Time Travellers Invited Back From the Future

Teuthida · 05-06-2005, 09:38 PM

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Originally Posted by Typhoid

And thats the only problem you see with this? Hahaha.

Pretty much. Yeah. That's the reason we could probably never go back in time beyond the point that a wormhole had been opened.

ZebraRampage · 05-06-2005, 10:14 PM

If nobody shows up at the convention, then there is no hope for time travel, unless nobody saw the notes, because the people from the future, not matter what time they're from, will come to the same day and time. It doesn't matter if they're from 100 years from now, or 1000 years from now. They would all still end up here on the day of the convention. So if nobody comes, then there is no time travel at all. But once again, that is only if nobody found the notes. I hope that what I said seems right.

Canyarion · 05-07-2005, 07:32 AM

What if in the future, we turned in to inhuman killing beasts? Do we want them to come here?

Stray_Bullet · 05-07-2005, 07:08 PM

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Originally Posted by Canyarion

What if in the future, we turned in to inhuman killing beasts? Do we want them to come here?

Sure. I mean... if they did end up killing us, they'd just be hurting themselves. Right?

P.S. I don't believe in the ability to travel back in time. Forward? Maybe.

dropCGCF · 05-08-2005, 04:52 AM

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Originally Posted by Stray_Bullet

Sure. I mean... if they did end up killing us, they'd just be hurting themselves. Right?

P.S. I don't believe in the ability to travel back in time. Forward? Maybe.

I can travel forward in time.

DeathsHand · 05-08-2005, 05:09 AM

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Originally Posted by dropCGCF

I can travel forward in time.

I get it, because we're all currently doing so just by being alive and letting the seconds tick by!

You slay me!

DimHalo · 05-08-2005, 11:54 AM

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Originally Posted by Stray_Bullet

Sure. I mean... if they did end up killing us, they'd just be hurting themselves. Right?

P.S. I don't believe in the ability to travel back in time. Forward? Maybe.

So if people travel forward in time, but it is not possible to travel back in time, they can't get back to their own time, right?

Vampyr · 05-08-2005, 12:30 PM

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Originally Posted by jeepnut's slave

So if people travel forward in time, but it is not possible to travel back in time, they can't get back to their own time, right?

That would make sense.

And if you were to travel at the speed of light, or near the speed of light, you would travel forward in time. This is so because speed and gravity and time are all related. It was one of Einsteins theories, I believe.

It has been proven. They took two atomic clocks, put one in a jet and one on the earth, and had the jet fly as fast as possible. When it came back, the atomic clock on the jet was a fraction of a second ahead of the one on earth. Of course we don't have anything that can fly fast enough to travel a significant distance forward in time, because like I said, you would need to go at the speed of light.

Going backward in time is a different story. You can't slow down enough to start moving backwards. However, I do believe that anything is possible, and in the future we may find a way to travel backwards.

Swan · 05-08-2005, 07:59 PM

If something or someone did show up at this convention from the future, couldn't they then teach us how to build a time machine of our own and then we would have a time machine as well. BUt then wouldn't us having time machines now make it so there is no reason to prove time travel in the future... This always confuses me.

Typhoid · 05-08-2005, 08:33 PM

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Originally Posted by Vampyr

It has been proven. They took two atomic clocks, put one in a jet and one on the earth, and had the jet fly as fast as possible. When it came back, the atomic clock on the jet was a fraction of a second ahead of the one on earth. Of course we don't have anything that can fly fast enough to travel a significant distance forward in time, because like I said, you would need to go at the speed of light.

All I know about this sort of thing, is that the people in the space stations age slower than the people on earth. I thought I would randomly throw that out there.

Stray_Bullet · 05-09-2005, 09:18 AM

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Originally Posted by Vampyr

Going backward in time is a different story. You can't slow down enough to start moving backwards. However, I do believe that anything is possible, and in the future we may find a way to travel backwards.

The change of time can never be negative in Einstein's equation. It either becomes a larger number than "1," or it becomes a fraction of "1" reaching 0 as a horizontal assymptote. Even with his equation, one could not "travel" back in time.

Oh yeah, if you were to slow down movement... you'd just die a lot faster than anyone else, not travel back in time.