The concept of time travel
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Today I thought of what it would be like to travel time. Then I thought what problems could arise if you traveled BACK in time, for example:
1. Your past self could see you and go crazy
2. If you tried to fix a problem by going into the past by undoing the problem , you could possibly doing the one thing that caused that problem. Which causes a loop (You keep going back to fix the problem but, in fact you are the problem).
3. You kill\modify\influence something in the past that totally changes the present\future.
These are some of the things i wondered and now I'm getting a head ache. :P
There are more things I thought about but i will leave that for another time.
Please post your reactions, theories, or anything you think is relevant to time travel.
1. Your past self could see you and go crazy
2. If you tried to fix a problem by going into the past by undoing the problem , you could possibly doing the one thing that caused that problem. Which causes a loop (You keep going back to fix the problem but, in fact you are the problem).
3. You kill\modify\influence something in the past that totally changes the present\future.
These are some of the things i wondered and now I'm getting a head ache. :P
There are more things I thought about but i will leave that for another time.
Please post your reactions, theories, or anything you think is relevant to time travel.
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Ah, I've also been thinking about this lately and how that it is impossible to go back in time. Here's my theory.
1) You built the time machine (Or go faster than the speed of light)
2) Go back into the past and change something
3) History is re-written
4) As history is re-written, there is no need for you to build a time machine.
5) As you don't build the time machine, there is no one to go back into the past and make the change, meaning that everything would go back to normal.
I suppose this could be avoided if you made a second trip back in time, to redo the thing that you wanted to do. But, there is a possibilty that your trip back into time made in impossible to travel back in the alternate timeline. Meaning, once again, that everything would go back to normal.
1) You built the time machine (Or go faster than the speed of light)
2) Go back into the past and change something
3) History is re-written
4) As history is re-written, there is no need for you to build a time machine.
5) As you don't build the time machine, there is no one to go back into the past and make the change, meaning that everything would go back to normal.
I suppose this could be avoided if you made a second trip back in time, to redo the thing that you wanted to do. But, there is a possibilty that your trip back into time made in impossible to travel back in the alternate timeline. Meaning, once again, that everything would go back to normal.
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Yeah there's always that paradoxical loop in there. Usually the only way to avoid it is with some parallel universe kinda set up.
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This is exactly what I was thinking. There are so many technicalities that time travel would be virtually impossible without totally altering space, time, and reality.
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guess even if you managed somehow to travel back/forth in time, your body would get kinda like "compressed" in the act
and it would be more like the future is coming to the present instead of the present going to the past :p
and it would be more like the future is coming to the present instead of the present going to the past :p
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When u do time travel is like sending a part of the future time into the past time, even that i think is enough to cause great disturbance like space or dimension collision... and yeah i dont think that's possible...
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First, even if it'il be possible, it's going to be illegal.
Second, time travel is outdated. Nobody cares about it anymore, except Trekker and Back to the Future fans.
Second, time travel is outdated. Nobody cares about it anymore, except Trekker and Back to the Future fans.
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LilithSummoner wrote...
Back to the Future fans.Who doesn't love Back to the Future. It's one of the best films ever
Dr Emmett Brown wrote...
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Whenever I think about time travel - I feel that it would be more like the trunks Timeline from DBZ - that you could go back in time ... and change it ... but all in all that wouldn't effect your own life ... more like a "I'll help you in order not to make the same mistake I did" kind of effect
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i've discussed this with myself for a long time now and the only conclusion i've come to is you can't change time. even if you think you are, you're not. you're just doing what was intended for you to do so all along, you're just being time's bitch.
cause if you think about it, if you went back in time and changed what was supposed to happen, you altered the line your path was on and since it got altered you'd never have ended up in the situation where you felt the need to go back and change your life. then it would never have happened and the future you that changed everything would never have existed so you're life would not have been changed. but if that happened then your life wouldn't have been changed so something must have happened, some other incident that caused you to need to go back and fix it.
i think it comes down to inevitability. final destination used this idea but they just severely shat up in the process, discrediting the very valid idea had to start with. no matter what you do, if it was meant to happen, it's gonna happen. you know, maybe you can change the path you took to walk to somewhere but in the end, you'd still end up in the same place you'd have ended up had you walked any other path. so maybe you can avert getting that scratch on your arm when you were little but you can't change your entire arm getting cut off. maybe you can travel back in time but you can't change anything.
ya dig? neither do i but it's what comes up every singly fucking time i watch the terminator.
cause if you think about it, if you went back in time and changed what was supposed to happen, you altered the line your path was on and since it got altered you'd never have ended up in the situation where you felt the need to go back and change your life. then it would never have happened and the future you that changed everything would never have existed so you're life would not have been changed. but if that happened then your life wouldn't have been changed so something must have happened, some other incident that caused you to need to go back and fix it.
i think it comes down to inevitability. final destination used this idea but they just severely shat up in the process, discrediting the very valid idea had to start with. no matter what you do, if it was meant to happen, it's gonna happen. you know, maybe you can change the path you took to walk to somewhere but in the end, you'd still end up in the same place you'd have ended up had you walked any other path. so maybe you can avert getting that scratch on your arm when you were little but you can't change your entire arm getting cut off. maybe you can travel back in time but you can't change anything.
ya dig? neither do i but it's what comes up every singly fucking time i watch the terminator.
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This can all be summed up by watching Back to the Future. Time travel, though great, would be a monumental disaster, unless you were intended to go back and change something in order to continue the current line. It's all very confusing and there are any number of outcomes, which is why nobody's nailed it yet, because we don't have a clue how, and even if we did, we don't know if it'd be the right thing to do (but then again, when has that ever stopped us?).
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time travel could be possible if you managed to create a small circular track and put a pod on it that goes at the speed of light. then the pod would make the loop before it even started. how ever i think it would only be like 5 secods early. which then makes u think would u even be able to launch it in the first place?
My head just exploaded
My head just exploaded
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I don't believe time travel exists no matter how much I want it to be so. We created the word time. Time is a figment of a persons imagination. It doesn't really exist. Sure we have the present and the past and the future but that doesn't mean we can go to them. The past has all ready happened and the future hasn't happened yet. These things can't be merely done by mortals such as us. Our small minds can't actually comprehend things of this magnitude.
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Gentlemen, I am pleased to announce that I have created a time machine. However, it can only travel into the future from minutes to hours at a time. A warm blanket and glass of warm milk help to activate the machine. It grows late, so if you'll excuse me, I'm going to get into my time machine now. I'll see you all in a couple of hours, but for myself, seemingly no time at all will have passed! Astounding!
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cooperboy321 wrote...
Gentlemen, I am pleased to announce that I have created a time machine. However, it can only travel into the future from minutes to hours at a time. A warm blanket and glass of warm milk help to activate the machine. It grows late, so if you'll excuse me, I'm going to get into my time machine now. I'll see you all in a couple of hours, but for myself, seemingly no time at all will have passed! Astounding!I have sex in my time machine. :)
Ew... :shock:
(Apologies, someone had to say it...couldn't just let it go.)
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York wrote...
Rurouni you have made an enemy! *no I didn't give your negative ranking.*Who? The other guy from the grammar post? He needs to get on the two-step program I refer most people to (1. Grasp stick firmly 2. Pull from @$$ with a sharp tug). He wouldn't be the first enemy made from a confrontation that started with somebody disagreeing with another person. He flew off the handle from a post I made that was very general, very broad, and not directed right at him. I didn't mean to get personal, but he went there and he went there HARD, so I defended myself. End of story. If he pursues it any further, that's his deal, let him. I'm not going to have a panic attack and run crying to my mother (that'd be a little awkward at my age...) because he gave me bad reputation points (he really did... :roll: ). I consider him to be what Nikon calls (in the Rules and Guidelines) an "asshat". I remove my mask, undo my jacket, and lay down my blade. He can have at me, because I really don't care beyond tonight. :)
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Noutakun wrote:
No arguments here and this isn't done yet!
Rurouni_crow wrote:
1.For one I can't believe you think about sticks in other peoples asses.
2.Here I'm writing you a prescription for two testicles! Feel free to fill it out soon!
4.Your almost as funny as NetAuthority!
5.*haha* You looked back to find reason three.
6.You picked the wrong day to say...
Enjoy! :wink:
Listen here, noob. I am not bashing shorthand OR 1337. I am talking about cryptic messages left by people who honestly COULD be completely understood if it weren't for the fact that they leave out punctuation, as well as butcher words and infect the page with dyslexia. And who do you think you are, waltzing in here and trying to tell me I have lost a war I haven't even fought in. Let me tell you something--Grammar Nazi is not a title I granted myself, it was something I was given throughout my various exploits on this board. And for someone of your own status to walk in here and pretend that you don't see things the same way as I is complete and utter lunacy. Look at how you post: with a few exceptions, that was an entirely-correct post. But I don't need an English major to know how to speak and write. I don't even need to go to college for that. All I need to do is open my eyes. So don't try to flaunt your English major--it means nothing here. And, if you weren't such a noob, you would have realized that as time passed, I no longer corrected anyone. That is, however, unless someone pissed me off as royally as you just have. People like you don't understand how things go around here. When you come in and try to fix things that aren't broken, you only seem to exacerbate things. Honestly, tell me how to treat other people when you know yourself. Until then, enjoy a nice heaping mug of STFU>FO.
No arguments here and this isn't done yet!
Rurouni_crow wrote:
Who? The other guy from the grammar post? He needs to get on the two-step program I refer most people to (1. Grasp stick firmly 2. Pull from @$$ with a sharp tug). He wouldn't be the first enemy made from a confrontation that started with somebody disagreeing with another person. He flew off the handle from a post I made that was very general, very broad, and not directed right at him. I didn't mean to get personal, but he went there and he went there HARD, so I defended myself. End of story. If he pursues it any further, that's his deal, let him. I'm not going to have a panic attack and run crying to my mother (that'd be a little awkward at my age...) because he gave me bad reputation points (he really did... Rolling Eyes ). I consider him to be what Nikon calls (in the Rules and Guidelines) an "asshat". I remove my mask, undo my jacket, and lay down my blade. He can have at me, because I really don't care beyond tonight. Smile
1.For one I can't believe you think about sticks in other peoples asses.
2.Here I'm writing you a prescription for two testicles! Feel free to fill it out soon!
4.Your almost as funny as NetAuthority!
5.*haha* You looked back to find reason three.
6.You picked the wrong day to say...
As an English major, I find myself naturally attracted to correct people in the nicest manner possible (as compared to the usually sarcastic and berating manner of others). But one has to take into account the idea that some people see the internet as a way of escaping reality and likewise, speech. Why do you think l33t became so popular? It's the technological generation's shorthand. Have a full conversation with another person in a different part of the country speaking (typing) as little as possible, but still getting the point across in a single inflected abbreviation. They are being taken seriously, the problem is that some people take things too seriously in forums and online in general (on both ends of the spectrum).
So to all the grammar nazis out there: LIGHTEN UP. THE WAR IS OVER, YOU LOSE.
So to all the grammar nazis out there: LIGHTEN UP. THE WAR IS OVER, YOU LOSE.
Enjoy! :wink: