Are the people encountered in time travel the same as in the present?

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The discussion revolves around the concept of time travel, particularly focusing on whether individuals encountered during time travel are the same as those in the present. It explores the implications of relativity on time travel and the nature of interactions with past selves or others.

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Main Points Raised

  • One participant suggests that time is relative and implies that when traveling back in time, a person experiences their own time frame while others remain unaffected, raising questions about the nature of encounters with past versions of themselves.
  • Another participant asserts that there is no evidence supporting the possibility of time travel.
  • A different participant references popular culture, specifically "Back to the Future," to challenge the assertion that time travel is impossible.
  • One participant expresses an assumption that time travel could be feasible, despite the lack of evidence.
  • Another participant proposes a scenario where traveling back in time would mean their own time reference continues to move forward, inviting thoughts on this idea.

Areas of Agreement / Disagreement

Participants express disagreement regarding the feasibility of time travel, with some asserting it is impossible while others entertain the possibility. The nature of encounters during time travel remains unresolved.

Contextual Notes

Limitations include the lack of empirical evidence for time travel and the dependence on interpretations of relativity and time reference. The discussion does not resolve the implications of particle interactions during time travel.

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now let's say time is relative (which it is, from einstein), now that's implies the next thing:
when someone is going back in time he's going through his own time frame while the others are in their own time frames are not affected by it (because if the other choice was correct that will assume that one man can effect all the human race which is to me unlikely).
my question are the people he encouters are the same as in the present (i mean particlewise {im asking this because there the assumption that when you encounter yourself in the past you will be destoryed from this i get that he was made out of anti particles is this the same with people})?
 
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when someone is going back in time

There is no evidence that this is possible.
 
Originally posted by mathman
There is no evidence that this is possible.

Haven't you seen Back to the Future?
 
Originally posted by mathman
There is no evidence that this is possible.
im assuming it can be done.
 
another thing about time.
let's say i go back in time in the time refrence of universe i will go back in time but my time refrence will go forward.
what do you think?
 

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