<p>What's up with the guy who had a time travel party? Did anyone from the future show up? Any MIT students on CC go there? Did Alan Guth eventually make his speech?</p>
<p>The time travel convention hasn't started as yet. It's starting a few days ago. Wait, which way does time flow again?</p>
<p>Umm, it's actually in the imaginary-time coordinate system. Sorry, to anyone who can't think in n>4 dimensions...</p>
<p>Alan Guth - the "Inflationary Universe". i bought his book and had a dozen pages missing. N the bookstore didnt even had another copy.</p>
<p>I think ill sue him for not exporting more of his works... lol</p>
<p>i missed the speeches, being elsewhere. i talked to ed farhi after (during the bands), don't know if guth spoke, but video should be forthcoming, so amal tells me. took a some pics with the delorean (locally-owned and operated, no less) but no, no time travelers showed up. we suspect they decided that steer roast is much the better party and went to that, which has the added benefit of not possibly interrupting the causality chain of this universe. b/c if time travelers showed up to roast, none of us would notice, or care. and if a time traveler show up at a party and no one can tell, is he really a time traveler?</p>
<p>It came out in New York Times front page I think. Profs. Guth, Demaine and Farhi all talked fairly entertaining lectures but Demaine only had 5 min max. The security was tight I only managed to get in by luck.</p>
<p>cool, sounds good. The imaginary time co-ordinate system does define, precisely, the direction in which time flows, so the question "In which direction does time flow again," doesn't need to be asked. Whether this system applies to the universe we observe is a different and more pertinent question.</p>
<p>ru at MIT, inuendo?</p>