Spen,

The link you gave is to a subscription for Scientific American at amazon.com, not to the actual article. As such, I am not really able to study the article itself, and therefore the link doesn't really help. Is the article available somewhere on the internet?

My statements about physics are based on what I learned in physics class in college. I do not claim to be an expert in the subject. I would be interested to know if there is any new information that contradicts the information I was given then; however, I must admit to extreme skepticism with regard to the whole notion of "time travel," for it fundamentally assumes something about the future that is simply not demonstrable (that the future somehow exists in a way that could be accessed now). From what little I know, all that traveling at a very high rate of speed can do is slow down the passage of time for the traveler relative to all others not traveling with him.

When I took physics in college, I was taught that even if the speed of light could be reached by a PHYSICAL object (which the laws of physics deny as a possibility--for anything physical would completely disintegrate BEFORE it ever reached such a speed--only light and certain forms of energy waves can travel the speed of light) all that would happen is that FOR THAT OBJECT, relative to all other objects, time would not pass. This would NOT mean that time could be reversed or fast-forwarded, however.

You said: "You fail to attack the concept with scriptures.

Hmmm...I didn't wish to "attack" anything or anyone. That said, what you're asking seems rather unreasonable, spen. First you seem to want to assume that John experienced time travel, and the reason you give is the visions he saw, which could simply have been visions he experienced in the late first century A.D., and not necessarily time travel per se, and now you say I don't attack the concept with the scriptures? What gives?

John (not the Time Traveler)

Post Edited (JEE) : 5/4/2005 10:59:08 AM (GMT-5)