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
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?!!!
Originally posted by prosoccer 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?!!!
Originally posted by sofar55 this is purely a thought
Suppose you go into the past and killed your mother or grandmother before she had you/your mother.
I think similarly to Einstein on this one: you won't kill them. However, it is a very interesting question.
Originally posted by prosoccer 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?!!!
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.
Originally posted by royalchicken 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.
Originally posted by Suzianne 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.
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.
Originally posted by sonhouse 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.
These "special wormholes" can't be stabilized and would tear you apart. So really, it's not possible.
Originally posted by Balla88 These "special wormholes" can't be stabilized and would tear you apart. So really, it's not possible.
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.
Originally posted by sonhouse 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.
Both 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.
Originally posted by sonhouse 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.
You 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.
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.
Originally posted by FabianFnas Yes, and into the future also.
I do it every day! But it takes time.
If I want to go 1 minute into the future it takes approx 60 seconds to do it.
that was funny when i read it thanks for the laughs
time travel
08 Feb '06 02:54
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