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To: Red Badger

The biggest problem with time travel is that one cannot go to a place that doesn’t exist... like the past... or the future.


4 posted on 01/14/2025 11:06:49 AM PST by HapaxLegamenon (You can numb you got the plate OK thanks)
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I think it would be sad to see Schrödinger’s Cat bring his dead other self out of the box to bury it.


8 posted on 01/14/2025 11:13:19 AM PST by BipolarBob (I took my girlfriend to a fruit orchard. I didn't get it but she said she wanted to apple watch.)
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To: HapaxLegamenon
The biggest problem with time travel is that one cannot go to a place that doesn’t exist... like the past... or the future.

In all seriousness, I've wondered if God's omnipresence is at least 4-dimensional, including time (perhaps more dimensions than that, but I'm channeling the furthest reaches of my memory from back when I read Stephen Hawking's A Brief History of Time LOL).

It's possible that God's ability to give prophets insight into the future is not just from being omniscient (He knows everything, enough to accurately predict what will happen in the future). It's possible that God is currently present in the future, and currently present in the past, and currently present in the present. For example, maybe God acts on our prayers before we pray them (Isaiah 65:24) because today, right now, He's hearing the prayers that we'll pray tomorrow. Right now He's seeing me being born while He's also seeing when I'll die while He's also seeing me in the here and now.

Just a thought.

20 posted on 01/14/2025 11:26:01 AM PST by Tell It Right (1 Thessalonians 5:21 -- Put everything to the test, hold fast to that which is true.)
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To: HapaxLegamenon
Depends... Some theories put forward that time is observational... IOW... Everything at every time that could possibly exist already exists, has existed, or ever will exist.

It is just how our informational reference frame, Reality, moves through it that creates our perception of what is Real.

Information cannot be destroyed. Even Hawking needed to back off that a bit due to the evaporation of “black holes”...

Everything you've ever done lives on frozen in time. Everything you could possibly do is already written in to the future. Just because you take one path, doesn't mean the rest cease to exist...

My I-Ching calculator says, “suffusion of yellow”... /Douglas Adams

37 posted on 01/14/2025 12:10:05 PM PST by Dead Corpse (A Psalm in napalm...)
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To: HapaxLegamenon

The biggest problem with time travel is that one cannot go to a place that doesn’t exist... like the past... or the future.
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Have you considered that time and space may not exist?


40 posted on 01/14/2025 12:19:06 PM PST by iontheball
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To: HapaxLegamenon

We don’t need to study advanced physics to know that time is linear from past to future.


56 posted on 01/14/2025 1:11:28 PM PST by Socon-Econ (adi)
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