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Originally posted by Seekerof
Originally posted by ufochaser
That's right. Thanks for the correction. I forgot they said it could have been corrected before take off. But still, it's not an exact science, and I would think that if we could make light speed obsolete, something like launching a space shuttle, having it perform a mission and landing should be able to be performed with our eyes closed. I would think this would have to be an exact science in order to move on. Unless the whole light speed thing is obsoleted by just simply teleporting from point a(Earth) to point b(I don't know, Jupiter)...But still Light Speed would have to be mastered at that point, would it not? I don't have a degree in quantum physics or anything like that so I could be way off base, but that is my thinking on the light speed issue....
Time travel...If you are in the present(has been written) and you go back to the past(has been written), even if you stay there, you are going to screw up the future(present) somehow. Because if you take the knowledge of today and feed it to the right people of the past, you change the future. It doesn't matter that you stayed there, you changed the future(present) by staying in the past as well. So the only benefit to travelling to the past, changing something and then travelling to the present is to see the change(and live it). Unless you are saying that by going to the past and changing something, you are rewriting time, thus erasing the current present and rewriting the current present, therefore, going to the future if you are in the past is made impossible because it has been erased and not rewritten yet.
Whew!
ufo
Actually, if you are in the present it is not "has been written". It is "is being written". Your concept of the past is correct.
regards
seekerof
[Edited on 2-7-2003 by Seekerof]
Originally posted by dangermouse
Trust me, it really happened................I was there and I'm only 31!
Originally posted by billybob
Originally posted by dangermouse
Trust me, it really happened................I was there and I'm only 31!
perhaps you can explain the time torus to us then. the seven planes? higher dimensional geometry? orgone? folding space? the smallest 'particle'?
Originally posted by ufochaser
If we went back and changed something, if you follow "Back to the Future 2" logic, it would create an alternate 2003 and said time traveler would go back to alternate 2003.
Originally posted by elmariachi
You can't change the past or the future. I'll try to explain why.
Let's say some neo-nazi invents a time machine that he made to go back in time to help hitler win the war. I can tell you exactly what happened, and what will happen every time he or his cohorts try this: THEY WILL FAIL. Its hard to explain, but the best way to put it is that there was never a point in time where he did not go back in time. He already went into the past.
Originally posted by billybob
Originally posted by elmariachi
You can't change the past or the future. I'll try to explain why.
Let's say some neo-nazi invents a time machine that he made to go back in time to help hitler win the war. I can tell you exactly what happened, and what will happen every time he or his cohorts try this: THEY WILL FAIL. Its hard to explain, but the best way to put it is that there was never a point in time where he did not go back in time. He already went into the past.
if it's hard to explain, then there's probably a hole in your proverbial boat. perhaps it's a quantum parallel universe wormhole.