[Red Badger]

If they invented a Time Machine, would they come back here?.......

[woofie]

I want to go back and be nice to Bill Gates

[moasicwolf]

Don't try and analyze this speculative garbage. Time is an illusion. It doesn't exist Freepers. The only reality is the present moment.

[PMCarey]

SF author Larry Niven postulated "Niven's Law" which states if: 1) time travel is possible; and 2) you can change the past; then: 3) No time machine will ever be invented.

The proof is as follows: If you can change the past through the use of a time machine, then the state of the past will be in constant flux (first Kennedy is saved, then he's assassinated, then he's saved, etc. etc. etc.). As the past goes through constant revisions, eventually a past will be created in which no time machine is ever invented. At that point, the past will be fixed in place with no future revisions possible.

Thus, if it's possible to change the past through time travel, no time machine will ever be invented and thus you can't change the past. QED

[Rose of Sharn]

Shouldn't this have been posted on the Friday Silliness thread?

[LurkedLongEnough]

"Everything that can be invented has already been invented."

---Charles H. Duell, director of the US Patent Office, 1899

[observer821]

I'd want to go back to 1982.

[TalonDJ]

ninja llamas from the future?

[kalee]

ping

[timer]

One : do you have a CAMERA/REEL big enough to take a snapshot of the entire, inter-related UNIVERSE at any given instant? Two : How do you REVERSE on-going ENTROPY and roll the reel back to that earlier picture? Thus you confuse simple, reversible movies, with the on-going STORY of HIS-STORY.... Actually there is no such thing as "time". t=dKE=m=(W>P) or time is delta Kinetic Energy is mass(inertial or gravitational)is(matter)Wave energy greater than(fermion)Particle energy; ie, deceleration and gravity. I can explain it in more detail if you are interested... W=P

[<1/1,000,000th%]

Because this is the beginning of the information age and the dawn of the new discipline of biological engineering.

Plus this is the beginning of the Freedom Wars.

That's why I came back.

[DOGEY]

Probably just invented a clock.

[Celtic Conservative]

time machine? It's been done, just ask the British...

[DaGman]

[TheForceOfOne]

Didn't old Albert say that if you could travel fast enough energy would turn into mass? Wouldn't motion cease to exist?

Just wondering.

[Recovering_Democrat]

There already is a time machine...step here, and you'll go back to: 1860, 1917, 1929, or 1967, depending upon whom you speak to:


Ribbon cutting at the Democrat National HQ

[ApplegateRanch]

The corridor of time does exist, but such a tour is trillion times riskier than a cruise in a basin with holes about the Pacific

For years I have cursed the Chinese for their rotten package directions English translations.

Now I find out they've been outsourcing to the Ruskies all along.

[Diana in Wisconsin]

The (Indy) film "Primer" is awesome. Totally geeky but believable tale about some guys that invent a time machine in their garage and how it messes up their lives.

You can get it from Netflix, if you use that service. Can't remember where I first heard of it, but we've watched it twice and DH has passed it on to all of his nerdy engineering friends who do seem to be spending an awful lot of time in our garage these days. Hmmmm...

"An engineer builds a machine (quite by accident) that can transport the user back in time. But his discovery comes with an ominous caveat, because at the heart of this puzzling device, nothing is as it seems on the surface. The narrative inventively blends a patchwork story line with overlapping streams of dialogue that help build tension and suspense in this Sundance Film Festival Grand Jury Prize winner. David Sullivan and Shane Carruth star."

[bruin66]

Modern science cannot give a definition of time.

See tag line...

[RightWhale]

Modern science cannot give a definition of time.

Should say has not rather than cannot. However since time is an illusion, the definition, when it comes, will not be particularly useful.

[Dont_Tread_On_Me_888]

The cause-effect relations are very stable, and all events happen in such a way that they cannot be changed.

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McCoy: Shouldn't you be working on your time warp calculations, Mr Spock?

Spock: I am. (He resumes staring into space)

From Tomorrow is Yesterday