A friend of mine was just arguing that time travel can be achieved by accessing a

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5th dimension. Is this true? He believes that scientists are exploring the possibilities of a 5th dimension that parallels ours. According to him, they have come close to unlocking the secret to this Parallel universe, and there is even documentation of an individual who claimed to be a time traveler from about 30 years in the future. He says that the individual held several internet conferences about 5 -1 0 years ao, then disappeared as mysteriously as he appeared. Has anyone heard anything like this, or is it simply just a bunch of 'after dark radio' mumbo jumbo??
 
Tell your friend to get himself a literary agent --- he's got the makings of a great sci-fi novel.
 
Don't mean to be the debbie downer, but time travel through strickly temporal means is forbidden by Relativity. Spatial time travel is the only form permitted. If the other were the case, the discriminant of the Lorentz time derivative would have a negative number in the square root. If you remember from algebra, (-1)^.5 is imaginary. It rotates about the real number line with far more regions of i than real. Back to your friend's claim, it is beyond the ability of the universe to contain the energy needed to create the circumstances of temporal time travel. Thus, beings from the future only come from North Hollywood.
 
You can find more "mumbo jumbo" about Dr. Ronald Mallet, the scientist who wants to go back to visit his dad, at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ronald_Mallett or see http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mGrBNtJjsU0
 
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