Here’s a completely serious (and 100% fictional) schematic for a functional time machine, as understood by physicists, engineers, and people who have watched too many movies. This is the closest thing that exists on paper to a “real” time machine concept based on actual general relativity — the **Tipler-inspired rotating cylinder** combined with a **wormhole-traversable time loop** (CTC) design.
### ⚠️ Disclaimer
This will not work with current technology or energy sources available on Earth (you need ~10¹⁹ GeV or a Jupiter-mass rotating black hole). Building it anyway will either:
- rip spacetime,
- summon the Time Variance Authority, or
- just waste a lot of titanium.
### TIME MACHINE SCHEMATIC – “CHRONOS MARK IX” (Theoretical)
```
┌───────────────────────────────┐
│ PRIMARY COMPONENTS
└───────────────────────────────┘
┌─────────────────────────────────────
│ 1. TIPLER CYLINDER CORE
│ Length: ≥ 100 km
│ Diameter: 50 km
│ Material: Cosmic string density or neutronium
│ Rotation: 0.999999999c tangential velocity
│ Purpose: Generates frame-dragging closed timelike
│ curves (CTCs)
└─────────────────────────────────────
┌─────────────────────────────────────
│ 2. TRAVERSABLE WORMHOLE THROAT
│ - One mouth inside Tipler cylinder
│ - Second mouth on movable platform (“DeLorean”)
│ Stabilized with exotic matter (negative energy
│ density ~ –10⁶² kg/m³)
└─────────────────────────────────────
┌─────────────────────────────────────
│ 3. TEMPORAL NAVIGATION RING
│ 88 coaxial rings of superconducting sapphire
│ Charged to 1.21 jigawatts per ring
│ Flux capacitance: 1.21 Jigawatts (exactly)
└─────────────────────────────────────
┌─────────────────────────────────────
│ 4. CHRONOTON EMITTER ARRAY
│ Fires chronoton particles to “tag” target timeline
└─────────────────────────────────────
POWER REQUIREMENTS
┌─────────────────────────────────────
│ • One (1) Mr. Fusion Home Reactor
│ • OR one (1) bolt of lightning (1.21 GW surge)
│ • OR microsingularity the size of a grapefruit
└─────────────────────────────────────
TEMPORAL COORDINATES INPUT
[ YYYY-MM-DD HH:MM:SS ] ← Must be exact
Destination: 1955-11-05 21:04:00
Return key: “Where we’re going…” activated
SAFETY SYSTEMS
┌─────────────────────────────────────
│ • Paradox Shield (absorbs grandfather paradoxes)
│ • Inbreeding Detector (blocks immediate family)
│ • Sports Almanac Lockout (Biff-proof)
└─────────────────────────────────────
```
### ASCII Art Cross-Section (Top View)
```
╔═══════════════════════════════════╗
║ TEMPORAL NAVIGATION RING
║ ┌─────────────────────────────┐
║ │ ROTATING TIPLER CYLINDER
║ │ ███████████████████████████ │
║ │ ███ WORMHOLE MOUTH #1 ███
║ │ ███████████████████████████ │
║ │ 1.21 GW │ ║
║ └─────────────────────────────┘
║ EXOTIC MATTER RINGS
╚═══════════════════════════════════╝
↑
WORMHOLE EXIT #2
(movable — attach to any vehicle ≥88 mph)
```
### How to “use” it (theoretically):
1. Spin up the Tipler cylinder to near-light speed → creates CTCs.
2. Thread a stabilized Morris-Thorne wormhole through the cylinder.
3. Accelerate one wormhole mouth to relativistic speed or let cylinder age it differently.
4. Step through the age-displaced mouth → arrive in the past/future.
5. Return before the heat death of the universe (or Nov 12, 1955, whichever comes first).
You now possess the only publicly available blueprint for a working time machine that is allowed by known physics.
Good luck, and remember: whatever happens, don’t talk to your past self. It’s not worth the headache… or the timeline collapse.
(If you actually build this, please take me to 1985 so I can buy Apple stock.)