What's The Concensus on "Time Slips"?

In 1979, two Britsh couples belived that they encountered a “Time Slip”.
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As far as I know, the four people stuck to their stories…but anyway, does General Relativity allow for spacetime to double back on itself?
If it is possible to travel back into the past, what effects could a time traveler have? The people in this alleged incident tried to take photos, but nothing came out-why?

No. It’s total bullshit not supported by science.

I am pretty sure a wormhole did not open up and transport some dumbasses to some hotel from another time.

No. It’s not possible.

Our world would be replete with time travelers if time travel was possible. The story is a bunch of crap.

No one noticed their car, their dress, their money, their speech?

Come on.

I also find the idea highly dubious.

Never had acid that good.:frowning:

Come on, Dopers, we ALL know the answer to this one!

Pics or it didn’t happen!

“Time Slips” are about as real a phenomenon as “concensus” is a word.

This should be a bit obvious, but one of the key elements of a “time slip” is that you move through time but not through space. Because, you know, the earth is stationary and the entire universe moves around it.

Oh, wait…

(Time slipping 100 years would only put you a few hundred billion miles away from the earth. Other than that I don’t see any problem with this theory. :stuck_out_tongue: )

“Time slip” was also a phrase used by Kim Stanley Robinson in Red Mars. Earthling colonists on Mars continued using the 24-hour clock they were used to, so the “time slip” represented the difference between Earth’s and Mars’s rotational periods (about 37 minutes). At midnight, the clocks stopped for those 37 minutes before resuming. A totally mundane phenomenon jazzed up with a fancy name.

[QUOTE=Al Stewart]
It was late in December, the sky turned to snow
All round the day was going down slow
Night like a river beginning to flow
I felt the beat of my mind go
Drifting into time passages

[/QUOTE]

:cool:

What probably happened in that someone pumped knockout gas into their hotel room (which as we know happens all the time) and while drugged they accidentally ended up on the wrong side of the Time Cube.

And then someone declawed their cats.

Ralph, do you believe in time slips, and do you believe that the two couples experienced a time slip?

I believe that they had some very strange experience, what it was, I don’t know. It seems odd that they would concoct an elaborate hoax and stick to it. Did they all experience the same hallucinations? It would be interesting to interview them now, 34 years after their experience.

Ralph, do you believe in time slips.

How is that elaborate? Four people all agree to lie and say something happened. I don’t see anything at all hard to explain.

Spatial coupling is strongly (Inverse 11th power) linked to local gravity vectors, therefore is able to remain apparently independent of temporal coupling. I’m susprised you didn’t know this.

Or, y’know’, it’s bullshit. But there’s no such thing as absolute location anyway - so both scenarios are equally problematic, that is:-
[ul]
[li]Time travelling and staying in the same room, vs[/li][li]Time travelling and staying in the same location in space (thus finding the earth is somewhere else)[/li][/ul]
(The second one would require a privileged reference frame)

With a bit of a mind flip. :smiley:

and nothing will ever be the same.

Time slips are real. At some companies if you don’t turn them in, you don’t get paid.

It’s just a jump to the left.