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To: JennysCool; SunkenCiv

My theory is that time travel is impossible for one reason: If time is indeed just a measurement of movement, then there is no "there" to go to. You're already there; the furniture has just been rearranged. A few continents have drifted apart, a few mountains have arisen, people and animals have come and gone.

Even if one could inconvenience everyone currently alive long enough to un-re-arrange everything back to where it was 10,000,000 years ago, the people currently alive would have to go somewhere and wait, since it's the same earth as 10,000,000 years ago. Unless time travel involves creation of multiple parallel universes, so that the non-time travellers could continue their lives undisturbed while the time travellers pursued their goals.

And I'm only talkng past travel. Don't start me on the future.


13 posted on 03/15/2007 11:28:20 PM PDT by Larry Lucido (Duncan Hunter 2008)
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To: Larry Lucido

I see a huge commercial application not so much in time travel, but in time stopping, which might also be easier. Imagine the volume of adult travel in search of a perpetual orgasm. It would easily surpass the Internet pornography.


15 posted on 03/16/2007 1:20:50 AM PDT by GSlob
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To: Larry Lucido
If time travel into the past is possible... then it's reasonable to think that at some time before the next millennium, someone will have found a way to do it and perfected it... and if they're able to do it, people would have come back in time and would be noticed. This hasn't happened...

So, this leads to three possibilities:

1. Time travel is impossible.
2. Time travel is possible, but the people coming back in time have been very, very covert about it.
3. Something cataclysmic happens that stops scientific progress before time travel is invented.
31 posted on 03/16/2007 8:07:30 AM PDT by So Cal Rocket
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