You do realize that all those 'tech' you listed are impossible devices that break the laws of physics, right?

But sure...just let me get round to inventing a robot cat with a magical pocket...I'll get right on it...

I can tell you right now that a time machine is fundamentally impossible.

You can 'travel' to the future to a certian extent once technology advances far enough by temporarily residing in a high gravity area. Interstellar got that bit right.

Travel back to the past? That's a definite no. I mean you can setup a wormhole but the physics behind it is improbable to the point of it just being impossible altogether. You won't see it in your lifetime. Nor will your kids or your grandkids. Or great-grandkids.

And no, in this case there are no assumptions or mistakes. What you want is flat out impossible outside of comics.

That's not a new theory lar. That's the same as the wormhole concept. As in you can only travel back as far as when the wormhole was first created. You can go read up on that.

The energy required to make a wormhole however, along with the space needed to make one that would allow you to travel back years...yeah...that's way out of our league.

Stephen Hawking also talked about this already:
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/home/moslive/ar...me-machine.html

What particles, exactly?

And a bit of a correction there. Einstein stated that nothing with mass can travel faster than the speed of light. So far, he's not wrong.

You have an experiment that shows a particle going faster than light, link it up please. Last I looked, that neutrino anomaly was actually a mistaken observation.

As for the phenomena of Quantum Entanglement, it doesn't really count as breaking the speed of light either.
https://www.sciencenews.org/blog/context/en...action-distance

You sure about that? I'm trying to find the exact statement but if I'm not mistaken, 'nothing can travel faster than the speed of light' is just a simplification of his theories.

I remember it actually as 'no physical object' which would translate to something with mass or just matter in general.

Saying that nothing can travel faster than the speed of light is ironically accurate, because NOTHING can indeed travel faster than the speed of light. A vacuum, which is basically nothing, can expand faster than the speed of light.

Information, which is also technically...nothing, can also travel faster than the speed of light as demonstrated by Quantum Entanglement but even that is dodgy and has its issues (see the article I linked).

Negative matter, which would be...err...less than nothing? Yeah, that can also go faster than the speed of light...in theory...

Any more thought about that and my brain hurts so...

Yes it can. What do you think happened during the big bang?

There's no profit to be made from curing disease, unless we allow the pharma companies to charge insane prices for the results of their R&D.

But that would make the cure so ludicrously expensive that most patients will no longer be able to afford them.

Its a tough problem to solve, and generally just requires countries to subsidize and pour money into research for which there will be no returns. The private sector mostly ain't gonna do it, and those who do usually end up wanting to charge an arm and leg for it when given the chance. Look at the whole stupid epipen price increase saga.

There is no political will to make that happen though.

Well, we can't assume that people who are good at IT will also be good at biochemical engineering. Everyone has their own interests, and the IT folks are contributing in their own small way to research in every other field. Actually, all the research fields are linked in some way if you zoom out far enough.

We spend billions on space programs which could also be used for medical research too. Is that a waste of money? Absolutely not. Experiments conducted on the ISS has also been valuable in the field of medicine.

Take Pokemon Go for example. Its also easy to say that the brains behind it contributed nothing useful to society and there's so much negative news about it, but the there's a whole lot more positivity too. It made a whole bunch of people get off their butts and go walk around the neighbourhood instead to play a game instead of sitting at home playing some other mobile game. That's definitely better for their health. At least their burning some calories and getting a bit of exercise, and hopefully that might improve their health and put less strain on the health system.

Admittedly, there really ought to be more funding for medicinal research, and we really should be trying to drum up more interest for it in schools. But it ain't exactly fair to blame the other fields for it though.