Not Time Trip...

http://www.milkandcookies.com/link/56358/detail/

A different episode.

This documentary is from four or five years ago. As for the first of two people in the documentary who live in New Orleans:

It always amuses me no end when somebody who claims to have "visited" the future, whether it's six months or ten years into it, that person invariably claims to have seen stuff like a global economic collapse and the military stepping in to squelch armed uprisings by the population, a global catastrophe, or something unimaginative along those lines.

As a footnote, I have to mention that there's one theory for the possibility of time travel not presented by the documentary: bubbles in the quantum foam, the most elemental (and tiny) type of matter that physicists have yet figured out. If you super-energize the foam, the bubbles will expand in size, and these are time portals. Which is to say, these portals already exist, have always existed on the subatomic level, we just gotta get them to grow big enough for us to pass through.

Wait, they say that Einstein said going faster than the speed of light would send you to the past, but wouldn't that be your own personal past, meaning that memories would be erased, years would be removed, and you'd emerge from your space ship in the deep future much younger, and possibly very confused if you're younger than you were when you got on? Or am I just making it hard for myself?

The Doctor Who theme was a nice touch. I had heard most of this before through Scientific American except for the idea about computer simulations. I guess that idea has already been presented (The Matrix) but I never really thought of the implications.

re: time travel ... Sierra Waters has made a plea for help.... http://paullevinson.blogspot.com/2007/08/letter-from-sierra-waters.html

Interesting. On a more important note, does anyone else have a problem watching films dealing with time and space? (e.g deja vu, back to the future etc) I get frustrated with the structure. In Denzel Washingtons movie he is watching a woman in the past through which we learn his future is predetermined that he go back to the past to save her. The boat in the movie explodes at the beginnning killing the woman he was watching in the past and apparently himself. He had obviously gone back and failed to save her and both of them were dead at the beginning of the movie (he walked past his own dead body) and the boat had successfully been blown up. The movies result was not what they explained, it had to be a parallel of a parallel. How does he change the past and save the day when the beginning of the movie alone suggests the path was predetermined because his attempt at such was alrerady attempted and already failed? The very beginning in my eyes decided the ending. I am ramblng, totally boring and probaby not articulating my problem well enough but this shit eats away at me when I go to bed at night.