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Time Travel Paradoxes Solved? New Study Shows How Quantum Mechanics Prevents Changing the Past
The Debrief ^ | January 14, 2025 | Tim McMillan

Posted on 01/14/2025 11:01:23 AM PST by Red Badger

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To: TexasFreeper2009

Probably not. For one thing we don’t know how much it costs. It might never become anything other than really expensive. Also there’s a lot of people that don’t travel now. Like even a little bit. There are people that never leave their burrow of NY. People in England are notorious for never getting more than 20KM from their town, except for maybe on a party bus that follows their football team. Add in the fact that in any future that could have time machines our present is a 3rd world country, the freaking stone age, how many modern tourists go to stone age villages in middle of nowhere Africa now. I mean would you really want to travel back in time to before antibiotics exist? That version of the world any injury can be life threatening? I’ve got a co-worker that broke his ankle on a trip to a “less civilized” part of the world, it was really rough until he could get back to the states and real medicine. It could happen and just never be cheap or convenient or popular much less all 3.


61 posted on 01/14/2025 1:29:27 PM PST by discostu (like a dog being shown a card trick)
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To: Red Badger

“Ultimately, while the possibility of traversing through time may not be as far-fetched as once thought, one crucial takeaway is clear: the past is permanent. “

I have had leftist claim to me, “There is no past beyond our memory of it.


62 posted on 01/14/2025 1:31:16 PM PST by marktwain
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To: TexasFreeper2009

You also have to account for motion of the earth and the sun. Let’s say you go back in time, say 100 years,....maybe it could be done ...but then when you get there...you’ll be at least a partial light year away with no way to get to Earth of the past. You’d have to travel in a spaceship to get there and you’d have to find it as there is no assurance that when you went back 100 years, that you would be in the same place that you were when you left 2025 so that you could track it to the place it was in 1925. No way to know if the time jump won’t spatially leave you 100 years past but in a distant galaxy and no way to go home!


63 posted on 01/14/2025 1:36:12 PM PST by mdmathis6 (A horrible historic indictment: Biden Democrats plunging the world into war to hide their crimes!)
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To: RandallFlagg

Nonsense...Superman absorbs the inertial energy disruptions onto himself and no one dies....

Well it’s just as good an explanation as the stuff Engineer Scott and Spock come up with on Star Trek to save the universe’s women from all being kissed by Captain Kirk...all at once!


64 posted on 01/14/2025 1:40:38 PM PST by mdmathis6 (A horrible historic indictment: Biden Democrats plunging the world into war to hide their crimes!)
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To: Tell It Right
"It's possible that God is currently present in the future, and currently present in the past, and currently present in the present"

He is outside of all those constructs. He created them and visits whenever and wherever He wants.

65 posted on 01/14/2025 1:42:03 PM PST by steve86 (Numquam accusatus, numquam ad curiam ibit, numquam ad carcerem™)
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To: Red Badger

I can believe in time travel, but a DeLorean reaching 88mph is impossible.


66 posted on 01/14/2025 1:43:32 PM PST by Repeat Offender (While the wicked stand confounded, call me with Thy saints surrounded.)
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To: mdmathis6
There's a famous time travel novel called The Man Who Folded Himself. He keeps going back and forth in time, but with each trip, he creates another self. And these other selves also time travel.

Eventually, he meets more and more of his selves in the same timeline. And as each has a regular lifespan, they are different ages. Some of his selves he gets along with, some not so much. Sometimes he lives with several of his selves.

He even has orgies with his selves, which is really weird. He says it feels good, as he knows how to pleasure himself.

I think the author might have been gay, but perhaps he was signaling that homosexuality is really a form of self-love.

67 posted on 01/14/2025 1:53:43 PM PST by Angelino97
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To: mdmathis6

I actually came up with a good scientific explanation for how Superman can fly. He physically does it. He physically moves the atoms of his muscles to provide motion towards whatever direction he wants to go. That changes the mass of his body to provide lift, direction, and speed. I haven’t seen this idea anywhere online.

You know how sometimes you have dreams when you fly?

This is exactly how I fly in my dreams.


68 posted on 01/14/2025 2:11:00 PM PST by RandallFlagg (Democrats should have been barred from elections since The Battle Of Athens.)
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To: RandallFlagg

I just thought earth life gave him gastric problems.


69 posted on 01/14/2025 2:12:46 PM PST by Reily (a)
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To: Reily

EWWW!

Super Brown Snail Trails!


70 posted on 01/14/2025 2:15:37 PM PST by RandallFlagg (Democrats should have been barred from elections since The Battle Of Athens.)
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To: Red Badger

What a business that would be, transporting people back to fix their pasts. I would definitely take my dishwashing money from the restaurant in 1979 and put it on Apple. And I would never date L——, not even for the first time.


71 posted on 01/14/2025 2:22:15 PM PST by lurk (u)
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To: RandallFlagg

When I have that kind of dream I don’t fly so much as levitate and glide along at a slow pace instead of walking. And for some reason it always takes ***INTENSE*** concentration on my part, a supreme act of will to leave the ground.


72 posted on 01/14/2025 2:40:50 PM PST by Windcatcher
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73 posted on 01/14/2025 2:44:34 PM PST by algore
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To: mdmathis6

I like how you think


74 posted on 01/14/2025 6:53:58 PM PST by TexasFreeper2009
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To: iontheball
Have you considered that time and space may not exist?

Well, they don't exist separately. Time, itself, does not exist according to Quantum Theory. However there is space-time. But QT is above my head even though I find it fascinating.

75 posted on 01/14/2025 10:09:03 PM PST by BipolarBob (are glass coffins the future? remains to be seen.)
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To: PeterPrinciple

Jesus said “Before Abraham was, I am.”
Figure that one out.


76 posted on 01/14/2025 11:02:55 PM PST by LanaTurnerOverdrive (Unvaxxed. Not your guinea pig. )
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To: marktwain

“To a liberal, history started at breakfast this morning.” - Ann Coulter..............


77 posted on 01/15/2025 5:14:20 AM PST by Red Badger (Homeless veterans camp in the streets while illegals are put up in 5 Star hotels....................)
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To: marktwain

“There is no past beyond our memory of it.”

“We are unburdened by what has been.” - K. Harris.............


78 posted on 01/15/2025 5:15:24 AM PST by Red Badger (Homeless veterans camp in the streets while illegals are put up in 5 Star hotels....................)
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To: lurk

I would settle for just being able to erase some memories..................


79 posted on 01/15/2025 5:20:36 AM PST by Red Badger (Homeless veterans camp in the streets while illegals are put up in 5 Star hotels....................)
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To: algore

Hey! I dated her!

She had a face that would stop a clock!................


80 posted on 01/15/2025 5:21:46 AM PST by Red Badger (Homeless veterans camp in the streets while illegals are put up in 5 Star hotels....................)
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