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if you have a back in time machine ...
what time you want to return to and why ?
what time you want to return to and why ?
the consequences of this seem infinite to me, depending on how you see time. ie. if you started life by traveling back in time how did the loop originally begin, if you created life what originally created you? and does time exist after the second you traveled back in time? because if you traveled in time and stopped yourself from traveling back in time you would stop creation and everything should disappear right? i just see a neverending loop of time, boggles my mind.Originally posted by Ben-CS
If you did go back in time, you would probably be the one responsible for starting life. I.e., hitch-hiking bacteria would have a field day in the new environment.
Originally posted by Dj Sneaky Whiskers
I'd go back in time and punch Feynman square in the face. Why? Because I unapologetically, obsessively hate Feynman!
Originally posted by climbhi
Remember now that you're in a forum where the majority of the members idolize him...
Can a time-machine take you to a moment that came before time?Originally posted by FZ+
If I am going back in time, I want to go back to the beginning of life to see how it really all happened.
You're sick man !Originally posted by Dj Sneaky Whiskers
I'd go back in time and punch Feynman
square in the face.
Why? Because I unapologetically,
obsessively hate Feynman!
Your machine will probably create time in doing so. Hmm... interesting paradox. What came first, the time or the time machine?Originally posted by Lifegazer
Can a time-machine take you to a moment that came before time?
That is entirely wrong. Relativity, which is highly successful in corresponding to experimental tests, treats time as just another dimension, part of the spacetime. So, if we can control movement along the 4th dimension, then time travel should be possible. That's a big if though.Going back in time would require that every atom in the universe was rearranged to be exactly how it was at any given moment in the past-history of existence. Or at least, such a machine would have to fool your mind that this was the case.
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