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Time Travel Simulation Resolves “Grandfather Paradox”
scientificamerican.com ^ | Sep 2, 2014 | |By Lee Billings

Posted on 09/03/2014 1:11:14 PM PDT by BenLurkin

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To: TheZMan

Don’t think there has been a generation since the fall that didn’t include evil.


21 posted on 09/03/2014 1:36:46 PM PDT by antidisestablishment (Islam delenda est)
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To: BenLurkin

I went back in time and found out that one of my grandfathers was a dentist, and the other was an ophthalmologist. Quite a pair o’ docs.


22 posted on 09/03/2014 1:38:13 PM PDT by Larry Lucido
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To: BenLurkin

On that first Easter morning, before the risen Christ ascended to Heaven to present His blood on the Mercy Seat, He told Mary Magdalene not to touch Him....and then told her to go tell the disciples about it...John 20:17.

Wherever Heaven actually is, the discernible farthest edge of the Universe is 12+ billion light years away. If Christ had to travel anywhere close to that distance, it had to be far faster than the speed of light, because He’d been there and back and had the encounter with Mr & Mrs Cleopas on the Emmaus Road early that evening.

So He would have had to travel at something like the speed of THOUGHT. However, if Heaven is in another dimension from ours, Christ could just pass back and forth between the two dimensions.

Ver-r-r-ry inter-r-r-resting!


23 posted on 09/03/2014 1:39:07 PM PDT by Tucker39 (Welcome to America! Now speak English; and keep to the right....In driving, in Faith, and in politic)
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To: Nevadan

That legacy has been passed on to Tata Motors.... :p


24 posted on 09/03/2014 1:41:20 PM PDT by GeronL (Vote for Conservatives not for Republicans)
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To: BenLurkin

Slingshot around the sun?


25 posted on 09/03/2014 1:41:39 PM PDT by Sybeck1 (Thad is a thud for me)
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To: Organic Panic

Your redundancy is incomplete. You dropped the second use of “already”.


26 posted on 09/03/2014 1:42:04 PM PDT by Tucker39 (Welcome to America! Now speak English; and keep to the right....In driving, in Faith, and in politic)
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To: Nevadan

I’ve actually looked into Deloreans from time to time.

I think that would be so coooool to roll up in one of those....


27 posted on 09/03/2014 1:42:10 PM PDT by ConservativeDude
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To: ConservativeDude

A place in Houston has all the parts needed to build you one I hear.


28 posted on 09/03/2014 1:44:53 PM PDT by GeronL (Vote for Conservatives not for Republicans)
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To: Organic Panic

I am already researching this at the department of redundancy department where I am researching this.


And certainly worth a dollar.


29 posted on 09/03/2014 1:46:23 PM PDT by cuban leaf (The US will not survive the obama presidency. The world may not either.)
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To: DannyTN

And thanks to time travel, just as everywhere in the world is very similar, now everywhere in time is very similar.


30 posted on 09/03/2014 1:47:32 PM PDT by cuban leaf (The US will not survive the obama presidency. The world may not either.)
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To: Claud

Funny you say that. I call time a current in an ocean called eternity.

I think it was Jesus in the furnace in Daniel and it was Jesus who wrestled with Jacob.

I think the biblical eternity is something other than linear time unending.


31 posted on 09/03/2014 1:49:47 PM PDT by cuban leaf (The US will not survive the obama presidency. The world may not either.)
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To: BenLurkin

No Sheldon, I wouldn't go back and kill your MeeMaw!

32 posted on 09/03/2014 1:56:16 PM PDT by DeFault User (.)
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To: MrB

Say hello to Jean Claude Van Damme for me!


33 posted on 09/03/2014 1:57:06 PM PDT by shotgun
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To: BenLurkin
All I know is be careful of Morlocks!!

35 posted on 09/03/2014 1:58:55 PM PDT by minnesota_bound
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To: BenLurkin

Bump for later reading..............yesterday..................


36 posted on 09/03/2014 1:59:24 PM PDT by Red Badger (If you compromise with evil, you just get more evil..........................)
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To: BenLurkin

Or get a Tardis.


37 posted on 09/03/2014 2:00:54 PM PDT by Fledermaus (Conservatives are all that's left to defend the Constitution. Dems hate it, and Repubs don't care.)
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To: GeronL

I think that’s right. But me, I’m more of an “artistic” guy who likes the look and the nostalgia of it all.

Putting me in front of a box of parts would be laughable at best.....


38 posted on 09/03/2014 2:04:26 PM PDT by ConservativeDude
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To: cuban leaf
I think the biblical eternity is something other than linear time unending.

I think so too.

What if our linear timelines were extended out into a plane? What if all the moments in our lives were preserved without end--not as frozen moments of the past but as living realities that never pass?

39 posted on 09/03/2014 2:09:49 PM PDT by Claud
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To: BenLurkin

The analogy threw me: the particle that flipped the switch is consistent with that same particle being sent back in time to flip the switch. Either 50-50 possibility is preserved with the identical properties. But in the grandfather-killing scenario, the person is sent back to kill his grandfather if and only if his grandfather is killed: it’s still a 50-50 shot, but now the properties are reversed and it should be impossible.


40 posted on 09/03/2014 2:12:55 PM PDT by dangus
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