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Time Travel

I'd go back in time and kill Rich Little.

I'd get a Nobel Prize for that.
 
By going back in time and killing Hitler, besides erasing yourself from the chain that lead to your current "state" wouldn't you also erase everyone else from their current "states" as well. Not sure how people would feel about that, zzzipp, and we're all gone :boggled: but at least Hitler is dead. Now who's the bad guy?
 
I have... actually built a time machine.

It allows one to travel slowly into the future....

For an *enormous* amount of money, I will let you ride it.
 
BTMO said:
I have... actually built a time machine.

It allows one to travel slowly into the future....

For an *enormous* amount of money, I will let you ride it.
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I bought one at Target the other day. It says "Casio" on it.
 
Mine said "La-Z-Boy" on the label. It came with a Universal Remote, so that I can control All That Is Important without leaving the comfort of my time machine. Although it's odd that the faster or more often I use the remote, the quicker time seems to pass. Is this a factor of subjective or objective time? Or does relativity come into play?
 
Fnord said:
Mine said "La-Z-Boy" on the label. It came with a Universal Remote, so that I can control All That Is Important without leaving the comfort of my time machine. Although it's odd that the faster or more often I use the remote, the quicker time seems to pass. Is this a factor of subjective or objective time? Or does relativity come into play?
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Try moving your "La-Z-Boy" into a church service and see whether its tears a rip in the time continuum.
:covereyes
 
how about going exactly one light year out into space and constructing a Giant mirror that is aimed at Earth, and on Earth you take a super powerful telescope and look at the mirror, in theory you would be able to see what happed two years ago.

A theoretical window into the past
 
Gord_in_Toronto said:
Try moving your "La-Z-Boy" into a church service and see whether its tears a rip in the time continuum.
:covereyes
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No ... I think I read somewhere that there is a special property about churches that makes time move more slowly. It could be the Powerpoint software they use to display graphics for the sermon, since I've noticed the same effect at several departmental meetings at work.
 
Fnord said:
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No ... I think I read somewhere that there is a special property about churches that makes time move more slowly. It could be the Powerpoint software they use to display graphics for the sermon, since I've noticed the same effect at several departmental meetings at work.
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As I just make up; based on similar experience:
"If you have something to say, say it. If you have nothing to say, make a PowerPoint presentation."
;)
 
So many time-traveler wannabes site removing Hitler as the pinnacle of fantasy achievment.

Yet, the Brits offed a higher % of Irish in their genocide than the Germans did with the Jews.

And the early Americans did heavier genocide on the Indians than Hitler did on the Jews.
Jews are actually doing quite well, globally.

Meanwhile, the Negro race is in danger of being removed from the picture.
Negroes are doomed. It should be of major concern.
Africa is ****ed.

Yet, no Hitler exists for our knee-jerk repulsion of this on-going genocide.
Hitler is too convienent, imho.

One could go back in time, and stop Hitler.
Yet, someone else would try to kill all the Jews.
 
JollyRoger said:
how about going exactly one light year out into space and constructing a Giant mirror that is aimed at Earth, and on Earth you take a super powerful telescope and look at the mirror, in theory you would be able to see what happed two years ago.

A theoretical window into the past
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You can get a similar effect much cheaper using a video camera and waiting two years to watch it.
 
There is already a device that can slow down time to a crawl, so that half an hour can feel like three days.

It is called an episode of Last of the Sumer Wine.
 
If you went back in time and killed Hitler then you could theoretically get back to your own timeline. Sure, killing Hitler would create an alternate reality, but that isn't to say the existing reality would be destroyed in the process. All you would need is to find a loophole in the laws of time and space and you are back to the reality you know and love.Hitler, of course would still be alive.

This is assuming that time is a measure of cause and effect. Otherwise crossing the international dateline would really be dragging you back in time (365 times around the world, and look! You're back in June 2008!)
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That line of smileys is the gateway to the past :)
 
So where exactly are all these "events in time" stored?
On some kind of cosmic hard drive I presume.
 
I traveled in time today: I closed my eyes and then opened them to find myself 9 hours in the future. How could this happen?.
 
If I could time travel, I would go back in time to visit myself as a teenager, and slap some sense into me!!! :rolleyes:
 
Policenaut said:
Before you consider traveling through time please take this guys advice:

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This is very interesting, as I have thought about this possibly being a problem with time travel too, but this is the first time I've seen/heard/read about this subject. I'm sure there are pockets of physicists that have discussed this, but in popular culture it never comes up. It's nice to know that my musings may have had some merit.

With that problem aside, I thought that the Time Traveler in "The Time Machine" was awfully lucky to have gone 800,000 years into the future, and not have the ground underneath him eroded away (or a large tree growing on the spot where his time machine was). There are still so many problems with traveling through time while sitting in one spot.

Anyway, I guess I should just sit back and enjoy all those time travel movies, and not be seeing all the problems with the "Science" behind it (but it's so dang hard not to sometimes - LOL)
 
Anytime (pun intended) I hear about someone wanting to theoretically travel back in time to assassinate Hitler, I think of all the modern-day leaders who're committing atrocities and genocide (several African leaders come to mind) and wonder, "Why can't you just assassinate some of THEM, instead? It would certainly be easier than constructing a time machine!"
 
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