the time machine. The machine is set to "future" and some time later the clock is taken out and compared to UTC. Now T<UTC so less time has passed for this clock and from its point of view is now in the future.

It turns out there is a machine that does this. It's the ISS, but as a time machine it's not very useful because it takes a year to travel 0.014 seconds into the future. On the ISS the combined effect of speed and gravity cause time dilation to slow down time.

https://spaceflight.nasa.gov/station/crew/exp7/luletters/lu_letter13.html

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Einstein found it first. Sorry.

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In theory.

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Finders, keepers. Sorry.

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I'll give him that, but even he could not explain WTF happens in the double-slit experiment.

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Greta Thunberg is the next Einstein. She will save the whole world.

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Do you mean you built a time machine...out of a Delorian?

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But is it on your side?

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yes it is.

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Easy. I’ve already looked into it for myself.

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I love my Ronco Time-O-Matic

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Man, would I love to see the loud, hyper infomercial for that one in the middle of the night.

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I was told there would be no math 😐

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I wish I had a time machine right now and could fast forward past this virus.

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You would need 1.21 gigawatts of power to do that.

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We could steal some Plutonium from some Libyan guys I know...what could go wrong?

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