mr YO
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| | Time travel... just doesnt work.Page 1 of 1 | if you could go back in time, where would you be?
The earth would continue on it's physical plain of existance, and you would be left floating in outer space, or wherever your phsyical self ends up.
so... in theory if you want to change, or affect the future, start with the present, not the past, unless of course you/we are learning from past !@#$-ups.
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mr YO
| | Joined: 4/23/2008
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| Time travel... just doesnt work.
Posted: 7/8/2008 9:31:15 PM | | I wish I could go back in time and delete this thread... wait a minute, eon/ whatever, I can, kinda... | |
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| Time travel... just doesnt work.
Posted: 7/8/2008 9:55:46 PM | You're telling me it doesn't work!!!
I went back to the early 1920s, got a nice apartment in Berlin that just needed wallpaper, but had to fire the first paper hanger-
Dabbled in the stock market-
I jump back to 2008 and WTH?
Global recession in '29???
Some global conflict back in the '40s???
It was oil exploration stock, and-
He was just a paper hanger, fercryinoutloud...
Went back to fix it, and-
What's this "Cold War" nonsense????
Gas hit over $1.25 a gallon, so I went back to 1968 to talk to some oil guys I knew, and-
Oh, no, no, no, no, no, no... | |
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| Time travel... just doesnt work.
Posted: 7/8/2008 10:02:43 PM | BWAHAHAHA! GO with that! This thread has found direction! I was going to suggest the OP find a revised direction, but it seems there's a good one already! | |
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| Time travel... just doesnt work.
Posted: 7/8/2008 10:57:56 PM | A time travel thread? Just what I was looking for.
Me and a buddy were getting drunk at the bar last week and we started talking about time travel - how it might be done. He came up with some idea, but nothing good. So I suggested tricking the time travelers into coming back in time to get us.
I wrote on a Bev-nap that we were time travelers stuck in the past because our time machine broke and we needed to be rescued. I added if anyone in the future finds and reads my note, to get it to whoever is in charge of time travel. I also wrote down on the napkin the time to come get us, which was right then, at that moment, in the bar. Next I hid the note behind the toilet in the bathroom. They never clean the bathroom in the joint so I figure no one will find it for a couple hundred years.
When I came back out of the bathroom, there were two odd looking guys waiting for me. They weren't to happy about being tricked. They had some portable machine with dials. They pushed some buttons and here we are. It's 2673, December 12th. They won't let us go home.
To keep us occupied, they let us use a computer. They use temporal computers in the future (so we can watch old time TV), and I was able to tap into the Internet of the past. They will kill us if they find out I'm doing this. Anyway. I found this site and this thread. If anyone reads it, please go to the dive on the corner of Commercial Street and Forth, in Portland, Maine on September 12th, 2010, at seven p.m. and tell me not to stick that note behind the toilet.
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| Time travel... just doesnt work.
Posted: 7/8/2008 11:16:08 PM | Anyone capable of manipulating the temporal dimension would almost certainly be capable of manipulating 3-dimensional space as well, since both time and space are related. Consequently, anyone designing a time machine could easily create a computer program designed to displace the person in time AND in space based on the Earth's known (or projected) position so that you won't end up in a vacuum when you travel back in time. This is a minor obstacle anyway because it is very unlikely that a time machine builder is going to create a machine that dispaces a person in time unprotected from the environment. Even if you went back in time and ended up 100,000 miles away from Earth, you'd still be safe in your air-tight cabin. All you'd need to do is set thrusters to maximum and head to Earth.
The future can never be changed. Once something happens, it becomes part of history and nothing can ever change it. Even if you were to travel back in time, which I believe is possible, you would only be able to displaced yourself into an alternate timeline by "changing" (technically you aren't changing anything because none of it happened yet) something. This might be good or bad depending on what the "new" timeline looks like, but it would only be good or bad for YOU. The timeline that you left would still be intact.
Go back and warn people to stay away from those buildings because there's going to be a terrorist attack there in 2001 AD. You'd be saving their lives perhaps. But this won't ever change the fact that in many other timelines those people are still dead or injured. | |
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| Time travel... just doesnt work.
Posted: 7/8/2008 11:21:23 PM |
They never clean the bathroom in the joint so I figure no one will find it for a couple hundred years.
There's no way I'm setting foot into that nasty place. I think I might call the health department and have them inspect the place instead. Maybe then they'll find your note so the future time travelers won't get to it first  | |
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| Time travel... just doesnt work.
Posted: 7/23/2012 7:05:39 AM | Time travel doesn't work?…news to me…I've been travelling into the future all my life; I just never seem to arrive.
The problem with peoples' perception of time is that they erroneously think its infinite and linear. Therein lies the fallacy. Like spacetime, time curls back on itself, resulting in a repeating cycle with a finite period that only appears infinite. We see strong evidence of this as history repeats itself over and over and over…
Each cycle is just a remake of the last (with different actors). Like "Dragnet", It's a work of fiction based on real events; only the names were changed to protect the guilty. | |
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| Time travel... just doesnt work.
Posted: 7/23/2012 11:39:36 AM | You can't go back because everything is action-reaction.
You can't unlight a match.
You can however travel SO FAST that everything appears to be at a standstill.
So, you could spend a year doing something while everyone else spent a second...but your life is so short, that the only time this could help you was if..well...
You're a fighter and you want to train for a year to fight a day from now
You're a scientist and you need more time to create a vaccine, but the outbreak is happening...now.
You take your new dog with you and train him for a year so that the next day you can impress the girl you met 2 days ago. | |
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| Time travel... just doesnt work.
Posted: 7/27/2012 9:47:53 PM | | Time is horribly misconceived thanks to Hollywood and bad water cooler conversations. Time is not a recording of matter (of existence). If you built a machine that 'took' you 'back' to December 5th, 1985 you still would not have traveled through time. You would have only recombined all matter to be exactly as it was on December 5th, 1985. The idea of time passing or for something to age is just a human measurement. It serves us but is otherwise completely irrelevant to the architecture of the Universe (or any verse). | |
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| Time travel... just doesnt work.
Posted: 7/28/2012 4:06:22 PM | | Time travel is heavily policed this is why theirs no time crimes but if you observe closely enough you can see the evidence of time travel...like this morning my bus was 20 min late...tell me that wasn't time dilation! from a passing nth dimensional shift | |
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