08 Feb 06
this is purely a thought
Suppose you go into the past and killed your mother or grandmother before she had you/your mother.
If you say that you'd never been born, then who would have killed the relative?
therefore no one would have kill them so you would have been born right
08 Feb 06
Originally posted by prosoccerIt's 'Cretan', not 'cretin', if you're trying to Epimenedes it up, in which case you get the Freudian slip of the day award.
sweet paradox...ponder this, this statement is false...or I knew a cretin who told me that all cretin are liars....whoa...did that blow your mind like it did mine?!!!
If you weren't talking about Epimenides (hedging my bets on the spelling, you see), which is possible since 'chess player' and 'gay cowboy' could easily replace '(C/c)ret(a/i)n', then my apologies.
08 Feb 06
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Originally posted by royalchickenI wish I was smrt enouf to laf at your wrd ply.
It's 'Cretan', not 'cretin', if you're trying to Epimenedes it up, in which case you get the Freudian slip of the day award.
If you weren't talking about Epimenides (hedging my bets on the spelling, you see), which is possible since 'chess player' and 'gay cowboy' could easily replace '(C/c)ret(a/i)n', then my apologies.
P- (normal cretin)
09 Feb 06
Originally posted by SuzianneActually, travel into the past may be possible, through special
Well, let's just say Einstein may have simply said it's impossible because relativity says you cannot go back in time in the first place.
wormholes. But if you kill your grampa, instead of going back
to a world where you were never born, some theories of multiple
universes say the universe splits off and a new on forms where
you were never born but the old one goes on as if you were never
there. That solves the paradox.
09 Feb 06
Originally posted by sonhouseThese "special wormholes" can't be stabilized and would tear you apart. So really, it's not possible.
Actually, travel into the past may be possible, through special
wormholes. But if you kill your grampa, instead of going back
to a world where you were never born, some theories of multiple
universes say the universe splits off and a new on forms where
you were never born but the old one goes on as if you were never
there. That solves the paradox.
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09 Feb 06
Originally posted by sonhouseBoth times suffers from a conservation of matter/energy problem, because you have blasted into existence without being there before in one time, and disappeared without trace in another, therefore an equal amoutn of matter/energy to you might have to move from the past into the future when you flow from the future to the past. If equal amounts of information would have to flow as well, as that is also conserved - then maybe you could only replace an identical thing, and the identical thing would have done what you are about to do anyway, so no paradox.
Actually, travel into the past may be possible, through special
wormholes. But if you kill your grampa, instead of going back
to a world where you were never born, some theories of multiple
universes say the universe splits off and a new on forms where
you were never born but the old one goes on as if you were never
there. That solves the paradox.
10 Feb 06
Originally posted by sonhouseYou have a point, they do bounce it around quite a bit. And while we currently know of no law that states that time travel is impossbile, I doubt we could overcome the problems associated with achieving it.
I don't think the final word on that has been said yet, it bounces
back and forth, yes you can, no you can't, yes you can, etc.
Right now its a definite maybe.
The black hole (wormhole) idea requires ripping space-time to create the actual hole, which would then (from what I know) need to be stabilized with exotic matter.
The technology required for this is mind boggling. Basically, a black hole(wormhole) approaching the speed of light.