Scientist Invents a Time Machine (*Wink*)

By Nancy Atkinson - April 12, 2013 at 10:22 PM UTC | Physics
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An interesting news item from Iran's

Entkhab news agency

Iranian scientist Ali Razeghi – who is also the managing director of Iran's Center for Strategic Inventions -- has registered a new invention of his own making: a time machine.

It's doesn't actually take anyone to the past or future, but produces printed reports with details about the future, and can "predict five to eight years of the future life of any individual, with 98 percent accuracy" according to Razeghi, as quoted in

The Telegraph.

"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," he says. It will not take you into the future, it will bring the future to you."

Razeghi, 27, says he has been working the project for 10 years and this is the 179th invention he has registered.

The "time machine" would be a good resource for governments, he said, but he doesn't want to launch a prototype at this point because "the Chinese will steal the idea and produce it in millions overnight."

Razeghi said his latest project has been criticized by friends for "trying to play God" with ordinary lives and history. "This project is not against our religious values at all," Razaghi was quoted. "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."

Of course, this has spurred

articles about Doc Brown and DeLoreans

, with hardly anyone taking this seriously.

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