I missed it. Did anyone see where he explained why he is in OUR time? He talked about going to the 70's, but I do not remember reading why he is in our time.
You know when I first read his information, I was impressed by some of the technical insights, but now that I have thought about it I have to go with my second reaction...the guy just read "Timeline" by Micheal Crichton or watched "The One". Our understanding of quantum mechanics, singularities, and multiverses is just too limited for us to create such a device in 30 years. I know, but look how much we have done in the past 30 years...I can not believe it. Our understanding of the universe is just too incomplete...
Think about it...We are just beginning research into research teleportation and have only met limited success in teleporting single photons, and this is with a specially built machine at either end of the experiment. See link:
http://travel.howstuffworks.com/teleportation.htm
Here is a quote from the article:
"For a person to be transported, a machine would have to be built that can pinpoint and analyze all of the 1028 atoms that make up the human body. That's more than a trillion trillion atoms. This machine would then have to send this information to another location, where the person's body would be reconstructed with exact precision. Molecules couldn't be even a millimeter out of place, lest the person arrive with some severe neurological or physiological defect."
"If such a machine were possible, it's unlikely that the person being transported would actually be "transported." It would work more like a fax machine -- a duplicate of the person would be made at the receiving end, but with much greater precision than a fax machine. But what would happen to the original? One theory suggests that teleportation would combine genetic cloning with digitization.
In this biodigital cloning, tele-travelers would have to die, in a sense. Their original mind and body would no longer exist. Instead, their atomic structure would be recreated in another location, and digitization would recreate the travelers' memories, emotions, hopes and dreams. So the travelers would still exist, but they would do so in a new body, of the same atomic structure as the original body, programmed with the same information."
I realize that now I am going to get the arguement that I am talking about teleportation not time travel. There really is not a difference. The first step toward time travel (classical sense) is teleportation. I say this because they are the same thing. Both teleportation and time travel are non-contiguous movements through spacetime. Teleportation is movement through the 3 expanded spacial dimensions; time travel is movement through the 1 expanded dimension of time. I do not think we are going to build a machine in the next thirty years that will let us do this. (much less a portable one, or one that will allow us to transmit information at faster then the speed of light).
It could also be argued that this portable machine of his would need to be able to find the location of a parallel world in the multiverse. Not only finding a similar world, but a world with a similar timeline. Mentioning timelines...I do not see how his device could compute the amount of discrepency between our timeline and his. This would require knowing the location of every atom/ subatomic particle on Earth at this point of our timeline as well as this point in his history, then it could figure a percent discrepency.
Well, I could keep going, but I think I made my point. I am not saying any of this is impossible. I am only saying that I do not see it as a possibility in our immediate future, and by his own admission he comes from a world with a very similar timeline.
- KitNyx