A time travel enthusiast claims to have worked out that it would cost around £90million to build the world's first time machine.
The outlandish calculation was shared on the Time Travel Facebook group where members discuss the plausibility of going into the past or future.
While many posts on the page are optimistic questions, swiftly shut down by boring naysayers, one person has pitched a supposedly well-thought out creation to finally bend time to one's will.
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Facebook user Aaron Yohannan asked the 32,000 member strong community: "What materials, energy, and budget would you need to make a real time machine that let's you travel into the past and the future and back to now if you want?"
Over the weekend, fellow time travel hopeful Alex Polischuk gave a response Aaron could only have dreamt of.
Alex believes a massive budget to afford various high-tech materials including superconducting magnets could in theory allow users to go back in time, albeit not return to the present day.
He said: "I've tried to tentatively calculate the budget; $100M might suffice (it's very cheap, actually). The materials: might be superconducting magnets (but it's unclear yet) + what a spaceship is made of (however, without boosters and maybe with not so sophisticated communicaton systems).
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"The energy: if magnets are used, than this energy amount can be assessed in teslas. Optimization might reduce this amount to quite a modest one (5-10 T, but it's unknown yet). This work is being conducted now, however, it's done for the space industry (faster than light motion – and such a craft can be used as a time machine)."
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Alex warns that his design in theory should only be considered by those who are happy to never come back to their loved ones.
He added: "BUT: you are likely be doomed to stay in the past, because a parallel history will split off due to your interference with the event flow (then the main question is how to get back to the present the machine itself; if this can be done, it's already OK: some people will want to "emigrate" to the past."
Aaron expressed his gratitude that his question was answered.
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