# Time machine for sale. Is this guy for real. **URL:** \ **Category:** Factual Questions\ **Created:** [October 3, 2001, 8:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/time-machine-for-sale-is-this-guy-for-real/85148 "2001-10-03T08:06:27Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![pkbites](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pkbites/32/204_2.png) [@pkbites](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pkbites)\ **Post date:** [October 3, 2001, 8:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/time-machine-for-sale-is-this-guy-for-real/85148/1 "2001-10-03T08:06:27Z")
[http://home.inreach.com/dov/ttskemat.htm](http://home.inreach.com/dov/ttskemat.htm) What exactly is this pile of junk supposed to do to allow one to time travel? And what are the “grid points” this guy keeps talking about. ---
**Author:** ![douglips](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e68b1a/32.png) [@douglips](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/douglips)\ **Post date:** [October 3, 2001, 8:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/time-machine-for-sale-is-this-guy-for-real/85148/2 "2001-10-03T08:13:05Z")
> [@](#): > > What exactly is this…supposed to do to allow one to time travel? I thought the name said it all - HYPERDIMENSIONAL RESONATOR. UN-altered REPRODUCTION and DISSEMINATION of this IMPORTANT information is ENCOURAGED. ---
**Author:** ![Mangetout](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mangetout/32/19_2.png) [@Mangetout](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mangetout)\ **Post date:** [October 3, 2001, 9:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/time-machine-for-sale-is-this-guy-for-real/85148/3 "2001-10-03T09:04:30Z")
No seriously, I think this one is real, who’d have thunk it?, the whole physics community proven wrong by a joker with a curly wire :rolleyes: ---
**Author:** ![Punoqllads](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/d2c977/32.png) [@Punoqllads](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Punoqllads)\ **Post date:** [October 3, 2001, 9:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/time-machine-for-sale-is-this-guy-for-real/85148/4 "2001-10-03T09:18:02Z")
Personally, if someone invents a time machine, and isn’t the holder of US Patent #1, they’re either a liar or a fool. ---
**Author:** ![Viscera](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/258eb7/32.png) [@Viscera](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Viscera)\ **Post date:** [October 3, 2001, 10:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/time-machine-for-sale-is-this-guy-for-real/85148/5 "2001-10-03T10:41:10Z")
Well, the ordering number is in the local (Omaha) area, should I order something? 😉 Vis ---
**Author:** ![Mangetout](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mangetout/32/19_2.png) [@Mangetout](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mangetout)\ **Post date:** [October 3, 2001, 10:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/time-machine-for-sale-is-this-guy-for-real/85148/6 "2001-10-03T10:56:58Z")
Dear Sir Please deliver 1(one) time machine to the address above, I will pay you yesterday. ---
**Author:** ![skripek](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/7bcc69/32.png) [@skripek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/skripek)\ **Post date:** [October 3, 2001, 12:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/time-machine-for-sale-is-this-guy-for-real/85148/7 "2001-10-03T12:06:07Z")
Hmmm…According to the website it runs off of regular 110v AC power… wait a minute 110v AC POWER! What happens if you decide to travel outside the boundaries of time where 110v AC power can be had? Obviously the seller here needs to attach this device to some manner of sports car if they really want it to sell. ---
**Author:** ![RealityChuck](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/realitychuck/32/195_2.png) [@RealityChuck](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RealityChuck)\ **Post date:** [October 3, 2001, 12:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/time-machine-for-sale-is-this-guy-for-real/85148/8 "2001-10-03T12:30:22Z")
Wait a minute! That’s my time machine! I was about to invent it tomorrow! ---
**Author:** ![Mangetout](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mangetout/32/19_2.png) [@Mangetout](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mangetout)\ **Post date:** [October 3, 2001, 12:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/time-machine-for-sale-is-this-guy-for-real/85148/9 "2001-10-03T12:34:35Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by skripek \* > \*\*Hmmm…According to the website it runs off of regular > 110v AC power… > wait a minute 110v AC POWER! What happens if you > decide to travel outside the boundaries of time where 110v AC power can be had? \*\* or Europe ---
**Author:** ![Squink](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/b5e925/32.png) [@Squink](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Squink)\ **Post date:** [October 3, 2001, 12:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/time-machine-for-sale-is-this-guy-for-real/85148/10 "2001-10-03T12:39:39Z")
The site in the OP explains that: > [@](#): > > THIS DEVICE WORKS JUST LIKE A RADIONICS MACHINE. The official [radionics.org](http://www.radionics.org/) site (#1 Leader in Radionics Technology! ) explains how a radionics machine works: > [@](#): > > There are people who refer to the radionics device as being “the voodoo doll of the modern age”. > Those persons are certainly right, as far as the common functioning principle of all magick is concerned:  it is a principle that encompasses the functioning of radionics as well. ---
**Author:** ![Duck\_Duck\_Goose](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/50afbb/32.png) [@Duck\_Duck\_Goose](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Duck_Duck_Goose)\ **Post date:** [October 3, 2001, 1:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/time-machine-for-sale-is-this-guy-for-real/85148/11 "2001-10-03T13:04:49Z")
It looks to me like it’s legal, too. All he promises is this: > [@](#): > > THIS UNIT CAN ALSO BE USED FOR OUT OF THE BODY TIME TRAVEL. > > AS FAR AS THE PHYSICAL ASPECTS ARE CONCERNED, YES YOU CAN USE THE HYPER-DIMENSIONAL RESONATOR FOR PHYSICAL TIME TRAVEL, BUT ONLY WHEN ACTIVATED OVER A NATURAL GRID POINT, OR IN A PLACE WHERE UFO’S ARE SIGHTED. > > \< snip \> > > IF YOU HAVE DONE EVERYTHING CORRECTLY, YOU WILL THEN BE PROJECTED TO THE YEAR, MONTH, AND DAY. Obviously, if you don’t get the results you desired, it must be because you failed to operate it according to instructions. And if it really gets down to a court battle, what exactly does “projected” mean, anyway? I can see the operators at the Illinois Attorney General’s Consumer Fraud hotline having a goooood time with this one. ---
**Author:** ![occ](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/8c91f0/32.png) [@occ](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/occ)\ **Post date:** [October 3, 2001, 1:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/time-machine-for-sale-is-this-guy-for-real/85148/12 "2001-10-03T13:15:22Z")
Heh, i remember that thing. He pretty much claims it can do everything, including time travel. However, I don’t believe any specific instructions on how to specifically travel through time are available anywhere on the site. It’s more of a “This device does weird stuff with matter, guys! I’ve used it for time travel…somehow!” I think this is even better than the famous Alex Chiu bracelets. ---
**Author:** ![slortar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/6bbea6/32.png) [@slortar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/slortar)\ **Post date:** [October 3, 2001, 1:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/time-machine-for-sale-is-this-guy-for-real/85148/13 "2001-10-03T13:20:01Z")
Hiryuu’s gonna be PISSED. ---
**Author:** ![bernse](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/a9a28c/32.png) [@bernse](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bernse)\ **Post date:** [October 3, 2001, 1:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/time-machine-for-sale-is-this-guy-for-real/85148/14 "2001-10-03T13:26:03Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Mangetout \* > \*\*No seriously, I think this one is real, who’d have thunk it?, the whole physics community proven wrong by a joker with a curly wire :rolleyes: \*\* **HEY!!!** Its not called _curly wire_!!! They’re called _ **TIME COILS!!!** _ Get it straight!!! 😉 ---
**Author:** ![jk1245](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/49beb7/32.png) [@jk1245](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jk1245)\ **Post date:** [October 3, 2001, 1:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/time-machine-for-sale-is-this-guy-for-real/85148/15 "2001-10-03T13:26:10Z")
This thing can’t possibly work. There is no flux capacitor!! I may not be an electrical engineer, but even I know that you need a flux capicitor for time travel (specifically one that produces 1.21 jigawatts of power). ---
**Author:** ![RealityChuck](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/realitychuck/32/195_2.png) [@RealityChuck](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RealityChuck)\ **Post date:** [October 3, 2001, 1:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/time-machine-for-sale-is-this-guy-for-real/85148/16 "2001-10-03T13:56:03Z")
> [@](#): > > This thing can’t possibly work. > > There is no flux capacitor!! You don’t need one. Just reverse the polarity of the neutron flow. ---
**Author:** ![micco](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/5f8ce5/32.png) [@micco](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/micco)\ **Post date:** [October 3, 2001, 1:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/time-machine-for-sale-is-this-guy-for-real/85148/17 "2001-10-03T13:57:33Z")
If you want to try out time travel without making the full investment, I have a used machine I’ll let go for half price. It works perfectly, but it’s stuck in forward gear. ---
**Author:** ![Running\_with\_Scissors](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/a183cd/32.png) [@Running\_with\_Scissors](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Running_with_Scissors)\ **Post date:** [October 3, 2001, 2:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/time-machine-for-sale-is-this-guy-for-real/85148/18 "2001-10-03T14:32:23Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by micco \* > \*\*If you want to try out time travel without making the full investment, I have a used machine I’ll let go for half price. It works perfectly, but it’s stuck in forward gear. \*\* And it only goes at one second/second of real time… ---
**Author:** ![Seraphim](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ad7895/32.png) [@Seraphim](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Seraphim)\ **Post date:** [October 3, 2001, 2:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/time-machine-for-sale-is-this-guy-for-real/85148/19 "2001-10-03T14:47:32Z")
Bah, I can deliver the same “out-of-body” experience for half the price, and all I need is a baseball bat. ---
**Author:** ![DocCathode](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/doccathode/32/18773_2.png) [@DocCathode](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DocCathode)\ **Post date:** [October 3, 2001, 3:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/time-machine-for-sale-is-this-guy-for-real/85148/20 "2001-10-03T15:27:17Z")
As a member in good standing of The Sons Of Ether (That’s ether as in the “luminiferous ether” which filled the space between planets until disallowed by vote to alter consensus. We are not sons of ‘eether’ as in anesthetics.) I can tell you that this man and his machine are frauds! ANY point on the time/space grid can be used for time travel. Since this grid(smetimes referred to as quantum foam by physicists) is the underlying structure of our universe, time travel is possible in ANY time/place. UFO’s, whether revealed as weather anomalies or actual extraterrestrial craft are interesting, but have NO relation to time travel. Finally, and most importantly, no Sleeper can travel through time (except of course forward at the rate of 60 seconds per minute). ``` This is just part of a looong list of reasons why this guy is a moron. I'd rant some more, but my perpetual-motion-device is once again accelerating past saftey limits. ``` [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/time-machine-for-sale-is-this-guy-for-real/85148.md?page=2)