During Friday night's show, Oliver Williams provided an update on alleged time traveler John Titor(1). According to Williams, John Titor traveled to our present in a machine built by GE in 2034 (photos(2)). Titor claimed the technological cornerstones of his time machine would soon be discovered. In a March 13, 2001 Internet posting he wrote:"The 'machine' with the energy to do it will come on-line very soon. The 'method' for doing it has already been 'mostly' perfected in the Z machine at the National lab in New Mexico."Williams cited recently published articles on the Z Machine(3) and Desktop Atom-Smashers as evidence of Titor's claims. He also said Titor recieved much criticism when he suggested Stephen Hawking's theory that black holes destroy everything that fall into them was incorrect. Hawking has since revised his black hole hypothesis, allowing now for what Titor claimed was the basis of time travel.
Williams also referred to an article in Rochester Magazine about the IBM 5100 computer. Titor claimed he'd traveled from 2036 to retrieve the IBM 5100 in order to resolve computer problems in the future. The 5100, according to Titor, had unpublished features that would allow it to interface with old mainframes still in use in his time. Williams believes Titor "went back home" after the completion of his mission to find and acquire an IBM 5100. (Note: During the show, an eBay auction featuring the IBM 5100 jumped from $58 to $1000.)

1. http://www.johntitor.com/
2. http://dimensionalcitizen.tripod.com/composite.html
3. http://www.aip.org/pnu/2004/split/702-1.html

Play Atomica

Check out Atomica, a fun Java game by PopCap Games(1). Turn atoms into molecules to score big points, or go up against the clock in the Time Trial mode.
Instructions:
Create molecules by moving atoms so they form 2x2 blocks of the same color.

1. http://www.popcap.com/

Bumper Music

Bumper music from Friday October 08, 2004