Professor Predicts Human Time Travel This Century

PhysOrg.com ^ | 04 April 2006 | Lisa Zyga

[OB1kNOb]

I have already seen the future. You don't want to go there.

[azhenfud]

I think the first thing I'd like to do is travel back in time and introduce antibiotics or warn of planned violent attacks on Americans.

[mysterio]

Time travel would have no effect on OUR history whatsoever. Because if it will ever exist, the travelers have already had their effect. You are in the future of the time travelers to the past.

I guess no time travelers decided to save JFK or stop 9/11.

But on the other hand, maybe they prevented the nuclear war that immediately followed the Cuban Missle crisis.

[js1138]

Travel to the future is consistent with known laws, has been demonstrated by experiment, and although it has no easily foreseeable practical implementation, it can be done.

Going backwards involves so many paradoxes, I rather doubt that it is possible at all.

[Wolfstar]

I think the first thing I'd like to do is travel back in time and introduce antibiotics...

Maybe somebody from the future beat you to it. ;-)

[tumblindice]

"ATTN! Present TD? This is Future TD: If you had been working and
not farting around on FR, they wouldn't have fired us."

Jeepers, I gotta go . . .

[PISANO]

Unless there are an INFINITE number of simultaneous realities and/or time travel is possible in only one direction [the future] we would already have knowledge of it. For those in the future would have come back to the past [now or before the present] and demonstrated it!

I would imagine there would also have to be limits on travel in either or both directions otherwise one could scr.w themselves. [really-actually and literally]

[azhenfud]

Hehe! yeah, they did - I was thinking I'd just like the chance to preempt them and introduce them in the mid 1800's...

[Smedley]

I repeat again, where are all the time travelers from the future??

My wife is one. She thinks she knows everything that's going to happen. Just ask her.

[Right Wing Assault]

We're going back in time. The Cleveland Indians win the 1948 World Series!!

[PatrickHenry]

Going backwards involves so many paradoxes, I rather doubt that it is possible at all.

Little do you know. Have you ever bothered to think how utterly improbable your present is? How likely was it that the Soviet Union would just ... give up, without a shot being fired? That was, from the viewpoint of the decades before, the most unlikely scenario imaginable.

In truth, the actual history of that time is that Soviet Premier Igor Dorkoff (Igor the Horrible) launched a first strike, with the expected consequences. The aftermath was so ghastly that for one of the few times in history, it was decided to intervene at his conception. Now you know.

(This post will self-destruct before long.)

[Right Wing Assault]

so where are all the time travellers

Either the people in the future aren't smart enough OR we manage to blow ourselves to pieces befre we figure it out. OR a new ice age comes and kills us all.

[mugs99]

if time travel was possible, then wouldn't people want to go back into time to witness great events, and meet important people?

They'd more likely want to collect candy bars and artifacts they could sell in the future.
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[Wolfstar]

My wife is one. She thinks she knows everything that's going to happen. Just ask her.

LOL!

[HeadOn]

We're keeping a low profile...

[babyface00]

Either the people in the future aren't smart enough OR we manage to blow ourselves to pieces befre we figure it out. OR a new ice age comes and kills us all.

What if the first attempt at backwards time travel so damages space time that it becomes impossible to travel before it or, worse yet, all time stops at that point?

IIRC, there were serious concerns before the first atomic bomb test that the reaction might not stop and would eventually take out the entire planet.

[js1138]

I have to confess that one of my descendents sneezed while on a tour of prebiotic earth. His mom told him to carry a hanky, but did he listen?

Decorum prevents me from describing how the bacterial flagellum got transported back to the past.

[RightWhale]

Have you ever bothered to think how utterly improbable your present is?

Past and future are also improbable if not totally illusory. Is memory any better than anticipation? We don't even know what happened that fateful day in Dallas over 40 years ago and probably know just as well what Dallas will be like 40 years from now.

[Wolfstar]

Soviet Premier Igor Dorkoff

ROFLMAO!!!

[Sam Cree]

Weird, again.