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To: fanfan

I read a short article about an interesting time travel theory. A physicist had figured out a way to make time travel permissible without breaking any physical laws; however, the same equations also showed that any event you went back to observe would have a probability of one. In other words, there wouldn’t be a 50:50 chance of a particular toss of a coin coming up heads. If it came up heads before, it will come up heads every time you go back to relive the event. Conversely, the odds of something happening that didn’t happen before would be zero. A car crash that didn’t happen won’t happen when you go back to see that period again. (Of course, on a quantum level, this means that you wouldn’t see anything anyway. Since the photons necessary to form the image did not impact upon your retina the first time around, the odds of them doing so again on a replay of the event would be zero.)


29 posted on 07/27/2007 5:30:24 PM PDT by Redcloak (The 2nd Amendment isn't about sporting goods.)
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To: Redcloak

So you don’t remember the future when you’re in the past?


33 posted on 07/27/2007 5:32:45 PM PDT by fanfan ("We don't start fights my friends, but we finish them, and never leave until our work is done."PMSH)
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To: Redcloak

Very much the same way that photons split when you don’t observe them, but all choose only one of two paths when you do watch them.... Quantum Physics is reeeeeeealy messed up that way.


97 posted on 07/27/2007 6:50:55 PM PDT by RachelFaith (Doing NOTHING... about the illegals already here IS Amnesty !!)
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To: Redcloak
Finally someone who almost gets it! ... Time has a volumetric variability which we are not equipped to sense. We are made in such a way that we’know’ only those events in the past which have impacted our senses in our present, and our present is not static, so that which has happened, unless recorded (from our perspective of course) are not and cannot be accessible to our present a second time. Now, if someone can duplicate what Jesus did, slip into past, as a traveler from present, and return to a future present, then the three variable expressions of dimension time will be sensible to that one, he/she will be temporally volumetric so all of time’s variables will be accessible.
183 posted on 07/28/2007 10:32:31 AM PDT by MHGinTN (You've had life support. Promote life support for those in the womb.)
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