movies.popcrunch.com — Could the Charlie Chaplin time travel video be explained by a Siemens 1924 hearing aid? While discussion of a time traveler talking on a cell phone in footage from “The Circus” resulted in a lot of fun theories, it seems the hearing aid may be the most logical.
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absolutelytrueOct 30, 2010
I really just want to believe she was a time traveler.
alanocuOct 31, 2010
I didn't see a DeLorean in the video. How did she get there?
NuttybottNov 1, 2010
Didn't you see that Police Box in the background?
fyqueOct 31, 2010
To me it's still a mystery.
norman619Oct 31, 2010
You have to lean on your imagination REALLY HARD to see a time traveler on a cellphone in that clip. C'mon when will people start using common sense. If she were talking on a cellphone you have to ask yourself 2 questions:
1. Who was her carrier back in 1924?
2. Who was she talking to on a cellphone back in 1924?
dcjoedogv2Oct 31, 2010
1) Satellites sent back in time which were undetectable in 1924
2) Other time travelers, duh ;-p
jdenzerOct 31, 2010
Too bad you don't have much of an imagination. Imagine if time travel was possible, imagine cell phones so advanced they don't need conventional cell carriers of today. If we all had common sense like yours, we would still be living in the dark ages, when we believed the earth was flat.
So what's your take on GOD and intelligent design? I wonder if people there lean 'REALLY HARD' on imagination.
NuttybottNov 1, 2010
No-one, obviously...it was 1928, not 1924.
dcjoedogv2Oct 31, 2010
Oh sure, take the fun out of everything. I knew it was a hearing aid, but it's fun to speculate.
NuttybottNov 1, 2010
It probably WASN'T a hearing aid...they were bulkier in those days than whatever she is holding. Also, the first hearing aids weren't wireless.
And if it IS a hearing aid, why is she talking into it?
wwwspiritOct 31, 2010
See, this is why everything in the world is going to s**t: Stupid people dominate the conversation and instead of dealing with the real world we have to debate imaginary bulls**t. *sigh*Comment is buried, click here to see the rest.
norman619Oct 31, 2010
Chill dude! All work and no play make wwwspirit a completely boring person.
wwwspiritOct 31, 2010
Yeah, yeah, I know. If it weren't for the fact that I'm quite sure that some people believe stuff like this, I wouldn't care. But I know that some do - and they screw up the world for the rest of us.
Closed AccountOct 31, 2010
very few people got worked up by this.... many more set out to find an explanation instead of just accepting what they are told
you shouldnt stress about the former and concentrate on the latter
nick041Oct 31, 2010
I believe Michio Kaku once said, could have been Hawking, time traveling to the past, is limited to when the time machine was created. So you can only time travel to when & only when, that time machine was created & functional. So by that theory, it's not f**king time traveler!
vitaminOct 31, 2010
Unless it's a time traveller from outer space!
dcjoedogv2Oct 31, 2010
Dude, chill. It's all in fun. No one actually believes a time traveler was filmed in a 1924 Charlie Chaplin movie. If they do then that's the least of their problems.
elysiangoldOct 31, 2010
Actually you couldn't even travel back to the moment you got into the time machine because of feedback loops. Say you did go back just as your past self was about to get in the machine and you killed your past self. Ok so if you were dead 20 minutes ago how did you get into the machine to come back and kill your past self? And if you weren't alive to get into the machine then you wouldn't have been able to come back and kill yourself, so you wouldn't be dead, and so on.
TL;DR
Time travel to the past is impossible.
dcjoedogv2Oct 31, 2010
Weirdly enough, time travel to the future is achievable if not very hard to do.
All you have to do is orbit just outside the even horizon of a black hole and as you circle around time is also compressed and time in the ship is ALOT slower than time outside of the ship. Then since you stayed just out of the reach of the event horizon you can go back to earth at a much later date. Although, as stated in outer places, this would be a one way trip and time normally travels only forward. :(
Time travel is possible, just not as obvious as you may think though.
elysiangoldOct 31, 2010
Yeah due to the fact that time goes faster out in open space than it does near supermassive objects like planets traveling forward in time really wouldn't be that difficult to do. You just wouldn't notice much that time was running faster unless you had a watch that tracks time to 17 decimal places or something, the difference isn't that big. Now going through time faster than that would involve traveling at or very near the speed of light among other requirements.
NuttybottNov 1, 2010
No, it IS possible, but you have to allow for the Blinovich Limitation Effect...
elysiangoldNov 1, 2010
Did...did you really just refer to a fictional principle of time travel from Dr. Who? I'm going to take that as an implied /s.
NuttybottNov 1, 2010
LOL! Well it's obvious YOU are also a Dr Who fan to know about the Blinovich Limitation Effect...I think it was only referred to once in the series (in the 1972 story "Day of the Daleks"). Anyway ANY principle of time travel is fictional at the moment, as far as we know... ;-)
armandomNov 3, 2010
No... you need a flux capacitor.
Closed AccountOct 31, 2010
i believe he also said that if someone shows up on your doorstep and says they are from the future, dont automatically dismiss it
those werent his exact words but it was along those lines... the one major thing i miss about not having cable is the history channel
dcjoedogv2Nov 1, 2010
Nah, the new hotness is The Science channel. it's what Discovery used to be before the sharks bought the network.