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HUMAN TIME MACHINES AND THE WAR ON TERROR

October 12, 2007

MINNEAPOLIS (STARpod.org) -- What if there was a time machine that could look into the future: a way to circumvent the proverbial "bolt from the blue" lightning attack?

A time machine that can see into the future is the dream of every intelligence agency on this planet. Although physics does not rule out time machines, is this a reasonable possibility for the distant future? What about 21st Century technology? Is there a way to build a machine that can look through time?

Or, perhaps, seeing into the future is already here. What if nature got there first? Could existing natural time machines be exploited to warn us of impending disasters and terror attacks?

The truth is that government records, once classified as SECRET, are available to the public today. The story they tell includes experiments to see into the future -- experiments intended to exploit nature using human time machines.

And that story continues today. Recently Gus Russo, a well-known author who has worked with PBS and ABC on documentaries about the JFK assassination, told STARpod.org that the NSA -- the National Security Agency: the agency tasked with protection and monitoring of communications for the Intelligence Community -- is still in the business of exploiting nature's time machines.

The last publicly known program that exploited nature's time machines was called STAR GATE.

Today, STAR GATE is the moniker of numerous programs conducted by various agencies and services for the U.S. Government and the Intelligence Community, beginning in the early 1970s. The real STAR GATE project was run by the intelligence agency known as the DIA: the Defense Intelligence Agency. In 1995, the CIA was handed control of STAR GATE, and the data from previous related projects.

According to the public record, STAR GATE was then swiftly strangled to death at the hands of the Central Intelligence Agency. A few months later the project was revealed to the public on ABC television.

According to Gus Russo's source, someone familiar with NSA operations, the program was transferred to the NSA and remains in business. Rumors of similar projects uncovered by author Jon Ronson suggest that the NSA is not the only government agency looking to exploit STAR GATE technologies in the war on terror.

The secret to using nature's time machines appears to be lost in the theoretical failings of modern physics: superstring theory and other competing and enormously complex mathematical attacks against reality have failed to uncover the hidden machinery at the heart of the universe.

Quantum gravity is the unification of the two pillars of 20th Century Physics: Einstein's theory of the curving of space and time by gravity, and quantum mechanics, the theory that explains the strange behavior of atoms and subatomic particles. Modern attempts to truly unify these two pillars into a single comprehensive theory of nature have failed.

Without the unifying "theory of everything," the possibility exists for nature to have an underlying structure that includes natural time machines at the smallest scales of reality.

The best known effort to synthesize a theory of nature that might offer a clue into natural time machines -- minds that can access events in other places, including the future -- was inspired by one of the top mathematical physicists of the 20th Century: Sir Roger Penrose.

Dr. Stuart Hameroff, an anesthesiologist at the University of Arizona, suggested the possibility that microtubules, tiny structures found in the brain, might be utilizing quantum effects to process information. Penrose, the author of several books on the nature of the mind, had concluded that something new was needed to surpass all of the failed attempts at unification of gravity, quantum theory, and the human mind.

Penrose decided that nature must be forced to make a choice: where the quantum theory predicted two outcomes existing simultaneously, such as two different shapes of Hameroff's microtubules, Penrose suggested that nature would select either one, or the other. The theory became known as the "Orchestrated OR" theory. Nature would decide between one OR the other, but in the human brain, the outcome would be orchestrated by the human mind.

Ultimately the Orchestrated OR theory was assailed on several fronts.

One major issue was the hot, wet brain. It seemed impossible for quantum states to be sustained long enough in the brain for the theory to work. Max Tegmark, a world class cosmologist from MIT, wrote a rebuttal paper that convinced many the theory wouldn't work. Hameroff and his supporters fought back, arguing that other effects in the brain could compensate long enough for the quantum states to exist.

Another problem for the Penrose-Hameroff theory was the OR, which stands for "objective reduction." In the quantum theory, both possible shapes exist at the same time. One increasing popular explanation is known as the Many Worlds interpretation of quantum theory. In Many Worlds, both possible shapes exist, but each one occupies a different universe. Many Worlds says that the universe, and the human observers looking at the universe, are continually splitting into multiple copies. The OR theory says that nature must make a choice: ultimately only one shape is realized in reality.

It turned out that even the Penrose idea of adding a new dynamic "OR" mechanism to quantum theory was unpopular among most physicists. A few years ago, Penrose suggested an experiment to determine if the OR idea was correct. That experiment has not been conducted to date.

The relatively new idea of building computers that rely on the strange effects of quantum physics has been slowly ushering scientists towards the Many Worlds camp.

One of the most vocal proponents of Many Worlds is Dr. David Deutsch, a visionary leader in the quantum computing revolution. Deutsch believes that the quantum computer will eventually prove the existence of the other quantum worlds that are predicted in the Many Worlds theory.

It turns out that information is a physical quantity: all information requires physical representation. In theory, it will one day become possible to build a quantum computer that can outperform all of the computing power of all of the physical matter in the entire visible universe. Deutsch claims this will prove that the computation happening in a quantum computer must be taking place in the other invisible worlds.

Deutsch also believes that time machines are naturally explained by the Many Worlds interpretation of quantum theory.

In Many Worlds, when information is sent through time, it arrives in a different universe that the one it came from. This solves many of the paradoxes of time machines familiar to any fan of time travel stories from science fiction.

And, just perhaps, it offers a clue to nature's time machines, if they really exist.

To fully understand the implication of a time machine in the Many Worlds theory, imagine turning on a time machine today, and suddenly receiving a message about an event thirty days into the future.

Suppose the message was a warning of a nuclear attack that had just taken place in the future world.

Deutsch says that "other times are special cases of different universes."

A warning from the future would be a warning from one of the many branches that begin with our present moment. From the point of view of the future world, looking back in time, the nuclear attack really happened, and has become a part of the history of that future world.

From the point of view of the world of the present moment, where we exist (and assuming enough information was sent back in time to allow us to take action to prevent the attack) the future world that sent the information back in time would be an alternative universe.

Once the information from the future arrived here and now, in the present moment, a branching would occur that would differentiate the time line of our world from the time line of the alternative future where the nuclear attack took place. Although both worlds would share a common history, up to the moment when the time machine was switched on -- the physical computation of matter -- the evolution of events leading to the nuclear explosion -- would remain isolated in a different universe.

For the world we call the present moment, the information warning us about the future attack would appear to have spontaneously arrived from the time machine, as if from nowhere. And at that moment of arrival, the world would split.

In our world, a gift would be handed to us: vital information that we could act upon.

By using our free will to act on that information, we could prevent a catastrophe.

As for the human time machines, the consequence is deeper than you might imagine. Time machines, including the human variety, are paths connecting different worlds.

For more information about the history and use of human time machines by the government, visit STARpod.org .

Here is a link to "Mad" Max Tegmark's (MIT) FAQ about the many worlds of the multiverse.