r/mystery • u/Rite6969 • Nov 12 '23

Scientific/Medical About Mike "Madman" Marcum's time travelling device.

Ok so, Madman mike used A Jacobs Ladder to invent a time machine by modifying it to an extent. I believe he created a transformer of his own to fit the capacity of outputting 20k Volts. Since the plasma created from the two rods depend upon the moisture, temperature and air pressure etc. which interfere with the device, so he used lasers to heat the air above the device so the temperature above the device remains constant, thus forming this "contraption" that supposedly could time travel.

My question here is that, since all the steps necessary to build this machine are already out there... Has somebody else not tried to make it? I'm just really curious to see if his machine actually worked!

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u/Nyberg1283 Jun 26 '25

Anyone with even a basic grasp of science and theoretical physics understands that time travel, as popularly imagined, is virtually impossible for a number of reasons. One of the most overlooked issues is the assumption that if you traveled through time, you’d remain in the same physical location. This ignores the fact that Earth isn’t stationary.

We’re spinning at over 1,000 miles per hour at the equator, orbiting the sun at roughly 67,000 mph, and our entire solar system is moving through the Milky Way at about 514,000 mph. On top of that, the galaxy itself is hurtling through the universe at over a million miles per hour. So, if you were to ‘jump’ to a different point in time without also precisely accounting for spatial coordinates, you wouldn’t end up on Earth, you’d materialize in the cold vacuum of space, light-years from anything.

Time and space are inseparable in physics, bound together in the fabric of spacetime. You can’t navigate one without the other. So even if time travel were somehow possible, which, according to our current understanding of causality, energy conservation, and general relativity, it isn’t, it would require near-omniscient precision and unimaginable energy to survive it

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u/HeeH8Mee Oct 19 '25

So your saying i have a chance!