Posted on 04/28/2017 1:16:00 PM PDT by Red Badger
Reminds me of a guy we gave a second chance to at a church....made him an associate pastor.
Great to your face; behind your back....
Otherwise someone from the future would have traveled back to Germany in the 1930s and killed Hitler.
Baah. Want to slow down time? Cultivate a feeling
of boredom! Want to speed it up? Get excited.
To know contentment is to be rich.
Bill Clinton was interested in paradox
until he found out it wasn’t a pair of doxies.
TARDIS Express - When it absolutely, positively has to get there yesterday !
We all travel in time.
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Yes. That was my ultimate point, although I didn't state it directly.
Actually I just wanted to use the word “T’were.”
From what I have read/understand, Time Travel would only be possible to the point of the initial singularity. IE, you could travel forward and then back to the point you started, but never back prior to the point.
What do we want? TIME TRAVEL
When do we want it? IT DOESN’T MATTER
I’ve long thought that one would have to rearrange the structure of the entire universe, since it appears to be expanding.
One would have to restore it to an earlier epoch to visit the past, or extend it beyond its “current” volume to go into the future.
From those aspects, it would seem impossible.
But then there’s quantum entanglement, which seems even weirder.
One of my favorite movies.
I wouldn’t mind going back to 1960.
My Grandmother bought her brand new Pontiac Ventura; black two-door hardtop. Hot engine (389, 4bbl, dual exhausts), etc.
The whole family loved it!
Oops... Back to 2017.
HEY!!! Where are all the Pontiacs???
Oh that I were where I would be!
Then would I be where I am not;
But where I am there I must be,
And where I would be I can not.
And state change ALWAYS goes, relatively, FORWARD.
It is fiction, not fact. Only God is outside of the cause/effect continuum. The rest of us are forever stuck in it, and cannot escape it. Effect follows cause and there is no way for us to change it.
Simple as that.
Well, I didn't want to mention it before, but now that you have confessed, I should tell you that you didn't quite structure the sentence properly when you posted "T'were it possible, that would have already happened."
It should have been: "If 't were possible, that would have already happened." Or even better: "If 't were possible, 't would have already happened."
But still, I do most sincerely appreciate your effort to class up the place.
(Signed) Maceman (Grammar Nazi Badge # 42817)
For I am a holder of the "As Long As It Sounds Good"
Linguistic Permit (Lifetyme) granted to me in 1973
by Dr. Edward Cronin PhD (Emeritus) and inscribed thusly -
The more obscurically to great you with, Sod's Brood!
KillyKillKilly, a Toll, a Toll.
Tsk. Not one single mention of the Delorean. Now THAT was a cool time machine.
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