Okay, I'll give you that, gravitational time dilation makes sense. But the article sites "Time Travel In Einsteins Universe" by Gott, which i read, and in the book he states basically that if you could decompress and then form a 4 foot ball out of JUPITER, you'd have neough mass to bend time to a serious degree, and then if you could find your way out of the center of the sphere, you'd be in the future. Only a supercivilization could bend that much matter to it's will.

Now, on the other hand, if we were to find a way to convert energy to matter, and a way to open a wormhole, we could harness unbelievable amounts of energy from the farthest reaches of the universe lickety split. Then we might be going somewhere.

However, we have to keep things constant. If we create this big of a ball right next to us, by the time we're halfway done we'll already have stopped aging to a point of being dead to the now-future world.

OR, if we did have one made out of Jupiter, who's to say that jupiter right now isn't affecting our timestream (ie: all bodies act on each other gravitationally, so perhaps we all experience differnt times even at the same velocities, to combine the wisdom of Newton and Einstein.)

I think it's possible, but the means we have now are theoretical and not fit for consumptino by any race, truthfully. The ultimate solution to this quandry will probably be based on lower-level universal laws that we're not yet farmiliar with, and that make what we're discussing now look like mindless babble.

Which it almost is.

If you're intersted in more physics talk, I'd love to chit chat about things. Email me sometime, xmaddness.