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Termyn8or -> RE: It is impossible to travel through time because time does not exist. (8/23/2006 4:00:26 PM)
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Nasty, interesting. I would also not that nobody can ever know what time it is. When the measuring device you see strikes midnight for example, it is already past midnight. At the very least by as much time as it took for the reflected light to travel from the clock or whatever to your eyes.
Whip, I don't think we can say that all black holes deposit their gleanings to one part of space. There are some things we simply will never know. If I were very old and living several centuries in the future, and owned a spaceship, I would fly into one. I would then have the knowledge, but could never impart it to anyone, if light can't get out of there nothing else can. Sorta like death, you read about near death experiences, but it was from living people. I know a guy who died twice, he is outside fixing my car right now. That means he didn't gie. His body may have stopped functioning, but not permanently. He is not fixing my car by astral projection.
If anyone ever actually achieves time travel, they better be damn smart. they could anihilate themselves with one word. I wrote of this in a fictional work, and I have given it alot of thought. First of all what would yoiu do ?
First of all you can'[t get rid of your enemies beforehand, if you did you change your timeline so drastically you would not be the same person. A similar problem happens when you change historical events, like if I were to fix it so the south won the civil war.
The US would be alot more unlikely to get into WW2 and my Parents would not exist. Therefore I would not exist. If I go back into my own past I could give myself winning lottery numbers or who knows what. Again, if it was long ago I wouldn't be the same.
Most of the time, time travel, which should be illegal, would be done for personal gain. That might mean passing of gambling results to the past, but I would suggest that it only be done for a month or something. In other words if I went decades into the past, got myself set for life and destroyed a few enemies, or potential enemies, my own personal history is changed. Therefore the person that I am today does not exist. I don't want that.
Travelling to the future is another option, but there are a few things about that which will not go away. Let's say I decide to go to the future and bring me back some advanced technology. Up until my departure my timeline is intact, but thereafter who knows. There are additionally many problems, first of all, I would most likely not have any money, scrip, credit account or identity. I also do not know what I am looking at, it may be a police state with checkpoints and all the high tech is protected.
I have no way to steal and no way to buy. If recognised as being from the past I might be considered a ciminal, by them. After all I would be fucking with their timeline. I doubt the truth would get me much help.
Like that Twilight Zone where the guy is off the noose and in the big city a few hundred years later. He is not ready for it. For all I know the language may have changed as well. So I would be there with no identity, no money and nothing to offer.
Let's face it, if someone came up to you and said "I am from the past here getting information to take back with me", what would you say ? I would tell the guy to go pound salt. This is not just my future you intend to fuck with, it is my past. The past that created me how I am.
I can see no possible incentive to do that.
Time travel is probably a bad idea all the way around. I illustrated the point in my book. The fictional character who had been in suspended animation for 400 years went back to see his old GF. He wanted to tell her he was alright and she should go ahaed and try to be happy. When she told him she wished he had come 20 years ago he did just that.
Once he did that she made different life decisions and married a boyfriend she hadn't before, not knowing her beloved was gone for good. In that year she only knew him to be missing, it wasn't that long.
Well she marries the guy and after the familiarity sets in he becomes abusive, and almost kills her. Cripples her for sure. You know what the main character wanted to do, but he can't. He could, but not without risking everything in the new present.
Actually in the book there were people around who kept him from going back and killing the creep, they talked him out of it and would've physically prevented him from doing it if necessary. The thing is, if anyone ever discovers how to travel in time, they will not have any such constraints or advice. If they don't think it through they could easily change their own past enough so they might not exist.
Let me sum my opinion up. Even though I don't think time travel is possible, I cannot say that it is impossible. I'd bet my bottom dollar that it will not happen in our lifetime. If I lose I lose, but I cannot say that it never will, all I can hope is that the person who does it is intelligent enough not to destroy us all.
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