Could this time change make train delays history?

When teleporting becomes more popular, trains will become a thing of the past. Shouldn’t be more than a few years until late trains and compensation become a distant memory.

I’m building a teleportation machine out of oak and mdf in my garage, but I am reminded of the film “The Fly” when the star of the film and, yes, a fly inadvertently combined during the experiment with horrific results. So a fly screen is a must.

The nearest the UK might get to teleportation is HS2, but given the UK’s poor reliablity record speeds achieved might well be less than expected.

However, I wonder what the purpose of teleportation might be? We seem obsessed with wanting to have a physical presence as quickly as possible elsewhere (although we manage quite well without Concorde). We have decent electronic communication – I can use Skype to see and talk to people in China; I can receive complex documents at the blink of an eye from anywhere (providing they have broadband); with a 3d printer I’ll even be able to make an object from instantly-imported electronic information. So why might teleportation be good for us? Getting a policeman to a scene of crime as it is being committed might be one use I suppose. But I reckon abduction and kidnapping would become boom crimes by intercepting the entangled particles.

(dictated by malcolm r and teleported in his absence 1/4/16)

Our policemen don’t need teleportation Malcolm. They have the long arm of the law which can reach into the most distant places with alacrity.

It may transport you to A&E in time to save your life Malcolm. The only means of being in two places at the same time is to reduce our bodies to its sub atomic level by transporting its superpositional electrons.

Time of course does not exist because it’s always the present, the past is a concept of your mind as is the future which never arrives as its always now.

Malcolm I once worked alongside and accountant who liked traffic jams and was in no hurry to go anywhere. . . .I admired his attitude and took a few leafs from his pages
Wish I had done so earlier in life because my health might be better for it

What is this life if, full of care
We have no time to stand and stare?

No time to stand beneath the boughs
And stare as long as sheep or cows

No time to see, when woods we pass,
Where squirrels hide their nuts in grass.

etc…………..
William Henry Davies had it spot on. Just making time to do nothing but watch – whether fishing and catching zilch, looking round your garden and ignoring the weeds (and the little trees courtesy of the squirrel’s nuts), watching boats on the river, is so pleasurable. Sometimes we need to just stop the herd habit of rushing about and worrying about time – we seem to have been indoctrinated.

Which is why we enjoy train journeys when we can look out of the window without having to worry about traffic or other people, or just sit and think. But that is not good enough for many people who have to be engaged in something on their tablet or interrupting people with phone calls and searching for some new excitement on their device.

Perhaps, psychologically, it’s a question of whether we feel content to obviously have the time and capacity “to stand and stare”, or feel it is better to give the impression of being continuously active and in demand.

malcolm -, I got a 3 out of 5 for reciting that in primary school as well as later– WW. -I wandered lonely as a cloud that floats on high–etc

Your right John the MSF time signal is the one to go by . Internet time is taken from “time servers ” ,they get hacked , not only that your computer does get hacked and the time changed,its a technical issue that allows hackers to manipulate your computer . I have had this happen to me many times over the years ,even Linux isnt immune to time altering although it doesnt cause the same problems as it does to Windows . You have to make sure your computer is synchronized automatically to Internet time some aren’t if your settings have been “got at ” and the time server has also been attacked . In Windows the wrong time can cause massive problems as you can and will be blocked from adding apps/making changes involving the Internet including refusal of access to websites as the certificates show different times Mozilla Firefox is a stickler for that on Windows , if MS takes offence , you could even get warnings about it. So bottom line – Internet time can be dodgy use the RF time signal or the Digital equivalent .