(a) cannot travel back in time or
(b) there are very strict conditions placed on that.
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You are forgetting about the time police?
Posted on 01/07/2019 3:35:22 PM PST by Peter ODonnell
Time is an analytical construct. No going back.
However, I can place my pen on one side of the desk, then another, and then back again. In a sense, the pen has gone back in time, to the position it had been in previously.
This thread reminded me of Asimov, then I saw your post.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_End_of_Eternity
In the future, humanity uses time travel to construct Eternity, an organization “outside time” which aimed to improve human happiness by observing human history and, after careful analysis, directly making small actions that cause “reality changes”, as well as to help establish trade between the various centuries to help those in most need. Its members, known as “Eternals” and by the roles they hold, prioritize the reduction of human suffering, at the cost of a loss to technology, art, and other endeavors which are prevented from existing when judged to have a detrimental effect. Those enlisted travel “upwhen” and “downwhen” and re-enter time in devices called “kettles”. Their rules prevent them from earlier travel to the Primitive times before the 27th century, when the temporal field powering Eternity was established, to prevent accidental damage to pre-temporal history. Also, humanity’s fate is unknown – the earth is empty by the 150,000th century, but this is preceded by a period called the Hidden Centuries from the 70,000th–150,000th centuries in which for unknown reasons they cannot access the world outside Eternity to learn more.
Wow!
The past is kind of freaky!
No dinosaurs, well, except for Nancy Pelosi.
It’s like I’m in a black hole with all these different colored lights flashing around me!
Damnit.
I’m in Las Vegas again.
Must have put the regular cam in instead of the time travel cam.
I’ll get this straightened out in like four million years.
I like John Wheeler’s concept of the Participatory Anthropic Principle and Its from Bits. The future influences the past.
I don’t think it exists.
If you owned a vacant lot, and hopped in your “DeLorean” and went 25 years into the future, where a three story building now stood on your “vacant lot”, how did it get there?
Someone had to plan it, build it, etc...therefore meaning that every nanosecond that passed had to have an accompanying “future” nanosecond, ad infinitum. As time passed progress had to be made in the construction of said building in an orderly fashion. The building is not going to just magically “appear”...somewhere in that time cycle some human intervention had to have happened to get it done.
Each “future nanosecond” would need its own “future nanosecond”, and so own. It boggles the mind to think of that kind of theory.
IF time travel were possible, I don’t think you could see your future (or past) “self” when you go there...in one case, you wouldn’t be there because you “disappeared” in the past, the other you can’t find your future self because, well, there’s only one of you.
I probably botched up that whole scenario, as it’s confusing as hell to even think about. So, I’ll just live in the time allotted me and let time, be time.
You know what I know about time travel?
I’ll tell you what I know about time travel.
No matter how many times I travel back in time to tell myself not to become a fatty McFatterson, I still eat all the pizzas.
And, even though I never admit it to myself, I think I do it (eat all the pizzas and become a fatty McFatterson) out of spite because I ain’t gonna let myself tell me what to do!
I travel forward in time about 24 hours in what most of you call a “day”. It may be more or less depending on what I’m drinking and who I’m traveling with.
I’m about to enter my “time travel recliner” and go “forward in time” 3 to 4 hours while experiencing the Alabama-Clemson game and a six-pack. I’m expecting a bumpy journey but should get out ok on the other side.
And the sun stood still, and the moon stayed, until the people had avenged themselves upon their enemies. Is not this written in the book of Jasher? So the sun stood still in the midst of heaven, and hasted not to go down about a whole day.
Joshua 10:13.
Time does not exist, if you live forever.
(a) cannot travel back in time or
(b) there are very strict conditions placed on that.
________
You are forgetting about the time police?
Time travel is possible but we just don’t know how to do it yet.
Someday we’ll figure it out and then wonder why we didn’t
figure it out before
“Someday we’ll figure it out and then wonder why we didn’t
figure it out before”
It’s not possible because nobody has ever come back from the future and said “here’s how you do it”. :)
I made my post tomorrow.
But you are reading it today,
Or are you in tomorrow, today?
There was once a young lady named Wight
Whose speed was much greater than light
She went out one day
In a relative way
And returned on the previous night.
Sacrifice, the future has it's price And today is only Yesterday's tomorrow..."
From 'Circle of Hands' by Uriah Heep.
Time travel is the easiest thing in the world to do. It’s changing the speed and direction of time travel that poses the challenge.
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