(02-06-2014 05:18 PM)smn1256 Wrote: If time travel was possible 1000 years from now, then wouldn't there be a decent chance that we'd already have met a person from the future?
That question is certainly the fly in the ointment. Maybe they were really good at cleaning up after themselves?
This is Hawking's position. Or rather that if time travel into the past is possible, where are all the visitors?
Personally, If traveling into the past is possible, the I believe you'd end up on an alternate universe and would never be able to return to your own. Moveover, that alternate universe might be composed of matter/physics that would kill you. For instance, the alt 'verse is composed of what we refer to as antimatter, you're screwed.
(02-06-2014 04:37 PM)smn1256 Wrote: If time travel was really possible, I'd be happy to go back 10 years and say good bye to loved ones who are no longer with us....and buy Google stock.
I'd go back to the 80's with the same idea in mind, minus the Google stock, I'd hump one of the Bangles though, she'd be all mine after I showed her my time machine.
I hear ya loud and clear. Susannah Hoffs wouldn't be walking like an Egyptian after I was done with her, she'd be walking bow legged.
(02-06-2014 05:14 PM)Lord Stanley Wrote: Perhaps time travelers allowed Hitler, 9/11 and Toledo Football as it was the only way to prevent something even worse.
In all honestly, aren't we really just 250,000 year old specialized plains apes, for whom agriculture was still a pretty neat idea just 12,000 years ago, and who started formulating the modern scientific method only 400 hundred years ago. FFS we've only known about the neutron for 70 years! Looking at it that time frame I think we're pretty cocky monkeys to pretend to be able to state absolutely the limits, or lack of, hypothetical technologies hundreds of years, thousands of years or even millions of years beyond our knowledge.
I don't know, though, if time travel was true to any time and in our dimension, as to why time traveling tourists haven't popped up like clowns exiting a clown car. Seriously. Who wouldn't want to go back and spend three hours watching something the Pyramids being built?.
If time travel was possible 1000 years from now, then wouldn't there be a decent chance that we'd already have met a person from the future?
What if we do... Remember, we're not supposed to know they're time travellers. Hambone said in an earlier post, that if it were true then someone would have outed themselves already, which is true, but if ANYONE claimed they travelled through time, they'd be laughed at. George Nory has interviewed people like that on his late night AM radio show.
(02-06-2014 04:37 PM)smn1256 Wrote: If time travel was really possible, I'd be happy to go back 10 years and say good bye to loved ones who are no longer with us....and buy Google stock.
I'd go back to the 80's with the same idea in mind, minus the Google stock, I'd hump one of the Bangles though, she'd be all mine after I showed her my time machine.
I hear ya loud and clear. Susannah Hoffs wouldn't be walking like an Egyptian after I was done with her, she'd be walking bow legged.
(02-06-2014 06:04 PM)HeartOfDixie Wrote: I have no clue.
If I could go back in time, I wouldn't.
Although, it would be cool to meet the world's first mime and cut him.
I wouldn't mind going back to 1999 and humping my college GF, she was short, Italian, and one sexy nympho... Or 2001 so I could hump my exwife while she was still just 19 and didn't have any of my kids yet and was extremely sexually active still...
(02-06-2014 04:37 PM)smn1256 Wrote: If time travel was really possible, I'd be happy to go back 10 years and say good bye to loved ones who are no longer with us....and buy Google stock.
I'd go back to the 80's with the same idea in mind, minus the Google stock, I'd hump one of the Bangles though, she'd be all mine after I showed her my time machine.
I hear ya loud and clear. Susannah Hoffs wouldn't be walking like an Egyptian after I was done with her, she'd be walking bow legged.
Ugh, DAMN she was hot. Her and Kim Cattrall..
Good Lord I had a crush on her.
Me too, I can remember being a kid and dancing like an idiot to their cassette tape that had Manic Monday and Walk Like an Egyptian on it... I still remember the tape, it was a cream color. Different Light was the album, and I was 7 years old.
The released an album in 2011... Here's Anna Lee from it.
(02-06-2014 04:07 PM)smn1256 Wrote: I mean, the Earth has moved 6 months along it's orbit and you'd be landing in dead space until the Earth comes around and crashes into you. So it's not just time travel, it's location, location, location.
YES!
One of the great issues I have w/ most time travel stories.
Hah! Time travelers would appear in the cold, hard, vacuum of space. And die. Unless they've got space suits, then they float around for a while. Then die.
Exactly. But for some reason, that's just not a very interesting story. (Although apparently it worked for Gravity)
(This post was last modified: 02-07-2014 10:54 AM by DrTorch.)
Time and space both move and are both affected by gravity. I think one day it will be possible to move through time as easily as it is space, at least in the 'forward' direction. The issue I see is returning back to the point in time and location in space as when one departed. What good is time travel if you can't go back to where and when you left from?
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Do you think time travel is possible?
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