Just what would time travel look like?  This question was posed to me by a movie director in L.A..  It turns out there are three parts to this question-- what physics suggests, what movies have done in the past, and what looks good.

The last is up to her and her special effects staff.  The middle one-- Hollywood traditions for time travel-- are worth examining to scope out possibilities.  I'll then conclude with what I think physics suggests is most likely.

Were I to invent categories for movie time travel effects, I'd create the following:

1.   techno with lots of lights and whooshing (ala 2001, though that wasn't time travel)



2.   high speed vehicle (similar to techno, but with speed lines)

MILPITAS, California, July 7 /PRNewswire/ --

- CM1624 Provides Excellent EMI Suppression, Lowest Line Capacitance and Robust
15kV ESD Protection

California Micro Devices (Nasdaq: CAMD) today announced the CM1624, an
application specific microSD (micro Secure Digital) interface protection filter
for mobile and computing devices. The popular microSD flash memory card is
increasingly used in portable devices to allow users to store or use data across
different devices. The CM1624 protects the microSD memory card user interface
against ESD (electrostatic discharge) damage to the card or to the hardware and
suppresses EMI (electromagnetic interference) while providing excellent digital
signal integrity.  

DALLAS, July 7 /PRNewswire/ --

BancTec, Inc., a global provider of advanced, high-volume, document and payment
processing solutions and services, today announced that the Lockheed Martin
Census Business Practice team, a premier international provider of integrated
census data collection, processing and analysis solutions, has selected
BancTec's workflow management software as a component of its 2010 Census
solution.

We have worked with Lockheed Martin on other census engagements, and are honored
that our workflow management solution has been selected by them to assist in
managing the massive 2010 Census project, said Michael D. Fallin, senior vice
president and president, Americas, BancTec.  

TORONTO, July 7 /PRNewswire/ --

- Redknee's Service Bureau to Provide Wholesale Billing and Content Settlement
for Tier-1 Wireless Operator

Redknee (TSX:RKN), a leading provider of business-critical billing and charging
software and solutions for communications service providers, announced that a
leading Tier-1 operator from the Asia Pacific (APAC) region has selected
Redknee's InBill solution to manage its wholesale billing with its Mobile
Virtual Network Operator (MVNO) partners through Redknee's service bureau
operations.  

SAN JOSE, California, July 7 /PRNewswire/ --

Atmel(R) Corporation (Nasdaq: ATML) announced today that the company has
received LIN2.1 certification for its LIN transceiver ATA6662 and LIN System
Basis Chip ATA6624. The LIN2.1 physical layer test, which is the basis for LIN
certification as defined by the LIN Consortium, was successfully carried out by
the LIN-Consortium-certified test house CS Group, Wolfenbuettel, Germany.
Consequently, Atmel's entire LIN product range fully conforms to the worldwide
LIN2.1 standard. LIN2.1 conformance enables design engineers to use Atmel's LIN
products for all available LIN bus systems ranging from LIN 1.3 to LIN 2.0 and
LIN 2.1.  

DUBLIN, July 7 /PRNewswire/ --

- FTOPS XIII Features 25 Events and More Than $16 Million Guaranteed

The Full Tilt Online Poker Series (FTOPS) returns for its thirteenth running
beginning on Wednesday, August 5th, and offers players the chance to earn their
share of more than US$16 million in guaranteed prize money.

FTOPS XIII features 25 events, each with a different game and tournament
structure.  

ATLANTA and CHICAGO, July 7 /PRNewswire/ --

- Two industry leaders come together to deliver the broadest and deepest
solution specifically designed for Service Lifecycle Management (SLM)

Servigistics and Click Commerce's Service Network Solutions (SNS) division, both
recently acquired by private equity firm Marlin Equity Partners, have been
merged to form a new company to solve the planning, optimization, execution and
analytics challenges associated with delivering world-class post-sale service.
The new company will retain the Servigistics name and deliver a long-awaited
total solution specifically designed to manage all aspects of the post-sale
service process - what the market is now referring to as Service Lifecycle
Management (SLM).

Because today's troubled economy has cause  

DUBAI, U.A.E, July 7 /PRNewswire/ --

- IT Division (Mercator) Appraised at CMMI(R) Level 3 by QAI

The Emirates Group's (http://www.ekgroup.com) vision of being a global leading
provider of Business Technology and IT Solutions, received a major boost when
its IT division (Mercator) was assessed at CMMI(R) Level 3, the internationally
recognized standard for assessing software development practices, by the
Software Engineering Institute (SEI) ( http://www.sei.cmu.edu) of the Carnegie
Mellon University, USA and QAI (http://www.qaiglobal.com), SEI's transition
partners globally.

His Highness Sheikh Ahmed Bin Saeed Al Maktoum, Chairman and Chief Executive,
Emirates Airline and Group, accepted the citation for CMMI(R) Level 3 on behalf
of Mercator from Jay Douglas, SEI Business Develop  

LONDON, July 7 /PRNewswire/ --

The 2008 Frost Sullivan Global Food and Beverage Prebiotics Product Innovation
Award is presented to Ireland-based Marigot Ltd. and U.S.-based GTC Nutrition
for their unique partnership product concept - CalciLife(TM). This
prebiotic-based mineral absorption-enhancer aims at simultaneously promoting
bone, digestive and immune health.

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The companies have answered the needs of a growing consumer demographic by
innovatively targeting nutrition and health within the developing global
functional food ingredients market with their science-based combination product,
notes Frost Sullivan Industry Analyst Dr. Deborah Cross.  

LONDON, July 7 /PRNewswire/ --

The medical device industry is one of the most vital and dynamic sectors of the
European economy. The industry is constantly driven by RD, which needs to keep
pace with the evolving demands of the medical fraternity.

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New analysis from Frost Sullivan (http://www.medicaldevices.frost.com), European
Medical Device Company Profiles, finds that the global medical device market
comprises three main regions - the United States, Europe and Japan. The United
States represents the largest share with approximately 40 per cent, followed by
the European Union (EU) countries with 30 per cent and rest of the world with 30
per cent.