John Titor's Time Machine is gibberish and plagiarism


	John Titor's Time Machine is gibberish and plagiarism

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4-15-2007 5:31 PM

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<div style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_embed/e6de95a1-ee84-4763-87bb-b711e29329c8/02553FA5-1C7C-48C3-9B55-CAB9E7003577/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=John_Titor&oldid=121284605" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=John_Titor&oldid=121284605" style="font-size: 11px;">en.wikipedia.org</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=John_Titor&oldid=121284605"><P>In terms of physics, the explanation of the time machine's workings are <A title="Technobabble" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Technobabble">technobabble</A>, a pastiche of terms that could be found in a general science magazine or science fiction work. Of particular interest is the fact that the device is implied to be a <A title="Tipler Cylinder" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tipler_Cylinder">Tipler Cylinder</A>, but one well known "side effect" of this device is that it can only be used to travel to times in which the device already existed – Titor <I>could</I> travel into the past with one, but only to 2034, which is when he claimed it was first built.<SUP class="reference" id="_ref-4"><A title="" href="#_note-4">[5]</A></SUP> It has been suggested that the description of the system has been copied with almost no modification from a particular work, the general science book <I><A title="Hyperspace (book)" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hyperspace_%28book%29">Hyperspace</A></I> written by Dr. <A title="Michio Kaku" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michio_Kaku">Michio Kaku</A>.<SUP class="reference" id="_ref-5"><A title="" href="#_note-5">[6]</A></SUP></P></blockquote></div><div style="margin: 0px 6px 6px 4px;"><table style="font-size: 11px;border-spacing: 0px;padding: 0px;" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tr><td style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;">&nbsp;</td><td align="right" style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;width:107px" width="107"><a href="http://clipmarks.com/share/02553FA5-1C7C-48C3-9B55-CAB9E7003577/blog/" title="blog or email this clip"><img src="http://content6.clipmarks.com/images/c2b-foot.png" border="0" alt="blog it" width="107" height="17" style="border-width:0px;padding:0px;margin:0px;" /></a></td></tr></table></div></div>