Time Travel

[feral chile]

I was thinking about this the other day. If time travel were possible, they'd have to ban the lottery and any kind of gambling to prevent cheating. And I started wondering how else our lives would be affected.

TV - you could skip to the end of the series to find out what had happened. What would happen to the stock market? And insurance policies?

And before you got married, you could skip 20 years to see how the other half would turn out. And to see whether you agreed to get married.

In fact, you could skip forward to see the outcome of every dilemma, and then tell yourself what to do. That would be really paradoxical. And prove determinism once and for all.

Any other changes you can think of?

[thegremlin_1999]

Ya see whenever I see things like this I think of this

Zaphod explains that his great-grandfather is "the Fourth" due to an accident with a contraceptive and a time machine. Zaphod the Fourth, therefore, bitterly refers to his great-grandson as "Zaphod Beeblebrox the Nothingth" (Zaphod tries to counter this by referring to himself as "the First").

[rhysieg]

terrorists could use the technology to go back in time and wipe out small civilizations which would have a knock on effect over the amount of years and wipe out millions of people in present day. infact, if time travel was possible "present" would no longer be applicable as a term, because there would be no set standard as what moment in time is correct.

sadly time travel, although it could bring many positive advances for the human race, is more likely to be used to negative effect. it would never be available for public use, only for top ranking government officials. and who's to say that we would be the ones to invent it... imagine if a country like north korea were to invent it. what then? it wouldnt be as simple as sending jean claude van damme after them

[Paul ™]

What if it already exists

[Spindles]

Time travel is already possible, although it is only possible to move forwards. This afternoon I got under the duvet of my time machine and when I climbed out it was 5 hours later and the room smelt of farts.

[nightcrawler13]

i love this video

how incredibly excited a lot of people got from it, to how many people now defend it, is great

Edited March 13, 2013 by nightcrawler13

[Purple Monkey]

What I find interesting is that we have a time machine of sorts in the night sky. When you look up at the stars you're looking at old dead stars. So if you had the means to travel instantly millions of light years away and had a big enough telescope you could look back at Earth and view it as it looked millions of years prior to its current state.

Maybe not time travel as such but you could maybe put to rest whether dinosaurs had feathers or not.

I guess that also means using a telescope to look at distant planets for colonisation would be useless since empty looking planets could have evolved an army of psychotic xenomorphs by the time you actually get to it.

[The Nal]

i love this video

how incredibly excited a lot of people got from it, to how many people now defend it, is great

[Yoghurt on a Stick]

I'd go back in time so that I could not get together with my last girlfriend. That would wipe 5 years of misery from my life.

[Spindles]

I'd go back in time, get with your last girlfriend and feel like I was doing good.

[Wooderson]

Any prospective time travel device would - it is speculated - have to act like a door or "portal". It would not be possible to "just appear" out of nothing in the middle of space back sometime in the past.

It is thought that if it were possible to create a viable time portal that innumerable future generations of time travellers would want to travel back to the exact time the device was switched on, with potentially destructive consequences. For example, you could get untold millions of refugees from some apocalyptic future escaping to a safer past.

Ho hum, can't be helped.

[LondonTom]

I don't really understand the point though. Where is she getting the phone signal from?

[Yoghurt on a Stick]

I'd go back in time, get with your last girlfriend and feel like I was doing good.

[feral chile]

Any prospective time travel device would - it is speculated - have to act like a door or "portal". It would not be possible to "just appear" out of nothing in the middle of space back sometime in the past.

It is thought that if it were possible to create a viable time portal that innumerable future generations of time travellers would want to travel back to the exact time the device was switched on, with potentially destructive consequences. For example, you could get untold millions of refugees from some apocalyptic future escaping to a safer past.

Ho hum, can't be helped.

[Rufus Gwertigan]

Am I the only one that can think of the mischief you can cause? You know meeting Columbus as he lands and asking for his entry visa or asking him to sign the visitors book?

[BlackHole2006]

I reckon if they invent time travel they should invent a rule saying that you can only go back in time, not in the future.

Therefore people can still gamble or do the lottery if they wanted to.

[Spindles]

or go back with a piece of paper with every lottery number set since the date you are travelling to, thus ensuring your wealth and ability to buy the time machine.

[feral chile]

I reckon if they invent time travel they should invent a rule saying that you can only go back in time, not in the future.

Therefore people can still gamble or do the lottery if they wanted to.

[Wooderson]

It would not be possible to change anything that would result in you -not- travelling back in time in the first place. Otherwise you wouldnt be in the past etc ad nauseum.

[feral chile]

It would not be possible to change anything that would result in you -not- travelling back in time in the first place. Otherwise you wouldnt be in the past etc ad nauseum.

[BlackHole2006]

I think there'd be something to protect causality - you could look but not physically interact, or something.

[Yoghurt on a Stick]

. That guy from Glasto in the 80's is going to be extremely confused and scared as to why someone from the '00's is talking to him.

[Purple Monkey]

Any prospective time travel device would - it is speculated - have to act like a door or "portal". It would not be possible to "just appear" out of nothing in the middle of space back sometime in the past.

It is thought that if it were possible to create a viable time portal that innumerable future generations of time travellers would want to travel back to the exact time the device was switched on, with potentially destructive consequences. For example, you could get untold millions of refugees from some apocalyptic future escaping to a safer past.

Ho hum, can't be helped.

[feral chile]

I think Family Guy covered this where Brian and Stewie are constantly going back in time to stop themselves from doing whatever they previously did and they just create a ton of copies of themselves coming back going "Don't do what you are about to do!".

[Guest]

we have a limited perspective of what time is though.. or if it even exists