Seeing Michio Kaku today. Any questions you'd like me to ask?

[Misericorde]

Is there any reference frame that would permit that?

You could just define any arbitrary set of coordinates; that's why you have past and future light cones around such chosen points. It's purely on paper of course, this isn't something that changes life as we know it, just the process of specifying 4 numbers to designate "you are here" and then everything before and after it.

If you mean a reference frame that would permit travel into the past, I believe that involves a universe unlike the one we live in. You can certainly construct one on paper however, in which events repeat a given number of times in CTCs.

 

[Loren Booda]

Is there any reference frame that would permit that?

Take into account quantum effects?

 

[Misericorde]

Take into account quantum effects?

Nothing that fancy, I was just being boring with whatever *space you cared to use in defining coordinates in time. Going back to the light cones and world lines as it were, not a physically realizable bit of excitement.

 

[OmCheeto]

I guess not, as it will never be tomorrow. So if you are never there, how can you get back?

So I can start drinking and spending money like there's no tomorrow, because there isn't one?

Yippie!

 

[Misericorde]

So I can start drinking and spending money like there's no tomorrow, because there isn't one?

Yippie!

I believe a group of apocalyptic nuts are literally doing that today... probably without the drinking.

Always a bit odd when the world of jokes and fun crosses over with the world of crazy sublimated suicidal urges of a religious mass.