“Jane” is left at an orphanage as a foundling. When “Jane” is a teenager, she falls in love with a drifter, who abandons her but leaves her pregnant. Then disaster strikes. She almost dies giving birth to a baby girl, who is then mysteriously kidnapped. The doctors find that Jane is bleeding badly, but, oddly enough, has both sex organs. So, to save her life, the doctors convert “Jane” to “Jim.”
“Jim” subsequently becomes a roaring drunk, until he meets a friendly bartender (actually a time traveler in disguise) who wisks “Jim” back way into the past. “Jim” meets a beautiful teenage girl, accidentally gets her pregnant with a baby girl. Out of guilt, he kidnaps the baby girl and drops her off at the orphanage. Later, “Jim” joins the time travelers corps, leads a distinguished life, and has one last dream: to disguise himself as a bartender to meet a certain drunk named “Jim” in the past. Question: who is “Jane’s” mother, father, brother, sister, grand- father, grandmother, and grandchild?
Michiu Kaku
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Well, I have to agree with Michio Kaku, I don't think time travel backwards is possible. That being said, I think time travel forwards is possible, though not with our current technology, nor with technology that will most likely be available in the next couple hundred years.
The moment you create a wormhole into the past, string physics dicates, to the best of my knowledge, that it would collapse and implode.
i like the many worlds interpretation of...err...whats it explain? something like every event has each and every outcome - splitting apart or branching from that 1 event, creating multiple dimensions or worlds...something like that. so that each time we go to the past, we create an alternate world in which the present and future are not affected. i wonder if that makes sense?
also, massive attack is a cool band.
so is wu tang.
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Well, while there seems to be plenty of space for the multiple worlds to exist, even right here under our noses (With the space between the atoms and even inside the atoms, there is enough space for many, many other universes) eventually that space would fill up with universes and some universes would already be contacting other universes millions of years ago.
I just cannot see a logical way for the multi-verse argument for past time travel to work.
As Mephisto said this has already been posted in the paradox thread (along with many others) check it out if you haven't seen it.
They're getting pretty close to creating black holes once they construct a powerful enough particle accelerator. This should open up a lot possibilities for energy sources and possibly light speed and time travel. There's no way in hell anything would survive going through one IMO. It will be interesting if they can create the theorised white hole as well - basically the opposite end of a blackhole - nothing can enter a white hole, only exit. I'm also a bit scared of the possibilities when they make a black hole, I mean if the thing somehow dropped onto the ground it would keep eating until it got to the core of the earth, before consuming the entire planet.
Well, while there seems to be plenty of space for the multiple worlds to exist, even right here under our noses (With the space between the atoms and even inside the atoms, there is enough space for many, many other universes) eventually that space would fill up with universes and some universes would already be contacting other universes millions of years ago.
I just cannot see a logical way for the multi-verse argument for past time travel to work.
theres something called decay that eventually ends the world or something. idk, none of it really makes sense but if you take it in a first person perspective, every situation in which you dont survive, decays.
time travel in this instance? perhaps you arnt actually going back in time, but are recreating (creating?) a new world in which the time period is what you want it to be based on history and then progressing forward. creating instead of traveling. after all, where does all that black-hole matter go? recycled to make these new worlds
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"to the worm in horseradish, the world is horseradish."
So let's say I wanted to go back in time and do all the homework that I failed to do in High School. So I go ahead and do that without my past self knowing. They turn it in (by magically finding it in their binder the next morning) and I get great scores. But, now that I have great scores, I do not acquire the need to go back in time in the future.
So here's how this looks right now:
bad scores ----> wanted good scores ----> go back in time ----> need is fulfilled
need is fulfilled ----> no need to go back in time
So what happens? How can this scenario possibly exist? I remember back, in the old URT, someone linked a very interesting article about a similar scenario where a doctor who travels back in time to kill himself. Scientists have come up with, like, nine theories about what would happen when the doctor tried to kill himself. I wish I could find it again.
But, yeah, I don't see exactly how backwards time travel is possible.
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I hate the way you cling to ignorance and pass it off as innocence
Surely, you could do it. I don't see why couldn't.
Go back in time and troll all the people lol
The reason why time travel intrigues me is that there is so much mystery surrounding it and there's so little that we actually know about.
I just hope that, if they do find out how to go back in time, if there is a way I could get back. Of course, there is all that crap about the butterfly effect that I said earlier.
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I hate the way you cling to ignorance and pass it off as innocence
theres something called decay that eventually ends the world or something. idk, none of it really makes sense but if you take it in a first person perspective, every situation in which you dont survive, decays.
time travel in this instance? perhaps you arnt actually going back in time, but are recreating (creating?) a new world in which the time period is what you want it to be based on history and then progressing forward. creating instead of traveling. after all, where does all that black-hole matter go? recycled to make these new worlds
But even if you no longer exist and can no longer see in the 1st person, that doesn't mean the world around you no longer exists, just your perception of the world around you.
They're getting pretty close to creating black holes once they construct a powerful enough particle accelerator. This should open up a lot possibilities for energy sources and possibly light speed and time travel.
I can see no logical reason to create a black hole for use on earth.
I'm also a bit scared of the possibilities when they make a black hole, I mean if the thing somehow dropped onto the ground it would keep eating until it got to the core of the earth, before consuming the entire planet.
If you were to make a baseball sized blackhole, it would start sucking in matter and in a matter of miliseconds it would be gone, feeding itself to the point where it longer is a black hole. A baseball sized blackhole is simply impossible for long term existence. It would have to be at least the size of the sun, and then it's gravitational field would be far, far greater then the sun.
I was reading about a particle accelerator, and it says they are trying to create the Higgs Boson, which is the difference between mass and matter apparently. So is that what anti-matter is?
Higg-Boson is a theoretical particle that many scientists have nicknamed the "god particle". I cannot explain it very well, but basically it's where all other particles came from.
And it's not anti-matter, we make anti-matter by the dozens of atoms now.
Hmmm yeah because in order for a black hole to work it has to be really really big, what makes it a black hole is the gravitational feild doenst allow light in.
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If you were to make a baseball sized blackhole, it would start sucking in matter and in a matter of miliseconds it would be gone, feeding itself to the point where it longer is a black hole. A baseball sized blackhole is simply impossible for long term existence. It would have to be at least the size of the sun, and then it's gravitational field would be far, far greater then the sun.
I read a bit more and this is correct. It could still cause an explosion though. Also I'm sure something can be learnt from creating them but we won't know until we try it.
Well, even if we tried, we would need much more advanced technology to even capture what happens when it is created and subsequently destroys itself. It would bring about a great flood of knowledge, but I fear we don't have the technology right now.
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“Jim” subsequently becomes a roaring drunk, until he meets a friendly bartender (actually a time traveler in disguise) who wisks “Jim” back way into the past. “Jim” meets a beautiful teenage girl, accidentally gets her pregnant with a baby girl. Out of guilt, he kidnaps the baby girl and drops her off at the orphanage. Later, “Jim” joins the time travelers corps, leads a distinguished life, and has one last dream: to disguise himself as a bartender to meet a certain drunk named “Jim” in the past. Question: who is “Jane’s” mother, father, brother, sister, grand- father, grandmother, and grandchild?
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The moment you create a wormhole into the past, string physics dicates, to the best of my knowledge, that it would collapse and implode.
also, massive attack is a cool band.
so is wu tang.
"to the worm in horseradish, the world is horseradish."
I just cannot see a logical way for the multi-verse argument for past time travel to work.
They're getting pretty close to creating black holes once they construct a powerful enough particle accelerator. This should open up a lot possibilities for energy sources and possibly light speed and time travel. There's no way in hell anything would survive going through one IMO. It will be interesting if they can create the theorised white hole as well - basically the opposite end of a blackhole - nothing can enter a white hole, only exit. I'm also a bit scared of the possibilities when they make a black hole, I mean if the thing somehow dropped onto the ground it would keep eating until it got to the core of the earth, before consuming the entire planet.
time travel in this instance? perhaps you arnt actually going back in time, but are recreating (creating?) a new world in which the time period is what you want it to be based on history and then progressing forward. creating instead of traveling. after all, where does all that black-hole matter go? recycled to make these new worlds
"to the worm in horseradish, the world is horseradish."
So let's say I wanted to go back in time and do all the homework that I failed to do in High School. So I go ahead and do that without my past self knowing. They turn it in (by magically finding it in their binder the next morning) and I get great scores. But, now that I have great scores, I do not acquire the need to go back in time in the future.
So here's how this looks right now:
bad scores ----> wanted good scores ----> go back in time ----> need is fulfilled
need is fulfilled ----> no need to go back in time
So what happens? How can this scenario possibly exist? I remember back, in the old URT, someone linked a very interesting article about a similar scenario where a doctor who travels back in time to kill himself. Scientists have come up with, like, nine theories about what would happen when the doctor tried to kill himself. I wish I could find it again.
But, yeah, I don't see exactly how backwards time travel is possible.
I hate the way you cling to ignorance and pass it off as innocence
"to the worm in horseradish, the world is horseradish."
Surely, you could do it. I don't see why couldn't.
Go back in time and troll all the people lol
The reason why time travel intrigues me is that there is so much mystery surrounding it and there's so little that we actually know about.
I just hope that, if they do find out how to go back in time, if there is a way I could get back. Of course, there is all that crap about the butterfly effect that I said earlier.
I hate the way you cling to ignorance and pass it off as innocence
But even if you no longer exist and can no longer see in the 1st person, that doesn't mean the world around you no longer exists, just your perception of the world around you.
I can see no logical reason to create a black hole for use on earth.
If you were to make a baseball sized blackhole, it would start sucking in matter and in a matter of miliseconds it would be gone, feeding itself to the point where it longer is a black hole. A baseball sized blackhole is simply impossible for long term existence. It would have to be at least the size of the sun, and then it's gravitational field would be far, far greater then the sun.
Higg-Boson is a theoretical particle that many scientists have nicknamed the "god particle". I cannot explain it very well, but basically it's where all other particles came from.
And it's not anti-matter, we make anti-matter by the dozens of atoms now.
I read a bit more and this is correct. It could still cause an explosion though. Also I'm sure something can be learnt from creating them but we won't know until we try it.