Physicist Definitively Rules Time Travel Impossible
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Oh yeah? This post was made on April 6th, at 3:28 pm, but on April 7th I will go back and edit it to something completely different.
Just TRY and stop me, Igor Smolyaninov!
But wait, if I change the post I will prove him wrong and have no reason to make this post in the first place, which means I won't be able to change it in the future, which means he will be right, [small]which means I will make this post and change it in the future, which means he'll be wrong and I won't have to make this post, [small]which means I am stuck in a loop...[/small][/small]
[sub]Crap.[/sub]
Just TRY and stop me, Igor Smolyaninov!
But wait, if I change the post I will prove him wrong and have no reason to make this post in the first place, which means I won't be able to change it in the future, which means he will be right, [small]which means I will make this post and change it in the future, which means he'll be wrong and I won't have to make this post, [small]which means I am stuck in a loop...[/small][/small]
[sub]Crap.[/sub]
I say we invoke Clarke's First Law:
"When a distinguished but elderly scientist states that something is possible, he is almost certainly right; when he states that something is impossible, he is probably wrong."
Still, the alternate dimension thing reminds me of this time-travel thing I saw once a few years ago, about a guy coming back to get some UNIX systems so they could fix the problems with 'em in the future after the nuclear wars (they were supposed to drop in 2007; it was a decent read, though, back in the day). Part of his claim on it was time travel was less a straight line and more of a hyperboloid: the further you traveled, the further you [might] be from your own time line. If nothing else, it gave the writings a bit more of an "authentic" route in that if none of it came to pass, well, we were just a dimension far enough from his own.
EDIT: Also, abusing relativity to travel forward in time still holds. Too bad you can't come back using that theory...
EDIT2: Dupeo got his name. John Titor. Couldn't remember that for the life of me. Been years since I read any of it.
"When a distinguished but elderly scientist states that something is possible, he is almost certainly right; when he states that something is impossible, he is probably wrong."
Still, the alternate dimension thing reminds me of this time-travel thing I saw once a few years ago, about a guy coming back to get some UNIX systems so they could fix the problems with 'em in the future after the nuclear wars (they were supposed to drop in 2007; it was a decent read, though, back in the day). Part of his claim on it was time travel was less a straight line and more of a hyperboloid: the further you traveled, the further you [might] be from your own time line. If nothing else, it gave the writings a bit more of an "authentic" route in that if none of it came to pass, well, we were just a dimension far enough from his own.
EDIT: Also, abusing relativity to travel forward in time still holds. Too bad you can't come back using that theory...
EDIT2: Dupeo got his name. John Titor. Couldn't remember that for the life of me. Been years since I read any of it.
Think he means free from the meddling efforts of universe hopping interlopers.Sir_Auron_the_Badass said:What sort of perfect dimension are you from? Ours has never been pristine.Raiyan 1.0 said:I like the idea of alternate realities. We'll fuck up their timelines, but keep our one pristine.
Wait...so if we can still theoretically travel to alternate dimensions...and there are infinite universes with infinite possibilities...does that mean I could go to a universe where Scarlett johanssen accepts my constant marrige proposals and we all gets six-shooters and katanas and pet dinosaurs?
What's stopping them from doing the same to us?Raiyan 1.0 said:I like the idea of alternate realities. We'll fuck up their timelines, but keep our one pristine.