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Sep 02, 2014 05:03PM
Here is an article from Scientific American. Grandfather Paradox Solved
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It's nice to see people are still working hard at this. Somebody is going to punch a hole in reality one of these days.
Great find, Glynn.One question the researchers asked was, would you come back the same person as who left, and would you return to the world you remembered. Not to ask, did the experience change you and thus your view of the world, but rather, would your protons and such change?
Now that is good fodder for a TT story.
Actually Hawking's party did attract a lot of guests, and they had a riotous time. When they got back to the future, they were embarrassed by how badly they'd behaved (too much iced champagne), so they then went back in time to just before they set off to the party, and persuaded their earlier selves not to go. As a result, Hawking's party unhappened.
If time travellers don't want us to catch them time travelling, we won't catch them. (Yes, it's a time travel conspiracy theory!)
If time travellers don't want us to catch them time travelling, we won't catch them. (Yes, it's a time travel conspiracy theory!)
"If time travellers don't want us to catch them time travelling, we won't catch them. (Yes, it's a time travel conspiracy theory!)"Your faith in the intelligent behavior of our fellow man is greater than mine. The reason I have always believed very little in conspiracy theories is that my observation of human behavior tells me that in any moderate size group of people there are always individuals who are completely incompetent. As soon as more than a few time travelers start moving about, one of them will screw up.
ok, you two need to collaborate on a story...
Who says time travellers from the future will be human?
I'm liking this discussion. Lots of good ideas for a time travel story. One of these days I will have to sit down and write a book. :)
I'm not the best on keeping up with scientific theories on whether or not it's possible, but I think if it were, I'm with Craig. Mankind has a history of screwing up. And if other species exist, I can't imagine them being perfect either. Eventually they would mess up.
Glynn wrote: One of these days I will have to sit down and write a book. :)
Get yourself a time machine, go to the future and get your book, and bring it back with you. Saves the bother of actually writing it.
Get yourself a time machine, go to the future and get your book, and bring it back with you. Saves the bother of actually writing it.
All I can say is, if there are time travelers out there undetected among us I don't like them very much. Why the heck don't they fix some of bad things that have gone on. Then again, maybe they have, and the consequences were so bad they undid the act. I guess we wouldn't know either way.
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Alternatively, maybe they did, and now they are living in that better parallel timeline while we are stuck in the original one. We would never know.
Or maybe the terrible things that have happened are the result of someone messing with time.
Nemo wrote: "Actually Hawking's party did attract a lot of guests, and they had a riotous time. When they got back to the future, they were embarrassed by how badly they'd behaved (too much iced champagne), so they then went back in time to just before they set off to the party, and persuaded their earlier selves not to go. As a result, Hawking's party unhappened."I ♥ ♥ ♥ this :)
Nathan wrote: I like to think that there was a raging time traveler party a couple doors down from Stephen Hawking's place that night.
That reminds me (I'm not sure why) of a performance of Waiting for Godot that started normally, with Vladimir and Estragon saying they were waiting for Godot, and then Godot came in, and they said to him, 'Dude, where have you been?', and he said, 'I've been down the road doing a one-man show called "Waiting for Vladimir and Estragon".'
Alternate timeline Beckett, perhaps?
That reminds me (I'm not sure why) of a performance of Waiting for Godot that started normally, with Vladimir and Estragon saying they were waiting for Godot, and then Godot came in, and they said to him, 'Dude, where have you been?', and he said, 'I've been down the road doing a one-man show called "Waiting for Vladimir and Estragon".'
Alternate timeline Beckett, perhaps?
