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To: BenLurkin

The problem is, the past isn’t there any more. You can’t go back to something that no longer exists.


10 posted on 09/25/2020 9:35:15 PM PDT by dsc (Do not pray for easy lives; pray to be stronger men.)
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To: dsc
"The problem is, the past isn’t there any more. You can’t go back to something that no longer exists."
You obviously have never been married.

She remembers things from the past before I was born, about me.

;-)

21 posted on 09/25/2020 9:56:56 PM PDT by Tunehead54 (Nothing funny here ;-)
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To: dsc

Maybe, maybe not. ;-)


23 posted on 09/25/2020 9:59:26 PM PDT by mad_as_he$$
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To: dsc
The problem is, the past isn’t there any more. You can’t go back to something that no longer exists.

In the end, we are all Time Travelers. Some get to travel a little further than others, but on average, we get to travel through about 80 years.

The time travel of science fiction is just that, fiction. And it always will be. Like alternate realities, fun to imagine and ponder, but still just fiction.

26 posted on 09/25/2020 10:04:55 PM PDT by ETCM
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To: dsc
There is this thing called the "block universe" theory which suggests that all space-time is an eternal block. The past, present, and future exist at all times. We each are a space-time curve running through this block.

This suggests no free will, or a rather constrained free will that somehow is compatible with determinism, as the future is already set in stone.

In a block universe time travel either will be there or it won't. Some being outside the block would be able to see if there were space-time curves that went backward through time.

40 posted on 09/25/2020 11:34:22 PM PDT by who_would_fardels_bear
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To: dsc

Oh it’s there alright just like the future.

Think of time as a continuous flowing stream with no beginning nor end.


72 posted on 09/26/2020 10:59:06 AM PDT by LastDayz (A blunt and brazen Texan. I will not be assimilated.)
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To: dsc

Maybe time/space appears to move in a straight line because we live here and it’s the only reality we’ve experienced. Similar to defining gravity as being the same on the moon and sun as it is here...


77 posted on 09/26/2020 11:42:20 AM PDT by GOPJ (Hispanics are NOT 'people of color' because they care more for their families than their criminals.)
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