Time Travel

[Dom Pedro II]

And I've already gone into the future and stopped you...

[tinyp3nis]

Originally posted by johncmcleod


We don't know much about space and time so I don't think it is safe to rule it out.

I thought this was an interesting thread and would get more replies. I'll bump it.

And you don't know enough about me and yourself to rule the out the possibility I am you. It's just that it's not very rational to believe I am you.

[mrmitchell]

IIRC, it's far easier to move forward in time (at a faster pace then you are now of course ) than to move back.

That said, the only real reasons for them would be historian expeditions, scientific studies, and bringing back tech from the future right? I mean, I'd LOVE to eat with, say, King Henry VIII--seems quite a feller--but it would change history, and certainly that's not good.

[Inverse Icarus]

actually, there was a news report of a man to have claimed to come back from the future. he made 80 something stock trades, and made millions and millions within a few weeks.

people suspected insider trading, but he did it with over so many companies, i doubt he knew someone in all of them.

last i heard he was detained in a federal prison and claiming to be from the future.

[mrmitchell]

actually, there was a news report of a man to have claimed to come back from the future. he made 80 something stock trades, and made millions and millions within a few weeks.

You've accidentally come across a story from that pinnacle of accuracy in reporting, the Weekly World News.

Always check the source, man.

[Nubclear]

I'm from the future.

[Elok]

There's also the possibility that we didn't make it long enough to develop time travel, or that our descendants don't feel like toying with something as big as the space-time continuum. The latter would be a rare victory for common sense, but it could happen.

[Odin]

Maby the Gods of polythiestic religions were actually time travellers.

I would like to talk and have lunch with Darwin.

[Father Beast]

Actually, The current theories say that time travel is a possibility, but you could only travel back in time to a point when the time machine existed.

So much for conversing with Darwin.

See "massive rotating cylinders and the possibility of global causality violation"

see also the novel "Timemaster" by Robert Forward.

[Dom Pedro II]

Well, I'm about fifty years older since I last posted here.. God, it seems so long ago...

I've been dodging the Time Police ever since... I spent a brief time in the Old South... I really gave Lee some bad advice, I think he might have lost the war in this timeline. Oh well, I'll fix it later. Damn! Here comes the fuzz! Tata!

[Gatekeeper]

The only way time travel should be possible is if, when you go back, you cannot physically interact with the past. Failing that (or on top of that), every time you go back, you spawn a separate timeline from the one you came from. These timelines all remain "bundled" together (think individual lanes in a super-super timeline highway of human possibilities), but passage among them is even harder than traveling through time.

It's all SF. Or is it?

Gatekeeper

[Dale]

I think that if time travel was invented, no one would come back to our time frame because it's SO GODDAM BORING!!!! I mean come on!!!!

When looking at history in its entirety, you can't exactly say that the last 50 years have been earth-shattering eh? Not compared to WWI/II, or the crusades, or Napolean, or the Romans, or Ancient Egypt, or Alexander's Greece. Geeze, there's so much more exciting things to see before the 1950's - now. Would YOU time travel back to now? I wouldn't.

That's what I think.

[Gatekeeper]

Supposedly, feelings of deja vu or instances where you *swore* you had a pen in your pocket (but now don't) are "signs" that you may be "flipping" among closely related timelines where there are only minor differences (thus their proximity and "easiness" of sliding into).

Gatekeeper

[Dom Pedro II]

Seriously though, as the area is rather deep inside the realm of speculation, I have used largely deductive reasoning with regards to time travel, and it doesn't seem logical to me.

In fact, I call into question the whole notion of time being some kind of physical thing, or at the very least that it exists within the universe...

If time (past, present, future) exists inside the universe, then, in theory, all three should be obliterated instantaneously, no? Because when the universe ends, all three will be destroyed including what was, what is, and what will be. Therefore, everything that was will also be destroyed. In this case, either there is no physical "time" so to speak in that all moments in time exist in such a way that you could move through it other than as we already do... or that the universe does not end... or the third option, that the universe does end, but time goes beyond the universe.

Now, as I said, this is merely my own deductive reasoning. If there has been some kind of empirical analysis on the matter, I would love to hear it. If it disproves my conclusion, fine. I'm always a willing student.

[Sikander]

Originally posted by geeslaka
Too late Dom, I've already informed the Boss of your betrayal.

Umm, haven't you heard? The boss was mysteriously assassinated and Dom was promoted to Boss.