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Only a Matter of 'Time': On Einstein, Negative Mass, Time Travel and Aliens
The Debrief ^ | April 29, 2024 | AVI LOEB

Posted on 04/30/2024 9:11:39 AM PDT by Red Badger

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1 posted on 04/30/2024 9:11:39 AM PDT by Red Badger
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To: MtnClimber; SunkenCiv; mowowie; SuperLuminal; Cottonbay

It’s about Time.....................


2 posted on 04/30/2024 9:12:10 AM PDT by Red Badger (Homeless veterans camp in the streets while illegals are put up in 5 Star hotels....................)
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To: Red Badger
The fact that this never happened suggests that either time machines will never be constructed in our future or that their creators have no interest in saving human lives.

It suggests the author has no imagination. The past-present-future we exist in may be the optimum universe, with all other universe possibilities being much worse.

3 posted on 04/30/2024 9:15:36 AM PDT by marktwain (The Republic is at risk. Resistance to the Democratic Party is Resistance to Tyranny. )
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To: Red Badger

” For example, they could have killed Adolf Hitler and allowed six million Jews to thrive in Europe between 1939 and 1945. The fact that this never happened suggests that either time machines will never be constructed in our future or that their creators have no interest in saving human lives.”

That’s a rather odd conclusion. If they have the technical skills to create a time machine, maybe they have the wisdom not to use it.


4 posted on 04/30/2024 9:19:00 AM PDT by Organic Panic (Democrats. Memories as short as Joe Biden's eyes.)
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To: marktwain

We exist on a timeline.

There is only one timeline.

You travel along that timeline in one direction.

You travel along that timeline at a constant speed.

You cannot leave that timeline......................


5 posted on 04/30/2024 9:20:41 AM PDT by Red Badger (Homeless veterans camp in the streets while illegals are put up in 5 Star hotels....................)
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a time machine is impossible because if it was EVER possible even 1 thousand years from now, we would have time travelers visiting constantly.

What has happened, has happened and nothing can change that.


6 posted on 04/30/2024 9:20:54 AM PDT by TexasFreeper2009
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a time machine is impossible because if it was EVER possible even 1 thousand years from now, we would have time travelers visiting constantly.

What has happened, has happened and nothing can change that.

How would we ever know? Once something was changed, everything would be changed. All memories would be changed as well...

Some things are beyond human comprehension.

7 posted on 04/30/2024 9:24:39 AM PDT by marktwain (The Republic is at risk. Resistance to the Democratic Party is Resistance to Tyranny. )
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To: Red Badger

Go back in time to abort yourself? Sounds like a good idea. Avi Loeb goes first, I say. Harvard needs to change its name to Hamasvard.
Loebs cogitations may go the way of Schiaparellis “canali” on Mars.


8 posted on 04/30/2024 9:26:27 AM PDT by Getready (Wisdom is more valuable than gold and harder to find.)
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To: Red Badger

You cannot leave that timeline......................

As far as we know.....


9 posted on 04/30/2024 9:26:53 AM PDT by tet68 ( " We would not die in that man's company, that fears his fellowship to die with us...." Henry V.)
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Have there ever been “plausible” incidents of time travel-like events happening in our times? A visitor of some sort who blatantly presents as out of place, with artifacts or knowledge that they should not have? I’m thinking that if in the future, time travel becomes possible and somewhat frequent, then either there is little interest in visiting “us” in our time or the time-travellers are very good at remaining in low profile mode?


10 posted on 04/30/2024 9:28:43 AM PDT by desertsolitaire
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To: TexasFreeper2009

Einstein’s Theory of Relativity does not preclude the development of a Time Machine.

A Time Machine may be possible, but it would be impractical.

The Universe is not static: everything in it is in constant motion.

Even if you were to create a ‘Time Machine’ it would kill you if you ever used it.

Even if you travelled to just one second in the past or future, you would find yourself in inter-galactic space with no air to breathe and no way to get back................


11 posted on 04/30/2024 9:28:45 AM PDT by Red Badger (Homeless veterans camp in the streets while illegals are put up in 5 Star hotels....................)
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Most Freepers will say this woman is lying about Einstein and Roswell—but she is persuasive:

https://projectavalon.net/forum4/showthread.php?116433-Einstein-s-secret-trip-to-view-Roswell-UFO-revealed-in-taped-confession&highlight=einstein


12 posted on 04/30/2024 9:31:32 AM PDT by cgbg ("Our democracy" = Their Kleptocracy)
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To: marktwain
It suggests the author has no imagination. The past-present-future we exist in may be the optimum universe, with all other universe possibilities being much worse.

Both the author - and Prof. Pangloss.

Regards,

13 posted on 04/30/2024 9:32:40 AM PDT by alexander_busek (Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence.)
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To: marktwain

It suggests the author has no imagination.

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I could not agree with you more. That fact that Hitler was allowed to do what he did could have been much better than what someone he eliminated would have been allowed to do. There are so many possibilities that it is impossible to even think of them.

Experiments with atomic clocks on jet airplanes prove that time is relative so that at least perceived time is different depending on where you are and how fast you are moving. There is a lot we don’t know, yet.

I believe in God, a God that can exist in the past, present and future. I don’t know that He does exist or travel in time or occupy all at once but believe He knows the future from the past which is more than my feeble self can do. So I have to believe that some sort of time manipulation exists. A good friend of mine who passed away a few weeks ago believed that time is a construct that God made especially for us humans. I don’t see that but maybe my imagination is not advanced enough to see that.


14 posted on 04/30/2024 9:33:06 AM PDT by JAKraig (my religion is at least as good as yours.)
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Butterfly effects, unintended consequences and IF time travellers exist because time travel is possible, who is to say the travellers have the ability to actually influence what is happening in the times they visit? Perhaps they can only observe events but only negligibly affect them?
The Hitler and Holocaust scenario frequently proposed is interesting because how does anyone know that it happened and was eventually crushed because doing so thus prevented an even worse Holocaust from happening later? Endless possibilities


15 posted on 04/30/2024 9:36:02 AM PDT by desertsolitaire (Doomed to be Cassandra-like?)
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Thanks Red Badger.


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16 posted on 04/30/2024 9:53:12 AM PDT by SunkenCiv (Putin should skip ahead to where he kills himself in the bunker.)
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To: Red Badger

All The Time In The World
Arthur C. Clarke
1952 short story read by Nicholas Boulton
https://archive.org/details/arthur-c.-clarke-all-the-time-in-the-world


17 posted on 04/30/2024 9:54:57 AM PDT by SunkenCiv (Putin should skip ahead to where he kills himself in the bunker.)
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To: desertsolitaire

Perhaps humanity does not survive long enough to develop the techniques required for Time Travel.


18 posted on 04/30/2024 10:03:22 AM PDT by Pox (Eff You China. Buy American!)
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To: Red Badger

There is only the Present, this moment, the Now... the Past is memory, the Future is Imagination...that’s it.


19 posted on 04/30/2024 10:18:00 AM PDT by The Louiswu (Pray for Peace in the world.)
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To: desertsolitaire
Have there ever been “plausible” incidents of time travel-like events happening in our times? A visitor of some sort who blatantly presents as out of place, with artifacts or knowledge that they should not have?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rWHo0Iw-bvU

20 posted on 04/30/2024 10:27:31 AM PDT by nitzy (I wonder if the telescreens in 1984 were first called "free Obamascreens")
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