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#61
Posted 08 December 2009 - 10:12 AM
I am hopeful for time travel
#62
Posted 08 December 2009 - 12:44 PM
#63
Posted 08 December 2009 - 01:34 PM
Why are you hopeful for time travel? Have there been any recent developments you are aware of?
#64
Posted 08 December 2009 - 01:36 PM
No fuel left for the pilgrims
#65
Posted 08 December 2009 - 02:01 PM
#66
Posted 08 December 2009 - 06:35 PM
Now that that lame joke is out of the way, I can confirm you that time-travel is a no-go. Besides, if it would be possible some day, we'd already have been visited by people from the future, no?
#67
Posted 08 December 2009 - 11:48 PM
That's what Stephen Hawking said. But then Carl Sagan suggested that maybe the people from the future fit in with us. If the future folk among us now are hiding because they just want to see the sights of our time and not be subjected to endless questioning about the future and potential technologies, we'll have no way of knowing.Besides, if it would be possible some day, we'd already have been visited by people from the future, no?
#68
Posted 09 December 2009 - 12:03 AM
#69
Posted 09 December 2009 - 12:46 AM
What would they gain by coming back to our time and not making it known or exploiting it? More to the point, what would they gain by coming back to our time at all?
I believe they're working on something that might be able to displace time by literally nanoseconds, but that sort of scale is so infintisimally small that it's not worth bothering, considering power costs. What would we do with time travel anyway? Anyone who says 'kill Hitler' has obviously not been paying fucking attention to every time travel movie, game or TV show ever
Essentially your contributions to the pre-you timeline would either be insignificant, you'd cause to happen what's already happened and is supposed to happen, or you'd just make shit worse.
The best we could hope for would be a way to go back in time that would be like a window into the past, allowing us to view events as they happened but be unable to alter or interact.
#70
Posted 09 December 2009 - 12:51 AM
Time Travel = Possible
Yet,
Time Travel = Banned
#71
Posted 10 December 2009 - 04:56 PM
#72
Posted 10 December 2009 - 07:57 PM
And Ash, what is this device you speak of?
#73
Posted 11 December 2009 - 02:44 PM
1. You cannot change anything, no matter how hard you try. What happened, happened. (Lost)
2. You can change stuff, but you'll create an alternate timeline/universe. (Back to the Future)
All those movies where the hero goes back in time to save the future, it doesn't work that way. I mean, it might work for the hero, but what about the people he's trying to save? Will they suddenly go "oh, all that bad stuff I remember, it suddenly hasn't happened anymore"? That's impossible, because if the stuff that happened in the past didn't happen, they probably wouldn't even be where they were (or traveled back in time in the first place).
Einstein: "We can’t solve problems by using the same kind of thinking we used when we created them."
#74
Posted 11 December 2009 - 02:52 PM
For yet another opinion, you should read The Light Of Other Days, by Arthur C. Clarke and Stephen Baxter. Excellent book, very well thought out and very intelligent in scientific and literary terms.
#75
Posted 11 December 2009 - 11:41 PM
OR!There are two realistic scenarios for backwards time travel (if it is at all possible, of course):
1. You cannot change anything, no matter how hard you try. What happened, happened. (Lost)
2. You can change stuff, but you'll create an alternate timeline/universe. (Back to the Future)
3: They get replaced by someone who will do the exact same thing, IE going back in time and killing Hitler will result a new guy replacing him and doing what he did. (Cirque Du Freak series [aka The Saga of Darren Shaw])
#76
Posted 12 December 2009 - 10:04 AM
Einstein: "We can’t solve problems by using the same kind of thinking we used when we created them."
#77
Posted 12 December 2009 - 10:21 AM
Time travel is such a bad idea it's not even funny. And that's not even taking into account the common movie tropes about the issue. I fail to see what use or good could come of it.
#78
Posted 12 December 2009 - 12:49 PM
#79
Posted 12 December 2009 - 05:13 PM
#80
Posted 12 December 2009 - 05:47 PM
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