Time Travellers From The Future 'Could Be here In Weeks'

The Telegraph (UK) ^ | 2-6-2008 | Roger Highfield

[justaguy]

Time travel is not possible back beyond the invention of the first time machine. So, if you “invent” time machine, you cannot go back, only forward. Thus any future time machines cannot go back beyond the first operational time machine’s time..........

What if you invent the first time machine but don't turn it on?

[Zionist Conspirator]

The theory here is that it isnt possible to travel back to a time when the wormhole wasn’t open. Therefore time travelers from the future can’t go far back enough to see us now. Only to the moment when we open the wormhole wide enough.

I've never heard of that theory before. But then, almost all depictions of time travel in pop culture involve travel to the remote past.

[wally_bert]

Lister, Rimmer, Cat, and Kryten broke JFK out of police custody at Idylwild airport so he could assasinate himself and put history back on track.

[rbg81]

James P. Hogan wrote a novel back in the early 1980s called “Thrice Upon a Time”. In this novel, time travel consisted of sending information (e.g., bits) back through time instead of people. This always struck me as much more plausible. The point is that people in future timelines would tell those in the past about things they needed to do or avoid. Since there can be multiple (infinite) parallel timelines branching off from any given instant in time (kinda like a massive tree). So a leaf on the tree can send a message back to its parent, causing the leaf never to have been born. So, as soon as the “time receiver” was turned on for the first time, it started receiving messages from the future. Interesting concept.

[varon]

I’d love to go back to the time I was a young lad just getting to “know the ladies” and give myself some pointers :-)

[ShadowAce]

[varon]

I’d love to go back to the time I was a young lad just getting to “know the ladies” and give myself some pointers :-)

[TigersEye]

Holy moly! Good catch.

[Twinkie]

TA DA DA DA DA DAH !! With the advent of this thread, I may now reveal that I, Twinkie King Starbucks III, am none other than an illustrious Time Traveler from long ago and far away. I have been here on earth for years. My time capsule malfunctioned and I arrived here sooner than my fellow time travelers from LAAFA who are expected and who will be here in a matter of weeks.

I have tried not to mess with anything vital here on Earth, like any political leader, etc. Since I am the leader of my cadre of fellow Time Travelers, I will soon be meeting them at the TTMP (Time Travelers’ Meeting Place) and we will very soon be offering for sale our book dedicated to serving mankind of this area of the Universe (”To Serve Man”).

[tet68]

But then again, they could have been here yesterday too.

Oh hell yeah, that always happens when I go fishing.

“You should have been here yesterday!
Couldn’t stop them from biting!”

[bert]

Zay are all in zouth Floreeda enjoying the cheap $$ and soaking up rays

[Revolting cat!]

"and Dr Igor"

Incidentally, is that 'ee-gore' or 'eye-gore'?

[R_Kangel]

"Wonder how long they plan to stay?"

When they get here in two weeks they will probably stay until last month.

[TexasRepublic]

There was a young woman named Bright, Who traveled much faster than light. She set out one day In a relative way, And returned on the previous night.

[2ndClassCitizen]

I have been a time traveler ever since I was born.

Got you beat.

[Repeal The 17th]

curses
foiled again

[Repeal The 17th]

curses
foiled again

[SampleMan]

Perhaps its a Y5k bug that won’t allow them to role the date back to today?

[Erasmus]

Yes. They should have used the term “picomosquito,” although I think “attomosquito” would be more nearly quantitatively accurate.

[Phantom Lord]

Goo Backs?