How to Build a Time Machine

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Written by Michael Skinner

Intro: A time machine I theoretically possible. Fitting a time machine into a DeLorean and powering it with a banana peel is a trickier proposition.

Step 1: The first thing you need to do when building a time machine is to get naked. You will note that Arnold Swarzenegger in the movie Terminator was forced to undergo this same procedure when he time travelled so clearly time travel is a clothing optional experience.

Step 2: Time travel, according to our current technology would require a gravitational singularity. The popular name for a gravitational singularity is a “black hole.” What is a singularity? Well picture this: you are breaking the law by driving 90 mph in a 70 mph zone down I-95 in Florida when suddenly a sinkhole opens up and you and your car fall into a deep, dark pit. The sinkhole was a singularity in the fabric of highway space time. It was a dimple in the otherwise smooth and featureless two dimensional surface we call a highway. Some will argue that roads are three dimensional structures and that traveling down a road is a 4 dimensional experience. As for the 1st objection, we do not phase through the road and fall to the center of the earth, nor do we float above the road. Rather we confine ourselves to its surface. As for the aspect of time and roads—you got me there. Traveling at midnight is definitely different than travelling at rush hour. So I will not push the analogy too far.

Now black holes have so much junk being sucked into them that you can not actually see them. Since black holes absorb light through gravitational attraction, seeing into them would be highly unlikely anyway. But if you could see into a black hole, some scientists would say that the black whole was “naked” and therefore a “naked singularity.”

To get the effects we need from a naked singularity we may need a black hole of odd shape. It may be drawn out into a cigar or cylindrical shape. We might set it spinning like a top and give it a charge of static electricity.

Step 3: Now theoretically, if you could fly a space ship around the naked singularity you could travel in time. So let’s recap the things we will need to build our time machine

A) A spaceship

B) A naked singularity

C) A highly energetic power supply

I would suggest procuring the power supply in order to avoid such things as being sucked into the black hole and to power your radiation shields. It is likely that you will be swimming in a soup of high energy particles, X-rays and gamma rays so Good Luck!

11/11/11

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