From: sarfatti@well.sf.ca.us (Jack Sarfatti)
Subject: TIME TRAVEL 6
Organization: Whole Earth 'Lectronic Link
Date: Tue, 29 Sep 1992 03:13:01 GMT


18.	Precognitive remote viewing in the military operations of
the First Crusade : "he was called ... R. Salomon ha-
Zarfati (the Frenchman) by Jews outside of France ... p.33
RASHI by Maurice Liber translated by Adele Szold for Jewish
Publication Society 1906 "I see," Godfrey said to him,
"that thy wisdom is great. I should like to know whether I
shall return from my expedition victorious, or whether I
shall succumb. Speak without fear." "Thou wilt take the
Holy City, " Rashi replied, 'and thou wilt reign over
Jerusalem three days, but on the fourth day the Moslem will
put thee to flight, and when thou returnest only three
horses will be left to thee." "It may be," replied Godfrey,
irritated and disillusioned in seeing his future pictured
in colors so sombre. "But if I return with only one more
horse than thou sayest, I shall wreak frightful vengeance
upon thee. I shall throw thy body to the dogs, and I shall
put to death all the Jews of France!"

19.	"After several years of fighting Godfrey of Bouillon,
ephemeral King of Jerusalem, took his homeward road back to
France, accompanied by three cavaliers, in all, then four
horses, one more than Zarfati had predicted. Godfrey
remembered the rabbi's prophecy, and determined to carry
out his threat. But when he entered the city of Troyes, a
large rock, loosened from the gate, fell upon one of the
riders, killing him and his horse." Of course, this is only
a legend and is probably not true.

20.	"Such a time machine opens up all of the future of
spacetime to exploration; but it is impossible, using such
a machine, to go back further in time than the moment the
machine was created." p.204 on Frank Tipler's ultra-massive
rotating cylinder that drags the surrounding spacetime with
it causing light cones to tip over along spacelike circles
at a fixed instant of far away asymptotic flat spacetime.
"The best place to start is with a neutron star. ... At
least one pulsar is known that spins on its axis once every
1.5 miliseconds...then a naked singularity will form at its
center, with closed timelike loops tied to that
singularity. Such a cylinder would have to be at least a
hundred kilometers long, and no more than ten or twenty
kilometers across, containing at least as much mass as our
sun.... rotating twice every millisecond...Indeed, if you
took ten neutron stars, joined them pole to pole, and gave
them enough spin you would have a Tipler time machine."
p.205

21."It seems to me more likely that our descendents will
discover a preexisting time machine (with the bonus that
they then really could use it to go back into history) than
that they will build one." p.206

22.	"... Visser, an expert theoretical hyperspace engineer,
decided he would like a flat surface for his travellers to
pass through, with no strong gravitational fields to
disturb them, and with the exotic [cosmic strings of
negative pressure inside] stuff kept well out of their way.
The structure he came up with is a six-sided surface of a
cube, with all the exotic stuff confined to struts along
the edges of the cube. A traveller who appraches and
crosses one face of such a cube will feel no tidal forces
and will encounter no matter, exotic or otherwise. 'Such a
traveller,' says Visser, 'will simply be shunted across the
universe' and will emerge from an equivalent cube in
another region of flat space - perhaps even in another
universe.P p.182 Ref. Physical Review D Vol 39, pp.3182-84
(1989).





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