Originally Posted by Detoxing (Post 6825929)

Somewhat off subject here, but i don't think i wanna make a thread about it either.

Lets say, oh...20 years from now we develop a way to time travel. We time travel back 10,000 years into the past. While we are in the past, one of out time travelers drop a Year 2030 Nickel.

Then, in the year 2011, archeoligists discover this nickel.

Would the nickel be determined to be from the past, or the future? What would Carbon Dating show? How would this nickel fit in with any other artifacts from that area in that time period? How would that nickel change the future?

Originally Posted by KC Fish (Post 6825952)

A nickel contains no carbon in which to date... the nickel changes nothing and the experiment is a failure...

Originally Posted by Detoxing (Post 6825929)

Somewhat off subject here, but i don't think i wanna make a thread about it either.

Lets say, oh...20 years from now we develop a way to time travel. We time travel back 10,000 years into the past. While we are in the past, one of out time travelers drop a Year 2030 Nickel.

Then, in the year 2011, archeoligists discover this nickel.

Would the nickel be determined to be from the past, or the future? What would Carbon Dating show? How would this nickel fit in with any other artifacts from that area in that time period? How would that nickel change the future?

Originally Posted by Detoxing (Post 6825957)

So then would it just be considered an artifact from 10,000 years ago with a year 2030 date and American scripture on it?

Would it show as evidence of time travel, or would we just dismiss it?

Originally Posted by Metrolike (Post 6825662)

His anus is pretty big, I hear.

Originally Posted by DaneMcCloud (Post 6824460)

If you believe in Dan's Brown theory, which is put forth in his latest novel "The Solomon Key", the Ancient Mysteries also include the forgotten and long lost power of the human mind and "collective consciousness".

He basically states that human beings when focusing on one event, whether it be prayer or moving 500 ton stones, can accomplish God-like "miracles" with the power of the human mind.

Originally Posted by Detoxing (Post 6825929)

Somewhat off subject here, but i don't think i wanna make a thread about it either.

Lets say, oh...20 years from now we develop a way to time travel. We time travel back 10,000 years into the past. While we are in the past, one of out time travelers drop a Year 2030 Nickel.

Then, in the year 2011, archeoligists discover this nickel.

Would the nickel be determined to be from the past, or the future? What would Carbon Dating show? How would this nickel fit in with any other artifacts from that area in that time period? How would that nickel change the future?

Originally Posted by bowener (Post 6830613)

Well, as far as dating goes (can't be done, but lets say there is a way), the Nickel would show that it was 11,980 years old since it will have existed through that length of time. Now it is somewhat about semantics as far as being from the future or past. If we knew it was from the future I suppose it would be just that, a nickel that was created in 2030 but then left in the past. If we did not know it was from us in the future then I would assume we would say that it was from ~12,000 years ago.

Originally Posted by Bill Lundberg (Post 6824718)

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Originally Posted by KcChiefsKing (Post 6832786)

Yeah, this makes a lot of sense, except one thing. How did he get the pebble underneath that block?

Originally Posted by Goldmember (Post 6832792)

duh, he dug under it :)

Originally Posted by KcChiefsKing (Post 6832794)

I'm lost. He did it on concrete. He cant dig through the concrete.

Originally Posted by FAX (Post 6825862)

You'll change your tune when archaeologists dig up that big-ass ancient crane, Mr. Stewie.

Anyhow, have you ever seen the NOVA sponsored experiment and documentary in which a gaggle and a half of EngDs, master stonemasons, and Egyptologists attempted to quarry, transport, and elevate a 35 ton obelisk (not one of those 500 ton ones ... just a teensy one) using the materials and techniques the ancient Egyptians are believed to have used? The whole idea was to prove that it could be done.

It was very funny ... hilarious, really. A bunch of sweaty PhDs trying to screw a rock. They got nowhere. They couldn't even cut the stone, let alone move it an inch.

FAX

Originally Posted by KcChiefsKing (Post 6832786)

Yeah, this makes a lot of sense, except one thing. How did he get the pebble underneath that block?