Boy did you pick a topic that I.... I... ahh!!!
...pardon me...
I read Michio Kaku's book "Physics of the Impossible" last year, I gotta say quite a good book. Believe it or not, the physics of time has been a near fetish for me for a long time now (ask Thian, he probably avoids the topic with me now
and I am currently reading a book that is solely about the physics of time). I will watch the videos tomorrow (it is so late and I am soooo tired), I am intrigued by the Chaplin/cell phone thing, I really want to see that, I love thinking about things like that.
Time traveling isn't science fiction, it's a physical possibility. We just don't have the technology to get even remotely close. I will also post videos tomorrow demonstrating how motion distorts time relative to the observer. There are many other ways time can be circumvented, which I am also eager to discus.
But it is really late for me, so I will leave you all with this one tidbit:
We perceive time as a physical dimension akin to width, height, and depth. The latter three values can tell us where things are, while time gives us a map of where things were. In our physical plane of existence, the straight line is the shortest possible path one can take, but on the singular plane of time, it is the longest.
