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Iranian Inventor Ali Razeghi's Time Machine (2013)

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I don't think this is quite ready for The March of Technology yet! ;)

Iranian scientist claims to have invented 'time machine'
An Iranian businessman claims to have mastered time with a machine that allows users to fast forward up to eight years into the future.
By Ahmed Vahdat
8:27PM BST 10 Apr 2013

Ali Razeghi, a Tehran scientist has registered "The Aryayek Time Traveling Machine" with the state-run Centre for Strategic Inventions.
The device can predict the future in a print out after taking readings from the touch of a user, he told the Fars state newsagency.

Razaeghi, 27, said the device worked by a set of complex algorithims to "predict five to eight years of the future life of any individual, with 98 percent accuracy".

As the managing director of Iran's Centre for Strategic Inventions, Razeghi is a serial inventor with 179 other inventions listed under his own name. "I have been working on this project for the last 10 years," he said.
"My invention easily fits into the size of a personal computer case and can predict details of the next 5-8 years of the life of its users. It will not take you into the future, it will bring the future to you."

Razeghi says Iran's government can predict the possibility of a military confrontation with a foreign country, and forecast the fluctuation in the value of foreign currencies and oil prices by using his new invention.

"Naturally a government that can see five years into the future would be able to prepare itself for challenges that might destabilise it," he said. "As such we expect to market this invention among states as well as individuals once we reach a mass production stage."

Razeghi said his latest project has been criticised by friends and relatives for "trying to play God" with ordinary lives and history. "This project is not against our religious values at all. The Americans are trying to make this invention by spending millions of dollars on it where I have already achieved it by a fraction of the cost," he said. "The reason that we are not launching our prototype at this stage is that the Chinese will steal the idea and produce it in millions overnight."

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldne ... chine.html
 
"Time machine" :lol:

What does it predict with 98% accuracy?

"You'll buy some food next week."

"In eight years time, you'll be eight years older!"
 
I'm curious to know whether the prediction of inevitable Chinese usurpation and mass production (the reason claimed for keeping the prototype hidden) is itself a product of the purported device ...

:twisted:
 
"It happened."
"Of course it did, my machine predicted it!"

"It didn't happen."
"Of course it didn't, my machine told you it would so you changed the future!"
 
If Tuesday comes before Wednesday and Hitler lost World War Two, it means my time machine worked.
 
The Chinese won't copy it, they already have I Ching. Millions of copies of it.

The whole thing seems to be based on statistics and probability. This and the fact that people are predictable. I have seen programs like this during the 1980s.

It's delightful to see how statistics miss the most important and game-changing facts, either on our lives or on History.

I prefer to look for an Ernetti's chronovisor on EBay.
 
Thie April 2013 article from The Atlantic:

https://www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2013/04/iran-time-machine-scientist/316316/

... cast the whole story into serious doubt, if not debunked status, early on. Here's the excerpted intro ...
Back Off, World: Iran's 'Time Machine' Creator Isn't a Scientist

There is a sad reality to the otherwise hilarious non-time machine "time machine" story that came out of Iran this week: It's making the otherwise legitimate Iranian scientific community look bad, even though it knows — just like you — that the inventor is a total quack.

There is a sad reality to the otherwise hilarious non-time machine "time machine" story that came out of Iran this week: It's making the otherwise legitimate Iranian scientific community look bad, even though it knows—just like you—that the inventor of the world's first functional, laptop-case ready crystal ball is a total quack. We were a bit skeptical in bringing you this strange futuristic tale on Thursday, when we couldn't turn up the actual interview cited by The Telegraph, which reported that Iranian "scientist" Ali Razeghi had developed an iPad-size machine that can "predict five to eight years of the future life of any individual, with 98 percent accuracy."

Of course, nobody in their right mind would believe that the contraption was real. But it was relevant in the context of the world's state of scientific disbelief when it comes to Iran: Beyond the ongoing enrichment program that's apparently ramping up the country's nuclear capabilities, there have been news reports of fake space monkeys and fake fighter jets and drones built by Photoshop, all the product of Iran's notorious propaganda machine. But a closer look at how the state-run media itself covered the would-be time machine reveals that Iran was in on the joke, too—just not those poor actual scientists in Tehran and beyond. ...

The full story can be accessed at the link above.
 
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