Entering a closed timelike curve tomorrow means you could end up at today. Credit: Dmitry Schidlovsky
The next time we get another Tesla or Einstein, we’ll be doing this.
I already read this article next Wednesday.
“An extremely powerful gravitational field, such as that produced by a spinning black hole, could in principle profoundly warp the fabric of existence so that spacetime bends back on itself.”
Old news! This the the known cause of the FR double-posting bug. You make a post. As you hit the Submit button spacetime folds back on itself and there are two posts instead of one.
“Quantum Leap” had this all figured out a decade ago...
Then send me back to 1940 so I can live in the greatest era of the USA then hopefully have died sometime during the Bush 41 years, when it faded, having enjoyed a spectacular retirement.
I think Bester and Zelazny came up with the best answer. Basically it came down to Earth is an insignificantly tiny piece of the universe and if we get a couple of small paradoxes once in a while it just doesn’t matter.
I didn’t read the article, so tell me. Do I still need a Delorean? Or can we do without these days?
I am already researching this at the department of redundancy department where I am researching this.
Uh-oh. I gave a buck to a gnarly, beat-up, angry old wino who cursed me for it and said “you young punk, you’re going straight to hell” and apparently it was me.
Makes me wonder if some of the astronomical observations are off in time calculations due to black hole intereference
Going back to give stanley ann dunham some bc pills..... not coming back or it will undo the timeline changes. Wish me luck. Going to the grassy knoll later and yelling “duck”!
The Cathedral of Chalesm was a building used by Slartibartfast and the Campaign for Real Time as an example of the hazards of temporal manipulation. The cathedral was scheduled for demolition in order to build a new ion factory. However, due to delays in construction and a strict deadline for the start of ion production, the beginning of the project was extended so far back in time that the cathedral ended up never having been built in the first place. As a result, picture postcards of the cathedral suddenly became immensely valuable.
Tangent here, but I’ve been wondering if this whole time travel business can show why materialists are far too hasty in denying the reality of the soul.
If I can go back to 1981, then somewhere there has to be a 1981 to go back to. Which means that everyone that was alive in 1981 is actually still alive there, no matter what happened to them subsequently.
Perhaps time is like floating down a river—just because you experience it as a unidirectional motion doesn’t mean the sights you saw along the way cease to exist.
I went back in time and found out that one of my grandfathers was a dentist, and the other was an ophthalmologist. Quite a pair o’ docs.
On that first Easter morning, before the risen Christ ascended to Heaven to present His blood on the Mercy Seat, He told Mary Magdalene not to touch Him....and then told her to go tell the disciples about it...John 20:17.
Wherever Heaven actually is, the discernible farthest edge of the Universe is 12+ billion light years away. If Christ had to travel anywhere close to that distance, it had to be far faster than the speed of light, because He’d been there and back and had the encounter with Mr & Mrs Cleopas on the Emmaus Road early that evening.
So He would have had to travel at something like the speed of THOUGHT. However, if Heaven is in another dimension from ours, Christ could just pass back and forth between the two dimensions.
Ver-r-r-ry inter-r-r-resting!
Slingshot around the sun?
No Sheldon, I wouldn't go back and kill your MeeMaw!
Bump for later reading..............yesterday..................
The analogy threw me: the particle that flipped the switch is consistent with that same particle being sent back in time to flip the switch. Either 50-50 possibility is preserved with the identical properties. But in the grandfather-killing scenario, the person is sent back to kill his grandfather if and only if his grandfather is killed: it’s still a 50-50 shot, but now the properties are reversed and it should be impossible.