Titor isn't wrong yet, page 1

Titor's time travel is really a form of jumping to alternative realities. He explains this himself. A lot of the people on ATS haven't taken the time to read and digest everything he's said. For this reason it becomes extremely tiring to defend or debunk Titor.

For his time travel, the trick is to minimze the divergence between where you left and where you're going. As I said, Titor doesn't really travel through time, but end up in different universes that resemble our own (like 99%).

As pointed out in the Titor Debunked thread, there is really only one inconsistency. A rather large one at that. As a caption to a photo he says:

"This is a picture taken in the fall of 2035 during my training. It shows my instructor beaming a handheld laser outside the vehicle during operation. The beam is being bent by the gravitational field produced outside the vehicle by the distortion unit. The beam is visible through smoke that is coming from his cigar."

Reference : www.abovetopsecret.com...
See Kano's highlight of this problem:

www.abovetopsecret.com...

Now I should be doing hw, but let's look at this thing.

15 January 2001 13:36

((The artificial singularity you travel with, you say it forms a local gravity field. Does it physically reduce the size of nearby objects during operation? And if so by how much? ))
Actually, there are 2 singularities in the unit. The gravity field is manipulated by three factors that affect it in distinct ways. Adding electric charge to the singularities increases the diameter of the inner event horizons. Adding mass to the singularities increases the area of gravitational influence around the singularities. Rotating and positioning the polar axis of the singularities affects and alters the gravity sinusoid. The effects of the gravity produced by the unit do not have enough time to significantly alter physical objects within a reasonable distance from the outside of the sinusoid. No, things do not get smaller.

So we have that this thing doesn't operate long enough to effect physical objects. Yet it distorts light outside of it. As we all know, light is "just" energy.

It is claimed, in this case, by Kano:

He claims the light from the laser is being bent as it passes through the gravitational field of the device. If this was the case, ALL the light passing near the device would be bent. This would give a gravitational lensing effect that would be noticeable in the image. Also, the light reflecting off the smoke particles would also be bent on its return trip to the observer, thus the laser beam would still appear straight to the observer.

( www.abovetopsecret.com... )

We all know that light is affected by big mass. (SO made a graphical joke about it when I joked that ATS' # was so big that it distorted time and space). This effect proved aspects of General Relativity and Quantum mechanics. You can't get around that. So we'd expect the light to be bent.

Now to strike down the last part. The distortion effect, gravitional lensing, does not magically make light appear to be straight. We know this because if it did, then General Realtivity and what not could never be verifiied. Here's some proof that gravitional lensing does not make light go back "straight" as Kano cliams: imagine.gsfc.nasa.gov...

As we see from the pretty graphic, light is indeed affected and bent. The light does not appeart straight to the obverser; quite to the countary, in Nasa's example, light makes two duplicate images appear to us. Obviously light returns in a distorted fashion. Also see: www.kwakkelflap.com...

Again, gravity straight up distorts light. I think all the other problems with Titor's story are a matter of interpetation of importance, etc. The above was the only physical challenge to Titor's story. Now back to my hw.