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Offline ispar

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« Reply #15 on: April 14, 2002, 01:33:52 PM »
As unlikely as I find the idea of backwards time travel, forward time travel simply cannot be possible, as I see it. There are an infinite number of branching possibilities for the future, depending upon what people do and what events occur. The Universe itself has no control over that, so how can you find a specific future time to go to? The future doesn't even exist yet.

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« Reply #16 on: April 14, 2002, 02:29:43 PM »
This is the same supposition that Skuzzy posted. Except through determinism, I do not believe that time alone offers unlimited dimensions. I believe the future has already happened. Stuck in our frame-of-reference we just can't perceive it.

'Travelling in time' may well be a really bad idea. The entire universe is moving and ever changing. Does travelling in time cause you to be displaced in the universe? If, so, that negates the potential, unless like Dr. Who's Tardis, a time machine is also a Spaceship. Or was it? :D

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« Reply #17 on: April 14, 2002, 07:06:25 PM »
No it was a "Police box"  :D

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« Reply #18 on: April 14, 2002, 07:21:48 PM »
umm... future time travel is not only possible, we have demonstrated it: Relativity defines it. The faster you go relative to an inertial reference frame (the Earth for instance), the slower your time passes compared to an observer in that frame. If you could approach the speed of light, you could easily travel forwards through time 100s and 1000s of years without hardly aging at all.

Even at the pitiful speeds airliners move at, they were fast enough to slow down an atomic clock and prove this aspect of Einstein's theory.

While I tend to believe the same thing that Voss does: all events have already happened/are coexistent and its our own perception that limits time to moment my moment observations, there is little evidence of such. It is still far more likely that time is merely a sequence of events that is non-repeatable.

Either the nuclear physics or astro physics people will hopefully find a way to resolve the unsolved issues between time, space, and gravity. The laws they discover will ultimately determine whether we will ever be able to travel to other planets beyond our solar system in any practical time frame, which will ultimately determine the fate of the human race if we don't kill ourselves off before we exhaust our local resources.
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