Posted on 10/28/2014 5:01:34 AM PDT by BenLurkin
If one day a time machine is built based on Dr. Mallett’s design, what may happen when the switch is flipped? A message from the future could instantly appear.
The time machine would only be able to send information along the timeline from when the machine is first turned on until when it is turned off. So, if it stays on for 100 years, binary messages could be sent to any time within those 100 years. Someone from the future may know that the machine will be activated on a given date and send a message through to that time.
In a BBC-Discovery Channel documentary featuring Dr. Mallett’s work, the narrator said that with time travel, “At stake is nothing less than what it means to be a human being.”
If we could go back in time and fix all the suffering of the world, if we could go back and prevent the bad things that happen in our lives, what would that do for personal growth and wisdom? How would our society change?
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“It’s up to society to decide how time travel is used, it’s not up to an individual,” Dr. Mallett said. The Large Hadron Collider, the world’s largest and most powerful particle accelerator, is run by a consortium of nations. He imagines a time machine would be controlled in a similar manner. He doesn’t imagine time machines will become any more common than nuclear reactors. People won’t have time machines in their backyards for casual use.
For Dr. Mallett, the best use of time travel would be to warn people of natural disasters—to prevent, for example, the thousands of deaths caused by tsunamis and hurricanes.
(Excerpt) Read more at theepochtimes.com ...
I read this last year.
The assumption here is the change in the timeline would be positive. It could actually be much worse.
I read this tomorrow.
I used to to be an avid sci-fi reader and was fascinated with time travel.
After the initial impact, I decided to REALLY analyze how to travel back and forth and observe the impact.
I concluded that all my thoughts today are the result of my past, which .. if it had been altered .. would also alter my thought PROCESSES, leaving me TODAY with an entirely different set of facts and data that ... perhaps ... I would never entertain the thought of time travel ..
thus
It is an impossible scenario
But I had a lot of drunken and otherwise altered fun contemplating the whole thing ..... not to mention how many people I drove crazy because I was mad
They turn it on and the first message that comes through is: “For Pete’s sake...turn it off!”
Personally, I would love to go back and change a decision I made at 16 - sadly, it changed my life forever. Teenage hormones can be so destructive to our life.
The message we would get is “VOTE FOR CONSERVATIVES!”
Two thoughts on this: First, if a method of time travel is ever discovered, then it will be unidirectional only. The only time travel possible will be into the future.
Second, and admittedly without having read the entire article, I don’t like the author due to this sentence:
“It’s up to society to decide how time travel is used, it’s not up to an individual,” Dr. Mallett said. “
I don’t trust anyone who utters crap like that.
I would prevent the murder of Vince Foster.
“Buy gold.”
Turn on the machine. If no messages appear, it doesn’t work.
We're doing that right now.
I would send a message back in time to myself:
Don’t marry that bitch!
Or shoot her (I’d have been out by now).
Two words Becker Minnesota.
For me, it would be the knowledge of who's going to win sporting events.......
There are some stocks I would love to have another shot at when they just started out.
Did John Titor write this before he was born?
I smell the stench of communism.
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